BurnedRemains Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 I'm on Nar Shaddaa right now and the is a whopping 8 people on. Is there a reason for this? It is hard enough to find a group in this game let alone do any Heroics or Flashpoints. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GawdoOo Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 Reroll empire. That's where they are all hiding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insideman Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 I'm on Nar Shaddaa right now and the is a whopping 8 people on. Is there a reason for this? It is hard enough to find a group in this game let alone do any Heroics or Flashpoints. Not exactly peak time for East or West.... soooo? It also depends on your server... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RocketbootsMOFO Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 I'm usually on around 10pm-2am EST and I see quite a few folks running around doing the same quests I am. I am on a PVP-RP server/Empire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BurnedRemains Posted January 14, 2012 Author Share Posted January 14, 2012 I'm on Anchorhead or whatever that on is. Empire is no better. I checked on that character as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew_asdf Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 Sharding and it being a low level questing zone. Questing planets have multiple instances to prevent too many players from being grouped together, so it's possble there are multiple shards. Otherwise, it could just be because its Nar Shadda or you're Republic. On my server, the Imperial planets will all have 10x the number of Republic players from Tython/Korriban all the way to Coreilla. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insideman Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 I'm on Anchorhead or whatever that on is. Empire is no better. I checked on that character as well. Dude, its a very dead time of day. Saturday morning this early... i work nights but I havent even gone online yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BurnedRemains Posted January 14, 2012 Author Share Posted January 14, 2012 Sharding.What does this do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kamiosoup Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 What does this do? ruins mmos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BurnedRemains Posted January 14, 2012 Author Share Posted January 14, 2012 ruins mmos That tells me nothing.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kamiosoup Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 That tells me nothing.... it tells you everything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zandog Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 Questing planets have multiple instances to prevent too many players from being grouped together. Is there a way to switch instances while on a particular planet? Asking w/o looking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjmc Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 I'm on Nar Shaddaa right now and the is a whopping 8 people on. Is there a reason for this?Perhaps because it is 8 o'clock in the morning on the east coast and even earlier on the west coast? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BurnedRemains Posted January 14, 2012 Author Share Posted January 14, 2012 it tells you everything No, I really doesn't. Quite being useless and tell me what it does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grammarye Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 (edited) Populations generally are lower because the original experience at launch was during an international holiday and the game had just launched. Every MMO does this - there is a massive peak at launch, especially if during a holiday period, and then the population drops off. Time will tell exactly what this means. What does this do? If you look on the map and go to the bottom right there's a dropdown that says something like Nar Shaddaa 1 - if it has more than one, there are multiple copies of the same map running on your server. These terms vary depending on who uses what, sharding, instancing (especially since for a period the concept of e.g. Warcraft multiple realms or TOR multiple servers was also called sharding servers more generally). General chat is shared, but the idea is that people in different instances don't have to compete over respawns etc. Usually used when there are high populations. Pain in the *** when used on low populations. Edited January 14, 2012 by Grammarye Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flowerslayer Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 That tells me nothing.... Splits the server population in separate instances. They did this to prevent starter zones to be packed with people, which backfired imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grammarye Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 Is there a way to switch instances while on a particular planet? Asking w/o looking. You can switch for free if you group with someone in another instance. You can also switch with a 30 min cooldown at any time from the map. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flowerslayer Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 (edited) Is there a way to switch instances while on a particular planet? Asking w/o looking. Yeah, click on your worldmap and the lower right corner to switch shards. Sometimes theres only one shard tho. Edited January 14, 2012 by Flowerslayer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BurnedRemains Posted January 14, 2012 Author Share Posted January 14, 2012 Populations generally are lower because the original experience at launch was during an international holiday and the game had just launched. Every MMO does this - there is a massive peak at launch, especially if during a holiday period, and then the population drops off. Time will tell exactly what this means. If you look on the map and go to the bottom right there's a dropdown that says something like Nar Shaddaa 1 - if it has more than one, there are multiple copies of the same map running on your server. These terms vary depending on who uses what, sharding, instancing (especially since for a period the concept of e.g. Warcraft multiple realms or TOR multiple servers was also called sharding servers more generally). General chat is shared, but the idea is that people in different instances don't have to compete over respawns etc. Usually used when there are high populations. Pain in the *** when used on low populations. Oh. Well they shot themselves in the foot then. :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheChaosZero Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 No, I really doesn't. Quite being useless and tell me what it does. Sharding is basically taking the server and splitting it into several subservers that are identical to each other. In other words there's an area and that area has x amount shards within it, thus people can be spread among those shards but are not aware of each other, unless you switch shards. Sharding is a good way of spreading the people around in a high populated area...such as starting area when the game first lauched but becomes unneded after a while. Aion used the same system but only for the starting area (1st 10 levels), that worked great there because you could also switch between shards with ease and no cooldown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drintar Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 Not to mention that 7:30AM CST means it's only 8:30AM EST and 5:30AM PST so most of the US players will still be asleep. And it's hmm 2:30 PM in CET so maybe we can use this thread as proof for all the EU whaaa whaa you do maintenance during the day that it's not a heavy population during the day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insideman Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 While for the majority of the day, instancing/sharding of zones is unnecessary imo, I'm not bothered that it is there. I still see people constantly. o_O Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BurnedRemains Posted January 14, 2012 Author Share Posted January 14, 2012 Yeah, click on your worldmap and the lower right corner to switch shards. Sometimes theres only one shard tho. I don't see it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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