What server are the guilds going to be on?

I was under the impression that because we had pre-registered and formed alliances with other guilds that we would be assigned to a server vice picking one.

All we know is it will be a West Coast server and PvE.

As Aldente mentioned sign up with the guild (Knights of Stonewall - Republic side) on the official forums before December 2nd.

It is going to be a west coast server? Thought it was an east coast server? Better for our EU members

Out of the 140+ members we have signed up, what is our east coast/west coast ratio? I am kind of concerned about doing things on a west coast server. 7pm pst raids would start at 10pm est. Trying to do things during my prime time would be around 4pm pst. Tried a char on a pst wow server and it was horrible. Do we have enough east coast player to make it worthwhile or should my wife and I look for an east coast server?

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Out of the 140+ members we have signed up, what is our east coast/west coast ratio? I am kind of concerned about doing things on a west coast server. 7pm pst raids would start at 10pm est. Trying to do things during my prime time would be around 4pm pst. Tried a char on a pst wow server and it was horrible. Do we have enough east coast player to make it worthwhile or should my wife and I look for an east coast server?

Just because we picked a west-coast server doesn't mean we will only be providing events in that time zone. We will endeavour to run events in all time zones so that everybody can participate.

We picked west coast because that is where the other GBLT friendly guilds are starting and we are creating an unofficial "gay" server. My advice would be to just ignore the server location and think of us as a World Wide community because that's what we are :)

I don't think there is a way to see how many east and west coast members we currently have signed up but if the game launches and Stonewall doesn't meet your needs, you can always consider your options then.

Just my 2 cents here...

While the "official" guild server will be on a West Coast PvE server, are there any rules against setting up a backup guild? It was done on STO with "Deep Space Stonewall" so perhaps an option would be to set up a sister guild on an East Coast server.

That being said, I'm in Florida but I'm sure that should we decide to stay with one server there will be plenty of "easties" on to group up with.

Deep Space Stonewall wasn't a back-up guild. It was a guild for our Alts and was required simply because we would have hit the character limit (think it's 500?) and then some.

If the same fate hits Knights of Stonewall we'd have to create an over-flow guild on the same server. There isn't any cross-server communication and creating an overflow guild on a separate server would segregate the community and we wouldn't be as effective. For example, say I have my main character in the west coast whos in the main guild but I'm currently playing in the east coast "alt" guild. Someone wants to run a dungeon run on the west coast and has a space perfectly sized for me but they have no way of asking me to help because I'm a completely different server.

I'd like you all to try and look past the "official" server location and think of it as a "worldwide" server because that's what It's going to be, just like Stonewall Fleet on Star Trek Online.

Thanks for the explanation, Halish. I didn't take into consideration cross-server communication, or the lack thereof.

As for number of East Coast/West Coast players, I truly expect Stonewall's numbers to explode once the game goes live so finding guildies to group up with shouldn't be a problem.

Lastly, in my opinion an overflow guild for Stonewall is a given. From personal experience I will stay with my first choice of Smuggler as my main, but I really enjoyed the Jedi Knight class! :)

Just my nickle and dime on the West Coast server.

I live in Wasington DC and I've always played on a West Coast Server in WoW and Rift. There was never an issue with the server time, we always formed grps up for instances and raids with folks from all different time zones joining in.

As Halish said try not to focus on the "west coast server" verbiage. We will have plenty of events running that everyone can join no matter there time zone.

We are just 2 and a half weeks away! Woot!

(I tried logging into SW tonite but it wouldn't let me in, those meanies)

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(I tried logging into SW tonite but it wouldn't let me in, those meanies)

LOL - same here. I was hoping someone forgot to turn on the "block weekend testers" switch. :lol:

I was disappointed that I didn't get a chance to run around with some Stonewallers during the test, but it's just as well. I'm usually on the slow track when it comes to learning new mmo UI's so it was like the first day of school for me. At least I'll have some semblance of knowing what to do when the game goes live, though!

speaking of trying to sneak in some more play, does anyone know if we are going to be able to patch to the official version come launch date? or are we going to be forced to download and install all the assets again?

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speaking of trying to sneak in some more play, does anyone know if we are going to be able to patch to the official version come launch date? or are we going to be forced to download and install all the assets again?

You'll be able to patch it if you only download the game last week. If you where in beta previously they recommend a full re-install.

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You'll be able to patch it if you only download the game last week. If you where in beta previously they recommend a full re-install.

Oh fiddle sticks. I was in last weekends beta as well as one earlier in the month. So it sounds like I'll have to uninstall and reinstall the game closer to launch.


Edit; I'm a goof, need to do a full install anyways as I have a new gaming computer coming this week. Oh well.

Bummer, well, I hope it is not as difficult to download as the last time I downloaded the game, it got stuck on an asset.

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Bummer, well, I hope it is not as difficult to download as the last time I downloaded the game, it got stuck on an asset.

I believe if you were in this past weekends Beta Event you may only have to patch to the full "official" or "gold" release. I know when I logged in last night to see if we could play because we were on Leviathan one of the permanent beta servers if we could still play and I received another big patch. But we will just have to wait 2.5 weeks to see.

I didn't have time to search rockjaw's twitter account. Here are the links to the info now:
http://twitter.com/#!/Rockjaw/status/141542248159522816
http://twitter.com/#!/Rockjaw/status/141535439839436801

So basically everyone can patch. If you didn't install it last week, they recommend a full re-install. If i remember correctly, last weeks patch didn't replace old files, but put the new files next to the old files.

I think as long as we have players bi-coastally, etc. it shouldn't matter. I'm in Texas but work in nightlife, so I play very odd hours. I bet we can get late night groups or off hour groups together easily with a guild this large at launch.


On another note myn install for last beta got stuck on an asset as well. Hopefully a patch is all that's needed.

I'm an "east coaster" here (NY), so if stuff is scheduled around a "west coaster's" schedule then I won't be able to raid. Though someone said that we (due to many easterners) will have East Coast-timed events. Latency cross-America isn't normally a problem for me; my internet is the same level of crappy all the time lol

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There will definitely be events scheduled at convenient times for east coasters as well as events timed for EU and west coast folks. With the numbers that we're seeing, we shouldn't have any trouble maintaining events for all 3 of those zones. And if you're not seeing enough events for your time zone, be sure to hassle DakonKor (Republic) or Zepari (Empire). /ducks

Yes please harass my husband DakonKor!!! He has nothing to take up all his time now that the wedding is behind us! I know that I'll be making myself available for teaming up anytime I'm in the game with the hopes of getting involved in the operations/raiding (if not at a hardcore level, at least enough to know what's going on)

Kinda sad we probably won't have Leviathan anymore .... since all gay men like big things... :)