That's very impractical in the real world,you have to look at the big picture ie world wide audience/lag etc... so servers in different countries etc....also they will probably have both PvP and PvE servers to choose from IMHO.
It's more practical than you might think. EVE Online has a single server and so does Champions Online. They can still do regional servers if they want, but they don't really need more than one server per region. I think having PvP and PvE servers is mistake in a MMORPG. Pick one or the other. We don't need anymore half-assed PvP in MMORPGs.
You always get PvP and PvE players for MMORPG,just to look at the threads in ToR forums.
Having more then one server is very practical,you can vary maintenance time between servers and also decide best server "ping wise" for your area, plus helps spread population out for areas language wise.
Uh, can you try actually reading my post before responding? As I said, one server per region is fine. I also said we have too many MMORGs with half-assed PvP already. Just because it's a common mistake doesn't mean that it has to be repeated once again.
I think it would be better if everyone was on one server but I dont think thats possible for a game like SWTOR or WoW. Some places can be crowded when theres many servers in these games all on one server just wouldnt work, the worlds are too small.
One thing you could do is make all servers PVP and PVE. Have different parts of the world PVP and others PVE. If you dont want to PVP dont go there, if you dont want to PVE dont go to the other place.
You can do it by instancing zones, that's how Champions Online solved this problem. Other multi-server games also do this, and it seems The Old Republic is as well.
I think the key thing is that PvP needs to be a focus of the developers, not some tacked on feature like it is in most MMORPGs. Having seperate PvP and PvE servers and then having most of those servers be PvE because that's what your player base wants, really gives them no other choice but to treat PvP like a red-headed stepchild.
Because of this I feel like raiding is a waste of time, you know well before the instance comes out what all the bosses will do
Darthhater comes to mind, if you like spoilers and leaks betacake.Quick question, are there any super good fansites yet? I'm trying to find one I can "make my home," but if one doesn't really exist yet I'll just make my own I guess...
Darthhater comes to mind, if you like spoilers and leaks betacake.
Not sure about forums. Seeing how bad the official forums are I can imagine what fan forums would be like. Personally I will look for a good forum after release of the game. Then maybe we will get a legit mmochampion or elitistjerks type of fan site/forums.Yeah, I've seen Darthater, but their forums are very underused, and the news posts they make I can find almost anywhere else. The beta info is good, though. Are there any popular forums aside from the official ones?
You can do it by instancing zones, that's how Champions Online solved this problem. Other multi-server games also do this, and it seems The Old Republic is as well.
Will not buy this.
Will not play this.
Damn Lucasarts for not giving us a SP KotOR 3 and trying to pigeon-hole us into buying a stupid MMO. Damn them to hell.
SWTOR has this. It was sort of annoying. You would get a group and everyone would be in different instances, then everyone would be confused and not know how to meet up. I dont know what the point of it was. Probably because the maps in SWTOR are so small, at least the ones I played.
It's to avoid a nasty fundamental problem with how MMORPGs and multiplayer network games work, the amount of network and server load goes up proportionally to the square of the number of players than can interact with each other. It limits how many people you can have in the same area before things really begin to bog down.
It doesn't matter much how big you make the maps because players tend not to spread themselves out very much. They tend to go to the same place to do the same things, even there's lots of alternative. Worse, they often have annoying habit of finding one place to hang out and socialize.
I never had much of a problem with instanced zones in the games I've played with it, City of Heroes and EverQuest II, and they and other games have improved how they handle it since I played regularily.
So its a way to not have to spend money on server hardware?
So its a way to not have to spend money on server hardware?
No, unfortunately throwing money at the problem doesn't work becuase it doesn't scale linearly with the number players.
A single server in eve works because its a gigantic space world with few players. WoW or other mmo;s it doesn't, imagine if WoW had 1 server, the amount of people in orgrimmar and stormwind would be ridiculous. The server outages would be nonstop. The players in eve are spread out over a vast area, but WoW would literally have 7 million people sitting in 1 city thats fairly small and there's no network hardware on the planet which would allow that to happen. Same principle for SWTOR.
Frankly, the number of servers a game has is proportional to the amount of players the game has. It would work in eve but NO swtor. It will have far more players and interacting with 200k people in the same crowded city? No thanks. The chat window would probably scroll 1000 mph.