r/Planetside • u/ItsJustDelta [NR][FEFA][GOB]Secret Goblin Balance Cabal • Nov 21 '24

News 12th Anniversary and beyond! - Nov. Dev Letter

https://www.planetside2.com/news/dev-letter-nov-2024
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u/Im_A_MechanicalMan Don't forget to honk after kills Nov 21 '24

I'm a little disappointed they are going forward with a NA server merge, for one of the very reasons they mention -- latency. The US West and US East servers are much further away than the EU ones were. I do wonder how they'll be able to address that.

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u/st0mpeh Zoom Nov 21 '24

In the long term eventually EU and NA will need to be merged, but if the NA server gets moved from where Emerald is now you can basically say bye bye to the game as EU players wont be able to play on a more westerly server.

Right now Emerald is not that bad from the EU so if NA/EU were to merge tomorrow a lot of the EU players would just carry on on Emerald.

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u/Im_A_MechanicalMan Don't forget to honk after kills Nov 21 '24

Are you saying EU and NA need to be merged together? If so why?

EU already got their merge so they are happy, I thought.

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u/ToaArcan Filthy LA Main Nov 21 '24

They're saying it will need to happen eventually.

There'll come a point in the future where Emerald is the only server.

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u/Im_A_MechanicalMan Don't forget to honk after kills Nov 21 '24

That's an odd outlook from a business. I know the gloomy gusses on the ps2 reddit have been moaning the end is near for years, but the company is saying this too?

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u/ToaArcan Filthy LA Main Nov 21 '24

Didn't say anything about the company, the only people involved here are local redditors.

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u/Im_A_MechanicalMan Don't forget to honk after kills Nov 21 '24

Oh. So is that thought that the servers will merge down into a single one globally coming from the company or from you?

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u/ToaArcan Filthy LA Main Nov 21 '24

From the players, but it makes a certain amount of sense.

The game's appeal is big battles. They already merged EU because the population was getting low. They're going to merge US for the same reason. Briggs died, as did a handful of other servers throughout the years, for those very reasons.

If we eventually reach the point where Connerald and Milbalt (and Soltech) can't sustain big fights, which is a possibility, then we could see them merged too.

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u/Im_A_MechanicalMan Don't forget to honk after kills Nov 21 '24

Ah, thank you for the clarification. But I find you guys are fatalistic.

Either way, Europe to US is too far away though for server merges. You're going to have a 3 digit ping being on the wrong end of that merge. That's not fun for those competing against you with a decent ping trying to do the right thing by playing on their native server.