Jellydonut

When the server is crashing every few hours it's legitimate to ask what's going on. But your moderators just lock the threads with no real answer. Authoritarian much?

The server keeps crashing and is down, but it's hard to tell because the realm-status page still shows it as up. Not a log-in issue or player volume problem. Crashed multiple times last night with around 4K people on.

In addition to the lag, now the server is crashing on a regular basis - 3 crashes today in like an 8 hour period. And this is not even at "peak times" - US evenings. They should just threaten to ban VPN's unless the Chinese buy them the latest and greatest hardware - problem solved ;)

Server crashes 3 times in 7 hours? And not because it's under "peak load" - this is late US evening. What gives?

Log into the other servers fine, stuck at connecting on Elysium, then eventually disconnected from server (same thing that happened earlier today when it went down). And why even have a server-status page when it's not accurate? Either connect it in real-time or get rid of it, it's misleading.

To paraphrase the response I got in a post about bugged quests, they have other priorities right now and will get to the other bugs later. Also, the dev's set their own priorities for issues to address and trying to bump something by posting here does not work. Translation: once it's in github all you can do is wait. At this point if it doesn't involve raids or some massive balance issue you'll probably be waiting a long time, since clearly raids and keeping raiding guilds happy is their focus.

Yes it's already in the bug tracker, but can you please prioritize and expedite fixing this quest? It's breaking a significant quest line and preventing tanks from obtaining an important pre-BIS item (Ring of Protection).

The last patch notes we have are from May 24, despite there being a major patch in June and then supposedly something hot-fixed today? (Only reference I can find to the later is a Twitter post about deleting WDB file.) Any time you make changes to the game it should be posted in the Dev Updates section, no matter how minor. This is just Communications 101 stuff. And while you're at it, what's the status of the updates needed for the 1.4/1.5 patch? (Maybe that's what got hotfixed, but no notes so no way to tell :P)

You did read that characters were moving to Elysium (if no other option was chosen) - in the initial transfer announcement. Unfortunately, when they announced the actual implementation, they changed the "default" transfer realm to Anathema - just one of the many mistakes made during this process. You're screwed. Blame shoddy communications and planning by the devs.

This. Sucks that Darrowshire people will have to go PvP, but them's the breaks.

Not a programmer, so can't really help them. But here are some general communication/management tips: 1. Don't put out conflicting statements. 2. Under-promise, but over-deliver. When they announced these transfers they said the default realm would be Elysium, and that they would "keep the community posted". We then basically went 2 months with no news about it, and when they finally did announce the implementation, it wasn't going to be for another 2 weeks and the default realm had been changed to Anathema for "reasons." So then the transfer process was open for another two weeks, and when the realm was closed they said the transfers "had come to an end". Then we find out they weren't actually over yet, and it will probably be another week before they are actually, really complete. At no point did they say "oh by the way it's gonna take a week after the realm is closed to finish the transfers." Most people, understandably, though it would happen as soon as the realm was closed. So, between the repeated delays and poor communications, you may be able to understand why people are frustrated. Oh, and by the way, they said the "goal" was to have them finished by the end of the week. It also wouldn't surprise me if it takes them twice that long.

"At least a day with the goal of being done by the end of the week." Translation - It all depends on when the one person on the staff who knows what he or she is doing gets around to it. I'm not surprised. Communication and general administration of this project has sucked for a while.

If Zeth is running on Anathema, then what is Anathema on? In any event, the question still remains. This post explicitly references three realms going forward, so what is the status on Zeth transfers? I personally would not put up any money with that matter still in limbo, and assume others who play there wouldn't either.

This post doesn't mention anything about ongoing costs for Zeth'kur - I assume that's because of the plan to shut it down and allow transfers to the other three realms, as announced over a month ago. However, since then we've heard essentially nothing more about it, despite a stated commitment to keep the community informed. So, before putting up some cash, what can you say about that?

It's been three weeks since you made the announcement. AQ and ZG are out. Can we get some details now, like when?

And the server page is still broken. Is that because you don't want people to see the meager population anymore, or are you so short on staff that you can't even fix that?

In due time. Kinda like how the server has been down for a day now with no official announcement (supposedly a mention of it in Discord). Let's face it, the dead server is their last priority.

Still waiting for somebody to say something intelligent about why transfers are so "complicated" beyond simply "they are". How are unique IDs any different from names? If two (or more) would be the same, then you change some in a predetermined way. It ain't rocket science. Yes it's work (editing code), but effort =/ complexity.

Obviously you fools don't know anything more about this then I do. If you did, then you'd be able to cite valid reasons why it's so complicated. So far the best anyone has been able to do is duplicate names, which is (or should be) a non-issue - they just get an "x" added to the end, problem solved. It makes little difference that people can transfer to multiple realms - they'll just be copying to multiple character databases. The process would still be the same.

I call BS. How hard can it be to copy and paste from the character database? If you're waiting for the server lease to expire at the end of the month, then why not just say so?

I'm telling ya man, they won't touch this until the lows drop below 500, or more likely when the current server lease expires in May. So basically, suck it up for another 2 months. They'd rather expend resources on stupid April Fools jokes than actual issues.

This needs to happen. The population and trend in population on Zeth'kur are now getting to a critical (low) point, and the population on Elysium has always been too high. Please open limited transfers (first ~1500-2000 accounts) from Elysium to Zeth'kur. This will balance out the populations and ensure and enhance the playability and long-range viability of both realms. If this does not happen, then eventually some less-attractive option (read: merger) will, and in the meantime both realms will continue to suffer with their problems from opposite ends of the spectrum. Thank you for all your efforts on this project!

Yesterday at 8:45 am server time Zeth had 600 people online while Elysium had 4,600. Same content, same realm type, released two weeks apart. I made a post about it in the General forum which was deleted. The disparity is glaring and only continues to get worse. When is enough enough? 500? 400? 0?

What? I said don't make assertions like Zeth'kur is fine because it's "blizzlike" because that's not even relevant. By that same logic, Elysium should be split in 2 because a 6k server isn't "blizzlike" either. Stop posting. You're just making yourself look more dumb.

Lel. You're the one who just said "piss-off" with no basis.