Then if the server merge is not appropriate, I would suggest something else which can increase the longevity of the game. To involve other servers against each other like a server Vs server. Like a guild war against guilds from other servers. But I still do believe even a merge between two servers will serve good. Two servers with the same lvl cap and promotion cap and similar regional servers can be matched good.
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Server Vs Server would be immense. As long as caps are aligned of course.
However some server have the same caps but different heroes. It would need levelling out over the next 6 months at least to make an even playing field.
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Perblue did that and many did not accept it. Called update 1.7, claiming the economy change will maintain the game for a long run.
It’s debatable whether is true or not.
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Has to be some sort of server merge and there was no way all servers would remain active. Feel sorry for the people who spent money in an inactive server.
People all flock to server 1 anyway as they get all the new things first. There is no cap on the number of people in a server
Actually, the newer, the better. The lower the cap, the better.
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Im in total agreement, im on server 5 and its like a ghost town, so many have left the server because of frequent updates and greed from pb. We need to merge or this game will be a thing of the past.
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Server mergers have been bought up before and I believe Polaris said it wasn’t likely.
From experience, some games similar to this one don’t actually have an easy way to merge severs. People suggest “oh merge servers” like it is always some easy feat. In some cases, depending on how the architecture of the servers were initially set up, there could be no way to merge them short of copying everyone’s data from two servers into a brand new one and have people somehow log in there. Not sure how that would work.
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Good point.
I don’t know if it is possible to merge servers or move 2 servers to a new server, but at this point server merges wouldn’t be bad I think.
Hope at least the older servers get it a bit better soon even if no merge :-).
If merges aren’t possible to happen then there has to be come sort of server Vs server mode. Because the game at the moment is getting boring for a lot of players.
The influx of DragonSoul players should help liven a lot of the servers - S16 is teeming with us - we may be new to DH - but we understand the mechanics and the structure, so we will settle in fast - plus we are bringing a lot of fresh guilds into the game - DragonSoul closes at the beginning of May - so you can expect more of us soon
I know you are serious but clearly you can see that a server with once 20k+ active players sitting at 3k active (Server 7) can take on a lot more load before any concerns about “flooding”.
And Servers are NOT created to stop a “flood”, they are created to keep the game active to new players.
It is a case of economics, I’m pretty sure merging similar servers (same cap) will at some point soon be the better economic choice for PB and we will benefit from it.
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It’s highly unlikely it would be difficult to merge 2 servers. For the most part a “server” is just going to be a database.
Most of the heavy lifting for the game is done on your device to keep costs down so there isn’t really a lot of need for true “servers”.
There are plenty of reasons they would not want to merge servers, but an inability to do so is doubtfully one of them.
But that means there is still a possibility for it to happen. If there is then why not… Many other games did server merges. Even PerBlue own games did merges recently.
Portalquest is by per blue and is ranked 9 on the grossing list and they merged servers v v recently. However one of the issues with ds was the coding by per blue making server merging v v difficult. So it does sadly depend.
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They have another game called portal quest and had no problems merging servers. Too many people are quitting this game. So even though it shows 15,000 people on a server, many of those are inactive. No one is applying to guilds anymore. We need a merge.
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It’s only a flood of everyone is still active. So many people have quit its not even funny. The new servers might not need merges, but older servers do. That’s where all the people are from who are quitting. What once used to be a “flood” is now an under nourished river during a hefty drought. It’s like california when it hasn’t rained sufficiently in several months.
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Absolutely. Maybe the developer should think to balance game play and consider to fix a. the atrocious drop rate, b. matchmaking in war, c. pace of level caps in middle game, d. quality of life changes (raids in arena, coli), e. reverse economy changes from 1.7, f. remove bugging pop-ups, g. offer better deals for dolphins and players who spend only occasionally (because the deals are overpriced).
I could imagine this might bring some players back in the game.
As a DS player who started playing this game (DH) last year I can tell you that the people who understands the mechanics (which are basically similar to DS) would never contemplate to open an account on older servers since the effort to catch up is gigantic or you need to spend an unhealthy amount of money. So this new population won’t save the desert what old servers has become.
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PB already know that people will quit if they proceed in update 1.7… this is already predicted…
Then the update gives constant crashing, but they might found the solution in next update… so it is not a guarantee that it will be fix so another group of people will quit if it will not be fix bec of that poor performance of the dev… no gamer wants a constant crashing of game…
A lot of people already protest in this forum but they dont care… so i think… we should go on the flow with what the PB wants,… let them get what they want… give them what they want… just play for fun 
Well, if you put it that way, I guess a Server Merge isn’t that bad.