Retail Server Names

[Drakhon]

Official!

http://na.aiononline.com/en/news/serverlist.html

Many of you have been curious to learn what the names of the Aion servers will be at launch. We've listed the server names below along with their associated time zones. The servers are aligned to those time zones (e.g. affecting fortresses) so that players on the East Coast as well as those on the West Coast can have blocks of game time to play during each server's prime time. Daylight saving will apply at launch.

Before the start of preselection (which begins September 18, 2009), we will also give our fans from the Oceanic region the chance to take part in an online community poll where you can indicate what server you'd pick unofficially if you want to play with your friends and neighbors. We hope to show instant results in the poll so that you can see which server provides you the best chance to meet them.

We are going to post a similar community poll for roleplayers. We have decided not to officially tag servers as roleplaying servers and enforce specific rules on them. However, we do believe that roleplayers are an essential part of our community, and we support their initiative to claim their own unofficial roleplaying server. Aion gives you the ability to create your own chat channel, and we are already seeing a lot of roleplaying groups out there who are defining their own rules and building up their own communities. Take your time to organize your group before the poll goes live, and then pick the server that would give you the best chance to find players with the same roleplaying interests.

We are looking forward to seeing you in Atreia on one of these servers at launch!

[East] Azphel GMT-5
[East] Israphel GMT-5
[East] Lumiel GMT-5
[East] Marchutan GMT-5
[East] Triniel GMT-5
[East] Zikel GMT-5

[West] Ariel GMT-8
[West] Kaisinel GMT-8
[West] Nezekan GMT-8
[West] Siel GMT-8
[West] Vaizel GMT-8
[West] Yustiel GMT-8

Edit: They switched them around a little bit and something was wrong with some labeling previously.

[Cali]

I am guessing we are going with the server Vaizel for OPT. We should confirm if this is true and race just so everyone is on the same game play.

[Gisli]

There is a poll going on at aionroleplayers for an OB server. We might as well use whatever they pick. You can go register/vote over there if it matters to you which one it is.

http://www.aionroleplayers.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1213

[aishrod]

bah doesn't look like Zikel will win lol

[Gisli]

It doesn't really matter. And after thinking about it more, we probably won't want to be on Zikel for release anyway. I assume the servers will show up in alphabetical order, and I don't think we want to be way down the list later on.

[Llyweln]

Or you could end up being on a server that gets merged later, like wh did.

[aishrod]

I would hope that NCsoft doesn't over project and then ruin their game like EA/Mythic did :/

[Chaelyn]

Too few servers is far better than too many, I agree....

[Drakhon]

The second group of names up there are the EU CBT servers. It is unclear whether NA and EU will have overlapping server names at release, but since they don't currently, I think it's a good assumption that those 16 names (and thus the number of servers) will be split between NA and EU.

[Trul]

I think we want to be on the most heavily populated server. Even if you have to deal with a few arsehats, its better to people to play with then none at all. From what I hear PT is rather dead from what it use to be. I don't want that to happen to us.