Why do we need another shard when we don't have the population to fill just one?

[Snarky]

40 minutes ago, Luminara said:

 

You found my music video!   I sent this into MTV decades ago.  Obviously it was beyond their meager understanding.  

[srmalloy]

4 hours ago, Diantane said:

They should be merging and eliminating shards. Not adding new ones.

As Glacier Peak said, there are players on those servers who are invested in their characters and don't want a merge, with all of the name collisions that would entail. But since you're so gung-ho for it, we'll make sure that all your characters are tagged with 'vulnerable to losing name' in the event of name collisions in the event server merges do occur.

[merrypessimist]

Once again Diantane ignores the fact that the root cause of all his problems is looking back at him from the mirror.  And no, it's not a possession.  Or a mirrorverse clone. Or a mind control bot. 

[Oubliette_Red]

[Oubliette_Red]

I want to take this moment to welcome our Victory Sisters/Brothers/Themsters to our family.

[biostem]

Perhaps the intent is not to have a single shard where it's standing room only.  Nothing is stopping anyone from playing on a high-population server.  While I do prefer busier servers myself, what I do NOT want to see, is a situation where we have to wait in a queue because it's too crowded...

[macskull]

22 minutes ago, biostem said:

Perhaps the intent is not to have a single shard where it's standing room only.  Nothing is stopping anyone from playing on a high-population server.  While I do prefer busier servers myself, what I do NOT want to see, is a situation where we have to wait in a queue because it's too crowded...

You could delete all the shards except Excelsior and Everlasting, move all the existing players there, and neither of them would have queues with the current total playerbase.

Edited yesterday at 08:55 PM by macskull

[biostem]

11 minutes ago, macskull said:

You could delete all the shards except Excelsior and Everlasting, move all the existing players there, and neither of them would have queues with the current total playerbase.

And how would you handle all the name conflicts?

[macskull]

4 minutes ago, biostem said:

And how would you handle all the name conflicts?

Your post was about waiting in queues, not about name conflicts, so that's what I responded to.

[Glacier Peak]

For everyone's awareness, 1,500 concurrent players is when queues begin.

[biostem]

4 minutes ago, Glacier Peak said:

For everyone's awareness, 1,500 concurrent players is when queues begin.

So Excelsior, per the current forum count, has a little over 1000, and Everlasting has nearly 600, so there would definitely be a queue if the shards were consolidated, (assuming your numbers are correct)...

[Scarlet Shocker]

No! I am the Count Vampyre Overlord of Evil!😈 

 

#spartacus

[Glacier Peak]

11 minutes ago, biostem said:

So Excelsior, per the current forum count, has a little over 1000, and Everlasting has nearly 600, so there would definitely be a queue if the shards were consolidated, (assuming your numbers are correct)...

Not my numbers, Homecoming GM said it. 

 

 

[Diantane]

9 hours ago, MoonSheep said:

i believe it has been imported from another CoH community that exists, rather than Homecoming creating a new shard. it was announced a while ago

 

out of interest, what server do you play on diatane? exelcsior has a huge population if you want more instant TFs, trials etc

I play on Excelsior. the population used to be much higher here 2 years ago. If was fast and easy to put teams together for several hours every day. The LFG chat was extremely busy. Today it barely moves.

 

Other mmo's have a lot more players -- in the tens of thousands per shard

 

Because of this I have stopped forming teams (trying to). Today I am soloing a character on the red side. The red side population is extremely tiny.

Edited yesterday at 11:12 PM by Diantane

[Diantane]

2 hours ago, biostem said:

And how would you handle all the name conflicts?

It wouldn't be that hard. Other shards have a population of like 20 or 30. Everlasting about 125. Excelsior is about 450

[Luminara]

8 minutes ago, Diantane said:

Other mmo's have a lot more players -- in the tens of thousands per shard

 

Other MMORPGs weren't shut down for 8 years.  That had a slight impact on the game's population.

 

8 minutes ago, Diantane said:

Other shards have a population of like 20 or 30. Everlasting about 125. Excelsior is about 450

 

Diantane math: 1000 = 450, 600 = 125...

 

 

You divide by 0 a lot, don't you.

[biostem]

20 minutes ago, Diantane said:

Other shards have a population of like 20 or 30. Everlasting about 125. Excelsior is about 450

 

[Snarky]

3 hours ago, merrypessimist said:

Once again Diantane ignores the fact that the root cause of all his problems is looking back at him from the mirror.  And no, it's not a possession.  Or a mirrorverse clone. Or a mind control bot. 

mirrors are bad, m'kay?

[biostem]

1 minute ago, Snarky said:

mirrors are bad, m'kay?

That one hurt my soul...

[Troo]

Zoinks!

The line is over there Snarklepuss. Over there!

[Oubliette_Red]

34 minutes ago, Diantane said:

It wouldn't be that hard. Other shards have a population of like 20 or 30. Everlasting about 125. Excelsior is about 450

 

Nah, I believe Torch was the 1st server so their population should get preference in retaining names.

[biostem]

5 minutes ago, Oubliette_Red said:

Nah, I believe Torch was the 1st server so their population should get preference in retaining names.

The last "line" @Snarky ever paid attention to was the one at the blood bank, when they were out of his favorite type...

[Luminara]

25 minutes ago, biostem said:

 

 

Let's see... 4, and 104, and 17, and... ah, fuck it, it's, like, 5 total!

 

#Diantanemath

[Shin Magmus]

How bout another new server shard just for everyone fighting on these forums to be sequestered from society?

 

We can call it "Sanctuary"

[JasperStone]

10 hours ago, Diantane said:

When I try to fill up a team these days it is extremely hard except for only one hour in prime time on weekdays

 

Have you tried turning it off and turning it back on again?

 

Also, lifting and dropping it may help, too...