The only solution for the Anathema and servers

[xploit 0]

Stopping the updates on Anathema until Elysium arrives at the same patch which is AQ will unquestionably be the best solution so that both servers may merge together and the server will have sufficiency in population.

Zeth Kur will merge with Anathema... Darrowshire can merge with Elysium to fix the horde and alliance ratios but the end goal is to have 1 main server so that there will be no wastage.

The best solution is to stop Anathema's updates and freeze it until Elysium reaches the same patch which is AQ.

This will let current and future new players who want to go for AQ content know that it is worth it to start on Anathema because it will eventually meet up and merge with Elysium.

[Xylon666Darkstar 4]

There is nothing wrong with Anathema.

[Haestingas 30]

If you say nothing is wrong with Anathema then you are not paying attention. We have lost 7 NA guilds in the last month.

To the OP no way in gods green earth are we going to wait 15 months for naxx. Anathema will die within weeks if they announced such a dumb decision. The far more likely solutions are DOUBLING the speed of patches for Elysium, which has them caught up in 6 months. Or closing new account creation on Elysium, or opening up xfers to Anathema from Darrow + Ely. Or of course doing nothing, which would bleed out the server over the next 4-5 months and lose a thousand players.

[Mahtan 15]

Whatever. But fucking stop talking about Darrowshire. Darrowshire is a wonderful server and you fools would ruin the only viable PvE vanilla realm, that's for sure! >.<

[sporkineye 0]

and with zeth'kur done, they turn their sights on anathema.

[jcochran 1]

5 hours ago, xploit said:

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Zeth Kur will merge with Anathema... Darrowshire can merge with Elysium to fix the horde and alliance ratios but the end goal is to have 1 main server so that there will be no wastage.

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You do realize that Darrowshire is a PvE realm while Elysium is PvP don't you?

Merging those two servers would simply result in the total population dropping by about a thousand. Not everyone is willing to tolerate the ganking that happens on a PvP server, hence their rolling on a PvE one. 

 

[Syanis 2]

5 hours ago, Mahtan said:

Whatever. But fucking stop talking about Darrowshire. Darrowshire is a wonderful server and you fools would ruin the only viable PvE vanilla realm, that's for sure! >.<

Not sure what crack your on but its obviously seriously tainted. Struggle to even find a group for a 60 dungeon most days even as a tank. Most raid guilds are struggling to fill enough of the raid now to still keep going. Guilds collapsing left and right. Only timezone that is managing alright for raiding is NA and EU timezones. Server low pop time is now 600 with peak during the week at 1100 ignoring that out of those at least 200 are farmer, bots, or AH accounts.

Darrowshire is on the verge of death.

[TTL 6]

7 hours ago, Haestingas said:

If you say nothing is wrong with Anathema then you are not paying attention. We have lost 7 NA guilds in the last month.

To the OP no way in gods green earth are we going to wait 15 months for naxx. Anathema will die within weeks if they announced such a dumb decision. The far more likely solutions are DOUBLING the speed of patches for Elysium, which has them caught up in 6 months. Or closing new account creation on Elysium, or opening up xfers to Anathema from Darrow + Ely. Or of course doing nothing, which would bleed out the server over the next 4-5 months and lose a thousand players.

Sorry but merging Elysium with Anathema would be stupid even if it's the same patch. No one wants to see tons of people running around with instant full tier 2/aq gear while Elysium players would need many months after to get on the same level as the Anathema server even if it were the same patch.

[Mahtan 15]

And what do you want to do? Merge it with Kronos maybe?

edit: http://vanillaradar.com/elysium-stats/darrowshire/

Advertising and positive impulses like supporting people instead of raidlogging helps. Suggestions like "merge it with Anathema" do not help.

[Horten 9]

Anathema lost 1500 active players in the span of less than a month. The turnover rates for guilds is getting ridiculous, countless EU and NA guilds have disbanded or merged due to a lack of new players which are split across the fresh realms. What once was the biggest private server in history, is now in shambles on a project that is divided even among itself.

Speed up content release on Elysium PvP with the aim for a single merged PvP server by the end of the year, I'm worried that this might already be too late but it's better than sitting around and pretend everything is fine.

4 hours ago, TTL said:

Sorry but merging Elysium with Anathema would be stupid even if it's the same patch. No one wants to see tons of people running around with instant full tier 2/aq gear while Elysium players would need many months after to get on the same level as the Anathema server even if it were the same patch.

Who cares about a couple more epics the last 700 players on Anathema would have at the point Elysium reaches the same content. Incredibly shortsighted, please reroll on the next fresh meme server for your equal ground.

[Mahtan 15]

Its a 12 year old game. Don't be so naive.

[Ragward 2]

lol , always these posts of "omg servers are dying"

The only reason Nostalrius was that big was A.) staff was good , B.) one server , if there was a option to go to another server I am almost 100% sure there would be less players on nostalrius.

I dont think any of the Above suggestion will warrant people to stay you will mabe fix the population for a few months then it will die down again , people will always stop playing a game and always start again there is nothing you or I or the staff can do about this.

Games die out simple as that I think the only game I know of that has standed the test of time through thick and thin is counter strike.

 

[Mahtan 15]

43 minutes ago, Ragward said:

lol , always these posts of "omg servers are dying"

The only reason Nostalrius was that big was A.) staff was good , B.) one server , if there was a option to go to another server I am almost 100% sure there would be less players on nostalrius.

I dont think any of the Above suggestion will warrant people to stay you will mabe fix the population for a few months then it will die down again , people will always stop playing a game and always start again there is nothing you or I or the staff can do about this.

Games die out simple as that I think the only game I know of that has standed the test of time through thick and thin is counter strike.

 

well said!

 

my suggestion:

Just let the remaining 3 realms finish their timeline, then merge the pvp realms and then start a new pve and a new pvp realm, which can be merged into the old realms after finishing their timeline. This could be repeated forever. It would be a technical challenge for sure.

But merging all servers into one now causes more problems than it solves and will not stop the decline.

The things that increase population on the long term are: advertisement, new realms and winter :D

Therefore I advice to start a new (advertised) ladder realm every 1-2 winter, after finishing the timeline of the other servers.