NA servers, west coast and east coast

[sai]

Hello, i didn’t get a chance to play the beta but is it confirmed there’s a server split between west and east coast players? if so it kinda sucks since i have friends on both sides that i won’t be able to play with

[Crowty]

You can play in the region you want

[Roxx]

We will have datacenters on the east and west coast, but you will be able to select your server. Obviously, the one closest to you will always be ideal for your specific gameplay experience, but you can group up with your friends and decide which server you want to play on together if that's what is important to you :)

[Bimbom]

do we have server IPs or a ping utility to test latency? I'm in Texas and the latency difference between East/West is negligible.

[Daxidol]

Big Ole eredeti hozzászólása:

do we have server IPs or a ping utility to test latency? I'm in Texas and the latency difference between East/West is negligible.

Not perfect, but should give you an idea at least to the Amazon Web Services: https://www.cloudping.info/

[Eugster]

All my friends are going to be playing on one server (NA East) so having multiple NA servers is not a problem for us to work out, but for players like the opening post: Are Lost Ark servers completely isolated containers (like old school MMO servers)? Or does Lost Ark keep most things isolated per server (e.g. accounts and characters, items and game economy, etc) but has some limited cross-server features (e.g. cross-server friends list, cross-server raids/instances, cross-server PvP, etc.)?

[Mako Slushie]

Eugster eredeti hozzászólása:

All my friends are going to be playing on one server (NA East) so having multiple NA servers is not a problem for us to work out, but for players like the opening post: Are Lost Ark servers completely isolated containers (like old school MMO servers)? Or does Lost Ark keep most things isolated per server (e.g. accounts and characters, items and game economy, etc) but has some limited cross-server features (e.g. cross-server friends list, cross-server raids/instances, cross-server PvP, etc.)?

I play on the RU version and I play on the K server. If I switch to the second server, all of my progress and account bound items are not there.

For example, if you farmed all the extra skill points and adventure book progress, They’re not on the second server. So I would presume it would be the same for us between different servers.

Edit: Same thing with prologues and all that. Even if you’ve completed the prologue on your main server, it prompts you to go through the prologue on the second where normally you can skip this on the character select screen. You can, however, choose to skip the prologue once you get into the game. Just an FYI.

[Giuseppe Kadura]

Eugster eredeti hozzászólása:

All my friends are going to be playing on one server (NA East) so having multiple NA servers is not a problem for us to work out, but for players like the opening post: Are Lost Ark servers completely isolated containers (like old school MMO servers)? Or does Lost Ark keep most things isolated per server (e.g. accounts and characters, items and game economy, etc) but has some limited cross-server features (e.g. cross-server friends list, cross-server raids/instances, cross-server PvP, etc.)?

Lost Ark keeps things isolated by Regions. There is NA East and NA West regions, both are different. If you have like 3 servers per region, you can play with any player whitin those servers of the SAME region (you choose one server from NA East for example, so you can play with anyone within NA East servers), but you can't play with any other player from a DIFFERENT region (you won't be able to play with NA West players).

[Eugster]

KazumoXEA eredeti hozzászólása:

Eugster eredeti hozzászólása:

All my friends are going to be playing on one server (NA East) so having multiple NA servers is not a problem for us to work out, but for players like the opening post: Are Lost Ark servers completely isolated containers (like old school MMO servers)? Or does Lost Ark keep most things isolated per server (e.g. accounts and characters, items and game economy, etc) but has some limited cross-server features (e.g. cross-server friends list, cross-server raids/instances, cross-server PvP, etc.)?

I play on the RU version and I play on the K server. If I switch to the second server, all of my progress and account bound items are not there.

For example, if you farmed all the extra skill points and adventure book progress, They’re not on the second server. So I would presume it would be the same for us between different servers.

Edit: Same thing with prologues and all that. Even if you’ve completed the prologue on your main server, it prompts you to go through the prologue on the second where normally you can skip this on the character select screen. You can, however, choose to skip the prologue once you get into the game. Just an FYI.

Thanks for the info, good to know this. So basically it’s old school, each server is completely isolated environment.

[Eugster]

SILÊNCIO MERETRIZ eredeti hozzászólása:

Eugster eredeti hozzászólása:

All my friends are going to be playing on one server (NA East) so having multiple NA servers is not a problem for us to work out, but for players like the opening post: Are Lost Ark servers completely isolated containers (like old school MMO servers)? Or does Lost Ark keep most things isolated per server (e.g. accounts and characters, items and game economy, etc) but has some limited cross-server features (e.g. cross-server friends list, cross-server raids/instances, cross-server PvP, etc.)?

Lost Ark keeps things isolated by Regions. There is NA East and NA West regions, both are different. If you have like 3 servers per region, you can play with any player whitin those servers of the SAME region (you choose one server from NA East for example, so you can play with anyone within NA East servers), but you can't play with any other player from a DIFFERENT region (you won't be able to play with NA West players).

Ah, so the most accurate model is that there is an LA regional server that holds the region’s game accounts and other region-wide information, and that regional server manages a group of game servers that handle talking to the individual game clients being run by the players? So when you play, you pick the lowest latency game server to talk to, but all your characters are actually stored on the regional server? (This makes it easy to switch to another game server in the same region, say, if you want to play at a friend’s house in the same region, but moving between regions is like starting over.)

[Mako Slushie]

Roxx eredeti hozzászólása:

We will have datacenters on the east and west coast, but you will be able to select your server. Obviously, the one closest to you will always be ideal for your specific gameplay experience, but you can group up with your friends and decide which server you want to play on together if that's what is important to you :)

For the data centers, will our location automatically place us in the designated data center? For example, if I live in Tennessee or Georgia- will it auto designate me to an east coast data center?

Or do we have a drop down selection in the Steam client or Game client to designate what region we wish to choose from ?

Just curious, since if we VPN to play through the RU MyGames client and enter the LA client, it seems like we’re auto designated and we only have the two servers to choose from.

[Giuseppe Kadura]

Eugster eredeti hozzászólása:

SILÊNCIO MERETRIZ eredeti hozzászólása:

Lost Ark keeps things isolated by Regions. There is NA East and NA West regions, both are different. If you have like 3 servers per region, you can play with any player whitin those servers of the SAME region (you choose one server from NA East for example, so you can play with anyone within NA East servers), but you can't play with any other player from a DIFFERENT region (you won't be able to play with NA West players).

Ah, so the most accurate model is that there is an LA regional server that holds the region’s game accounts and other region-wide information, and that regional server manages a group of game servers that handle talking to the individual game clients being run by the players? So when you play, you pick the lowest latency game server to talk to, but all your characters are actually stored on the regional server? (This makes it easy to switch to another game server in the same region, say, if you want to play at a friend’s house in the same region, but moving between regions is like starting over.)

Not sure if I understood it correctly but I'll try to elaborate with an example

NA East has 3 servers

Server A (<-- you chose this server to start over your characters)
Server B
Server C

So all your account progress will be on Server A on the NA East region. Ingame you would be able to party with people across these 3 servers (A,B,C) and do dungeons/raids. But if you try to log in on server B or C you won't have any characters there or any progress on those servers.

and if NA West had like 3 servers

Server J
Server K
Server L

you wouldn't be able to play with any of these 3 servers (J,K,L) nor have any characters/progress on those either.

Hope that sorts out for you.

[Eugster]

Not sure if I understood it correctly but I'll try to elaborate with an example

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Hope that sorts out for you.

Helps out a lot! Ty!

[namepeeky]

I just hope they add a server progress transfer option for US players sometime down the road. If you move from, say, New York to California, I would very much appreciate it if you could not lose your progress but still allow to play at the lowest possible ping. I realize this would probably be a lot of work since EU will only have servers in Germany, and the same is true for Russia, Korea and Japan... I hope the unique case of the US doesn't prevent this sort of feature becoming available eventually.