Attention Horde thinking about transferring to Mal'Ganis - Page 2

Lurchington · 07/06/06, 2:09 PM

Originally Posted by Praetorian

Yeah, I think it's no coincidence that the queues happened to come at the same time as gamewide server/network instability last night. I'd certainly hope that Blizzard would close transfers to a server long before it actually reached the point of login queues.

I think they'd allow any and all transfers until a certain time, and then re-evaluate.

While it'd be great for them to cut it off right before queues hit, I'm sure they allowed people to transfer over with their friends or guildmates as long as they did it by that certain time. That and perhaps Blizzard is subscribing to the same theory that says you overbook a plane, knowing that at some point the MG demand may drop, and some people may transfer themselves.

Tuco · 07/06/06, 2:21 PM

When they announced the transfer the internal official position my guild has was that we'd wait it out, see who transfered then go to somewhere we thought was good. Then we see that Mal'Ganis has no lag, overabundance of horde, new hardware etc, and everyone is going there. Our biggest fear is that many will follow in our footsteps and flood the server with lag and high queues(Already we're often seeing significant alliance queues).

I'm kind of surprised more guilds didn't transfer. It seems like Arthas is the only contributor of large guilds, out of 20 or so that can transfer.

We're more or less banking on Blizzard closing down transfers to MG before they open up more servers to transfer. We're also expecting the cross-BGs to detroy our loverly queue times.

squiffy · 07/06/06, 6:24 PM

Originally Posted by Praetorian

I'd certainly hope that Blizzard would close transfers to a server long before it actually reached the point of login queues.

I'm pretty sure I can safely say that's not in their thinking. Blackrock has had queues to log on since release, peaking at around the 3,000 mark. During school holidays there are nightly queues of 200 or so, peaking to around 1,000 in the weekends, and other times we are usually queue free until the weekends when it will approach 300 or so.

Blackrock has had three previous "transfer out" options, due to it's size and instability.

They allowed transfers _to_ our server from the moment they opened up the paid transfers.

Blizzard are damnably retarded sometimes.

SHADOWPRIEST · 07/06/06, 8:04 PM

umm.. so when we r discussing the history of EJ, can someone tell me how gurg was chosen to be the GM?

Kasi · 07/06/06, 8:10 PM

Umm. As far as I know he's not. IIRC Werebeef is? Not sure though. I think Gurgthock is just their raid leader. Kinda a similar situation in my guild. I was reaid leader, a friend was guild leader.

SHADOWPRIEST · 07/06/06, 8:21 PM

Originally Posted by Kasi

Umm. As far as I know he's not. IIRC Werebeef is? Not sure though. I think Gurgthock is just their raid leader. Kinda a similar situation in my guild. I was reaid leader, a friend was guild leader.

you mean Lord Beef?

Kasi · 07/06/06, 8:29 PM

Well Lord Beef on the forums, Werebeef in game.

Kaubel · 07/06/06, 8:37 PM

Yeah. As official titles go, Beef is GL and Gurg is RL.

How they were chosen? I think Beef was the last one to have lead in beta (it switched hands numerous times) so he ended up with it for release. That and he's a great guy with a level head and no one had a problem with him taking the spot. For RL, we asked for volunteers and Gurg...volunteered. He was perfect for the spot as well, being all obesessive and crazy about tactics and strategies. Plus he has an enormous amount of dedication, always making sure raids run smoothly.

EJ is very lucky to have both.

Deathwing · 07/06/06, 8:44 PM

Hmmm, you guys should fix your ctprofile guild page. It says that whaskly wodin is guild master.

Mist · 07/06/06, 8:53 PM

How about Alliance guilds wishing to transfer to Mal'ganis? Mine seriously was considering it. We're very PvP active, pretty small for a raiding guild, and progressing well in Naxx. Any suggestions?

I thought you guys were on the new high capacity hardware. Are you seriously getting queues and lag?

• Wodin · 07/06/06, 9:46 PM

Originally Posted by Deathwing

Hmmm, you guys should fix your ctprofile guild page. It says that whaskly wodin is guild master.

I was the only EJ in the ctprofiles beta, so I made the guild and we've been too lazy to change it.

Edit: we have a bunch of new alliance who are already complaining about non-instant queues, so that attraction is gone. We had a login queue last night, but that may have been unrelated to actual server population. No lag yet.

Mist · 07/06/06, 10:43 PM

What about other aspects of the server? Instant BG queues aren't a necessity, used to waiting 10-15 minutes for gulch on Warsong which is considered very pvp active.

DeeNogger · 07/06/06, 10:47 PM

I have 1 request before EJ leaves MG (if the rumors are true)...

i want to see that special epic bug mount!! i have never seen it!

• Bad Luck · 07/06/06, 11:38 PM

Originally Posted by DeeNogger

I have 1 request before EJ leaves MG (if the rumors are true)...

what

Kaubel · 07/07/06, 12:01 AM

We're totally leaving Mal'Ganis. The internet said so.