Excelsior and Indomitable

[Astralock]

Excelsior is the de facto “unofficial PvP shard” now and has been for at least a year as the vast majority of PvPers moved to Excelsior in late 2020 and throughout 2021.

 

So what should Indomitable’s branding be now?

[cranebump]

Maybe focus on red or gold side?

[Yaliw]

Speedruns. Trying to get fastest times on taskforces

 

 

 

 

[Snarky]

Halloween Server?  Ghost town.

[Tachstar]

'The Server Where Tachstar Has 152 Alts'?

[Shred Monkey]

I'll say it.  I have no idea why they made more then 1 server.  I'm sure there are lots of "reasons" but none that aren't be easily overcome.

[KC4800]

<----this is the only guy I have left on Indom. I moved all the other ones to other servers.

[Astralock]

12 minutes ago, Shred Monkey said:

I'll say it.  I have no idea why they made more then 1 server.  I'm sure there are lots of "reasons" but none that aren't be easily overcome.

Because the CoH server software cannot handle more than 2,500 accounts concurrently.  You can throw a supercomputer’s hardware at it, it just doesn’t matter.  For the first five months or so of Homecoming, we were at or near 10,000 concurrent accounts during peak hours.  That demanded a minimum of four shards.  That’s why we have five shards.

 

 

[Techwright]

On 11/9/2022 at 11:19 AM, cranebump said:

Maybe focus on ... gold side?

I actually kind of like this.  It would be kind of neat to have Atlas Park vacant for a bit, and Maurader overwhelming his sweetie with numerous FTD runs.

[Glacier Peak]

Indomitable is the lag free server 😆 

[High_Beam]

52 minutes ago, Techwright said:

I actually kind of like this.  It would be kind of neat to have Atlas Park vacant for a bit, and Maurader overwhelming his sweetie with numerous FTD runs.

Pick more flowers you Gold Mooks!

[cranebump]

3 hours ago, High_Beam said:

Pick more flowers you Gold Mooks!

Task Force Algernon is on it!

[Blackmoor]

On 11/9/2022 at 10:19 AM, cranebump said:

Maybe focus on red or gold side?

 

Everlasting is the unofficial Red Side server.

[TraumaTrain]

Quit trying to label servers.

 

Calling Indom the PvP server is one of the factors (in my opinion) that led to people transferring in the first place. The avalanche followed. "It is too late for the pebble to vote."

 

Every style of play is available on every server. RP, PvP, soloing, red side, gold side, theme teaming, costume blinging, farming... Keep your labels to yourself.

 

Indom is Indom. It's a nice, quiet neighborhood. Lots of vacancy for folks to move back to. Some really good players call Indom home. Stellar players.

 

And quit suggesting servers be merged too.

[Disruptor]

17 hours ago, Shred Monkey said:

I'll say it.  I have no idea why they made more then 1 server.  I'm sure there are lots of "reasons" but none that aren't be easily overcome.

 

 

I'd usually be all for 1 server but even besides Astralock's explanation I feel like it wouldn't make sense to literally have only 1.

 

 

You can easily talk me into 2 though. And I'd def be a proponent of combining two current servers but nobody is asking for that. Of course you would have char name issues and such.

 

That said Live never combined servers unless I'm mistaken? NGL I kinda wish they had though at a certain point.

[Troo]

Indomitable & Torchbearer might make more sense to combine. Call it Justice.

[twozerofoxtrot]

Any action which results in literally the first HC server vanishing is a bad call. I'd rather see Excelsior get renamed to Torchbearer than see Torch wink out of existence. 

 

 

And there's no reason to force servers to merge or close. None at all. It's a non-issue with transfers as they exist.  And a host of issues such as SG Bases and held names are immediately created for the HC volunteer team to have to deal with.

[Shred Monkey]

5 hours ago, twozerofoxtrot said:

And there's no reason to force servers to merge or close.

 

This is very true.  While I see no value in having multiple servers, also see no value in shutting down a server that's already up. 

 

I think there's no question crowded servers are more fun.  It's not like you can't just pop into a solo mission and turn off chats to play in solitude.  But you can't always find a team when you want one on an empty server.  And since we have the ability to move servers, we can always get our preferred toons to our preferred servers without having to remake them.  

 

[Lazarillo]

On 11/10/2022 at 10:57 AM, CR Americas Angel said:

Indom's pretty much the farming server these days.

No, that's basically Excelsior, too, looking at what clogs up the lfg channel.

[Techwright]

22 hours ago, TraumaTrain said:

And quit suggesting servers be merged too.

 

[Sanguinesun]

On 11/11/2022 at 1:57 AM, CR Americas Angel said:

Indom's pretty much the farming server these days.

 

Since there are more people on Excelsior than any other server, and that tends to draw people who then end up making farmers, tending to keep them on the same server for at the very least alt farming in addition or recipe/influence farming, can you provide any statistical information that supports the claim that Indom is    The    farming server?

[Player2]

Excelsior has the most people, so Excelsior is going to have the most variety of play styles and themes.

 

Excelsior has become the everything server... which is what all the servers should be.

I agree with TraumaTrain above, stop putting labels on things.  People will do what they want and may end up making those labels obsolete or outright wrong.

[Astralock]

2 hours ago, Krimson said:

We should merge Shards after we figure out how to keep names, Super Groups, and associated bases.

 

Number Six has made quite clear that that will never happen.  Running additional shards other than Reunion doesn't cost any additional funds as the four North American shards share the same hardware, and some people prefer playing on small shards.

[Glacier Peak]

1 hour ago, Krimson said:

My statement is still valid. It's possible that progress could be made on names, SG and Bases. I don't think it will happen, but it is possible. I think people would be more agreeable to having one Shard if the option for everyone to keep their stuff was present. 

I don't want lag though, that's why I play on Indomitable. Bringing all of the players together on one shard would make it Summer 2019 all over again. Queing to play this game is silly!

[Bionic_Flea]

13 hours ago, Krimson said:

We should merge Shards after we figure out how to keep names, Super Groups, and associated bases.

 

No, we shouldn't.  That wouldn't solve a single problem but causes many.