How many servers is too many?

NiennaMiriel · Post by **NiennaMiriel** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 10:55 am

I'm starting to think that I take censuses on too many servers. I have toons on 15 servers. If you count each faction/server combo as one, then I actually take censuses on 21 (3 of which have toons that I actually play).

So how many servers to you run censuses on that you don't have toons that you actually play on? For this poll, consider a server to be a faction/server combo, since many servers can have 2 census toons per account.

Balgair · Post by **Balgair** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 11:14 am

Over 30 servers here, I believe an account is limited to 50 characters total, I have 10 on my main server, 3 on my old main server, 2 on a server a friend's on... and then 1 each on a lot of other servers for censusing purposes, up to my account being full. I seem to have lost a slot along the way, as one time I deleted a character to make another and got told I had too many characters, but even so, there's definitely 30+ servers... in fact I'll count up and edit the total into this post when my current census ends

Seriously wishing I had the spare cash to make a second account purely for censusing btw, as I now have a laptop running my censuses, but of course I can't play my main characters at the same time - it's still handy to run them on a different computer as I can leave the laptop showing WoW while I'm doing other stuff on the main computer and see when they end but it'd be handier still if I could play at the same time!

Edit: English: 18, German: 6, French 15, Spanish: 0, so total servers is 39 (subtract 2 for my main server and one with alts on that's green so I don't census it). Interestingly that comes to 51 characters total, as it's 39 total servers plus 9 alts on my main server, 2 alts on my old server and one alt on a friend's server. Guess I won't complain about losing that slot a while back after all

NiennaMiriel · Post by **NiennaMiriel** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 11:51 am

Balgair wrote:Edit: English: 18, German: 6, French 15, Spanish: 0, so total servers is 39 (subtract 2 for my main server and one with alts on that's green so I don't census it). Interestingly that comes to 51 characters total, as it's 39 total servers plus 9 alts on my main server, 2 alts on my old server and one alt on a friend's server. Guess I won't complain about losing that slot a while back after all

Freak! lol j/k

I guess I could step it up a bit. I still census on green servers though, just 'cause I tried the delete green servers to make room for red servers, and it drove me nuts. Though if they stay with that many red, I may have to change my mind.

Balgair · Post by **Balgair** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 12:05 pm

Hehe yeah it is slight overkill I know - when I do something I tend to go a bit mad with it

I usually delete green servers (and yellow ones with over 75 censuses done) and replace with red, because the european ones are in a really bad state - the US ones are at least mostly in double figures but the European most wanted list is just terrible, and there seem to not be many multi-server censusers here so I feel like it's probably better for me to switch servers a lot and try and get the worst ones improved a bit.

Sianni · Post by **Sianni** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 12:49 pm

I run a census most every day on 4 servers where I have active characters, then I have another 10 regular servers (where I have friends playing and I log in to chat with them) that I hit at least twice a week. The rest of the time I try to hit whatever is red and in most need of a update. My best guess is I hit from 15 to 25 different servers per week, depending on what's going on in work/life/etc.

Post by **Rollie** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 3:26 pm

I'm curious if there is some way you could have a scripted setup that would just log you in, census, finish, logout, next server, etc...

Balgair · Post by **Balgair** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 3:29 pm

If there was a setup like that I'd love it! Can't see a way it'd be possible sadly, certainly ingame scripting couldn't do it I think, as all addons are enabled per server (or even per character), and any external program would be risky to say the least as it might get picked up as a hack.

Balgair · Post by **Balgair** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 3:35 pm

Grr, delete four characters, add one, when I try and add a 2nd "you already have too many characters on that account". Now I'm being shortchanged, I definitely don't have 50 any more

xpolockx · Post by **xpolockx** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 5:41 pm

Yeah I have 3 servers that I have characters I play from time to time, and then about 15 other servers I'll hit over the course of the week. A script that would do my census taking for me would be AMAZING, as I could even use my cousin's account to census overnight while I play mine... hmm now that would be sweet.

NiennaMiriel · Post by **NiennaMiriel** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 8:36 am

Rollie wrote:I'm curious if there is some way you could have a scripted setup that would just log you in, census, finish, logout, next server, etc...

You wanna work on that?

lol

I've been thinking the same thing myself.

oiseaux · Post by **oiseaux** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 11:43 am

Wow I just looked at the Stat page and there are a TON of servers in red. Not cool at all because a lot of them were ones I used to do. I may have to start up again.

NiennaMiriel · Post by **NiennaMiriel** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 3:06 pm

oiseaux wrote:Wow I just looked at the Stat page and there are a TON of servers in red. Not cool at all because a lot of them were ones I used to do. I may have to start up again.

I'm thinking I need to pick up some of those servers myself.

Balgair · Post by **Balgair** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 3:18 pm

Hehe assuming you guys are looking at the US stats, take a look at the EU ones and you'll see why I wish some of you multi-server folks were over here

I just counted up, probably lost count but my reckoning is 124 red US servers, and 205 red EU ones... ouch. Guess that explains how all my servers can be red even when none are on the most wanted list

xpolockx · Post by **xpolockx** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 3:39 pm

If someone could pick up Mal'ganis Alliance side, that'd be great... their submissions used to always be in the green but now they're down to a pitiful few.

Sianni · Post by **Sianni** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 7:05 pm

I'll add that one to my list X.

oiseaux · Post by **oiseaux** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 3:24 am

I actually think that cross-server transfers are hurting us. We see a server like Cho'gall for instance was always really high(high 200-300). I only took 1 or 2 a night for my own data and now it only has a handful of submissions.

I wonder if a lot of ppl are transferring off of that server, which would cause that issue.

Well I did it. I downloaded the new Census+ and I am going to slowly start censusing again.

xpolockx · Post by **xpolockx** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 5:04 am

thanks Sianni. I agree Oiseaux, the transfers have really shifted "native" census taking population. On Mal'Ganis horde used to outnumber alliance about 70%-30%, but once transfers opened we got TONS of alliance transferring in. So many, in fact, that a couple of alliance guilds transferred out - I guess the ones that always kept Mal'Ganis alliance side around the 200 snapshot mark.

Kind of sad too, it annoys me to see my own server in the red but not be able to do anything about it because it's a pvp server. So yeah, I appreciate the help.

In other news, wb Oiseaux.

Balgair · Post by **Balgair** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 7:33 am

I haven't noticed so much effect from the transfers in Europe, but then we just don't have as many censusers anyway and the same old names keep on coming back into the most wanted list - every time I shove one into the yellow and delete it to move onto another red one, it comes back a month later. I also think we might have stricter transfer restrictions, or did yours get changed to stop people moving to servers where the AQ gates aren't open yet? I know there was some problems with that on US servers so it was already banned on our servers when the transfer system opened here.

I'm seeing more transfer effect in the populations on servers though, one which was an unofficial Spanish server has gone from being full with a 200-300 queue every day to only having 150-200 alliance online anytime I census it (it's pvp so I can't census horde as well) Of course that's down to the new spanish language servers but still, it's a massive difference to before.

Sianni · Post by **Sianni** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 8:45 am

Balgair wrote:I I also think we might have stricter transfer restrictions, or did yours get changed to stop people moving to servers where the AQ gates aren't open yet? I know there was some problems with that on US servers so it was already banned on our servers when the transfer system opened here.

Yeah, the AQ gate fiasco happened on Ysera. The whole server (before transfers) had been working on getting the gates opened. Two weeks after transfers began, the native guilds who had been doing the lion's share of the work were ready to open the gates and had decided on a Saturday to ring the gong so most of the server could participate in the event... then some jerk who had transfered in with a scepter got ticked he'd have to wait a few more days for the gates to open and rang the gong on a Tuesday one hour before the server went down for maintenance. Unfortunately, Blizzard wouldn't or couldn't reset the whole thing and so the entire server missed out. That is when the rule went in for no more transfers to servers where the gates aren't opened.

Balgair · Post by **Balgair** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 9:08 am

Ack, sounds a nightmare. Although our server had it similar, the guild who did it kept the timing a secret and then did it in the middle of the night, supposedly to prevent the server crashing but in reality it just meant most of us missed out on the event

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