Thread: New Shard Tag: "Trial" 
mergers are not the same as what they did here. Here they basically destroyed communities which had formed on the shards . With mergers those communities would have stayed intact. Economics would have remained the same ,impact on shard communities would have been far less profound .Originally Posted by Dranzen
Pretty much sums up how I feel right now. I haven't been playing much but I'm still subbed. I log in and I'm greeted with this crap. Way to encourage people to stick...or not.
RIP Quarrystone
The patch hit EU less than 24 hours ago and our PvE sever, which had been a recommended shard not that long ago, was designated as a trial shard. I understand why Trion are doing this, really I do.
What I don't get is why out of the four non PvP shards we can transfer to:
One is already so highly populated there are queues to play.
Another has always been laggy and generally a pretty poor community. My first 50 is there and I re-rolled elsewhere because of it.
The last one is pretty much where a lot will go and probably end up having queues of its own.
Or...you can pick the only RP-PvE server.
All the rest of our options are PvP shards, if you are looking for an English server. Then again all the trial shards are English speaking and 6 out of 7 are PvE shards.
My guild chose the RP-PvE server even though we *didn't* want to go there but they had such little choice it was the better move from all the options. Friends from other trial shards are thinking of moving there too now, yet none of these "immigrants" have any intention of participating in RP. So this poor shard may end up as a PvE shard in all but name only and thus another community ruined.
Nice job Trion, not.
Last edited by Pye; 06-26-2011 at 06:59 PM.
Didn't think tagging a shard as Trial would be such effective way for Trion to get the shards they need for whatever their trial program plans are.
When I logged on Quicksilver (R.I.P) earlier on the evening to check, there was only one level 50 online left, with a total of 14 people... That will also transfer out without a doubt when they realize they're playing a very bad remake of I am Legend
I'm pretty much certain they will remove the shards currently tagged as trial shards very soon. It might have served them better if they had conducted a merger of shards instead of this convoluted manner in which they try to obscure the decline of the general population .Trial shards don't work anyway. It doesn't work to use them to entice folks to buy/subscribe to your game because the game is devoid of any "life " in towns /outposts .If all you see are other level 1-10 toons you give up after your trial is finished ( if I had seen that during my trial week ,I'd never have subscribed )Didn't think tagging a shard as Trial would be such effective way for Trion to get the shards they need for whatever their trial program plans are.
When I logged on Quicksilver (R.I.P) earlier on the evening to check, there was only one level 50 online left, with a total of 14 people... That will also transfer out without a doubt when they realize they're playing a very bad remake of I am Legend
Last edited by Ithadriel; 06-26-2011 at 07:39 PM.
Akylios
I haven't been playing as much as I use to, just a few days a week with a friend. When I've been on Akylios hasn't been a 'ghost town'. Now here I'm stuck waiting for my friend to log on to see which server they want to go to and I'll have to sell almost everything in my mailbox because I don't have room for the stuff on my characters (mats, gear for the future etc). Sounds like a good time to stop playing altogether.
I agree that they should of just made new shards for the trials.
Will they force us to move? I know several friends who don't play much any more.
how many
How many Shards were converted to 'free trial' and how many can we transfer to? (PVE)
for eu half the pve english shards were converted to trial, 4/8, ironically i had characters on all the 4 shards converted, and my names are taken on all the others
eu pve english has 3 options to transfer to
icewatch (which seems to be the most common choice)
riptalon
and blightweald
steampike the last pve english server, is not a transfer option,
so effectively, theyre forcing all the players from 4 servers, into 3 servers already at medium - high population
Well I don't care if I have to change a few toon names, the shards I was on which have been tagged as 'trial' were virtually dead.
Being unable to work, I tend to spend all together too much time playing this game and, as a result you can find me on off and on throughout the day and night. Never once on Endless did I see more than 30 people online at any given time period. Never. Most invasions could not be stopped because of it.
So I have no complaints.
the names i am now forced to change ive been using for over 8 years, and refuge was far from dead, having a fairly healthy population of frequent players, roughly 200 50's on guardian side alone, and i assume a similar number on defiant side
I'm sorry but 400 odd players is a dead shard. MMO server realms/shards whatever you care to call them, normally hold upwards of 10k players.
Last edited by Maelystra; 06-27-2011 at 01:54 AM.
just dont get it
hmmmm...it might not have been the heaviest loaded server... but what sucks the most... is that now having transfered to new server.. they are so heavily loaded that: it shows on the preformance (lags), auctioneers in towns are almost impossible to spot, due to the 40 people standing around in one big pile.
So I would rather have less populated servers..
Stop pulling numbers from where the sun doesn't shine, there's no such thing as "normally", MMOs vary massively on their numbers-per-server.
Actually 6/10 English speaking PvE shards were changed to trial staus on the EU server and one PvP shard. Not a single French or German shard was changed. Steampike the shard we would have moved to, wanted to move to, was removed from the list before we even knew which shards were going to be trial shards.
We have 4 options to choose from, you forgot Argent, the RP-PvE server.
A few guilds have moved to Argent, us included, and its OK. Ironically, its about as populated as the shard we were "forced" to move from so its got quite a healthy population. Haven't seen anyone RPing, and you do not have to RP to move here, so its just like another PvE shard with less "kiddies".
Last edited by Pye; 06-27-2011 at 02:35 AM.
400 odd players is a good ammount for a shard imo, more, and all zone events become a zerg fest ie river of souls, less and big things like that become incompleteable, id rather have a small active community than a bustling hive of roadblocks and imbeciles
as for moving to the rp realm, i have though about it but not sure i can convince the rest. i hate this crap
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