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Hi,

I came here to talk to you about a possible "merge" with the russians.

At the moment, the European server is less and less populated. 3
Guilds are able to form a Ferris raid (at least for the 1st 3wings, dunno where Minc and Warsong are atm). Dominions are less and less competitiv, even though some week brings its own suprises, the ranking at the top stays the same week after week.

The recent new pvp content (ranked 3v3 et 6v6) are empty. I personnally lost players that quitted cause there is litterally no spawn once you reach 1k5-1k8, and that's only when you find matches to actually reach these numbers...

This is why i thought about a possible "merge" with the russians. We would keep our server, go straight to 7.0 with them to catch up in terms of patch (and start over so we are all at the same lvl), and we would have access to all the interserver events such as pvp tournaments, cross server dominion/skirmishes and 3v3/6v6...
For the translation issue, why not slow down the patch deliveries by 2-3 weeks, even maybe letting only russian and english at the beggining and unlock other languages later on? The translation work doesn't take that long if the team doing it is well organised with the actual devs.

What do you think about it?

Quoted from "PinkiePie"

A merge with the russian server? This destroying New Frontier complete...
7.0 is the last patch for this server and the last chance for this community.
But, the question is, why leaving so many players AO?

- too hard to get level 65?

- is the surivial quest in the tik tak cave too difficult for newcomers with (2.1.1.1.1.1) and M4?

- too much flirting and toonsex ingame?

- arrogant and bad players?

*RIP in Peace (2009 - 2015)*

1)It is not too hard to get your toon to lvl 65. If you find it hard, then you suck, and that's a totally different problem.

2)The survival quest in tikarik isn't hardfor newcomer. Several people have been posting about that on the forum and the answer was the same for all of them: get more lvl, get more gear, come back and clean it up. If you still don't achieve that-->go back to 1st argument.

3) wtf?

4)There are no answer to that complain. If you want to change the "arrogant" players, you'd have to make the respect you. As far as i can tell, the bad players, those tht don't even try to improve (and they're everywhre, not only on small guilds, there are a lot in ASC, Minc or Warsong) do not get respect out of me. There are some people that actually try, i've seen some people asking me for advices, sending me their builds to ask what cold possibly be wrong. Those player actually deserve respect. The others deserve the so called arrogance.

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No thanks, not yet anyway. Maybe when server is truly "dead". When we go
to steam, hopefully these problems will be fixed, and likewise, if we
merge with russian server, a lot of players would be put of by the
predominantly russian populated game for the same reasons we don't play
japanese populated games. Currently the server is populated mainly with
english, german and french which have quite similar languages. Imagine
an arabian player who cant write in any of those languages come to play,
he is isolated to his own small group unless he has a friend who can
translate. Russians playerbase is probably 14:1 (based on 7 highly
populated servers) of ours and lets say for example english speaking
players represent 1/3 of our server. that is 42 russians to 1 english
player and i don't know cyrillic... do you?



We would essentially be the same server just inside a bigger server.

I didn't say that i want a proper merge as we had in the past with the european servers, turkish, italian, arabic and NA. I'm talking about being integrated into all the possible event that the russian currently have cross server activities.

That wouldn't change a single thing on the actual server. You'd still talk english/german/french/turkish/whatever and still wouldn't understand shit anyway. However you'd be able to actually do some pvp, thing that disappeared long ago..

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And btw.



PvP content such as 3v3 is based on your rating. the matchmaker takes
the sum of your teams rating and divides it by how many players i.e 3.
(Average Rating) and then searches for opponents that have an average of
upper 500 or lower 500 of yours. Naturally 1.5k to 1.8k would be empty
as you can only get matched with 1k+... merging with russian server
doesn't fix this. You can look at this site to see highest ranked
players on russian server and they only get to about 2.2k

I am aware of the system that is used for rankings. What i'm saying is that the population isn't big enough for this pvp to actually exist.

I'm gonna take a well known example: World of Warcraft. On this game, ranked fights (2v2, 3v3 ect...) spawn instant, no matter your ranking. So you'll tell: "sure, they have millions of players, not that hard". And you'll be right. So why not link us to the russian to actually make us able to benefit from the actual content this game has to offer? Right now I'm barely taking time to do my keys. it takes me 30 min to do 2keys/day. I usually do 2h raid a week to clean Ferris, 2hdominion on sunday when i'm here, and raid dominion when we have fights. I also force myself to do June Catacombs to get some turrets that can be usefull in some PvE content, but it takes me 20-30min. Apart from that, Skirmishes are useless to me: Fighting against low geared low runes people isn't interesting. I was happy to learn that we would have some rankings for pvp, it would make all the free time we have on this game intersting. Sadly it doesn't spawn.

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I can guarantee that such merge will never happen due to technical and economical reasons.

I don't see any technical issue. The only thing that could be a problem is translation, but that wouldn't be one if they had a competent team to do them. For the economical reasons, i don't see it as a problem. The European server isn't as worth as it may sound. I don't see it lasting much more with the current population as it would be a loss of money to maintain that server. My opinion tho, as i don't have their numbers.

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and i still dont undestand we have 3vs3 6vs6 but NO 1 vs 1.... this would pop always and make so many players happy

The balance in this game is not on point. Making a 1vs1 would just highlight that fact.

Quoted

They could just merge account bases and not actual servers. That would improve the situation greatly.



You probably are not aware (because there's only one server of each type
in this version) that Allods has cross-server battlegrounds (and arenas
too) working for a long time now.

That's what i was talking about, probably didn't say it right

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I started this game today... so sad to read this... the server is dead.

Bullshit, you don't play the game. You wouldn't say that.

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you think merge is a good thing ? , cuz i don't think so ...

i'am an merged arab player from the arabic server and i wish our server did not merge for lots of reasons ....

you may find it fancy and sparkling idea to merge to a well populated
server ... but you need to see the whole thing not the thing that you
wan't , i think basically the reason of this game fail is turning to
ultimately pay to win ... patch by patch they keep doing this ... for
example ; if i break my ship back in old patch there is a mission that
will appear when i start fixing the ship , can speed up the ship repair ,
well this mission is history now same story for the 3 certificates of
the traders and demon hunters and historians ... each of these 3 would
speed up the ship building by 10 day , now you can only speed it up by
buying the one at the boutique meh ... so people would buy it they
deleted the ones i mentioned earlier , most of people in the game are
non-topuppers so the game keep extending the gap between top uppers and
the non-top uppers people will leave the game surely , they can go to
private serves of find others games , but like they care about the
players , all they care about is the money as long as they get money its
okay with them , you see this server is not only the english server it
has people merged from the brazilian,turkish,arabic,french server ...
same scenario for all these servers merge is not going to solve any
thing lots of people will leave the game , lots will be crushed and
scattered by the Russians if you want to fix the population problem you
need to attract more people you will succeed that by narrowing the gap
between top uppers and non-top uppers that's for sure , or at least
that's what i think ... don't try to do things that you will regret
later ...

have a good day

I'm not asking for a proper merge as we saw in the past, but you didn't know as you didn't read the post, all you saw was the words "merge" and "russian".
Something you don't seem to be aware of is that if all the servers didn't merge, none of us would play allods anymore, as there would be no server at all.

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@expanding gap topup-players / free players:



actually the gap is closing,



- new items like weapon-vanity (+1 luck+nonpermanent, ridiculous)

- consumable items like coremorpher (couponauctions also biiiig goldsink as we see every week)

- items that cost a lot but dont offer anything really new (goblincertificate, handy but no real advantage)

- new items are often only non-permanent things (spec of light,weaponskin,classchange, new carnifex teal....)

- new items offer only very very small boni, almost meaningless (rank3 martyr-skills!)

- there shall be no more superior combatmounts (and the great pegasus is cheap available prmanently in shop!) etc etc..



so superiority is capped pretty much and those who farm active can catch
up for free quite well... its just a question of willpower

If the players of allod had the willpower to farm, we would know by now. All they seem to care about is complain about all the cash they would need to use to get the items instead of farming for them...

Can't you guys read what this post is about? We don't want our server to merge with the russian completly, we want to be able to participate to the cross server events such as 3v3 6v6 skirmishes and some pvp tournaments. It was never said anywhere that we wanted a staight up merge like they did with NA and all the european servers +Turkey/arabic