non-competitive server: the exact same map as we have right now but without the battle arena and the guild forts.

competitive server: a large room with portals to each fort and to the battle arena.

this way, those who are actually bothered by the lag (the competitive players) lose at least half of the people online and can actually play the game lag-free.  

Posted by Comyt

non-competitive server: the exact same map as we have right now but without the battle arena and the guild forts.

competitive server: a large room with portals to each fort and to the battle arena.

this way, those who are actually bothered by the lag (the competitive players) lose at least half of the people online and can actually play the game lag-free.

This is obviously the best option, but anyone in the spar community with half a brain has been suggesting this for years :C

The competitive server could be closed off to participants only during GST, and the GST matches could be live streamed for anyone that wants to watch, so its not a clusterbomb of lag.  

Posted by Comyt

non-competitive server: the exact same map as we have right now but without the battle arena and the guild forts.

competitive server: a large room with portals to each fort and to the battle arena.

this way, those who are actually bothered by the lag (the competitive players) lose at least half of the people online and can actually play the game lag-free.

Sounds a little like the "roleplaying" server idea that was brought up several years ago; but this is better named. I'm still good with the idea.  

it would be great to see more gateways / servers to reduce lags for europe, oceanic players.  

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Posted by Colin

If a new server isn't possible then make new servers for every instance in Graal? lol what

I honestly have no major issues with lag and the game is completely enjoyable that is why 3816 are logged in right now.

They will make tons of money regardless of how the servers are running, and they aren't even that bad.

Lol thinks 3100 players is a lot, any more than 4000 and it's done, this game was put since 2009 and not even including the early versions.  

We should have graalian multiverses
Like the second server would be graal but different because something in graalian history happend differently  

Posted by Terd

Lol thinks 3100 players is a lot, any more than 4000 and it's done, this game was put since 2009 and not even including the early versions.

3100 is a tremendous amount of people to be logging on to one single server. Especially considering this:

Posted by Dusty

It has nothing to do with your device, but with cutting down on lag on the server.

There's a reason the server grinds to a halt when there are new releases: the server doesn't like it when there are a lot of players together in one area. According to Stefan, each player in the same area(aka if you can see them) creates an exponential amount of data to be sent as it transfers the data between all the the players.

I don't like it, but until this "large groups = lag" thing is fixed, it's just how things will be. Sadly I doubt it will ever be fixed.

I realize the above quote is a bit out of context, as it was a reply to complaints about the unusually high server lag directly following the release of Destiny, but without proper instancing of the servers or improvement of the efficiency in coding to prevent phenomena like the lag created by high volumes of players, then 3000-4000 players is always going to lead to a less than optimal game experience, and people who compete on this game will continue to complain about it.
I seriously doubt most multiplayer online games hold 3000+ people on one server, because it's just not realistic (especially on graal, considering the quote above)  

I get lag a lot, too. ;-; But I have friends from other places, so if they done a server split I probably wouldn't get to play with them. D:

Posted by Terd

Lol thinks 3100 players is a lot, any more than 4000 and it's done, this game was put since 2009 and not even including the early versions.

Today was 3800-3900 players. O:!! And the 5th anniversary event had 4500 players, and it was so much lag. ;-;

I get lag a lot, too. ;-; But I have friends from other places, so if they done a server split I probably wouldn't get to play with them. D:

Posted by Terd

Lol thinks 3100 players is a lot, any more than 4000 and it's done, this game was put since 2009 and not even including the early versions.

Today was 3800-3900 players. O:!! And the 5th anniversary event had 4500 players, and it was so much lag. ;-;

It happened!!! 4000 players!!  

Splitting the game in half with different servers is no good solution. Things that draw people to Graal is the fact that you can play with people across the world. Plus, Graal isn't nearly as popular as it would need to be to have all servers actively filled.

And adding two different maps for Roleplayers and "Basers/Sparrers" is no solution either. It again splits the community in half and doesn't contribute any benefits other than making it easier for those "competitive" players to do what they already do.

Clearly there hasn't been a good alternative yet, all I see that actually helps deal with lag is upgrading the server. Yet that hasn't been done (to my knowledge, and if it has been, didn't do much).  

Posted by Kosiris

They will only change the servers when the players who give the most income to the game start complaining. Sadly, it is the citizens of Graal City who pay the most to the game to buy heads with their names written on every frame along with a dozen of bunny slipper uploads. Since they fuel Graal with money, most content will be made to satisfy them.

People who are more combat-focused make up a small portion of the playerbase sooo there little attention to their satisfaction

Clearly us combat focused players need to spend more money.  

Move to america or quit complaining filthy casuals /s  

Posted by kush420swagYOLO

Move to america or quit complaining filthy casuals /s

wow you're so funny