Age of Conan vs WOW

poffle said:
No. There are different instances of the same place. If you venture out you will still see players like any other normal MMO. Imagine in WoW, Everyone in shatt is doing the same quest in 1 spot. No chance will you be able to play, thus it has been instanced
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But it works in WoW :confused:

I fail to see the reason for having a world on instance ?
 
Maybe a little confusion here.
-It does not work like GW.
-You fight along side other ppl in the world outside of the cities.
-The world is not instanced to you only.

It is like mini servers on your server, plenty of ppl on the same instance as you, if you want to play with a specific person that is not on your current instance, all you do is change your instance. Your UI will reload and your friend will now be visible to you...along with all the other ppl on that instance....even when fighting mobs in Day-Time mode outside the city.
 
you can switch ur instance anytime from the UI, each instance is named andu can switch to any1
 
Trixanno said:
Maybe a little confusion here.
-It does not work like GW.
-You fight along side other ppl in the world outside of the cities.
-The world is not instanced to you only.

It is like mini servers on your server, plenty of ppl on the same instance as you, if you want to play with a specific person that is not on your current instance, all you do is change your instance. Your UI will reload and your friend will now be visible to you...along with all the other ppl on that instance....even when fighting mobs in Day-Time mode outside the city.
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Ok lets take this as an example.

a friend of mine is in Barrens and I'm in STV. He calls me to come help him with something. But I'm in a full group ready to go to an instance. Thus in WoW i can travel there and still help him. If the world is instance based this is not possible. So = Fail ;)
 
Pitbull said:
But it works in WoW :confused:

I fail to see the reason for having a world on instance ?
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Here we go again (had this arguement with other people on a different forum)...

WoW is also instanced. Its just each 'zone' is massive.

Outland, Kalimdor, Eastern Kingdoms are all instances

Have you never had a 'world server down' error? where say Outland was down but Azeroth was up

The best example is: AQ opening... practically the entire server would go to AQ gates and crash the server.
 
Optioncarduser said:
Here we go again (had this arguement with other people on a different forum)...

WoW is also instanced. Its just each 'zone' is massive.

Outland, Kalimdor, Eastern Kingdoms are all instances

Have you never had a 'world server down' error? where say Outland was down but Azeroth was up

The best example is: AQ opening... practically the entire server would go to AQ gates and crash the server.
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No I understand that. However there is only one server for that part of the "World" right ?

So there is not 300 Barrens's runnning at the same time having only 50 people on one of them. Am I making any sense ?
 
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Pitbull said:
No I understand that. However there is only oneserver for that part of the "World" right ?

So there is not 300 Barrens's runnning at the same time having only 50 people on one of them. Am I making any sense ?
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I dont know blizzard logistics and how their servers are run.
 
Optioncarduser said:
I dont know blizzard logistics and how their servers are run.
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But your getting what I'm saying right :)

Anyway. I'm not saying that WoW is better than AoC or other way round. I just like the setup of wow and how things are run there. Blizard will bring out Warhammer and it would be the same kind of thing as WoW. To me it's about personal choice.

It's been said before, your either a GW man or a WoW man. The same will go with AoC. Thus being said, i don't feel like even trying it after what I have read above. I have to admit, the game looks damn cool. but to me it's about play style and the social part of playing.

If I want to sit next to Jase and fish on a Sunday afternoon I travel there and that is what we do. The same will not be possible on AoC, if it is; it would be a luck of the draw..... in a manner of speaking.
 
Jase said:
So AoC is divided up into zones then? Zone from one area to another?
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Yes, that is the way I see it. With prob a max limmit of players per zone for that specific instance.

it would be like a 40 raid instance. Only thing is this is part of a World. Thus only 40 people would be allowed in an area, while there are 1000's of those areas running at once. Same as the instances in WoW as an example. The only thing is it's world parts.

I might be completely wrong but that is how I see it
 
I gotten that far in AoC to say whether its possible or not, but i do understand what you're saying :p

2 of the reasons for the different zones (i can think of) are :

Questing, you can quest in a crowded area while getting a few pvp kills, or move to a quiet zone with hardly any players and quest

Playing with friends in certain areas

PS Blizzard isnt responsible for WAR
 
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Hmm so exactly how many per area then? As Pitbull said, it would suck to not be able to pop in and help a mate.

So if I am PvPing and the "enemy" zones out and I follow, do we arrive in the same next zone or different one?
 
Trixanno said:
Maybe a little confusion here.
-It does not work like GW.
-You fight along side other ppl in the world outside of the cities.
-The world is not instanced to you only.

It is like mini servers on your server, plenty of ppl on the same instance as you, if you want to play with a specific person that is not on your current instance, all you do is change your instance. Your UI will reload and your friend will now be visible to you...along with all the other ppl on that instance....even when fighting mobs in Day-Time mode outside the city.
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Murdoc said:
you can switch ur instance anytime from the UI, each instance is named andu can switch to any1
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A world of parallel universes... each instance/universe can only be populated by X amount of players. When your friend is in a parallel universe you just ask Ziggy (UI) to teleport you to the same universe as your mate.

There are X amount of random people in each universe - sort of like taking the bus. Random people, same routes - limited seats.

Do I understand this correctly?
 
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