EU Moonsea Server – Will it have a strong playerbase?

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mikarddo

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Spell Swords is an European guild on Orion. We will be moving the guild to Moonsea and we are very much looking forward to it. We probably roughly have 50 somewhat active players.

I am fairly certain Moonsea will have a very viable population most likely the second largest.

I am looking forward to seeing R10 groups in the lfm very regularly and loads of levelling lfm as well.
 
J1NG

J1NG

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I suspect that the Moonsea server will thrive well with little to worry about.

One of the things I noticed when I first joined in '09 to Thelanis, was that players were on at virtually all hours of the day except for the West Coast of the US where they were the dying light of the day - closing time in short but things got done.

Here, it looks like some of the US East Coast or Western Europe will take up that mantle, but throughout the majority of the "day", it'll be active. Just might need to get over some of the language differences, but if you're experienced, your knowledge and skill in game should be able to translate over needing actual communicated instructions. I remember being in Brazillian, Japanese, Chinese runs where I couldn't communicate with other players, but performed to what they desired if not better performance wise in runs.

J1NG
 
Jhozam

Jhozam

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mikarddo said:
Spell Swords is an European guild on Orion. We will be moving the guild to Moonsea and we are very much looking forward to it. We probably roughly have 50 somewhat active players.

I am fairly certain Moonsea will have a very viable population most likely the second largest.

I am looking forward to seeing R10 groups in the lfm very regularly and loads of levelling lfm as well.
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That's great news! See you on Moonsea then 🤘
 
Jhozam

Jhozam

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J1NG said:
I suspect that the Moonsea server will thrive well with little to worry about.

One of the things I noticed when I first joined in '09 to Thelanis, was that players were on at virtually all hours of the day except for the West Coast of the US where they were the dying light of the day - closing time in short but things got done.

Here, it looks like some of the US East Coast or Western Europe will take up that mantle, but throughout the majority of the "day", it'll be active. Just might need to get over some of the language differences, but if you're experienced, your knowledge and skill in game should be able to translate over needing actual communicated instructions. I remember being in Brazillian, Japanese, Chinese runs where I couldn't communicate with other players, but performed to what they desired if not better performance wise in runs.

J1NG
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Are you one of us, J1ng? 😎
 
Jhozam

Jhozam

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kmoustakas said:
I'm in Greece and cormyr was terrible for me lag wise. But I never thought it had something to do with where in the US the servers were located. I just attributed it to DDO ddo'ing. But apparently that was/is and actual issue?
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Well, lag in DDO exists by default (lol). The servers are outdated, the code drags along old issues; we all know the various problems that exist and that SSG will partially fix with the move to 64-bit servers.
The point is, latency also depends on distance. Right now, the 32-bit servers are on the East Coast and we already have some latency. With the 64-bit upgrade, they’re moving to the West Coast, which is even farther for us Europeans, so latency will inevitably increase.
Playing instead on a server located in Europe won’t just grant us the benefits of the 64-bit infrastructure: it will also drastically reduce latency because the server will be physically closer.
 
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erethizon1

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Jhozam said:
Talking about distance, I think Amsterdam is generally better for serving the entire Asian continent.
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Just because I've been curious, Tokyo to Amsterdam is about 500 km further than Tokyo to Las Vegas.

New York City to Amsterdam is over 1100 miles (over 1800 km) further than NYC to Last Vegas.

So some East Coast Americans might choose the EU server, but Las Vegas is quite a bit better for them. It looks like Asians will be able to pick whatever they think is best since there isn't much difference in distance one way or the other.
 
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erethizon1

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Anurakh said:
Me, and part of my guild, want to try Moonsea. Our hesitation about going there has always been about leaving people we know, but Moonsea has a clear advantage, besides the ping. It's that people's time zones will be more in sync with ours.

I love playing with the Americans. But they often start raiding too late for me, when I'm already very sleepy and tired. It's especially bad when they start at 3 a.m. here. I don't mind finishing raiding at that time. But starting? I'm too old to sleep so little anymore. The days of not sleeping and being as fit as a fiddle the next day are behind me, unfortunately. Age catches up with us all.

And I suppose if it doesn't work out, we can pack up again and go to a US server. But I think the server will have a very healthy population, and with less harmful hours for our health than the ones we've had up until now.
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DDO definitely suffers from having a population of mostly older people with jobs and normal sleeping hours. So much raiding, especially on weekdays, takes place between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. eastern time. If you are not on in the 3-hour window you will miss everything. If nothing else, I am hoping consolidating the servers will result in raids happening at a wider range of times.
 
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Lacci

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Smokewolf said:
Yes... 100-150ms was the norm.
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I´m in Germany as well, I always had around 200 ms ping on Cormyr...
It´s certainly not unplayable, but not good either.
So this will be a tough decision. My guildmate is from the US and will most likely move the guild to a US server.
Most likely, I´ll move most of my toons with the guild, but some of them I´ll move to the european server.
 
Rhunah

Rhunah

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In the hope that more players will be online in the European afternoon/evening, I will gradually switch to Moonsea with all characters.

If we all join together, we should be enough players for a healthy guild
 
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Smokewolf

Smokewolf

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Lacci said:
I´m in Germany as well, I always had around 200 ms ping on Cormyr...
It´s certainly not unplayable, but not good either.
So this will be a tough decision. My guildmate is from the US and will most likely move the guild to a US server.
Most likely, I´ll move most of my toons with the guild, but some of them I´ll move to the european server.
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If your grinding Heroics then 150 + is fine. At cap and for raiding thats unacceptable.
 
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