Questions about the server

[Skandale]

Hello.

Where exactly will the server be located and may I have the ip so I can ping it to check my latency ?

A few other questions, bothersome features that I dislike and cause me to not play at other private servers.

Cross faction features, this includes cross faction grouping, cross faction global / world chat, and any other feature . Will this be 100% blizzlike or will there be any cross faction features enabled ?

Meeting stones be utilized as summoing stones. While this is convinient and practical for some, this is a big turnoff, because it's not blizz like, it also encourages laziness and gives people an incentive to not travel outside in the world.

command(s) allowing peopel to join bg's from anywhere by typing a certain command (i.e: .bg join <bg_name>), again this may be convinient and practical for some, but this is not blizzlike, and also encourages laziness, people will never be in pvp queueing areas neither. This also gives people a free teleportation / summon, a means to escape certain situation, i.e woirld pvp. This is highly distatsteful as it is not blizzlike.


The bug that allows people to walk through walls by enabling autorun (mouse 4 click), pressing alt + f4, then log back in and press forward + jump, allowing people to walk through walls. This is a exploit and a cheat used on some big servers like feenix for instance, it allows people to cheat their way through instances by skipping bosses, it also allows people to do UBRS and other instances without having the key that unlocks the gate / door to UBRS. This takes a lot away from the game because it's extremely cheesy, a bug like this is exploitable everyday by almost half the population.

The spell "Fear" is supposed to pull other mobs if a enemy unit affected by fear is feared into enemy units (mobs). For some reason mobs are not aggroed on some servers when this happens, allowing fear to be used as a means of CC all the time in instances and raids. This may be convinient and practical for some, but it's not intended and blizzlike.

Pet pathing, for instances when jumping down from the Graveyard in warsong gulch, the pet then doesn't follow the player down, it instead runs all the way around and the player has to sit there waiting for the pet everytime, this is very time consuming and wastes a lot of time. I don't remember if it was like this on vanilla, but it's worth looking into the pet pathing.

Herbalism nodes are random, clustered and often times herbs like briarthorn, etc can barely be spotted.

That's all I have for now, but I sure these bugs and non-blizz like features are none existant on this new promising server. Otherwice it would suck very much, I am looking for a 100% blizz like experience, I don't care if things are pratical and convinient, if it's not blizzlike, then it will suck. And a lot of people here will agree with that.

Please get back to me on the topics so I know if this is the server for me. Thanks in advance.

[ozzky]

Most of these questions have already been answered but...

Hello.
Where exactly will the server be located and may I have the ip so I can ping it to check my latency ?

France.

Cross faction features, this includes cross faction grouping, cross faction global / world chat, and any other feature . Will this be 100% blizzlike or will there be any cross faction features enabled ?

Not sure about a world chat, but i'm pretty sure we won't see any of that.

Meeting stones be utilized as summoing stones. While this is convinient and practical for some, this is a big turnoff, because it's not blizz like, it also encourages laziness and gives people an incentive to not travel outside in the world.

That arrived in TBC as far as I know, which of course would mean it won't be happening here.

The bug that allows people to walk through walls by enabling autorun (mouse 4 click), pressing alt + f4, then log back in and press forward + jump, allowing people to walk through walls. This is a exploit and a cheat used on some big servers like feenix for instance, it allows people to cheat their way through instances by skipping bosses, it also allows people to do UBRS and other instances without having the key that unlocks the gate / door to UBRS. This takes a lot away from the game because it's extremely cheesy, a bug like this is exploitable everyday by almost half the population.

This has been fixed and isn't working.

Pet pathing, for instances when jumping down from the Graveyard in warsong gulch, the pet then doesn't follow the player down, it instead runs all the way around and the player has to sit there waiting for the pet everytime, this is very time consuming and wastes a lot of time. I don't remember if it was like this on vanilla, but it's worth looking into the pet pathing.

I'm not sure about the situation you described but pathing is pretty much perfect.

[Skandale]

Why france? How is this centrally located. Germany is pretty much the main centrally located in europe and gives far better ping to eveyrone except people in france.

[kovenant]

Why france? How is this centrally located. Germany is pretty much the main centrally located in europe and gives far better ping to eveyrone except people in france.

it's not a company that has access to a server storage facility,
and also the group consists mainly of french people (i belive) and also the laws in place make it easier to have the server in France.

so for me it is a assumption, but then they have people relatively fast on location if needed.

[ozzky]

Why france? How is this centrally located. Germany is pretty much the main centrally located in europe and gives far better ping to eveyrone except people in france.

I'm playing from Northern Sweden without any problem with < 50 ping so it shouldn't be of any concern from anyone in europe.

Players from the US will have much better ping from France than Germany.
So it's basically a win-win situation.

[Askental]

Why france? How is this centrally located. Germany is pretty much the main centrally located in europe and gives far better ping to eveyrone except people in france.

France or Germany will give equivalent ping anyway... Also it's easier to have the host and devs speaking the same language.

The spell "Fear" is supposed to pull other mobs if a enemy unit affected by fear is feared into enemy units (mobs). For some reason mobs are not aggroed on some servers when this happens, allowing fear to be used as a means of CC all the time in instances and raids. This may be convinient and practical for some, but it's not intended and blizzlike.

This is fixed too.

[Ike]

The server will be hosted on OVH which offers you a speed test and various IPs for ping tests as well.
Check it out:
http://proof.ovh.net/

I don't know however wether the server will be hosted on SBG or RBX, but since you can test both of them it doesn't really matter that much.

[Skandale]

on Rebirth, they also claim it's located in western europe, there i have 80+ Ping, which is quite high when I live in europe. Remember wow 1.12 does not exactly have a modern net code tech, so ping is vital and important.

Chosing the right server location also says something about how serious they are about the project. If i live in europe and the server is located in europe, I expect good ping. And my connection is excellent. I am from Norway btw, and norway / sweden has the best connections in europe.

How do you know that US players have better ping to france ? Like I said, Germany is also west, and in general has better routing since it's considered the main hub in europe.

If my ping stays below 60 then it will be no problem.

Still concerned about the cross faction global chat, I hope they won't enable this, it throws off the vanilla spirit and feel.


Slightly better ms to rbx. Both below 60ms which is acceptable.

[ozzky]

The server will be hosted on OVH which offers you a speed test and various IPs for ping tests as well.
Check it out:
http://proof.ovh.net/

I don't know however wether the server will be hosted on SBG or RBX, but since you can test both of them it doesn't really matter that much.

I just want to say that the "ping" thing on that site is bugged. It shows 100 ping for me, but in reality i had less than 50 ping. Maybe it's just for me but it's NOT 100% correct.

The download /upload speed was however correct.

[Skandale]

Yeah, but if you chose the domain names below. the rbx or sbg, you can ping it manually.

The first initial test gave me 109 ms which was absurd, hope that's not the real ip.