i was reading on a taiwanese gaming forum:
http://forum.gamer.com.tw/B.php?page=1&bsn=10999
btw i found this forum during the first beta testing when its link was posted on the original dbo taiwan website, so i'm sure a lot of taiwanese still go there for information.
this guy "ashowpeng" posted:
"韓版OB至今超一年,目前開放的伺服器僅僅剩餘2個.
達爾 和 孫悟空
達爾服僅僅開3條分流...周五-周日,一條分流都滿不起來.
悟空服更慘,僅開了1條分流.....
台版的話.從VIP開始,一直到CB,悟飯服一直都是第一個開放的.
在線人數超過後,布瑪服才被追加開放.
龜仙服同理.
PS:如果以語言種類來區分的話.悟飯服中文玩家居多.布瑪服英語,法語,西班牙語玩家偏多..."
my translation would be:
"korean OB has been opened for over an year, and now only mere two servers are left.
vegeta and son goku
vegeta server now only has 3 channels... between friday and sunday, and not one of those channels becomes full.
goku server is even worse, there's only 1 channel open....
as for the taiwanese version, since VIP started, until CB, gohan server has always been the first to open.
and only when the number of players online hit maximum capacity, bulma server is then opened.
turtle hermit shall be the same.
PS: if you want to determine the server by language usage, gohan has the most chinese speaking players, bulma english french spanish players is more."
anyways, from what we've read, it seems like all three servers will be available from the start. and the order of the servers has been officially announced:
1. son gohan (grandpa) server
2. bulma server
3. turtle hermit server
i know we're still missing a lot of votes. compared to first vote, we've only got about half of the people from there voting on this one. if the 2nd populated server (now appears to be bulma server) were to win, i'd be very concerned about staying on the 2nd most populated server (of course that's assuming that most people would go to gohan instead of the other two), because of what i just translated. in which case, i'd want to be on the first server gohan.
so if someone could shine some light on this matter. can anyone confirm the state of the korean servers as being as what he described? is the korean server population that low now? that only after one year since OB started, that they even had to reduced the channels on vegeta to only 1 (my guess is to prevent cities from looking like ghost towns if population is low and with too many channels)?
and how many servers did the korean version start off with? 2 or 3 or more? if there were originally 3 servers, mirroring taiwanese launch, what eventually happened to the 3rd server? were people given a choice which server to transfer to?
if the same thing is going to happen to the taiwanese servers, i'd think being on the most populated server will be smart choice in the long run, potentially the first server on the list. yeah i remember it being crappy during the 2nd CB when they only had 1 server, but it shouldn't happened now that there are 3 servers. on top of that, it's only the first 10 levels and the first couple of days when there's a lot of competition. i mean, we all got through that in the 2nd CB for crying out loud, when it was the worst possible scenario! plus i don't remember lag being much of an issue. sure the taiwanese players get a small start in pvp but i never had an issue with latency to be honest back in the 2nd CB. and i'm sure it wouldn't be as graphically laggy as the 2nd CB now that there's 3 servers up.
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