Coordinating A Server For This Community

[Sephina]

I was thinking, when huxley launches what if the people of this up-and-coming forum community were all to agree one or perhaps two servers?

say for example those from these forums who are going to choose alternative go to server X, and those who are choosing sapiens go to server Y etc.

That'd be kind've cool - at least then we'd have people we know already right from the getgo directly after purchasing the game.

or you guys think this'd be a bad idea and would ultimately cause these two servers to get overpopulated too quickly (considering we're all most likely to bring other friends into Huxley with us and this forum community will be bigger by then)?

[mikkado]

I'd say it's a good idea, and I want to be a mutant (alternative) :P Having friends from the start would be a good idea IMO Makes the game more interesting from the start!

[vircotto]

Yea sounds good to me!

[Sephina]

I want to be an alternative too (specifically Alternix Enforcer) so I guess that means we'd end up on the same server if the community decided on this, Mikkado =) tempted to ask Globby to sticky an official "community server" thread naming the server that he chooses for the community to go for each of the two factions heheh.

- Sephie

edit: I just realized.... this wouldn't work anyway if the servers are not international. I'm in America for example, if they make US server for US version only then looks like this might not work =(

Hey guys, good news! Globby liked the idea and decided to sticky this post incase the servers are international as a reminder for when the game comes out to give this idea a try. So looks like this idea can work and if the servers are not international we could always pick specific servers for each country I suppose.

- Sephie

[Fauqs]

There's another small issue with a simple solution.

Some people on these forums probably won't have the same name they have here as they would in the game.

So, if you want other forum members to know your in-game name you can post it here (after the game comes out, so you know for sure it's the right name).

Of course you don't have to. Just something to consider.

[Sephina]

Originally Posted by Fauqs

There's another small issue with a simple solution.

Some people on these forums probably won't have the same name they have here as they would in the game.

So, if you want other forum members to know your in-game name you can post it here (after the game comes out, so you know for sure it's the right name).

Of course you don't have to. Just something to consider.

The main thing is that everyone knows which server to join - but you're right maybe we could make a separate thread to assist in forum name to in-game character name conversion, but so long as everyone goes to the same server then who is who can be sorted out.

or... instead of a thread we could put an entire section of this forum that list everyones character names in alphabitical order of thier forum names, by using a field in thier forum profiles where they fill in thier character name and pick server name from a drop-down menu, and whatever servers we pick as a main server(s) for this community it will be highlighted in gold when they see it in the drop-down menu.

- Sephie

[mikkado]

Hmm, i'm in EU, and I think we will have US and EU servers to reduce lagg. Bummer, but not a huge problem. But still, the idea is manageable. My ingame nick is going to be Mikado

[Sephina]

Originally Posted by mikkado

Hmm, i'm in EU, and I think we will have US and EU servers to reduce lagg. Bummer, but not a huge problem. But still, the idea is manageable. My ingame nick is going to be Mikado

Yeah, you're probably right and we probably are going to have to pic specific servers for each country

- Sephie

[connnnn]

I wonder how server management will even work in this game...

[mikkado]

Hopefully better then the crappy blizzard one.

[zeekgenateer]

Maybe they should have mostly separate servers for EU and and US but some servers dedicated for US and EU gameplay. That might be kinda cool.

[Mrdangles]

Originally Posted by zeekgenateer

Maybe they should have mostly separate servers for EU and and US but some servers dedicated for US and EU gameplay. That might be kinda cool.

Wouldn't mind that at all. Oh yeah, my name will be Sirdangles :]

[Mortaur]

this sounds like a good plan. my name will be mortaur


hopefully webzen will give out a little more info sometime

[Sephina]

Originally Posted by Mortaur

this sounds like a good plan. my name will be mortaur


hopefully webzen will give out a little more info sometime

Yeah, I'm hoping we can get ahold of some server names before the release to help see this plan through... I know everyone will be all in a hurry to make thier main character and start playing right when they get the game but if this plan is to work I would urge everyone to check these forums before making any permanent server decisions if this plan is to work.

- Sephie

[Mrdangles]

Originally Posted by Sephina

Yeah, I'm hoping we can get ahold of some server names before the release to help see this plan through... I know everyone will be all in a hurry to make thier main character and start playing right when they get the game but if this plan is to work I would urge everyone to check these forums before making any permanent server decisions if this plan is to work.

- Sephie

SECONDED! (grumble ten characters)

[1Shot1Kill]

FlapJackPancakes is my name. Nah, it's really not, but if we did this i'd have to think long and hard about a name.

[HaZE]

It sounds like a good idea, but most of the hardcore FPS gamers aren't forum warriors, so we'll see how that works out.

[zeekgenateer]

Wohoo for overused names. I'm going to be Zeek Genateer which is the name I use for pretty much everything (It helps when logging in to stuff). Also the guilds that form from this site should have an alliance maybe. It might be cool for 2 guilds to gang up on one if guild PvP is open almost anywhere at anytime.