Cormyr is Opening to Everyone!

[DDO Gaming]

Yes, I have thought of this. I am currently collecting gold rolls on all severs so when the migration to 64bit servers happens I will have a lot of stuff. But I doubt they will have free transfers from Cormyr to a different 64 bit server. I have no idea what 64 bit server I land on, but that is at least 6 months out and I am paying VIP sub now.

something about projecting SSG's intentions...then discovering your claims didn't age well. At this point its best to say "many thanks for this wonderful freebie SSG". And I agree it is a wonderful and highly unexpected freebie so many thanks SSG

 

[seph1roth5]

Hey! Any chance we getting a mini Year of the Dragon comeback, since the last cosmetic gift was not working and the dragon disciple was out of the free access period?

I know returning people that could use the cool green dragon gift also. Please, consider this idea.

Thanks!

I posted about it but no one's commented! I have an alt account that doesn't have DD, and I've seen new people that have joined since it was the actual YoTD reward.

https://forums.ddo.com/index.php?threads/year-of-the-dragon-catch-up-cant-claim-dragon-disciple.18246/#post-234841

 

[deem of many]

opening cormyr or any 64 bit server is great.
we are still lacking clarity on what's planned and timelines.
SSG needs to commit more, at least 50% of the way.

 

[Mornyngstar]

opening cormyr or any 64 bit server is great.
we are still lacking clarity on what's planned and timelines.
SSG needs to commit more, at least 50% of the way.

Expect more information soon about our new worlds in the United States and Europe, and our plans for transfers to these worlds from our 32-bit game worlds!

It has been 2 days since Cordovan posted this. Do give them a little bit more time.

 

[Sarlona Raiding]

Astral Shards are currency. The ASAH will start to filling as soon as people start playing because people will be trying to sell things like filigrees, IoD crafting materials, double slotted crafting blanks, etc and other people will be trying to buy them. And if one server has been up for months by the time the others open, the first server is going to have lots more AS in circulation and lots more to spend them on.

You keep insisting noone would know transfers would be possible, but once again it's the basic premise of the exercise. There is zero reason at all to assume such a task would be impossible. It's just a matter of doing the work. Positing these stupid what-ifs doesnt advance this discussion at all, it's just low energy provocation from someone who just wants to be disagreeable while contributing nothing at all to this discussion.

At least for me I would prefer to start on a new server rather than Cormyr for the simple reason I don't want to deal with the characters on Cormyr. If I transfer my Sarlona characters I'll be over the limit.

Ultimately I will go where the people I group with go - but I sure hope it's not Cormyr so I don't have to deal with the Mists season characters and being over the character limit.

The currency stuff doesn't concern me - it will work itself out quickly.

 

[Natashaelle]

What is the maximum?

Cannot remember the number sorry, beyond that it's a four figure number starting with 1. Not total number of players on the server ; but a number of players logged in simultaneously.

One thing that the LOTRO servers still cannot handle, though they want to fix it, is more than about four simultaneous instances of their current endgame raid.

 

[Toblakai]

something about projecting SSG's intentions...then discovering your claims didn't age well. At this point its best to say "many thanks for this wonderful freebie SSG". And I agree it is a wonderful and highly unexpected freebie so many thanks SSG

The fact that it may be useful to me one day, doesn't change the fact that it is not useful to me now. Personally I do not think SSG is capable of pulling off a transfer that will work correctly and get everything. They area also probably not transferring the astral shards, which I spent money on.

We will see, I have low confidence in this happening.

 

[Urklore]

VIP Activated!

 

[Urklore]

no just login and play you just select Cormyr instead of whatever you got highlighted by default at launch.

I remember Kahm from Dragon-Half!!!

 

[Xaerxiessia]

the new servers will hold more players than the 32bit servers. i assume it'll be at least 3 regular servers being funneled into one 64bit server. they stated before, that the new tech, called "mega servers" is up to the task. so yeah, they will need less servers


i am playing from western europe on cormyr and have 165ms ping. not that bad actually.
on argonessen i have 134ms
i do not notice a difference tbh. cormyr runs way smoother overall and i had no lag at all

what raises the question: do we really need a EU server?
what is the target audience for a EU server, besides european players? do you have data what % of the players play from the EU or countries that would benefit from a EU server? is it really worth it?

I'm actually getting a latency between 89 and 98 ms on Orien from Belgium.
I will test with Cormyr when reopened, AFAIR it should not be that messy , meaning as close as 300ms.

 

[Uska]

so going back on your word again

 

[Mindos]

I'm actually getting a latency between 89 and 98 ms on Orien from Belgium.

Wow!

 

[Xaerxiessia]

between 150 and 158 ms on Cormyr

 

[Lanadazia]

That's how they they did the codemasters EU to Turbine US server transfers back in the day, which created some tech headaches for them in 2025 BTW.

But they did not and will not do it that way this time -- for one, they want to start those servers with cleaner character and other databases.

Most importantly, a huge part of the incoming transfers will be to allow people to choose whether a) they want to stay put for the time being, b) transfer to a Las Vegas server, or c) transfer to an Amsterdam server. Or indeed mix'n'match between those solutions on a per-character basis or whatever.

The big problem that occurred with the 2025 LOTRO transfers, apart from the hardware and tech that they had at the start of the process being completely inadequate until they started upgrading it starting in the second week of it all, is that the players had overly few new 64-bit servers to transfer to, so that the main US server is close to maximum capacity, and the main EU server has exceeded maximum capacity. Bearing in mind that the devs didn't even know what exactly that maximum capacity was until it was actually reached on live.

The first of those issues DDO will have dodged because the hardware and configuration matters that created it originally have been solved. But I am sure that SSG is now expecting a much larger and longer transfers process for DDO than was envisaged (LOTRO had many, many returning players plus a surprising number of new players plus they had massively underestimated the sheer quantity of alt toons and alt accounts), so that more new 64-bit servers trather than fewer seems likely.

so the servers are more likely to be restricted by the ammount of raw character data instead of simultaniously logged in players?
the new servers will cause returning players for sure, but they also have data how many characters are on their worlds (i hope) ?
i have one played character and 11 bank characters, i assume most veterans have even more bank toons. if they are surprised how many characters are being transferred, they simply haven't looked at the data they should have...

 

[Owlbear]

between 150 and 158 ms on Cormyr

Yeah, latency really sucks on Cormyr for EU players... I tried it for a month during the free access but I'm not moving to Cormyr because of that. It's playable but not a big enough improvement to move servers. I'll wait for the EU server...

 

[Jasparius]

It's supposed to compensate VIPs for losing their VIP-Only-server "benefit". If you weren't using that, you don't need to be compensated for it being taken away.

Surely you dont believe this. Right ?

 

[mikarddo]

Surely you dont believe this. Right ?

Whats not to believe? It seems pretty obvious that giving something to VIPs on Cormyr only is a way to compensate for having taken something away from them.

I could understand arguing that the compensation was not adequate but I cant understand why you would not see it as a direct compensation.

 

[Jasparius]

Whats not to believe? It seems pretty obvious that giving something to VIPs on Cormyr only is a way to compensate for having taken something away from them.

I could understand arguing that the compensation was not adequate but I cant understand why you would not see it as a direct compensation.

How was making it a VIP only server a benefit? That is what Im arguing. I dont think anyone wanted it VIP only. They wanted it VIP only to control the numbers when they began their testing. Once that phase was done they made it open to get the next level of testing.

They then turned it back to VIP only for, well, no-one knows why.

That they then turn around and provide some sort of compensation just makes things worse because it fractures the VIP playerbase given one group get a reward and everyone else gets nothing.

But the even bigger issue is down the road when they open up more 64 bit servers. Cormyr will have been around 6 months or even a year, with 6 months or even a year worth of economy, players, end-game, etc. so why would anyone bother going to any other server? Unless you wanted to play in Europe.

For those expecting to play in the US you would be shooting yourself in the foot to choose any other server. So we get Orien/Argo and and however many Wayfinders they turn on.

 

[mikarddo]

How was making it a VIP only server a benefit? That is what Im arguing. I dont think anyone wanted it VIP only. They wanted it VIP only to control the numbers when they began their testing. Once that phase was done they made it open to get the next level of testing.

They then turned it back to VIP only for, well, no-one knows why.

That they then turn around and provide some sort of compensation just makes things worse because it fractures the VIP playerbase given one group get a reward and everyone else gets nothing.

But the even bigger issue is down the road when they open up more 64 bit servers. Cormyr will have been around 6 months or even a year, with 6 months or even a year worth of economy, players, end-game, etc. so why would anyone bother going to any other server? Unless you wanted to play in Europe.

For those expecting to play in the US you would be shooting yourself in the foot to choose any other server. So we get Orien/Argo and and however many Wayfinders they turn on.

Well, we can debate the value of the benefit - but VIP having something that non-VIP do not is pretty much the definition of a benefit. That the value of said benefit is debateable is a different matter.

As for the "gold rolls for VIP on Cormyr only" I cannot see how that could fracture the VIP base in any way. I dont play on Cormyr, I am VIP, and I dont see a problem at all.

As for "Cormyr had 6 months" in advance - the other servers have 15+ years and when moving to a new 64 bit server you take all of that with you. So I am having a hard time seeing why Cormyr would be superior in a meaningful way. If you mean the gold roll rewards then I expect free xfers from Cormyr to other new servers too so just bring the gains with you.

 

[The Narc2]

Having gold rolls everyday for vip is only there to bloat the login numbers for cormyr for presentation to the bean counters and the investors. I am suggesting there are many players that will simply just login there daily just to get there roll and then log off, but that will still count on the books as a daily login to represent what a success the new cormyr server is.

But hey if it helps the game out then it benefits all of us.