In the name of the LBM (Le Bus Magique) guild, I would like to give a little feedback on how we experienced megaservers.
Our purpose, as a guild, is to help people and plan guild missions for people from our home server (Augury’s Rock) and from other French speaking server. We actually have more than 500 members in the guild, using a turnover system to avoid absenteeism and to be able to recruit anyone who wants to get rewards.
Guild missions were planned last Sunday, and we have experienced some issues:
- We consistently had one part of the 120+ members of the guild who were taking part in the missions getting on other versions of the map, with the impossibility to join each others in a single version of the map by creating groups because the worlds were already full. This led to a huge organization issue: it usually takes about one hour to finish our guild missions. On Sunday, we spent about 2 hours and a half ~ 3 hours to finish them.
- We succeded at finishing some of them, but nothing appears in the guild tab to confirm that. Here are some screenshots showing the issue (sorry, they’re in French):
http://www.lebusmagique.fr/medias/images/fin.du.puzzle.du.20-04-2014.jpg
http://www.lebusmagique.fr/medias/images/echec.des.mission.de.guild.20-04-2014.jpg
The megaservers fail at uniting players. Maps and guild missions are now shared between several guilds from several servers, when they should have stayed the way they were before, that is to say, shared between guilds from the same server, with which communication was already established and was way easier than with the way it is now.
We hope you’ll come out with something that will help large guilds to plan their missions more easily and allow players to play with the people they usually play with, as you told us in the first place.
