Poll for Launch Server

[Gisli]

So far as we know, here is the final official word from Mythic: http://herald.warhammeronline.com/wa...cle.war?id=266

This says ONE Core/RP server at launch (Phoenix Throne), and two more brought up with SE on Tuesday (Skavenblight and Avelorn). Other servers will be brought up at unspecified times as needed.

I saw a poll on another site this morning. No telling how representative it is of the overall Warhammer population, but it is the best indicator that I have seen. But according to that, 80 of 338 respondants (close to a quarter) indicated they would play on a Core/RP server.

It is a bit difficult to decide how to best structure this poll. Really, the key decision is how soon to commit. So that is how I am presenting this. My best guess is that they will bring up additional Core/RP servers during CE that are not named, and save Skavenblight and Avelorn for SE. So I'm not presenting the choices by name. I'm presenting this as though there will be additional CE rollouts. If there are none, then by default, waiting for a later server means waiting for SE.

Anther option: Go to Open RvR/RP. NOT an option for most people according to http://www.ravensofwar.com/forum/showthread.php?t=411 where nearly 90% of the respondents voted core/RP.

Another option: Go to an Oceanic server. I have no idea how feasible that would be. I'm going to leave it out of this poll, because the most important piece of information right now is to gauge the community's tolerance for waiting. We can discuss an Oceanic server separately.

This poll will close at 9:00pm tonight (Saturday). We will try to come out with something definitive at that time.

[Gisli]

Here is my opinion on things. There are going to be A LOT of Core/RP players. More than Mythic thinks, apparantly. If they bring up only the one server initially, its going to get hammered like crazy. It is possible that after more servers come up, people will shift off of Phoenix Throne, but I think too many people will stick it out there, and its going to be the longest queues of ANY server for months to come.

If we decide to wait for the 2nd, 3rd, or 4th server, we might get it the first day or we might possibly have to wait until SE.

Personally, if its just an issue of waiting hours or even two days to play on a good server, I think that is the best choice.

[Wazdakka]

This poll unavoidably leaves out some unknowns. If the second rp server isn't out until tuesday, which is basically what the herald seems to be saying, that changes my opinion. I liked it better when the plan was to play it by ear and see if the second server came out sometime on the first day.

[HesH]

After reading the Guiniviere folks post id like to specidfy my vote to if they wait for Avelorn im fine with doing the same, would like to play with them folks as it would really help us with a balance issue we'd kow for sure order would have a great bases to start off.

[Gisli]

Obviously there is room for interpretation. But if the community voted for "second RP/core server" then "play by ear waiting on second server" is effectively what we would be doing. Obviously the problem comes if there is no second server the first day. The advantage of the poll is that if we only "play by ear" then that means a couple of loudmouths screaming on Sunday morning can more easily sway the decision than if we have poll numbers that tell us to wait longer.

[Graysdir]

I'll be rolling at 7:00 AM EDT on Phoenix Throne, along with most of my friends from Percival. Hopefully you folks end up with us.

I'd rather deal with login queue's for the first few weeks to ensure I have a healthy server population for the next few years.

Knowing what I do now about DAOC server populations; if I had a choice between playing on Percival for 3-4 weeks with server queues, or playing on low-pop Nimue with no queues, I'd far rather deal with the queues. No question about it.

It will be a cesspool of lag at first but it's likely to be the busiest server, and that's where I need to be.

Grays

[Wazdakka]

Yeah. that I understand. I really want first day (and voted for #1) but I'd happily switch later in the day if the next one came up.



So, if by late in the day there were no second rp/core server, we might hit the first one then?

[HesH]

Gray is there no chance of talking you into waiting until say second server and keeping us and guina guys all together ... please concider it i'm more then confident servers with shift about as all games do on realease to make any of the limited 3 RP server be well populated. See if we can come to a community wide comprimise

[Vadokri]

I voted for the 2nd RPCore since my guild plans on creating Order toons on Phoenix Throne. The reason we plan on doing that is just in case there are balance issues as we see occurring currently.

[Gramel]

I would much rather wait a bit and play on a less crowded server, then sit every night waiting in a queue to get in. My vote is in, and its for the 2nd one.