[ddo] Play?

[Joe Vaughan]

On 1 Jan 2007, at 11:11, Cliffy wrote:

> general consensus with all the guild leaders on Boldrei.
>

Which matters not a whit to the rest of us since we play with  
ourselves only and we're a *long* way off from Raid content.

> It is kind of important for you too :)

I don't agree except you do make one point which does seem worth  
bearing in mind (see below)

> At the moment Boldrei is apparently 3 times smaller in terms of server
> population that Lyrandar. Boldrei is the second biggest server.
> Also Boldrei it seems is the "mature" server (according to those  
> who have
> high level characters on both) ie apparently on Lynrandar you get  
> all teh
> l33t speak (that i personally hate) and all the whiney behaviour  
> that you
> would expect from an immature (kids) server.
>

It's irrelevant to the rest of us since we only meet to play  
together. Those people PUGging  (i.e. you, in the main) are the ones  
who could give a toss about the whiney children. Therefore my  
comments still stand, find the server that suits you and the rest of  
us will just follow (take into account my arguments below)

> Boldrei players (whatever about duplicate characters) are going to  
> populate
> Keeper, as they have heard and seen from guild websites etc that  
> Lyrandar is
> probably going to Devourer.

Since we only play once a week, we can always take our time and even  
skip a week immediately after the merge then decide which server to  
play on once we see how the initial week-to-fortnight pans out.  
What's to stop most of the muppets on Lyrandar from changing their  
minds (because Devourer is laggy) and hitting up Keeper instead after  
a few days.

Therefore, again, this decision is not necessary pre-merge.

> What this means, is that "in general" the quality of PuG on Keeper  
> should be
> better than on Devourer.

Not relevant to me (or most of the others)

> More importantly (and most relevantly) if there is going to be a  
> lag issue
> following the merge, by avoiding the Lyrandar players we should  
> also by
> minimizing the chance of Lag.

This is the main consideration for me but I think any decision should  
wait until the dust settles post-merge as you will have an initial  
pendulum effect with players swapping back and forward between the  
two servers looking for the least lag. After a while this will  
naturally wind down to stable server populations on each server.

> BTW pre merge there is something you might all want to consider  
> doing to
> prep - but I'll mention that in our next online session, as I'm  
> tired and
> this email is already to long :)

No problem. If you're on this evening we can talk about it on TS.

Joe