General Discussion

[Noobta]

Vaizel is west

[Elites]

Ah..does it really matter since I'm east coast. How terrible would the lag really be, west coast is usually the standard for most other MMO's like FFXI correct?

[Noobta]

All the servers are located on east coast

[Veyron]

"After analyzing our open beta test results Aion will not feature GameGuard at launch. We will however continue to pursue ways to effectively utilize GameGuard within Aion in the future. Right now we're focused on providing players with the best possible Aion experience."

[Elites]

Yay for awesomeness, so why are they called west coast servers if all the servers are on east coast?

[Noobta]

event timing

[Ramor]

if mostly people from the west coast join the same server all their lags will be relatively similar and it'll balance it out? dunno.

when i go elyos, what server would be looking good for 50/50 asmo/elyos? i hate being on super onesided servers

[Pooky]

Yay for awesomeness, so why are they called west coast servers if all the servers are on east coast?

Fortress Siege windows are timed to the regions prime time 8PM-12AM.

[Lebzile]

if mostly people from the west coast join the same server all their lags will be relatively similar and it'll balance it out? dunno.

when i go elyos, what server would be looking good for 50/50 asmo/elyos? i hate being on super onesided servers

Closest one is probably azphel, Current guild count is 56 asmo and 49 for Elyos. It's where my Elyos guild is rolling, feel sorry for the Asmos though. It'll have Thirteenth, RageQuit(my guild) and Voodoo to contend with and I heard Voodoo is a top PVP guild on their WoW server. RQ has always ended up being within the top 5 guilds on ay game we've played and always been the dramabeasts. Lol

Played with Thirteenth in the CBs and they are wicked to PVP with, had a group of 6 or so members from them along with 3 or 4 RQ hold back like 20 asmos at the fire bridge.

[Veyron]

RQ <3

[Cat]

To be totally honest, I think that all servers are going to be reasonably balanced, in terms of total population. There are going to be huge amounts of players who aren't actually in a guild yet, who will just join a random server and play. Add that to the fact that guilds aren't a fixed size, you get your dinky 10 man 'group of friends' guild, and your massive 500 man Ruin type zergs. (Incidently, I highly recommend NOT rolling on Siel or Azaphel)

Hard to judge balance before launch really

[Pyree]

I'm really excited just to create my characters today... lol

[Fayttt]

I have a feeling Vaizel is going to be crowded as FUCK.
A shitton of people from Nezekan & Siel are migrating over to it for some reason, lol.

[Vail]

the Nezekan people are moving for a pretty obvious reason, since we had the carpet pulled out form under us by NCwest

[Katlan]

There will be race lock outs to prevent one side from being totally unbalanced to the other. And East/West/Oceanic/EU/ect... servers won't affect your ping since ever single server for the game is housed in the same location in Texas (lol)... only difference is that the servers internal clock is set up according to specific time zones.

the Nezekan people are moving for a pretty obvious reason, since we had the carpet pulled out form under us by NCwest

AS server polls are as inaccurate as they could be since NCsoft are retards when it comes to listing servers and they have changed server-sets around 2x now. They couldn't just make an Oceanic or an RP server, & instead decided to piss off multiple guilds by making last minute changes to other servers.

imo... the smartest thing would be to give siege's non specific times and make em like 5-10hrs after a previous lock out. This would fluctuate times and make every server essentially a 24/7 one since ppl on at all times of the day/night could siege. Instead they are making siege's occur during prime time for a specific time-zone, w/separates PST & EST & ect... ppl pretty significantly

[Fayttt]

Race lockouts = not cool for people joining a guild on a specific side / server. Ugh. Guess I'll be bombing my client around 2:50, heh.

[Katlan]

you have to implement race lockouts unless the game wants to be WAR 2.0 (lol). That game was so horribly imbalanced since one side would always 2:1 the other

[Fayttt]

Well yeah, thats true.
Just really kinda bites for people who have a specific guild / allegiance to pick.

[Insanecyclone]

Select should be in a couple hours right?

[Fayttt]

An hour and 50min.