ilzarion
Member
I'll be healing on Moonsea. My ping to Vegas is about the same to the lotro EU server. Also I tend to roll with Brotherhood of Blades for raiding.
EU Moonsea Server – Will it have a strong playerbase?
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Purr
Well-known member
Almost everyone I've talked to on cannith from US is going to Thrane. The EU players are going to Moonsea. Since I'm going to Thrane, I will not see them anymore.
ilzarion
Member
As an Azure engineer, I can tell you that physical distance does not matter as much as packet hand off. My ping to Ireland is better than my ping to Vegas. NYC across the country is a hodgepodge of MPLS handoffs versus the transatlantic fiber from Boston. I am sure the devs up in Boston experience the same when pushing files.
Jhozam
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From what I'm reading, it looks like there's going to be a great EU community
erethizon1
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It's not that odd. If all the servers were in one place (which is basically how it has been for many years) then people will move together with their friends and guild members. People would simply all say, "let's go here" and everyone would go. But because the divide is now being made regional, where it wasn't when we first picked our servers, a lot of people will be parting ways, not because they want to separate from each other, but simply because different servers are located closer to their homes.
It's reasonable to be sad. If we were already divided regionally, it wouldn't be an issue. But since we have been playing on globally diverse servers for 15 years and now are going to play on regionally divided servers, it is reasonable that some people will feel a loss from all the people they will probably never play with again.
Jhozam
Well-known member
This is really sad. Even the guild I'm currently in on Orien will be moving to the American servers. I'm truly very disappointed.
I have started playing on the German server Dorn back in the day...then Devourer, Ghallanda and now Orien. I have lost touch with many people over the years (obviously many people just quit) and hope that I will meet some of my old guildies from another time back on Moonsea.
I'm playing quite a bit in the mornings and am a bit worried if there will be players on at that time.
I'm playing quite a bit in the mornings and am a bit worried if there will be players on at that time.
Jhozam
Well-known member
I was on Devourer too!
paddymaxson
Deliberately obtuse
- Are you moving an existing character?
Yes - Starting fresh?
No - Coming back to DDO because of Moonsea?
Sorta - Hoping for an active EU time zone community?
Sorta - Are you part of a guild that’s fully relocating to Moonsea?
Yes but I am a 1 man guild.
I want to still love DDO, but it's very much hit a wall where if there' isn't a group zerging stuff at my level I can't really be arsed playing. Having to do another race to get back to racial completionist wore me out, I need something to pull me back in.
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Ozz
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There will not be a 64Bit East coast server
Your wording was odd - you are not losing people to Moonsea, you are losing people to all 4 servers. You might as well say that you are losing people to Thrane or to Cormyr. Pointing only to Moonsea as the "lost to" server is not reasonable.
justin credible
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if everyone is losing to moonsea, it sounds like moonsea is the clear winner
Purr
Well-known member
If the questions "are a lot of people going to moonsea?" And my response is "yeah, a lot of people from cannith are going to moonsea," I feel like that's not confusing and actually quite helpful to the OP.
I can also say that nobody I've talked to is going to Oerick from Cannith, so I'm not actually sure we are losing people to all the 64 bit servers, and definitely not equally.
I feel like someone said "do a lot of people die from cancer?" And I said "yes, a lot of people die from cancer in the US" and you responded "that doesn't make sense. Some people die from snakes."
Fair enough. I read your "losing to" as something negative but I see now that was not the intention. You simply meant that many are moving there
Maybe because English is not my first language
Thank you for the clarification
I can ride my bicycle to amsterdam. I'll have some of that 001 ping please and thank you.
For asians i'm pretty sure amsterdam is closer than las vegas. Got to look at an actual globe because worldmaps are incredibly inaccurate portraying real size of the northern hemisphere.
For asians i'm pretty sure amsterdam is closer than las vegas. Got to look at an actual globe because worldmaps are incredibly inaccurate portraying real size of the northern hemisphere.
Putti
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I'll be moving all my characters to Moonsea as I don't really have any connections on my current server anyway. The guild I'm in is going to an US server, but it's a casual guild mainly for buffs, so I'll just have to find another one on Moonsea.
Hoping there will be a few more LFMs up during Europeans hours, but mainly just going for the ping.
I might end up transfering to one of the US servers if Moonsea ends up dead, but considering the results of various polls I find it unlikely.
Hoping there will be a few more LFMs up during Europeans hours, but mainly just going for the ping.
I might end up transfering to one of the US servers if Moonsea ends up dead, but considering the results of various polls I find it unlikely.
Moonsea is a no-brainer for me. I'm currently on Ghallanda, where I’ve been in a solo guild I inherited after the previous members transferred to another server. I’ll be transferring along with the guild, but I’ll likely be looking for an active one afterward. On Ghallanda, there were very few (if any) people in the LFM panel during my usual play hours. Now I’m looking forward to having a better chance to be more social.
waxinglyrical
Active member
I'm going to Moonsea. I'm hoping there may be more opportunity to join a guild that plays at European evening time.
