[Poll] What Server Will You Choose?Follow

Elendilmir has the coolest background lore of those 7 >_>b

There Jophiel, just for you!

Alla peeps ftw?

On Meneldor now and it works fine so why change.

The list in plain text so it can be seen in the reply screen:

Brandywine
Elendilmir
Gladden
Landroval
Meneldor
Silverlode
Windfola

From what I've seen in the beta forums, Landroval seems to be the unofficial RP server and Elendimir seems to be the server of choice for the oceanic crowd. If the servers are sorted alphabetically, Brandywine will be on top of the list and may crowd up first. On top of that, it's the server with the highest potential name recognition, which could also speed it to overcrowding. Some of the folks on the beta forum were trying to push for Windfola as the RP server but seem to have lost that bid. None of the hardcore or PvP types have seriously tried to claim to a server at this point. All of the servers will be in the northeast US, so server locale won't be a factor.

I don't see a reason to move from Meneldor at launch yet. It is also one of three servers that I haven't seen a group try to "claim", which to me is a good thing.

You better never post what server you're on then! I'll stalk you

I may even make a special character named Aprus to hunt you down with

I just threw a post up on the other thread to see what everyone's take on Elendimir is. The unofficial oceanic server might be a perk to those that wouldn't be on as much during US peak hours.

Did not vote because that there be between 600.000 to 1,000,000 players in open beta. & servers will not hold them all and they most likely will open new one.

I don't know, they said they are giving out a whopping MILLION "world tour" keys, aka open beta, and that it will last right up the release of the game in late April. They've put them in the latest issue of some magazine (pc gaming I think) and apparently have a deal with gamespot to hand them out too. I could easily see the open beta hitting a very high number, it's almost going to be like the release of the game itself I bet, only with a level 15 cap.

Now, the release itself i'd say your estimate is a bit more likely, but for open beta... you know how people get over "free" stuff, and this is like the mother of all free trials.

Well, I knew it was in one at least it is more dedicated to the kind of plaers who would like MMOs for what they are... rather then the people who play shooters and try to be "teh uber leet" or something.

I do agree with you some about the server thing though... I mean there are what, like what, 7 servers? 7 servers to hold even 100,000 people is still like 15k people per server... assuming they all spread out evenly. I know they wont all be playing at the same time, but thats still a lot of people on at once, although thinking about it a little that probably is about average for MMOs per server. Of course, they did run the closed beta on just two servers... and had a couple stress tests, so one can hope they know what to do with large volumes of people on servers. Of course, just because they may hit a high number of players, doesn't mean that it'll happen all at once. I'm sure if they need to they'll add more servers down the road.

I just like the place where the Silverlode;)

Well of course it isn't just for them, and I don't think anyone was implying that... Turbine hasn't specified any servers for various things like oceanic or RP or different timezones, so the players in the closed beta voted for various servers to be unofficial servers for various things. That doesn't mean it is only made for them however, as all of it is unofficial and not endorsed/made/specified by turbine.

Edited, Apr 3rd 2007 9:25am by Tomec

Think I'll try Brandywine.

In N.E. Ohio we have a ski resort called Brandywine, so it'll be easy to remember if asked. Oh and the fact that I can spell it helps =D Some of the names for MMORPGS just get semi-crazy in the spelling department.