Are SSF and Trade seperate servers?

[Isaxus]

Or would I see the same people in town in both modes, but just be unable to group up and trade?

[The_Driver]

Should be separate (based on PoE1), so if there's less population you might get better performance in SSF town. As to whether they are separate servers in software or even hardware, that's kind of hidden, might be running on the very same processes for all we know.

[Grubbs008]

Originally posted by The_Driver:

Should be separate (based on PoE1), so if there's less population you might get better performance in SSF town. As to whether they are separate servers in software or even hardware, that's kind of hidden, might be running on the very same processes for all we know.

That wouldn't be all too bad. I lose like 50 fps in town. It has to load everyone and their $500 MTX shenanigans. The frame hit is insane.

[Angel]

I would never go to a off-game website to trade. It must be in game or it will never happen.

[Isaxus]

I'd consider playing SSF if it shared playerbase/server with Trade.

Feels like SSF Standard will be very empty/lonely, and I don't plan on playing leagues.

[The_Driver]

Originally posted by Isaxus:

I'd consider playing SSF if it shared playerbase/server with Trade.

Feels like SSF Standard will be very empty/lonely, and I don't plan on playing leagues.

You realize that come endgame, you don't often visit player hubs, right?

[Tikigod]

Originally posted by Isaxus:

I'd consider playing SSF if it shared playerbase/server with Trade.

Feels like SSF Standard will be very empty/lonely, and I don't plan on playing leagues.

SSF has always had a strong thriving playerbase, it's just a natural choice for people who know they won't ever really want to trade and enjoy revising builds and tuning things as they go, rather than just firing up build guides to follow and trading for the items needed to make it all work immediately.

And once you're done with the campaign and are running the end game Atlas, you pretty much live in your hideout and won't see another living soul again anyway.


I do think that once you see how GGG operate the league system you'll change your mind about that last part though. It's not like D4 and other games who have 'Seasons' that are just about ladder resets and having a new real cash tied reward trees introduced.

In PoE leagues are how GGG introduce new content to the game, they allow GGG to introduce entirely new mechanics, new tiers of ascendancies and such in its own self-contained league that is tuned to have that new content be much higher frequency (Often forced on every area you visit), and then at the end of the league collect the feedback and remove the mechanic again and tweak it to see if they can make something much further down the line that they can turn into core game feature one day.

If you don't touch the content leagues and just stick to standard/core, there be some fringe content you'll likely just never see or experience. Ever.

What you might see is 6-7 months or more down the line something completely different get introduced to standard that shares some nods to the league mechanic but is entirely not the same thing. (Looking at you Harvest)