Will VO be splitted into charts or will it be a mega server for all players together?

I´m asking for a special rason:
How are the chances of getting a Valiance Online Roleplay-Server? (or RP-server chart)

I'd much prefer one big server with account handles so people can choose the name they like without having all the good names eventually taken.

One big server also means no matter how many friends you have who play VO you can always play together becuase they won't be on a different server.

Right. But a game like this deserves a roleplay server. My VO friends will be roleplayers anyway...

We're working on hybrid server tech which basically works like multiple mega servers.

You can roleplay on any server. Why need a seperate server? RP is universal.

ZeeHero wrote:
Yes... right...

You also don´t need @handles for character names. Just chosse the name you want and put a number behind it e.g. Wolverine1999

That's a joke right? no one wants to be named with a dumb number showing after their name. Account handles dont float over the characters head you know. theyre invisible unless you set them as visible.

youd really not have a global account handle system? in a game aimed at people having alts? how will anyone keep contact with anyone?
RP areas tend to pop up in any server, STO has areas people RP but those RPers can also find a random team to run stf's at a later point also rather then being on a server where most of the people are involved in semi private role playing

if they separate people into different shards i hope they at least give people the option to que for content from multiple shards at once to mitigate the artificial population reduction that induces. although i cant really see the reason for separate servers when they can just instance zones out to fit given pop in a area

It´s all about gaming experience.
Some players just want to find other players to team up with.
Some players just want to do PVP battles.
Some players don´t want to use numbers in thier names.
Some players like to see well filled instances.
Some players want to be seperated from non-RP players to enjoy a better game experience.

To be honest: I would prefer to play on a RP-server with just 100 players than sharing a server with thousands of casual, PVP and non-RP players.

Dude even the RPers aren't going to be RPing 100% of the time. theres room for a player to be more than a roleplayer, some of us roleplayers PVE and PVP too.

And in almost every game their "RP" server has plenty of PVE and PVP players becuase of this.

Dude? It´s Mister Deemer to you!

I'll just be honest if a game doesn't have an RP server I'll likely never play it. The only game I've ever played that didn't at least start out with an RP server was LotRO and that's because RP was so common in that game in the beginning that Landroval, the unofficial RP server was better than a lot of RP designated servers in other games.

There's a better community on RP servers and it makes for a much better gaming experience through immersion and various creative methods that RP players contribute to the game.

I'm not trying to be one of those people that takes their ball and goes home because they don't get their way, I'm merely stating that I generally have no interest in playing an MMO if it doesn't have an RP server and an RP server therefore is at the very least a top 3 selling point for me.

Crios22 wrote:
I honestly don't see the point in special RP servers. If people want to RP nobody has the right to bother them about it, and they're welcome to RP whenever they like on any server they like.

as a Roleplayer myself I can only see multiple servers as an impediment to RP, becuase when theres seperate servers you inevitably end up with some friends on other servers, and hence cannot play with them.

ZeeHero wrote:
What if characters were server-transferable? Coupled with handles so no one would be restricted when naming a new character.

Allowing for characters to be transferable would solve the problem where role-players who want to be in a exclusively RP server could, and when they feel like not role-play, well they could by just transfering their character. Some MMOs already use this concept where you first choose the character you want to play as and then select the server you want to play in.

But in order to work properly, it absolutely requires handles, like in Champions Online.