Localisation of the EU-Servers?

[The_engineer1]

Hi, out there.

in the " 5 questions" thread is a quite interesting point:

NJ_Blitz asks - Any plans for another Faction Switch anytime soon?
Answer - We are looking into Faction Switches for particular servers. We will be also looking into other solutions as well that may be a combination of incentives and content. Regarding the population on some servers, we are looking into possibly consolidating them.

Some of the EU servers have got a very low population of players, like Sagittaron, the server I am playing at.

Personally, I like the idea of international servers. But I have to admit, not all players are in fond of the idea.

A community is alway based of communication I belive.
And I think, it is hard to communicate, if players from Lisbon (Portugal) to Novosibirsk (Russia) and Hammerfest (Norway) to Palermo (Italia) are playing - and talking (a least try to talk) - at the same server.

Maybe, the game bgo becomes more attractive to new players, if they know, they will find more fellow country men?

So, given the thing, we all have the bgo we always wanted (nor bugs, lags, godd balance, nice ships...) what do you think?

Should we stay to six european and international Servers?
Should we consolidate the EU servers to, let´s say, 4?
Should we locate the six EU server? (Suggestion: 1 Western Europe, 1 Mid Europe, 1 East Europe,1 South Europe and may be one or two International EU Servers)

[Zphyr]

Interesting idea. You got me at "Lisbon" XD *ahem* now more seriously...

If they are going to merge servers, personally would prefer them keeping them all international.

It could be localized, like the US servers (east and west), but it's interesting being able to chat with people who live at the other side of the continent and different ways people behave (very curious). Also, segregating the servers into "zones" may nonetheless still risk having some of them heavily populated and others - where BG may not be as well know, etc - become ghost servers anyway.

Communication could be a problem indeed, but unless they create one server for each country or each major languages (still a dozen of them - yay for Europe's diversity!) some people would still have difficulty communicating with each other.

[zatoichimk2]

Well i've said before and will say again,i would be all for splitting euro servers into regions.

Euro servers have problems with same faction players not working together because of the language barriers,and a lot of douchebaggery play is one set of nationalites against another on same faction(mine stealing and the like)

I can readily admit to actually beginning to hate certain nationalites (in the context of this game)because of what they get up to,and it's just impossible to sort anything out.

I'm also sick and tired of this "little england"mentality where they all put their nationilty at the end of their ship name,join the same wing and have nothing to do with anyone else.

You could never fix this totally,but servers set up in different regions would help enormously.

In saying that,i do have russian,italian,german,spanish friends who i speak too quite a lot and would help me/or i would help them any time it was needed,but it's few and far between,those guys make an effort and respect them for it,but a lot don't.

[-Sci-Tek-]

Originally Posted by zatoichimk2

I can readily admit to actually beginning to hate certain nationalites (in the context of this game)because of what they get up to,and it's just impossible to sort anything out.

I can relate to this aswell. I'm appalled by the amount of people in this game who don't speak English.

But the devs are the ones to blame, translating the game into whatnot language. Without the support of localized servers, it's a bad idea, really bad idea. Look at other games, they manage to keep the EU servers English speaking.

[Coca-Cobra]

The relocation of the servers is a very good idea in my eyes. This has 2 reasons:

1. A server closer to your computer will reduce lag, which can be quite an issue in this game (especially when flying strikes). Also the enemy will lag less which will make combat more interesting.

2. People of your country would be less spread out over all these servers, which will make communication with people of the same faction alot easier (Well we Dutch people don't really need it because we are used to speaking english alot, but some other nationalities (like russian for instance) have a lesser percentage of people who can talk/want to talk english).

[Grashnak]

Originally Posted by -Sci-Tek-

I can relate to this aswell. I'm appalled by the amount of people in this game who don't speak English.

But the devs are the ones to blame, translating the game into whatnot language. Without the support of localized servers, it's a bad idea, really bad idea. Look at other games, they manage to keep the EU servers English speaking.

Have you got ANY idea how racist and narrow-minded this approach is?

Personally, i'm one of those "european coctails", a polyglot, and like the multitude of nationalities being mingled. Look at it like this:

Last month there was a lot of complaining going on about "Pacts" between colonial and cylon players, who know each other...

Now go and make a server of 1 nationality, and pvp will drop to a bare minimum, due to pacts and alliances

In our wing we don't speak english, with rare exceptions. The whole point is to have a healthy population in a server, of people who can't communicate too much and can't create pacts... This keeps the game going...

I'm for merging 2 half-dead servers, before they die out completely, but it needs to stay mingled, based on the timezone, not narrow regional vicinity

[zatoichimk2]

Originally Posted by Grashnak

Have you got ANY idea how racist and narrow-minded this approach is?

How is having a server one language racist and narrow minded?Not sure about you,but i want to know what other people around me are saying,and i'm sure for example an italian who only speaks that would want the same.

Speaking of pacts and alliances,kobol is full of different nationalities,and that is all pacts and alliances cross faction.Fewer players than other servers,but still.

[-Sci-Tek-]

Originally Posted by Grashnak

Have you got ANY idea how racist and narrow-minded this approach is?

Personally, i'm one of those "european coctails", a polyglot, and like the multitude of nationalities being mingled. Look at it like this:

Last month there was a lot of complaining going on about "Pacts" between colonial and cylon players, who know each other...

Now go and make a server of 1 nationality, and pvp will drop to a bare minimum, due to pacts and alliances

Ehh.. you just had to drop the racist word.. thats what this is about . Not the fact that I'd like to play with players who I can speak to. If I cannot communicate with someone, you can replace them with more skilled NPC's instead.

And I'm fairly sure most of the non-english speaking players would want the same as me.

Regardless, your spot on with respect to PVP dropping to a minimum, not because of packs (thats player influenced, and I'm fairly sure I'd be able to find someone speaking English in any wing I want to create a pact with). But for the fact that I'm not sure this game has enough players to support a server for each country.

However my point is, there has not been a single MMO that has so many non-english speaking players. Therefore I ask the devs to look to other MMO's to figure out their way of dealing with it. Suggest 1x Frech, 1x German, 1x Russian localized server.