Those of you who have already logged in to play today will have noticed that you now need to choose between the Europe and America territories. This choice determines your home ‘world’ for the Worlds at War tournament feature. If you want to play with anyone from the American territory while you are on the European territory, you can easily choose the International Districts from the drop down menu in any outpost or town (top left corner of the screen with the default interface); simply arrange to meet your friend in one of these districts.
If you accidentally choose the wrong Territory or change your mind, you can change your territory choice. At the character selection screen after logging in you will find an Edit Account button in the bottom left corner. After clicking this button a panel will appear that allows you to change your account details; on the third tab you can change your Territory. Please note that you can only make this change a maximum of 5 times.
Territory Choice
Alex Weekes
uriel99
Hi.
I noticed that when I logged in, and I can't really say I'm pleased with the idea. I'm not gonna rant and whine, but I feel like explaining why I don't like it...
I understand that maybe Arena servers need a load balancing and whatnot, but this affects gameplay.
OK, we can still play with people in the international zones. Great. As of today, when I logged in, there were 9 european instances of ascalon city for europe, and 1 international zone that was almost empty. No big deal, they are only intended to meet people, right?
Problem is, in european zones, people tend to use their home language. over 9 instances, 8 were overruned by german players, and somewhere I could read some french too. A bit of italian. Very rare were those speaking english. I may be french, I still find it pretty dumb to use a language most people can't understand, and I only use english, even if sometimes that means using a dictionnary to translate some words.
Basically, when a zone doesn't say "here you are in europe", people tend to use english, because it's the international language. When it says "you're home", people just don't do it. Increases the proportion of annoying, useless flood in chat... Not Ascalon's fault for sure, only a stupid habit most people have. Sure, I can move my account to american tarritory, while being located in france, so I can meet people mostly speaking english... Isn't there something weird in what I just wrote?
If that was the only problem, I could bare with it, really.
But that also halves the chances to meet some cool person randomly. If playing on european account, chances you meet an american account person, get along, become friend and whatever are close to zero.
What about guilds? Is it possible for them to recruit people on both sides, when they have almost no chances to find someone in the other area?
Seriously, this new territory thingie is a limit to the amount of people we can meet in game. Don't tell me that there are still international zones, people will most likely not use them unless they NEED to meet someone they already know that now belongs to another area.
And since OOC chat is instanced, there is like no chances you talk with someone not belonging to your area and get along with that person. Only way to reach someone inanother district is via /tell. If you did chat with someone in the same district, friend list helps. How do I talk in OOC with someone in an american zone? O_o'
The point of online gaming is also to meet people. If I don't care about other players, I will play a solo game. If I like to meet people from all over the planet and not only from my area, I will play an online game. Such limitations only cripple the social aspect of the game, and that's pretty bad.
Maybe it could be made such as, by selecting an area, we start in one of our local zones by default, but we would still have access to other zones? I mean, OK? I started in "european district 3", but I can still chose to go to "american district 6" if I feel like it... That would still be of some help to balance servers load or whatever the reason may be for that thing, and would not cripple too much the international / social aspect of the game.
Just my 2 cents... I won't stop playing the game for that, nor cancel my pre-order, but that gives me the feeling some good thing just got wasted. You guys will have to create a really good expansion for me to buy it, after that...
I noticed that when I logged in, and I can't really say I'm pleased with the idea. I'm not gonna rant and whine, but I feel like explaining why I don't like it...
I understand that maybe Arena servers need a load balancing and whatnot, but this affects gameplay.
OK, we can still play with people in the international zones. Great. As of today, when I logged in, there were 9 european instances of ascalon city for europe, and 1 international zone that was almost empty. No big deal, they are only intended to meet people, right?
Problem is, in european zones, people tend to use their home language. over 9 instances, 8 were overruned by german players, and somewhere I could read some french too. A bit of italian. Very rare were those speaking english. I may be french, I still find it pretty dumb to use a language most people can't understand, and I only use english, even if sometimes that means using a dictionnary to translate some words.
Basically, when a zone doesn't say "here you are in europe", people tend to use english, because it's the international language. When it says "you're home", people just don't do it. Increases the proportion of annoying, useless flood in chat... Not Ascalon's fault for sure, only a stupid habit most people have. Sure, I can move my account to american tarritory, while being located in france, so I can meet people mostly speaking english... Isn't there something weird in what I just wrote?
If that was the only problem, I could bare with it, really.
But that also halves the chances to meet some cool person randomly. If playing on european account, chances you meet an american account person, get along, become friend and whatever are close to zero.
What about guilds? Is it possible for them to recruit people on both sides, when they have almost no chances to find someone in the other area?
Seriously, this new territory thingie is a limit to the amount of people we can meet in game. Don't tell me that there are still international zones, people will most likely not use them unless they NEED to meet someone they already know that now belongs to another area.
And since OOC chat is instanced, there is like no chances you talk with someone not belonging to your area and get along with that person. Only way to reach someone inanother district is via /tell. If you did chat with someone in the same district, friend list helps. How do I talk in OOC with someone in an american zone? O_o'
The point of online gaming is also to meet people. If I don't care about other players, I will play a solo game. If I like to meet people from all over the planet and not only from my area, I will play an online game. Such limitations only cripple the social aspect of the game, and that's pretty bad.
Maybe it could be made such as, by selecting an area, we start in one of our local zones by default, but we would still have access to other zones? I mean, OK? I started in "european district 3", but I can still chose to go to "american district 6" if I feel like it... That would still be of some help to balance servers load or whatever the reason may be for that thing, and would not cripple too much the international / social aspect of the game.
Just my 2 cents... I won't stop playing the game for that, nor cancel my pre-order, but that gives me the feeling some good thing just got wasted. You guys will have to create a really good expansion for me to buy it, after that...
Arlin Merrick
Well, If what Uriel said would have any kind of impact on anything, as per teaming/ inviting them to guilds. Why not add an Auto-Translate function into the mix? I might be thinking in FFXI dynamics, but it was also a multi-language game.
I understand that it could make for a considerable workload, but it would also bring a better playing experience to players looking to communicate with players varying in languages.
I understand that it could make for a considerable workload, but it would also bring a better playing experience to players looking to communicate with players varying in languages.