I don't get one slot servers. Whats the point?
To me, i'd rather have people playing the game on the server that i'm on. That means, i dont give a foo if you have 40 slots, as long as you're playing on the same server.
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I don't get one slot servers. Whats the point?
To me, i'd rather have people playing the game on the server that i'm on. That means, i dont give a foo if you have 40 slots, as long as you're playing on the same server.
One word: Atmosphere
Relating to NC1, if you played on Pluto - you knew who Carinth, MeGaMaN, KramerTheWeird, Trillian, Shadow Dancer, Polarity, Bullfraged, FN, Rento Webex, SHINJIN, Nvidia, Delloda, Lore, Paradox, Russian, Cracky, Alex, Dajuda, Rade, CryptoChronic, Tupac, Freaky Fryd, Psycho Killa, OHGODWYME, FreeeJumper, S.A.W., Smokey, w00pin, Elky Baby, Uho, Kidwithstick, Vampire222, G.0.D, Pete the PSI, Zai, Kurai, Muumi, Sweet Leaf, Centuri, .cyl0n...
Just to name a few :) Sorry to those I didn't mention - I barely remember what I had for breakfast today it's already so far back. If you had one slot - THAT character, was your persona. If you were in-game, you were most likely on THAT character with THAT name, making a reputation for yourself. Most everyone knew who you were and by what name... what class you were, what faction, etc. One Slot = One Personality. Many people had "alts" but they were usually behind-the-scene alts that got the tradeskill work done. For this reason I'd even be ok with a 2-slot server (that wasn't Neptune :p).
On a 4-slot server, you gain the advantage of hopefully being bored less because you have more characters to play/level/try out - but unless you have a matching naming scheme between all of your characters, people most likely won't know you as being _______ the great _______ that almost always uses their favorit weapon, _________. You're just ________'s PE/Spy/Monk/Tank alt. You gain anonymity to act like a complete fuck-up and then delete the character because they mean nothing to you. I'm sure there were 'famous' people on Saturn as well, but it's just different to be famous for alternate personalities than a singular entity - as if you were really indulding in the "RP" portion of the MMO-RP-G.
On a one-slot server, typically your name and reputation mean a hell of a lot more than on a multi-slot server. I had suggested a way to retain the 1-Slot atmosphere on a 4-Slot server, but it never went anywhere :( Now we're stuck with Neptune's LE'd PvP-Fest (or lackthereof) or Terra's "Hi, you might know me when I was called Saturn" Atmoshere.
^^ agree 100% w/ FN.
1 slot server is the best. i wish i had played on pluto more.
and i really like that last name idea.
The atmosphere was lost when this game became NC2...
@Giga. You might not care about 4 capped character, but im sure alot of people
will.
If we did that it would also increase NC's funds, i mean in NC1 on pluto numerous people bought second and third even 4th accounts for a tradeskiller AND another combat type character.
F-N's suggestion about using surnames is very good.
One of the reasons I built tradeskill chars on the multi-slot servers is because I never knew who was who, and thus could never rely on personA being the person I thought s/he was, and thus would expect to be scammed. However, to date I have never been scammed on a trade/rep/cst etc, touch wood.
Single slot servers ensured atmosphere, and helped enforce good RP.
Good RP ?Quote:
Originally Posted by zii
Let's be honnest, RP will never be developed in a MMOG.
KK tried to make a RP server with Venus and Pandore. Pandore had 5% and Neptune which is a "no RP" server is now at 16%.
The numbers are there : there are too few people interested in RP and KK Know it.
Thats true, Not many people RP and if they do its always the Non-RPers that mess them up, all we really do is OP war and PK. The reason i play is to OP war, good fights are always fun.
-FN- i see your point and its a good one - i like having atmosphere and like to RP, but your rationale is only to FORCE everyone to have one character that they accept for it's faults and RP it to their advantage.
You might be leading on to a bigger problem and that is that there are less tradeskillers online because everyone has their 2nd 3rd and 4th slots as their own personal tradeskillers that they log in just to work for their 1st slot character, which results in the people who DONT have those mules never getting service.
(like me)
I spent an hour 2 weeks ago standing in front of medicare in the plaza asking for someone to CST me a TL 30 pistol with BP, Parts, Lube and 5k tip and i got people pranking me.
SAVE NEOCRON !
Bring on the one central server 2 slots.
pop boomage
I disagree. I think people did not go to Venus because the population were mostly French speaking. I spoke to many people on Terra when Neptune was Pandore, and a majority never even knew there was a French server, and I wonder if those that had heard of it might have presumed that since it was managed by another company, then they couldn't access it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Njall
if you people think that merging will help the game, youll be the 10people left playing
Most people on Mars have two or more accounts, so everything that gives them just one more slot would cause massive accountloss.
This and only this is it what embarrasses KK to merge the servers.
The loss of virtual items and characters would be absolutely irrelevant if it's economically advantageous.
Your not mentioning the fact that not everyone lives on only 1 serverQuote:
Originally Posted by nostramo
i think i would be fine if it had started with a 2 (or even 1) slot server, but now that i have all 4 of my chars itd be a bitch to decide on only 2 (or 1)
How about remake Uranus, Saturn, Pluto, Jupiter and Venus, and allow people to return to their respective servers :D
I'm all for merging the servers...something needs to be done...the pops are sadly low by mmo standards...and in reality there's a really simple way to deal with people having more than 4 characters they'd like to keep...use the, I think it is, final fantasy method and if people want to have more than the set character limit on their acct make them pay $1 more / character...so for the dude that had 9 characters that are all must-haves he'd have to pay in the area of 18$/mo...and if you have multiple accounts you'd actually come out ahead, assuming they let you tie all your characters to a single acct...
I miss uranus and all those bad jokes about the server name. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by RogerRamjet
Then Stop whining and do something you whiney git.Quote:
Originally Posted by RogerRamjet
Honestly Im fucking sick of the whining "NC1 had better atmosphere and people"
The atmosphere is how you treat, do something a-fucking-bout it.
Amen. Would reactivate my other 3 accounts again if only they could be played on pluto.Quote:
Originally Posted by RogerRamjet
Server populations are crap tonight like 2% on neptune =/ No one to PvP on the PvP server. Just a few LE'd people chatting