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The OP of the
Server Merge thread would like everyone to stop adding to it and have it be closed. Since, the merge of early June, 2019, was not a full merge, for some the issue continues. There is a thread in General Discussion regarding
merging Alexina but this is in response to Alexina not being included in the aforesaid merge, and is not located in the appropriate forum for the goal of this thread. The purpose of this thread is to continue the discussion towards a full-merge, allthewhile respecting the "Server Merge" thread, OP's wishes, while locating it in the appropriate forum.
Let's have a full server merge.
Helsa0151 of Alexina
Let the games begin!
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That morbid scenario aside, I think most folks on both servers would like to be united with their brethren. So come on already; sheesh!
Our Moderators of these forums are the best indeed. The activity is just outstanding too.
We on Alexina are hoping the-powers-that-be chose to do this as a two-part action. Bare in mind for those going back to Nao, it would not be an "again, again", but an "again, continue".
I don't understand how a poll is breaking a CoC even though the poll system is a part of these forums.
I smell salt for Alexina server from Mods.
I suppose we'll learn more after the merge. We'll have to wait and see.
In a sense the more danger it's in the better. They'll never let it go down, before merging it.
Alexina isn't in any danger, it's just experiencing what the other three servers did when Alexina had **NEW** for 7 years; Nothing to worry about. I expect it'll end up merged within the year the way they're talking anyways, they just need to fix the name problem first.
Mhm. But just to be sure that they don't forget about us we're cranking our Kvetchatron9000™'s to 11! XD
1. Fix the names. Not just for players, but eventually I wanna see it for pets and homesteads.
2. Add more channels. If there is gonna be even more people coming in, they should add the room for them.
and 3. Improve the servers in general. Isn't there some way they could idk.. increase the capacity and the efficiency of them? I'm no electronics expert so I could be wrong but it would be nice to see this if it is possible.
Also, I want to note that lag will be an issue. It always has been for this game. It's gotten worse.. at least for Nao. It'll probably calm down after a while but once there is a full merge, it'll skyrocket again, which is why I hope they take the necessary steps to fix it up. I doubt they won't but idk.. all of this makes me nervous.
They have done a good job with the recent merge (besides the few bugs and glitches, and the other issues that need cleaned up), but a mega server is a whole different beast. I'd like to believe they can do it though. I'm just reeeally nervous. ~.~'
Also.. I might be getting this wrong but.. in the last Server Merge thread, didn't a majority of people say they didn't want a full merge? Or was it the other way around?Ok nevermind that - they did (support a mega server). But yeah.. basically brings back my question of 'Can Nexon/the game handle it?' o _o
Yes but. The same could be said for the three servers recently merged, yet it happened at this time for some reason. If the conditions that made them do so forgoing waiting are then being experienced by Alexina as well, then their hand may be forced yet again. Hopefully it doesn't come to that though, and they can merge it in properly.
Perhaps you mean they should retain the ability to add new servers in the future? Otherwise why take a server out and put another one in? The Korean servers have 20 channels apparently, and the housing channel is channel 26, so it would seem there is a lot more room for channels. If however, there is an upper limit to the possible number of channels per server then retaining the ability to maintain multiple servers would be prudent.
Lag can be mitigated by adding more servers or more channels. At the end of the day it is exactly the same thing anyway, since it really is all one big database cluster. The idea of there being separate servers is artificial, they are really just partitions of the same database. Even though Nao has 10 channels to Alexina's 7, its population is so much larger that its per channel population density is still higher than Alexina. Lag is a per channel issue. Adding more channels would allow the population to spread out more, which would lower the lag experienced on the non-nost-popular channels.
The reason it is better to add more channels rather than more servers is you get the best of both worlds. With multiple servers, you do force a division of the most popular channels, making the lag experienced on those particular channels less than on a combined server. The lag experienced on the less popular channels will mostly be the same given sufficient channels. With a combined server with sufficient channels the lag experienced on the non-most-popular channels is the same, while the lag on the most popular channels is worse. Okay so what do you get for that. You get all the benefits that having a larger population gives at the cost of only the most popular channels being more laggy. Right after the free inventory plus was introduced, Alexina's channel one became just as busy as Nao's channel one is, well, now (punny me). We learned to only visit there if we had to and stayed for only as long as we needed. Full or nearly full channels do have benefits, their lag notwithstanding, it's a good place to shop, which is a relatively lag independent activity, and it's a good place to recruit folks for missions; make a raid party conduct it on an emptier channel.
Only, Nexon would really have any chance of knowing, and they went ahead with it.
Jarvoren of Alexina
Sakura2503 Of Alexina
Er yeah.. my bad, I meant channels for number 2. I.. don't even know why I put servers.
But yes, I basically meant adding more channels and improving the servers so they can handle more.
Though I see why they should just add more channels and be done with it.
Chimera thread.