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anarchyart
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Well, the servers are packed tonight. My server Chilastra had a ton of people making their alts in Mos Eisley, and making those huge life trees lol the /who cut off at 32 players, but there were speeders and swoops running around everywhere, it's awesome.
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Probably SOE employees forcing their children to play
"If you dont play SWG you dont get to play WoW... so hurry up kiddo"
"SWG was a world, now it's just a game" -adamrk-
"When the game was good, you didn't have to ask where the population was, because it was everywhere. When the game was good you didn't have to ask which server had population, because they all did. When the game was good you didn't have to beg friends to give it a try, because they were already playing. " - Salty Pete
checking the galaxies, they all look quiet. Kauri forums has a post asking people to dance in theed to protest and this I found in the general discussion:
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"SWG was a world, now it's just a game" -adamrk-
"When the game was good, you didn't have to ask where the population was, because it was everywhere. When the game was good you didn't have to ask which server had population, because they all did. When the game was good you didn't have to beg friends to give it a try, because they were already playing. " - Salty Pete
I logging in tonight as well to check out the trees and look around some as a couple of my closed accounts havent expired. I hopped space ports also some sparcly poulated most barren, got to MO and rubberbanded 4 times in a row then logged out.
I'm sure many others logged on curious about the patch stuff and I'm also willing to bet over half of these are people like me with closed accounts with time still on them.
Around 300 people on my friends list and only 1 on afk spamming in theed.
I'm currently on a ventrilo server with 52 people on it atm most saying about the same thing (they all use to play SWG as well).
PIRATE LORDS
SOE's last-chance patch to save most of their canceled accounts AND life day at the same time. All the extra traffic to check those things out and they still have 0 very heavy, only 2 heavy and still 1 on very light at peak time. Wake up AA, reality is calling. Those 2 things co-inciding should have every last server onat least medium, most on heavy and 1/2 dozen or more on very heavy. It's NOT packed, and never will be again.
Make up your mind.
Either your own screen shot is falsified and the game is packed.
OR
The screen shot is real and the game is nowhere close to being packed.
I've laid out your contradiction quite plainly. Let go of your denial.
Free trial, of course there are some newbs especialy with this being the the time of the year that most young people are spending away from home(or stuck at home due to weather and such) and being baby sitted by computers while grown ups shop and party.
Come back and tell us how packed it is at the end of January not that its really packed now as another has already pointed out and considering all the other relevant aspects.
I saw what it was like tonight and compared to the hights of old days its not close.
PIRATE LORDS
When I logged on around 8pm there were 3 servers on Heavy, 1 on extremely heavy (guess
) and 4 on light (mostly the Euros), rest were medium.
Forum activity by no means dictates game activity. I would think an deadish galaxy forum is a good thing, means they're in game
lol!
Server load in this game is no indication of anything. As I think many have stated over and over again.
Incorrect, you banked on rumormill. The server load is a direct relation to the population logged into the server.
However Anarchy's screen doesn't really show me a screaming packed game. That is the heaviest I have seen it since the NGE and that isn't even half full.
And Anarchy, ofcourse Mos Eisley is going to be busy to some degree always. Its the ONLY start up city now where-as before there was atleast 4 you had your choice of. That was a change the CU brought to try to get noobies able to find more people to group with since it went from an almost solely solo game to a solo and group friendly game.
I have a screencap of the server loads from last saturday at peek time in the US for both coasts. I will get it posted as soon as I can, I keep forgetting to upload it.
- Scaris
"What happened to you, Star Wars Galaxies? You used to look like Leia. Not quite gold bikini Leia (more like bad-British-accent-and-cinnamon-bun-hair Leia), but still Leia nonetheless. Now you look like Chewbacca." - Computer Gaming World
i dont exactly oppose the NGE as such, but i have to agree with that the server population has dwindled drastically. If that picturer really IS recent then im afraid its an exception. Everytime i logged on all the servers but the three euro servers were on light/extremely light while the euro servers were on medium. I tried at american primetime and pretty much every server but bria and eclipse were light.
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Everyone got an alt slot yesterday... even Jedi.
All the people I know with active accounts were on last night to make the new character before they take it away.
Shayde - SWG (dead)
Proud member of the Cabal.
It sounds great, so great in fact, I pitty those who canceled
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In typical newB fashion, AA fails to see the whole picture and assumes once again.
1. That server load you are showing is not even close to showing a busy game. THIS IS STAR WARS! Prime time should have 3 or 4 Very Heavies, a couple mediums and the rest at the Heavy mark. Furthermore, as with the launch day of the NGE, populations always go above normal on big patch days as even guys with canceled accounts will log in to give it a shot before logging and going back to whatever it is they normally are doing. Heck...even CoH/CoV manages to get all its servers out of the "light" range during prime time.
2. Most everyone was creating a new toon. That new toon starts in ME. If 50% of the server population rolled a new toon and there are 100 guys in ME....you do the math on total server population.
A big group in ME means the rest of the server is even more quiet then before.
On a side note...I think I know why Bria and Ahazi are managing to stay a little higher than the average as others decline. Most likely, people are seeing dead communities and friends leaving and they are just mothballing veteran toons and rolling on the bigger servers. Pretty soon, a server merge won't be needed by SOE as the player base merges itself onto those 2 servers.
Guys, Packed is a relative term, us long time vets that use to see 200 people outside coronet starport would consider that packed and 50 people standing outside empty.
Truth of the matter is AA is a noob, he hasent experienced what us vets think of as "packed", to him 10 people in one place must seem like a server merge.
NGE is made for noobs, its no wonder the biggest booster of this game now loves it. Its custom tailored for them.
AA:
I'm glad to see the servers are actually starting to look like they MIGHT be recovering but to say they're packed is ludicrous.
Pre-NGE on any given night that same screen shot at that same time would have shown:
Bria, Ahazi and 1 or 2 others at "Extremely Heavy"
3-4 others at "Heavy"
10-11 at "Medium"
and the rest at "light"
Based on your screen shot, even with all the people logging in to see if the patch made any significant change to the game, it still shows a DRASTICALLY reduced population in the game.
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Matter of fact... even with fuzzy math (Thank you Mr. Bush) that glass still isn't even half full.
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so what range of numbers classifies each server load....
1-100 very light? Can you provide some numbers for us who believe soe changes the server load variables or its based on something as arbitary as the servers system resource usage.
either way... it was probably a bring back pre-cu protest going on Anarchy. That might have been a spike until they kick/banned them.
AA... Saw the picture.
If THAT is your idea of packed, you really missed this game. I've performed for over 100 people before.. at the same time. Now THAT is packed.
Shayde - SWG (dead)
Proud member of the Cabal.
It sounds great, so great in fact, I pitty those who canceled
I don't like it when you say things. - A Vanguard fan who does too.
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SWG is in real trouble. I'm sure most people have seen this already, but I'll post it again.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/10/arts/10star.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1134231647-px+whuQURLcoTTfv5bpblQ
The New York Friggin' Times is writting about how poorly the NGE is performing. SOE & LA need to take a long look at the situation and figure out how to repair it, or the NGE will go into the history books as one of the largest failures of all time.
Only sony knows what the ranges are, the ranges aren't at question. Your trying to spread the bogus rumor that started over in the official forums that one guy who thinks he is a tech came to the conclusion that server load means the server resoource load, which it isn't and the proof is simple enough. Naritus was on a light and very light load right after the second to last hotfix that caused huge overspawning on 4 planets (and I have screenshots to show just how huge).
You on the other hand are just trying to argue something that isn't an arguement. If sony is changing the server loads to a lower range to look fuller, then they are doing a VERY poor job of faking everyone out since most are always on "light" now.
Oh, and I doubt any protest is going to bring any significantly higher number to the server load. Is it that hard to accept that the game was less then half full ONE day even with the NGE? Christ, you act like they all said heavy...
- Scaris
"What happened to you, Star Wars Galaxies? You used to look like Leia. Not quite gold bikini Leia (more like bad-British-accent-and-cinnamon-bun-hair Leia), but still Leia nonetheless. Now you look like Chewbacca." - Computer Gaming World
Haxx... I really need a tinfoil hat... can you send me instructions on how to make one?
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Nice one El.
- Scaris
"What happened to you, Star Wars Galaxies? You used to look like Leia. Not quite gold bikini Leia (more like bad-British-accent-and-cinnamon-bun-hair Leia), but still Leia nonetheless. Now you look like Chewbacca." - Computer Gaming World