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Post by
Isen
Greetings from the Great White North
While I've been playing, and reading the forums on warcraft.com, I've heard a lot of talk to the tune of:
"This server sucks....I'm gonna transfer!" or "Don't go to that server, its messed up."
What seperates the good servers from the bad? How do you know you are playing on a "good" server? Currently I'm on Madoran, a PvE US server. I am having an enjoyable time on it so far, and the ratio of friendly people to jerks is in the friendly peoples favour so far.
Oh, and I'm just wondering: Does anyone else on the forum have a character on Madoran?
Good Day
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Isen
Hmm, I have no idea how old Madoran is. Where would I go looking for info like that?
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Isen
January 12, 2007
Heh, that answers one question, and the link answers questions I never thought I had.
Thanks!
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Post by
Draykor
Servers have personality, especially the older ones.
I play on Icecrown which is one of the oldest out there. Seems to be an even mix of Politeness:Idiots.
I would have to say though that in the end Icecrown is a bad server. Not beacuse of its people or the progression but because of its hardware. It is by far one of the laggiest servers out there. Don't even bother trying to raid on a Monday night, the server is going to crash. Happens every week. A couple weeks ago we had one crash so bad every toon in a raid (not just in my guild, but all raiders both Horde and Alliance) was locked untill after Maintenence. The instanse servers just never came back so if you had a toon in one it was frozen.
Post by
Azrile
When the server launched will tell you a lot. The servers that launched with TBC will have a ton of blood elves.
People say that servers have 'personalities' but that is mostly because of a particular guild they are in. If you play on one server where you are in a big guild, and another server where you aren't in a guild, of course you think the first server is more 'mature'. A new player has no idea of the 'reputation' of a server, therefore their choice is completely random and you get a random assortmant of people on all servers
The other thing to consider is balance.. some servers have very uneven horde:alliance ratios.. This will definitely impact gameplay if you are on a pvp server.
I am on Fenris, it is a fairly low population server and I play horde which is greatly outnumbered.. But I like it that way. There are plenty of resources for crafting :)
Post by
Tyrsenus
Primary differences between realms (a.k.a. "servers"):
PvP vs. PvE
RP vs. non-RP
Population
Battlegroup
Time zone/Location of hardware (affects latency)
You can obviously choose what type of realm to play on and the time zone. Generally, PvE realms slightly favor raiding guilds. Realms with a high population tend to house successful guilds and a stable economy. If you plan on doing PvP, definitely research the battlegroup beforehand and make sure that one faction isn't boycotting AV, for example, resulting in long queues.
You can always transfer if a realm doesn't suit you.
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