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  • A Few Important Notices - UPDATED

    04. 17. 2012 23:01


TeamNF_MK2

Hey guys,

There are a few important developments that you should know of regarding our in-game servers.

The first of which has to do with the new Double EXP Event; for every 1st battle win of the day players will receive twice the amount of EXP. This event will run on both servers and will be applied after this week's scheduled maintenance period. Of special note is that the scheduled maintenance is expected to run longer than usual this week on account of special diagnostics being run on the servers. Please expect the maintenance to last from 11PM PST - 3AM PST.

You are likely already aware of the special 50% EXP, credit, and point boost being added exclusively to the Kaiser server. In addition to this special event, all newly registered accounts are now registered to Kaiser server. Accounts that have never played on Nebraska server before are currently only able to select Kaiser server.  In addition, returning players who contact us for account recovery will only have previous account data restored to the Kaiser server through support.

As you can tell, unique preparations are being made on behalf of Kaiser server to help improve game play conditions for Kaiser players. The question on everyone's mind seems to be; "Why don't you just (favorite expletive of your choice) merge the servers!?" This question has been answered on a previous occasion but I'll try to provide details as to why merging the servers is not quite feasible at this time.

Technically, yes, it is possible to merge the servers. It is a very large undertaking, but it has been done before. Doing so will result in too many adverse effects however. Our servers have had to adhere to specific technical limitations which puts a hard cap on the total number of players able to join at any one time. These limits are not a result of a hardware issue so upgrading to some amazing hardware will not make any difference. If it could, we would of course choose to merge without hesitation.

Keeping those limitations in mind, having the servers merged at their current state would undoubtedly result in an increase of lag issues or players being dropped from the server or unable to join at certain times. We experienced a bit of this when we merged from 4 servers to 2. The last thing we need is another round of those conditions.

Ultimately, we really do wish that we could have a single server for all of our players but as with other matters, we have to work with what we have. When the positives outweigh the negatives we will reconsider our stance on this, but for the time being we officially cannot consider it.

For now, we will be running the aforementioned events, welcoming new users to Kaiser server, work on new advertising campaigns with popular websites like Facebook and Reddit, and be open to new ideas to continue improving the game play conditions for all of our players.

We thank you for your understanding on this,

-Randy

 

*UPDATE 4/18*

After going through your feedback our team agreed that there could be circumstances in which limiting access to Nebraska server would provide a negative impact. As such, we have decided to keep both servers completely open until further notice. We will still be pursuing other measures to help improve conditions and continue to welcome your feedback.

 

  • Re : A Few Important Notices - UPDATED

    04. 26. 2012 23:06


tonexus

"Our servers have had to adhere to specific technical limitations which puts a hard cap on the total number of players able to join at any one time. These limits are not a result of a hardware issue so upgrading to some amazing hardware will not make any difference."

You need to explain this further. What are the specific technical limitations that you have to put a hard cap on the login?


"After going through your feedback our team agreed that there could be circumstances in which limiting access to Nebraska server would provide a negative impact."

This too needs explaining.  What are the negative impacts? 

  • Re : A Few Important Notices - UPDATED

    04. 28. 2012 15:23


towboat42

how about make some new ships just for the kaiser server?

  • Re : A Few Important Notices - UPDATED

    04. 28. 2012 17:08


ljsevern

Originally Posted by Greatgazoo2

Honestly do any of you think they are going too do anything? SDE has given up on NF they will NOT invest money into advertising, They will NOT invest money into new servers, They will NOT care about the remaining player base.

Back in the day SDE tried too make a major change too the game and players all went on strike till they changed it back maybe thats what should happen again. I say EVERYONE stop buying olives or investing money into NF at all till NF shows they are serious about making this game better if you hit someone where it hurts (the wallet) they tends too make changes happen. 

WOT here I come. 



Erm, they have invested money in advertising, and they have recently upgraded the servers.

Things have actually improved greatly since Randy became community manager and DarkGM became the NFNA Head GM.

You should probably read Randy's posts in this thread before posting that. 

  • Re : A Few Important Notices - UPDATED

    04. 28. 2012 17:53


ChicagoBears

Originally Posted by ljsevern

Originally Posted by Humberto20

Originally Posted by ljsevern

Randy;

As you said, Hardware isn't the issue; Is it possible to remove this login cap? 



How about new features on  kaiser that nebraska doesnt have. I do believe that will bring more players into the server.



It would just kill off Nebraska. Merging is the only long term solution, as well as advertising and fixing existing features.

I like the idea of a shared HQ, or having your sailor/ship pool shared between both servers; So that the 2nd server would mainly be used during events. But the issue with that is, can they link fleet data? 



The GMs over at NF Hong Kong tried to mess with the ancient coding and they destroyed the database so i don't think linking any data would be easy.

  • Re : A Few Important Notices - UPDATED

    04. 28. 2012 18:30


Platapus

Originally Posted by ChicagoBears


The GMs over at NF Hong Kong tried to mess with the ancient coding and they destroyed the database so i don't think linking any data would be easy.


I believe that was an attempt to increase the 50 sailor limit. iirc.

  • Re : A Few Important Notices - UPDATED

    04. 29. 2012 07:37


ljsevern

Originally Posted by ChicagoBears

Originally Posted by ljsevern

Originally Posted by Humberto20

Originally Posted by ljsevern

Randy;

As you said, Hardware isn't the issue; Is it possible to remove this login cap? 



How about new features on  kaiser that nebraska doesnt have. I do believe that will bring more players into the server.



It would just kill off Nebraska. Merging is the only long term solution, as well as advertising and fixing existing features.

I like the idea of a shared HQ, or having your sailor/ship pool shared between both servers; So that the 2nd server would mainly be used during events. But the issue with that is, can they link fleet data? 



The GMs over at NF Hong Kong tried to mess with the ancient coding and they destroyed the database so i don't think linking any data would be easy.



Of course it wouldn't be easy. But the dev's have recently gone over all of the code and optimised and updated it (apparently).

And its better to brainstorm solutions so that the dev's can decide which ones they can actually do. Obviously in an ideal world, the caps on online players will be removed and everyone on one server. 

  • Re : A Few Important Notices - UPDATED

    04. 29. 2012 13:55


CMSolJa

Hey all nf world I don't say much usually If i do say something its never good and I recieve ban but this heed one of the times my thoughts are that I need to input.

SO.

 I agree!

^^ With previous comment


lol

  • Re : A Few Important Notices - UPDATED

    05. 15. 2012 23:26


shortyz

Originally Posted by Etheryte

Originally Posted by ljsevern

Could you just either confirm/deny that the only thing stopping a merge is the hard cap for online players on the server, and the worry it would be reached during high activity (weekend events)? Or if this isn't the case, what technical/hardware issues is the case?

Could you also confirm/deny if this software issue is being worked on?

Because hopefully some of the more technically minded server guys in the community could help with a useful suggestion.



If it isn't a hardware issue it's a software issue. Would anyone mind sharing what language Navyfield is programmed in?

 

PASCAL. looooooooooool

  • Re : A Few Important Notices - UPDATED

    06. 25. 2012 21:51


FalleNStaR

Originally Posted by Greatgazoo2

Honestly do any of you think they are going too do anything? SDE has given up on NF they will NOT invest money into advertising, They will NOT invest money into new servers, They will NOT care about the remaining player base.

Back in the day SDE tried too make a major change too the game and players all went on strike till they changed it back maybe thats what should happen again. I say EVERYONE stop buying olives or investing money into NF at all till NF shows they are serious about making this game better if you hit someone where it hurts (the wallet) they tends too make changes happen. 

WOT here I come. 

 

The test server needs to be scrapped or converted to a team of paid SDE employees. Waiting months and years for game fixes and balances is unacceptable, especially when it is regularly smothered in "new" broken content.

I don't want an event. I want a game that works on both a fun and technical level.

 

 of course.. SDE will never go for this since it would mean they would have to stand on their own two feet instead of being a lifeless corpse strewn on the backs of the Test server guys.

  • Re : A Few Important Notices - UPDATED

    08. 06. 2012 00:58


mrdugsir

Originally Posted by ljsevern

I believe it is an accounts online cap, not a number of accounts with data on a server cap.

If I am wrong (which would be nice because there is an easier solution), I would gladly merge all my accounts together if it meant active players from Kaiser moved in the accounts place. While I dislike using the clunky HQ system, I would be willing to sacrifice my multi accounts and use it in order to get a merge of sorts. 



I offered to merge my account multiple times to no success.  I'd still like to do it but don't expect it.  

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