layer=subset of server
server=host of layers
server merge=layer merge?
layer=server?
from what ive seen, a layer is just a server within a server. sounds pretty dumb to me imo
Layers are basically shards, except continent wide.
They are going to go away after the initial rush as players spread out.
companies like facebook/amazon have a dispatch server where you initially log into…
This then directs the user to a load server which is a distributed network of identical servers designed to handle many concurrent users. the domains are like x23,wow,blizzard,com x24,wow,blizzard,com ect. ect. this is where each server maybe takes a few hundred thousand connections.
So hopefully its like that, maybe not.
Servers are completely separate and distinct from on another. There is no interaction between players on different servers at all.
A server with multiple layers still share name uniqueness, economy and AH, chat channels. But you won’t be able to see or fight or directly interact with players on the same server - if they are not in the same layer at the time. It allows the server to carry multiple population loads without any particular place being overrun. As the server population declines, the layers can be reduced until you are left with a server with a single layer and everyone sees everyone else.
Layers function exactly like Channels in other games (like Black Desert or Aion), except that you cannot pick in which channel you want to play. The server does it automatically to even out the population.
They are like servers except:
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Common name database means merges are less disruptive.
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The ability to interact and play with the entire realm, across layers, as needed.
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Layers are balanced automatically. If you had a system where instead of “Server” with multiple layers you had Server 1, Server 2, Server 3, etc. then those individual sub-servers could become just as unbalanced as the wider realms (e.g., Server 1 becomes the “it” sub-server and is massively overpopulated, leading to huge queues).