Suggestion for full servers: Make a cluster

[rapid musk]

Make it so theres multiple servers that share a database. So you can log into any of them and have the same dragon across them, so everyone can still play with their friends, not have to worry about the full server spam bs, and everyone still gets to enjoy the game. But limit it to server type. PVE/DVE/PVP Etc...

[floral mango]

You mean like an instance?

[rapid musk]

No, i mean like a cluster. Make servers like Sanctuary 1, Sanctuary 2, Sanctuary 3. They all share the same backend, so you can log into 1 2 or 3 and keep the same dragon across all of them. Spreads the server load, yet everyone can just hop between them, keep progress, and play with the same friends

[glass gulch]

Please only do that for PvE if it's done at all, though. We don't need ark mega clans on DoD charging bitcoin to play the game lol.

In all seriousness, I'm not sure if DoD is compatible with a cluster thing like that, but even if it is I cannot fathom why the players don't just move servers. It's PvE, you risk nothing and they even offered to transfer you over with all your stuff. The attachment is causing the issues lol. Just move servers geeze.

[rapid musk]

The problem is you have friends A,B,C, D,E,F... if only Friends A,D and E move... now you have to choose who to play with, you have to now keep up with two different stats, and grow two sets of dragons just to play with 2 different groups, when before you could play all together...

[glass gulch]

Or just get all your clan to agree to the swap.

I mean this is being posed as a problem to the devs but it's really a problem with the players. It's quite literally a "you" problem that you yourself (players as a whole) are creating.

You can't expect the dev to raise server cap and reoptimize for that or create a mega server (that's so often poorly optimized and doesn't work) just to accommodate one single server. Just go to another server.

It's the same with solo players who complain about clans in PvE meanwhile dragonborne has 0 pop and none of them swap to it even though if they all just collectively did that Dragonborne would be a high pop server.

This is a non-issue that the PvE players are trying to claim is an issue. We don't need ques, we don't need mega servers. Sanctuary is the only server with this problem. Just get together and choose to switch as a group. It's not that big of a deal, especially when the devs offer you a transfer of your dragon's and stuff.

[rapid musk]

We shouldnt have to PICK AND CHOOSE who we can play with. You assume just because you are friends you have to be in a clan with them? What about cross clan friends? What about clanless friends? Not everyone is just gonna pick up and move. Either that or everyone will because they want to play with X friend, so Y friend then follows, then B friend follows Y, and so on and so forth. Now you have the same issue with the new server, and no one is playing on the old server.

[glass gulch]

Again, this is very much a you problem. I mean that kindly, but it is kind a of a blunt truth.

Almost all games have this server structure. The players being overattached to it doesn't mean there's something wrong with it.

And think about what you're asking for... So we get content delays so the devs can focus in increasing server capacity or reinventing megaservers for one group of players on one server...? No thanks, tbh. Like just move servers. I get that it feels bad but there's almost no game where you're going to be able to play with your 200 friends at the same time without restriction.

This is a non-issue for the game itself.

[tired scarab]

lyre_lightfall has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[rapid hearth]

I personally think making another server would be a waste of time. I honestly don't see many people transferring over. There are many friends (in clan, outside of clan, friends of other clans, etc.) that work together and look forward to seeing each other when they are able to get on. I don't see changing to another server working. I'm willing to bet it'll become empty. So I don't see the point. I can see a cluster working or at the very least a que like people have been asking for. If people want to be on sanctuary, they are going to be on sanctuary. There are people who try for over an hour to get on, even when there are multiple less populated servers to choose from. Yet they still don't go on them because they want to be on sanctuary where their friends are and with all the people they have come to know. If having other empty servers don't work, why and how would another work?

[glass gulch]

They're not talking about adding another empty server, they're offering for all people on sanctuary to get a 1 time complete transfer of all their dragons and whatever else to another currently existing PvE server for free. So they don't have to start over. If half of them did that it would solve the issue completely.

[rapid hearth]

I'm aware but isn't that server also pretty empty? I guess he could try but I don't see it fixing the issue more than a que or a cluster would.

[distant beacon]

Medic I have to agree with rok and kuso on this as there are many games that allow many ppl in one server, and this is probably just a excuse for jao to delete some of the servers, and your really bringing the fact that the devs have to stop delay of the game when it's already been delayed due to jao not having many devs to help him in creating that game and stuff so maybe stop this petty argument and think about what other ppl think instead of making excuses

[oak edge]

Couldn’t have worded it better.