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| TiamatRoar 545th Post
 
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|  "Re(10):Final Fantasy XI"
, posted Sun 2 Nov 01:12
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It just seems to me like the older MMORPG model of the load being balanced by different servers (or server clusters) managing the different areas of the game works a lot better. If you ever want to meet with anyone, you can just move across the world, rather than restarting your character.
Those are known as subservers. But actually, other MMORPGs are split into various universes (and these are what are actualy called "servers"), too. If your friends are on a different one, you'll have to restart from scratch on that one if you want to play with them. The difference is that in other MMORPGs, your starting server is NOT random. You CHOOSE it, so obviously, a smart thing to do if you have friends at the start is to choose the same server. In Final Fantasy XI, from what I see, your starting server is random and you have to work to get money to buy a "world pass" before you can switch to a friend's server. And of course, once you do, you need to restart your character again.
This whole random starting server thing in FFXI seems kinda stupid to me. I mean, besides the obvious annoyance of not starting off being able to play with your friends because your server ended up being randomly chosen to be a different one from their's, what's the point of this random thing to balance server load if everyone is probably eventually going to get world passes so they can CHOOSE which server to go to, anyways? Wouldn't it be easier just to let them start out being able to choose their server? And... typically, server loads are balanced when you let people choose their server, anyways (generally speaking, in other MMORPGs, the only times a server is significantly more crowded than another is when it's older than another, and the reasons why should be obvious), so I don't see how randomizing things would help.
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| Radish 1853th Post
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| "Re(2):Re(10):Final Fantasy XI" , posted Sun 2 Nov 05:52
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It just seems to me like the older MMORPG model of the load being balanced by different servers (or server clusters) managing the different areas of the game works a lot better. If you ever want to meet with anyone, you can just move across the world, rather than restarting your character.
Those are known as subservers. But actually, other MMORPGs are split into various universes (and these are what are actualy called "servers"), too. If your friends are on a different one, you'll have to restart from scratch on that one if you want to play with them. The difference is that in other MMORPGs, your starting server is NOT random. You CHOOSE it, so obviously, a smart thing to do if you have friends at the start is to choose the same server. In Final Fantasy XI, from what I see, your starting server is random and you have to work to get money to buy a "world pass" before you can switch to a friend's server. And of course, once you do, you need to restart your character again.
This whole random starting server thing in FFXI seems kinda stupid to me. I mean, besides the obvious annoyance of not starting off being able to play with your friends because your server ended up being randomly chosen to be a different one from their's, what's the point of this random thing to balance server load if everyone is probably eventually going to get world passes so they can CHOOSE which server to go to, anyways? Wouldn't it be easier just to let them start out being able to choose their server? And... typically, server loads are balanced when you let people choose their server, anyways (generally speaking, in other MMORPGs, the only times a server is significantly more crowded than another is when it's older than another, and the reasons why should be obvious), so I don't see how randomizing things would help.
Yes, I am pretty sure most MMORPGs don't allow you to change server. It's kinda a moot point anyway since I don't think that the people that I enjoy playing with or the people that DW enjoys playing with are all going to switch servers just because we want to play together. Once you pick a world, there's little reason to change it unless you really have no friends in your current one.
Also the vast majority of people playing this game don't use world passes. This is clear since if you look at the server loads they are fairly even (about 4500 on peak times). My server is a little less since we were aiming for the world with the cheapest world pass.
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