Time to merge servers? Follow

http://www.warcraftrealms.com/realmstats.php?sort=Total

Some servers are dying and unplayable.
Realm transfers from high to low population servers are ineffective, who wants to transfer to a dead server anyway.
Did a free transfer from Moon Guard to Thorium Brotherhood with my Alliance toon long time ago, now we have a whooping 316 Alliance player’s vs 7,500 Horde...

Merging servers is the only solution I can think off

The activity numbers are usually a more accurate representation of what's going on with the server. They were at least accurate when the person with the census mod did the /who survey.

For example my server is 986A/1484H, and the A/H activity is 1.1:1, which 'feels' reasonably accurate (whatever that is worth).

As for Raw's question. I'm fine on the low population server; were number 31 on that list if I counted correctly; pop: 2,420 it says. I'm assuming they'll keep doing as they've been doing, offering free transfers, and listing under-utilized servers as 'New Player' servers to encourage people to start there. I'm guessing that's what they did with mine as it was listed 'New Player' and it was born on Mar. 15th 2006.

Besides I'm enjoying the glyph market way too much. If they merged us, I'd have more competition.

That all being said, I'm not looking for World PvP opportunities on a PvP server with less than 1,000 people. If you're down in that 200-300 range, I can imagine some things just start to fall apart with the economy, TB PvP, trying to find a decent guild, etc.

Plus, wow, thorium brotherhood doesn't look like a fun place to be alliance.

I dont know about merging servers, but this site isnt too accurate. Arthas, the server I play on, is listed as having 1.2:1 A:H ratio for level 85 and it's completely wrong. Horde outnumber us on that server for a large margin.

It has Proudmoore listed as 2.4:1 in favor of Alliance. Sounds about right to me. Yet we still have TB about 50% of the time. It's pretty awesome.

That site has too little of data to be reliable anymore as you notice the huge amount of red numbers. If you want a better picture of your server, download the mod from their site and run it for both factions a few times during peak hours and see what data you get.

That said, I'd hope they try and balance servers. They've created a mess since Faction transfers.

Not always. Often times a launch, major patch or (especially) expansion will bring in a whole bunch of new players. As the initial glow wears off, player population drops again. Sometimes this leaves servers barren. Some games (like Rift) expected and experienced this; they had too few servers to start, then too many. I believe (could be wrong, correct me if so) that they merged some servers and offer free transfers in order to combat this. The last I heard though, the game is still growing.

This just in, Pigtails' avatar is gone. And there was much mourning.

FFXI IS DIEING!!!!!11!!!!

oh wait. Wrong board.

WoW is DIEING!!!11!!!!


Seriously though, not even close to time to merge servers. I purposely picked low pop servers, and there's still more than enough people on 'em. Give it another 5 years and we can have this conversation.

Iknorite? Don't worry, I am definitely committed to bringing it back soon! Just need to get some cash. =x

Heh, actually I've tried that. J donates plasma a couple times a week. Apparently I "don't have the veins for it" whatever that means...

Yeah, it's just frustrating that I can donate blood perfectly fine, but I can't donate plasma. I know they use a bigger needle, and logically I can wrap my mind around that. It's just really frustrating that we can't both donate when we need the money.

Sell your kidney; someone more useful to society might need it. You don't need 2 kidneys to play Wow.

Yeah, he makes about 50-75 a week donating twice. That's the most you're allowed to donate. The first week you can make about 150 so they can try to grab people.