I'll echo my strong feelings against choosing World 7. There are three huge reasons why it will undoubtedly be a popular server (lucky number, religious connotations, FF7's popularity), so assuming our goal is to avoid servers that would be popular without the RP community already, I think avoiding World 7 would be a very very good idea. I'd of course understand why this wouldn't happen, but I'll just toss out the suggestion of maybe even making World 7 a special case and remove it from the polls entirely, unless someone can actually come up with a good argument as to why it's not guaranteed to be a popular pick.
I'll also echo support for Oskar's plan. I think if the servers are named before we choose them, we should just go to Besaid as that would be the easiest and most straight-forward solution. It would also increase the odds of keeping with people currently on Besaid that are a bit more out-of-the-loop than others. If not, World 9 seems like it would be an unpopular enough number to go by. I think the fact that World 10 is semi-designated for French and German players may spook enough people away from the high-numbered servers and have them recoil directly to the middle-ground, so I think 9 might be safe from people who tend to pick at the extremes first.
As such, I'm lending my vote to World 9.
Furthermore, I also like the idea of the results of this poll being a suggestion to then bring to the larger Besaid (and beyond?) community. That way we can say what the RPC has chosen via polls, and that could give us some starting point to work from with the non-RPers, until an ultimate decision is made.
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Also, for the sake of added insight, here's a post from Bayohne on the Lodestone (requoted from the TALE forums):
I'll also echo support for Oskar's plan. I think if the servers are named before we choose them, we should just go to Besaid as that would be the easiest and most straight-forward solution. It would also increase the odds of keeping with people currently on Besaid that are a bit more out-of-the-loop than others. If not, World 9 seems like it would be an unpopular enough number to go by. I think the fact that World 10 is semi-designated for French and German players may spook enough people away from the high-numbered servers and have them recoil directly to the middle-ground, so I think 9 might be safe from people who tend to pick at the extremes first.
As such, I'm lending my vote to World 9.
Furthermore, I also like the idea of the results of this poll being a suggestion to then bring to the larger Besaid (and beyond?) community. That way we can say what the RPC has chosen via polls, and that could give us some starting point to work from with the non-RPers, until an ultimate decision is made.
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Also, for the sake of added insight, here's a post from Bayohne on the Lodestone (requoted from the TALE forums):
Quote:I would like to offer some insight into why we decided not to display the World names.
The operations and development teams held many internal discussions regarding how the Worlds were going to be merged. We discussed displaying the World names and allowing players to choose their destination and we also considered having some Worlds dissolved and merged into other existing worlds.
We did consider deciding on the World names beforehand, but the problem is that players often choose which World to go to based on its name (to be more specific, currently both Selbina and Gysahl are highly populated due to the popularity of the World names).
Therefore, when merging 18 servers into 10, you can imagine that there will be a rush to choose the Worlds that have popular names. These would fill up quickly and we would have to stop letting people in, and then it would end up being something of a lottery. Taking into consideration the time difference and what day etc, it was really hard to decide, but as we are making playing together as a community a priority, we have decided to hold back the World names and let people choose this way.
We are aware that some players may be frustrated at this, and we apologize for that but please try to understand our reasoning. We haven’t decided which World will get what name yet. For, things like drawing lots and other methods, we want to think about this separately.
