NEW Official monthly wipe servers?

Usually when I hear someone say they have a problem time after time again on about 10+ servers. I think of the common denominator in all those situations might actually be the issue.

Now I’m not going to be so facetious and say that he is a problem player and shouldn’t play multiplayer entirely. I’m actually going to be honest from a situation I had personally with one of these types of player.

A couple of years ago, when I still playing CE without mods. I was on a PVP server that was quite popular. We’re talking about 50-70 players online during its primetime, and even during its off hours still boasted about 20 people. There was always something going on.

Admins were pretty good. Very good at being impartial and just keeping everyone happy and everything tidy. It was a tight ship. They noticed I was a bit more chatty with people and asked if I wanted to help admin. So I did. Things ran well for a few months, but some RL issues came up and the server had to be closed up.

We decided to play on another server, and this is when Dr Jekyl turned into Mr Hyde. They were always complaining about the rules, getting into personal conflicts with fellow players, and getting into confrontations with the admins. The server in question is still going 4 years later and is even more popular than it was then. Not only that but I had played on it a few times before this and knew they were fine. I just couldn’t understand the difference my friend had.

Long story short, they did some things that got themselves banned, and it put me in a very bad situation that thankfully the admins and the owner of the server understood and helped me relocate for the rest of that season. Because of some other stuff this guy wanted to do, I decided to end our friendship and cut contact with them.

What I found interesting is the fact that they had trouble on other servers prior to starting their own initially. Their story about how the server had this problem or that problem sounded plausible. And believable concerning his conduct as an admin. But after seeing how they operate on another person’s server it became clear that they were likely the issue prior to hosting their own.

So when I do suggest someone to make their own server, I am not being flippant about it. I’m being genuine. Some people just can’t abide by others’ rules. They need their own and are quite capable of running a tight ship that people can enjoy.

Except it is now. Because official blitz servers were tried and failed. There wasn’t enough interest. When this happens you need to prove that circumstances have changed.

I speak from experience. There’s been times in the past where FC decided to go a certain route that I didn’t agree with. So I made a mod to adjust things to where I thought they should be. People tried it and agreed. It helped build momentum and then things changed. I don’t take sole responsibility for such changes but I do believe I got the ball rolling.

If you truly do think a blitz server will work, try starting one up, get the other half dozen in this thread who kinda agree with you (you all should trust each other enough, you can even choose them to be admins and you guys can police each other, admin commands are logged), and start one up. You get the opportunity to test all the values you think FC should do as well, such as harvest rates, dynamic building damage and so forth.

If you get the server to be popular, you can post the results and FC will see what kind of service they could be offering. If they turn it down, you still have a popular server to play on. You all literally have nothing to lose. You can host it through a non-Gportal provider or if you’re not willing to pay, then I’m sure at least one of you has a computer laying around and a decent internet connection to host a 40 man server.

Funcom believes blitz is a failed endeavor. If its not, then they have to be proven wrong.

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You know, my preference would be for monthly wiping official servers. but if someone hosted one as Taemien suggested, I’d give it a go.

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No really isn’t not about privates. You’ve already tried this argument with blitz servers and I’ve explained that back then they weren’t a needed option. The game was new along with all official servers. A open playground with no rules… no one had a problem with it then but that’s beside the point.

I’m really surprised more people don’t call you out for just trolling threads. Same old private server broken record.

Very true that’s why official servers with wipes could work very well.

Here goes the power trip again. Unless I’m misinformed. You are not an employee of funcom

And again

I’m not, but this is what they have said:

We had “PvP Blitz” servers with increased progression that wiped every 30 days, but they were among our least popular servers.

Their words. Their stance. Prove that wrong if you’re so vehement about this. I bet you won’t, no gall.

Like I’ve already stated I think 2-3 month would be the sweet spot but it’s something to think about. Opening a private server proves absolutely nothing.

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I have already propose 3 months wipe.
And we need 3 groups of servers : A (wipe this month, servers 10**), B (wipe month +1, servers 11**), C (wipe month +2, servers 12**)
Then you can always start on a server with 3 months before you!

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When I started in April of 2017, Steam users told me to try an Official Server and one Private Server at the same time. So I did. The first Private went under that day. I wrote it off as a glitch. The second server, Land of Kush, survived just long enough for me to think about heading north across the river. It went up in a billow of smoke.

Both of these left me with a very bad feeling. Thankfully, my Official Server (only one back then) never let me down.

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I suggest making a poll (new thread) to see how much interest in an Official PvP Blitz server.

If someone rented a private server for a year, all will know that the server will last at least 1 year. Plus being a wipe server if died a year later, it would have been at a wipe period which there would be nothing lost in either case.

I been running a server (now have 5 - 4 of which for CE) since Mar 2019, so private servers can survive for years. Granted, I am currently not running any PvP servers.

In other words, nothing wrong with private servers if have someone wants to do extra work (admin work) and pay for it.

Good luck either way (official PvP Blitz or getting a private PvP blitz server)

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If I thought that would make a difference I would but if you read through the thread you’ll see pretty much all of the active pvpers in this forum have showed interest already.

I agree but the but the point is to make this available to everyone on all platforms when just renting one server only supports one platform/timezone.

I understand people not wanting to lose all their hard work, but christ PVP officials need to be semi-regularly wiped - even just an asset wipe. You could wipe all structures, thralls, inventories. Basically clear out all the duped stockpiles which we know are sitting there, and sitting in body vaults everywhere.

On the handful of servers i frequent, there’s effectively nothing by way of long-term bases. They all get wrecked eventually and decay. The only real progression are the unlocks etc which can be avoided by not wiping that aspect.

The game is dominated by cheats and its honestly tiresome.

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Game is so dead on consoles …

you’re like a ghost floating through random threads saying gloomy stuff for no reason :ghost:

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I was thinking, there maybe one potential problem with any kinds of server wipes for both blitz (which I support) and official wipes (that I do not support).

Some items in the battlepass are one time only claims. If a server is wiped then players will either lose these items or have to run around with them until they get a base. I don’t think anyone expected them to have such short life expectancies.

Well, if those who wish to have blitz / server wipes on official servers. They need to know that there is a big enough interested in it to even warrant a internal discussion about creating some Blitz servers. At the moment, it appears to be a tiny interest in this concept. Counting so far, there is 74 posts on this topic, but only roughly 25 people posted. Let’s assume all were in favor of the concept. It’s a very low response rate at this point. Granted, not everyone likes to post. Polls tend to get a bit more feedback since they just answer yes, no or do not care either way, without writing a post. Although, I suggest the poll be tailored for PvP only since I am sure PvE mostly will say no. That way the poll results will be a clearer on the topic.

Pretty much this. By my count there is 9 total people who have interest, but have not entirely committed. But I’ll give it the benefit of the doubt and say 9 total thusfar (maybe they’ll play it if available).

The damning thing about Blitz servers however is they were around during a time when they were adding servers, not culling them like earlier this year. Couple this with half the official servers (PVP, PVE, and PVE-C) getting gutted earlier in the year and none were added for the Age of Sorcery update which saw 3-4x the numbers playing.

When Blitz servers were available, there were 49,000 players at peak. The second highest peak the playerbase ever had. During Age of Sorcery, it was 42,000. Since the average playerbase is now only 14,000-16,000 We’re probably likely to see another 1/2 to 2/3’s of servers cut again, not new servers being added.

They could take the time and effort to setup some Blitz servers, during another merge. I just don’t see that being likely. The other thing to contend with is I’m not even sure the Blitz setting even works. Has anyone ran a Blitz server in the last 4 years? If it is something that requires manual interaction then that’s probably going to be a big nope from FC.

I get it. If what you say is true I don’t see it making much of a difference since the number of pvpers in the forums is pretty low so it’s not really a accurate representation of the community. I’ll give it a go though even if my hopes aren’t up.

Yeah tired of this game I’ve been saying for 2 years straight to do something about the pop. Instead they ban their only player base for building, can’t fix exploits and bugs that have been around since drop and can’t even balance the game performance wise. I’ve been banned for 2 months with out a reason bought crom coins to support so they can fix this buggy game but it hasn’t even reached my account it’s been a month. Enjoy even go on zendesk when they do nothing

How’s that different than any private server that wipes?

I wonder why that would be. Just to spite pvpers maybe? I don’t understand how it would even effect them.

OK that made me L :o: L.

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