moley wrote:
it would require an upgrade of the hardware that the servers are hosted on. which in turn would mean transferring all of the data from the current servers into a new box/es. which would probably require a 24 hour or more downtime. All of this costing joymax money due to hardware costing money and downtime leaving people unable to purchase silk.
currently it's clearly more cost effective for joymax to create new shards for each server instead of introducing more boxes. once the scales tip the other way, and there is more for joymax to gain from upgrading their servers then we might see significant improvement.
for now, quit bitching. We know it's laggy at times, and we all have to live with it. just try to play outside of peak times, I know of people having lived at night, playing sro through the night because thats when the servers weren't packed.
Ok i can understand now why the are just making new servers and not making the existing ones bigger but man your saying it as if people don't have a life at all except for silkroad, it's great that you know noctournal people who sleep through the day and are awake at night but tbh i have a life and people shouldn't be forced to go to such measures just to play a friggin' game.