Cross world servers for better hg Q-time

Fighting against someone from One region against another, would increase Pop But think of the Ping...someone will be disadvantage

@burnbacon honestly it's quite common for na and eu to mix with lfgs anyway

@meehhh4544 I'd be down for this, better than stamps dying at less busy times of day

Cross stamp queues were supposed to be a thing and it never happened. Maybe too many technical issues (idk) but they did try before, hopefully it makes a return.

Another band-aid to make Hourglass an even worse product? Yeah no thanks.

How about make hourglass a product that more people actually want to participate in across every region? That's the real ticket.

@d3adst1ck

Pretty sure cross stamp queues exist.

They announced it, brought it in for a short period, then had a quick update that seemed to remove it, and it never returned.

There is no cross region matchmaking.

Correct.

@sweetsandman not happening since how many people in the community want nothing to do with pvp

But yeah maybe like daily challenges that give like 10 ancient coins or something and one can be for hourglass matches played

@ghost-of-ronin said in Cross world servers for better hg Q-time:

@sweetsandman not happening since how many people in the community want nothing to do with pvp

But yeah maybe like daily challenges that give like 10 ancient coins or something and one can be for hourglass matches played

There's a lot of things they could do to increase engagement with hourglass even for those that aren't interested in the PvP aspect of the game. One of those things is something that I've suggested before. I'll copy and paste that suggestion:

I think they could do daily deeds that boost faction progression as well as weekly/monthly/seasonal trials that boost faction progression...similar to how the deeds/trials work to boost seasonal renown

Daily deeds could be something relatively simple and give the equivalent boost of about one win's worth of faction leveling. This would give those casual players that are doing a lot more losing than winning the feeling of progression as they put effort into battles. Here's some quick ideas...

• Participate in 3 faction battles
• Hit opposing ships with cannonballs (x20)
• Send an opponent to the Ferry of the Damned
• Take down the mast of an opposing ship
• Repair your ship during battle (x10)
• Bucket water during battle (x10)
• Play a shanty as your ship sinks
• Have a seat as your ship sinks
• Take a trip to the Ferry of the Damned (x5)

That's just a start...There's a million different things they could do to make it fun and make it so that the casual players can feel accomplished after a session of effort in faction battles.

Weekly/Monthly/Seasonal trials could be more challenging and/or combine a lot of the daily deeds ideas and provide ~1-2 wins worth of faction leveling.

@sweetsandman that'd be awesome but I dont think daily deeds will do much unless theres cosmetic or ancient coin incentives

@ghost-of-ronin said in Cross world servers for better hg Q-time:

@sweetsandman that'd be awesome but I dont think daily deeds will do much unless theres cosmetic or ancient coin incentives

Ancient coin incentives? Literally paying people to participate in hourglass? Lol I don't think that'll happen.

Cosmetics are already a thing in hourglass. People WANT the curses....this just gives them a way to expedite the process beyond just losing on repeat.

@tesiccl

Maybe in your region, but unless they deleted all the oceanic stamps, and created just 1 big one, the announcement of cross-stamp matchmaking fixed q times for oceania.

It was near impossible to find a match before that change on sloops.

With that change, I find matches regularly in sloops.

the gamemode isn't as popular as it used to be, but cross stamp matchmaking definitely exists, it just might be in a limited capacity.