Hello
Just wondering if Rare is planning to launch customs servers?
I know partners got the possibility to create their own customs servers but they just don't use it (at least in my country)
Of course im talking about customs servers (no gold / no rewards) not pve servers
It would be great to gibe this feature to all players, especially for pvp or roleplay
Thanks!
Whether custom servers ever have their potential fully realized or not I dunno
but I think they are the future of the game and more necessary than anything else.
The combination or propping up alliance servers with rewards that aren't consistent with the foundation of the game or any balancing around it and having full power from the dock as a fresh spawn has created a food chain that squeezes the life out of the piratical food chain rather than maintains it.
Custom servers will be necessary imo to keep longevity within the game. Keep the content and thrill flowing. Pve/pvp shared environment has always and will always be an excellent foundation imo but it can be tinkered with too much and imo we are out of the zone of sustainability to keep longevity thriving on its own.
Doesn't mean they will be implemented in a way that is perfect for support of the foundation but it's what makes the most sense imo.
In my view it's not sustainable to have it very easy to opt out of the risk reward system for max reward to an extreme degree on both ends
That is punishing the people that play the game (in regards to risk/reward) as intended with a difficulty and risk that do not match the reward. Organic experiences within the risk/reward system should have always been the priority imo. I think we sacrificed balance and health of the game long term for content and QoL aka convenience at the time. To some degree it's understandable, just went too far for too long.
These dead servers aren't because of content or because of 5 ships a server or any of the other common narratives imo. It's because high risk for eh reward when the opponent has made very little server investment while others have 600 million from sitting on alliance servers all day doesn't make sense and people are figuring that out more and more as they get immobilized and camped from a crew with no loot that came straight from the dock when they try to play the game organically. A style of piracy that should be allowed but not enabled with powerful resources.
Gonna need custom servers coming out of the gate appealing as heck with customization imo to get some activity popping which will at least help for a while.
@themadlad94 said in Customs Servers:
with how they addressed server performance in a recent podcast, I don’t know when we will be seeing them.
If affiliates and partners already have access to them, I would think that means the servers are performing at least somewhat adequately.
That's good enough for me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
While I will miss the Arena game mode, one of my biggest concerns with its removal is losing touch with some of the communities I've grown so close to.
I would happily pay for a private server so that I could host tdms and other mini-games for my friends.
@pithyrumble said in Customs Servers:
Don't insiders have testing access...or am I allowed to ask that ?🤔😉
I can neither confirm nor deny that.
I too believe that alliance servers pose a great problem when it comes to the natural population of the regular servers.
But quite honestly, I stopped caring for that the moment Rare have shown me they don't care either, back when I tried to report such a community (with 11 000 members / 3 000 online regularly).
IMO, if they do come, they should include access to create "custom servers" with purchase of the Plunder Pass and you'd have to purchase the subsequent Plunder Passes as well if you want to continue to be able to create them. I think that'd be a fair point of entry.
We haven't heard any word on that in quite a while...we can only hope that's part of the Season 7 delay.
OK so,
First things first.....
The fact that rare would have to facilitate the servers is the main issue I have always had in the back of my mind.
Still, totally do-able.
The other thing, for people who disagree and say absolutely dumb things like "That would make the game worse, because population". If it's really threatens SOT pop then lol, isn't that consensus? Doesn't that mean that more people prefer it that way?
More importantly, no, no it wont. Have you ever logged in to a game like "Rust" and seen the insane number of official servers filled to max cap? And were talking near 50 players if not more. SOT is a max of 20 people per instance.....you crazy bruh. Because as much HATE as Private Servers get, famously, from a portion of the SOT community you should never be paranoid that the population would suffer because, guess what, the majority of the people that want private servers aren't playing right now anyway and anyone who is playing and wants privacy you wont notice.
Want my opinion?
I think people who don't want private servers are really just scared there will be more competition than victims sailing around. Call me a liar.
Now that the salt is out of the way, yeah, I hope Rare implements it. But I hope they do it without caveats because most suggestions I hear are like "If they do, I hope people that play on them are punished by A B and C."......WHY? Why does it bother you that someone can become legend without the danger of your presence?????? Like really.
@capn-mcquacken Rare is the one who has said they want custom/private servers to be progressionless. They are going to be a place to host games and events, not grind out Pirate Legend.
Ahoy!
Per the rules of the forum I'm going to lock this thread as reviving threads past one month of inactivity is not permitted. That being said, is the announcement on custom/private servers.
