WoW Server question

[Mr.DLucey]

Any one know how many people it takes to fill up one of the WoW servers. Just asking as I wait in line at number 61:rolleyes:

[Gregory_WE]

I know that back when I played I had seen lines as long as 800-900 people during peak times... pretty ridiculous.

[kbanny]

It's around 3-4k(some servers may have 5)depending on your server and if they have updated hardware. But that's counting both factions.

[InThrees]

It also depends on what Blizzard has defined 'acceptable playing experience as.'

This seems to vary. Sometimes they lower the cap to reduce lag, sometimes they raise it. It's one of the reasons I quit - two to eight second action lag when trying to raid.

8:12:24 pm - press sinister strike button
8:12:30 pm - get out of range message
8:12:31 pm - swear loudly in vent, get interrupted by ~39 other people

[Seven]

Lag was really never that bad, except when the server was about to crash.

You never truly achieve pure euphoria until you have been dumped out of Blackwing Lair high above the Hillsbrad Foothills, only to fall to certain death.

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[tenchi86]

I know I have been on with near 2k people on the Horde side alone and had no wait time to log on or lag in the cities so I am guessing it's rather high.

[Wolverine690]

I know I have been on with near 2k people on the Horde side alone and had no wait time to log on or lag in the cities so I am guessing it's rather high.


this was asked on the WoW forums a long time ago & I think it was stated something like 4000-6000 people per server total characters both horde & Alliance. They also stated that the server cap say if was 5000 it was actually 7000 but they lowered the cap for server performance issues, basically they don't want to over load the servers they want to keep it at a decent population to avoid issues.(well more then they already have)

[InThrees]

Lag was really never that bad, except when the server was about to crash.

You never truly achieve pure euphoria until you have been dumped out of Blackwing Lair high above the Hillsbrad Foothills, only to fall to certain death.

7

Lag may not have been bad on your server, but I played on Lothar, a launch server. There were newer servers getting new hardware when I quit playing, while Lothar was still toddling along (or trying to) on the beta / launch hardware.

Yes, lag was really that bad. Lag was an issue on Lothar for the entire near-2 years I played WoW.