Population & Shard merging
Is there a reason why there is are plenty of shards for a single time-zone? It seems like there isn't much of a population in certain shards. What's keeping those shards from being removed or merged with another?
I have been in Baja for a about a month now and ive only seen one person in chat and one person walking around.
my curiosity peaks because it seems like a player-base is almost non-existant on some shards.
I have been in Baja for a about a month now and ive only seen one person in chat and one person walking around.
my curiosity peaks because it seems like a player-base is almost non-existant on some shards.
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At one time all shards were overflowing and there were no open housing spots and now every house you see belongs to a paid account so there is really no dead shard just less populated. To merge shards would be impossible to do, you have 6 west coast shards so if you merge all of them together which shard will they all merge to and what are you going to do when 5/6 of you population quits? Also understand that UO has already stated that there will be no mergers because they know it will piss off a lot more players then happy players. It is like the clients, closing one will piss off half of all UO players and UO can not afford to lose that many people.
The housing issue would be by far the largest, but doesn’t mean it couldn’t be overcome. Either that or looking into instanced dungeons or out of town areas etc. That could share populations for Fel anyway.
the dwindling player base and keeping them spread thin I think will only get worse when the new legacy shard is launched, so why wouldn’t we support a merge, xfer tokens have meant economy impacts are not longer an issue.
Leas shards to support from a resource perspective as well.
Typing on a phone whilst walking, so this random drivel may not come out as intended!
At the same time, veterans who spent years accumulating shard shields (and ‘accumulating’ the accounts which have shard shield time) utterly freak out with the suggestion of a free-to-everyone transfer system for items, characters, or both which would give us the ‘soft’ shard merge option. Whether actually justified or not they would see that as a betrayal, game over.
New Legacy is option #3..
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P.S. u toxic for no reason, be more polite plz.
A lot of folks are on that server, so check to see if Baja has one.
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Treasure Hunters
On phone so can’t quote, but in response to :
’if you don’t like your shard move’ this is fine for US players, but European for example don’t have the luxury of a populated option.
The point on shard shields I get, but in reality those of us that have left have all been knocking around since god knows how long, so a large amount of the population either has shields or knows someone with shields who lets them use the transfers freely anyway.
Anyway, I get it’s not for everyone - for those of us who prefer elements of the games where more people directly impacts enjoyment, then it’s obviously more of an issue compared to solo dungeon farming etc.
If there will be any cross-shard trade option : with taxes or just 10-20 items per account problem will not be so heavy. Or some "Chest of cross-shard sending" .
And @Darkion Europa is far from 'empty', we have an active population and busy guilds.
- Shard Transfer Shield
- Shard Bound Items
- Shard Merging
- Shard Migration
As it goes now, as more and more events take place and more players convert to use the new shard bound items in their suit, it’s gets harder to move around to other shard. E.g. I need to have the Morphius epaulettes to make my new suit complete. It’s hard to migrate fully as such items are hard to buy, non existent or very expensive to buy due to shard bound on a new shard.
Furthermore, if you squeeze many players on one shard, the demand will definitely exceed supply by a lot. Maybe existing players on the migrated shard can sell shard bound arties for several plats.
To this day, I have yet to see any strong arguments and advantages for shard bound arties.
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I have friends asking for Morphius Epaulettes, do you have any to sell on all other 20 over shards besides Atlantic with prices lower than Atlantic now? Last I heard they are selling at very high price over there. Shard bound are good for making more profit, i guess…
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