Elysium Q & A Weekly Answers! / 06.04.2017

[Cogfather 25]

1.) Will we get updated timelines in the near future? When will Darrowshire get ZG?

We are still on track to release it this month.

2.) Can you get rid of these custom changes to BRD/DM/LBRS/pickpocket/Anti-Gold Farming?

The main reason the changes were implemented by Nostalrius was to reduce the gold farming ability that specific classes had access to due to how MaNGOS is scripted. Rogues/Hunters for instance, have the ability to farm 100g+ an hour, by basically skipping content completely and never having to interact with anything in the instance and that blizzard addressed later on in future expansions. We nerfed these instances to reduce the amount of gold that was able to be generated from 100g+ an hour by certain classes, to about 50-75g across the board.

3.) Will Zeth'Kur be merged into Elysium?

We are assessing the possibilities of what can and can't be done, and the possible outcomes. Doing a server merge is NOT an easy task, as it can have major effects on many features of the game (Economy, specifically).

The 68% in favor of a merge will, I'm sure, be ecstatic if we go through, but it will more heavily affect the 32% who are not in favor.

The bottom line is we're aware of our communities opinions on the matter, and are effectively evaluating our options.

We'll do our best to update the masses throughout this process.

4.) Is communication going to change now that Shenna has left?

I would love to hear a bit about how communications are going to be managed both internally and publicly after such a big change in staff

The communication from the team both internally and externally will still continue the way it has been for the past few weeks, and will see no major public changes. Internally, we have made a few minor adjustments to organization and ranks, and help universally streamline information. Most Elysium staff can be reached via our Discord, or PM’d directly on the forums.

5.) Is the Elysium team in control of the OVH account used for hosting the servers? You guys have said in the past that Vitaliy was the OVH account holder. If he/she/it truly left, does that mean you guys have complete control over the OVH account and his name name or credentials are no longer attached to the account?

Vitaliy has not been involved with the project in months, and to be clear, no longer holds any sort of position on the project. This was not forced action by us, he chose this path independently. We have full control over the OVH server box and all other related accounts.

6.) What was meant with Anathemas "autocomplete feature" for the War Effort? And how exactly will it work?

A certain percentage of completion will be added per day, until the Anathema War Effort is completed.

7.) Do you have any commercial goal to try to regain the 8, 9 or 10k population ?

We do not have any “commercial goal” with this project. We have no need to advertise, as we do this for the love of Legacy and nothing else. 20,000 players or 1,000 players, we receive the same benefits, which is zilch, as we are all unpaid volunteers.

[Storfan 24]

Regarding this whole merge-business. Wouldnt it be better to merge Zeth and Darrowshire with Anathema. This would Bring Anathema and Elysium on par with each other. I know this would upset some people though that want to play on a PvE server. In the end I may be the price you have to pay to have a large and healthy population.

[Aklol 16]

17 minutes ago, Storfan said:

Regarding this whole merge-business. Wouldnt it be better to merge Zeth and Darrowshire with Anathema. This would Bring Anathema and Elysium on par with each other. I know this would upset some people though that want to play on a PvE server. In the end I may be the price you have to pay to have a large and healthy population.

[kcollins 2]

Um please no us on darrowshire enjoy not playing on a pvp server, or else we would have played on one of the 3 pvp servers :)  so please leave us alone and not force us to play on one, the majority of us would just quit if we were put on a pvp server. 

[Amberwaal 5]

Well, the problems are both what you yourself identify - People that play on Darrowshire do so because it's PvE - and that ZK is not progressed like Anathema. I doubt most people would want to jump content all that way.

[dequecojonesvais 2]

They will not merge darrowshire with anathema, it's a total brainpain and peharps not possible.

[kcollins 2]

Plus, I don't want to play on a server with 10k people, I like my 1-2k proper population server 

[Lifealert 19]

10 minutes ago, kcollins said:

Plus, I don't want to play on a server with 10k people, I like my 1-2k proper population server 

"I like dead servers"

[Arela84 0]

57 minutes ago, Storfan said:

merge Zeth and Darrowshire with Anathema

You are not very smart, are you? Merge 3 completely different servers on different timelines, one of those also PVE, the one thing that exists nowhere else afaik.

Healthy population is a term that is completely overrated, some crybabies think if you have below 5k pop on a server it is unplayable. But if you check here http://nostalri.us/darrowshire you can see that the population of all servers is going down, no matter which one and on what progression. It is just a natural thing, many people come and jump on the hypetrain and play a bit and a big amount of them leaves again after a while for different reasons.

Darrowshire is doing fine but I would suggest to merge Zeth and Ely or those Zeth players may be lost or forced to start again somewhere else.

[indi 10]

I will personally paypal everyone on staff Turkey sandwiches from Subway if you merge Zeth'Kur and Elysium.

[Coldeyes 0]

7 minutes ago, Lifealert said:

"I like dead servers"

Stupid answer ftl.  zk is not dead it is like classic was. 

[indi 10]

4 minutes ago, Coldeyes said:

Stupid answer ftl.  zk is not dead it is like classic was. 

Yeah, just like my original Blizzard server! So comfy!

[DPS 6]

Just let ppl from Zeth/Darrowshire to transfer their characters to any realm(Anathema or Elisium). So everyone will make their our choice.

[rogue 1]

here's the CN version: 

 

[TheRealJindo 1]

I made a char on ZK a week ago and I actually love the lower population, it feels much more like a community than Elysium is. Please let us keep the ZK population as is.

[atominum 7]

what about AQ release ? Could you guys tell us how far we are from the completion of the raid? Anathema is more and more raidlogging with every week that goes by, we don't have low lvl activity because most people already have a 60 geared main. Any info on AQ helps the server...

[Fizzlestix 1]

Thanks for the QA and the great work in general!

(to the "dad server" crowd: some people genuinely enjoy ZK for what it is: a server with a smaller, more involved community)

[indi 10]

15 minutes ago, Fizzlestix said:

Thanks for the QA and the great work in general!

(to the "dad server" crowd: some people genuinely enjoy ZK for what it is: a server with a smaller, more involved community)

I mean, if the pop was stable sure, but it isn't. When Zeth released we had a 5k+ average, now we are 900~ or so with a 10-15% turnover every week. Zeth was never advertised or created to be the "small, blizzlike pop server" either.

No one wants to be on a sinking ship.

[Tomyris 0]

Apart from the dedicated PvPers, people who want merge could reroll easily. The ones who prefer action over triggered whining on forums did so weeks ago. Kinda sad to see people still whining over a merge as if they couldn't already be 60 and preraid BiS by now if they had any inclination. The high pop experience is there for you. Its called Elysium.

Merging ZK and all the players who prefer smaller pop will simply go back to other games. THe project will no longer be providing what they want. If you can't apprecaite that this game IS NOT FUN to people when overpopulated, thats fine, empathy is a developed skill. It doesn't make it less true because you can't fathom it though.

 

Dislaimer: People getting borked over by shrunken PvP brackets are about the only people who have a valid complaint.

[viken 0]

yo, merge ely PUHleaz

[smokeit 26]

I hope Zeth'Kur just stays as it is now.

BUT, if not, and you do decide to 'kill' zeth'kur off,

Just let the Zeth'Kur players choose. Let them pick one of the 3 realms, this evenly spreads out the ZK playerbase and will have less impact on the other servers economy.

[Choxe 0]

1 hour ago, smokeit said:

I hope Zeth'Kur just stays as it is now.

BUT, if not, and you do decide to 'kill' zeth'kur off,

Just let the Zeth'Kur players choose. Let them pick one of the 3 realms, this evenly spreads out the ZK playerbase and will have less impact on the other servers economy.

Seems to me that people against the merge are not aware that they're currently enjoying the content "at the expense" of those 68% people who want to merge. The problem is that those who don't enjoy playing on Zeth, and seeing no merge will happen soon, are slowly giving up on the server and thus we have less and less people playing every week. Soon the most hardcore players who haven't quit - will and Zeth will be left to aprox. 300-400 pop.  When you split that number to each faction and reduce the number to only lvl 60 players, the server will not be able a to sustain more than 1 raid team for each faction, let alone give the possibility to do any below-raid content. After this happens, people who are currently against merge will start to leave because they won't have any pro-merge people left to support them doing content. Server dies -

[Storfan 24]

2 minutes ago, Choxe said:

Seems to me that people against the merge are not aware that they're currently enjoying the content "at the expense" of those 68% people who want to merge. The problem is that those who don't enjoy playing on Zeth, and seeing no merge will happen soon, are slowly giving up on the server and thus we have less and less people playing every week. Soon the most hardcore players who haven't quit - will and Zeth will be left to aprox. 300-400 pop.  When you split that number to each faction and reduce the number to only lvl 60 players, the server will not be able a to sustain more than 1 raid team for each faction, let alone give the possibility to do any below-raid content. After this happens, people who are currently against merge will start to leave because they won't have any pro-merge people left to support them doing content. Server dies -

It'll be like Emerald Dream after the Nostalrius release. 1-2 guilds still raiding on both sides until they finally decide to merge but by then the damage has already been done.

 

4 hours ago, Arela84 said:

You are not very smart, are you? Merge 3 completely different servers on different timelines, one of those also PVE, the one thing that exists nowhere else afaik.

Healthy population is a term that is completely overrated, some crybabies think if you have below 5k pop on a server it is unplayable. But if you check here http://nostalri.us/darrowshire you can see that the population of all servers is going down, no matter which one and on what progression. It is just a natural thing, many people come and jump on the hypetrain and play a bit and a big amount of them leaves again after a while for different reasons.

Darrowshire is doing fine but I would suggest to merge Zeth and Ely or those Zeth players may be lost or forced to start again somewhere else.

1. Thank you for insulting my intelligence. Nice touch.

2. If you had read my entire post you'd seen that I am very well aware and acquainted with the issues of merging servers in different stages of progress. I've lived thru that before. My point is that the potential problems and damages done by the merge may still be the lesser evil considering the option is an entirely dead server.

[Kuthela 0]

If you want a higher population server, go play on one. I have characters on both Zeth'Kur and Elysium, and I choose to play on Zeth'kur because it has lower population.

For one thing, it's spring, the weather is getting nice and summer is around the corner. Population always drops during Spring/Summer, and picks up again in Fall/Winter. People actually go outside and don't sit in front of the computer 24/7.

I would prefer to see transfers between servers than a merge. Let people decide where they want to play. I'm sure there are people who would prefer to transfer to Zeth'kur, and obviously a lot of people want to transfer to Elysium. Allowing transfers would solve a lot of the problems, or at least stop all the bitching from people who are regretting their server choices now.

[Aziz 1]

Tell me how I can farm 50-75g per hour on any class except a mage please