Server Cloning [EU]

September 22nd, 2008

Seems the time has come for server cloning in Europe as well. Not very long ago GOA posted the following news on the eu Warhammer site. The servers that will see cloning are

Karak Eight Peaks will be cloned to Tor Anroc
Karak Azgal will be cloned to Zhufbar
Karak Hirn will be cloned to Yvresse
Eltharion will be cloned to Tiranoc

Which includes the server I play on, Karak Eight Peaks. Now we start the whole situation with scouting server over again. To best honest as order player on KEP I didn’t mind the queues that much. Queue times were about 15 minutes for me when they were the worst. Of course if the game crashes a lot which it did at first, then it sucks to wait that long to get back in. But after my reinstall from disc that I mentioned in a previous blog post I haven’t had a single crash. I must admit I even prefer a “full” server since with realm caps this ensures that as long as people are queuing up the two sides are of equal size and we have a fair fight. Now it seems to me we risk having a healthy online population turned into two unbalanced populations since the destruction queue on this server was often four times as long. Seems I am a hard person to satisfy, even when they do something to fix queues very fast and much faster than Blizzard ever did in WoW I find something to complain about. As for now my guess would be that most people will not even notice the cloning and just log in on the old server name. If that theory is correct Karak Eight Peaks should hold the largest slice of the players with hopefully reduced queues by having some go to the new one. Seems to be the time to start reading forums to see what people are planning and especially what some of the larger guilds are planning to do.

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