Question Regarding Megaservers

How do the mega-server’s work? I know they are grouped based on platform (Xbox One play with Xbox One) (PC & Mac play with each other) but are they going to be separated further into location of the player? Such as Americans play with other Americans and the Europeans play with each other? I have an Irish friend i’d like to make a guild with (I live in America) but if we are separated in game then there would be no point.

If I'm not mistaken, and I like to think I'm not, you can decide which server you play one, European or American. However characters created on one server will not be transferable to the other so choose wisely. Also I'm sure you're aware of the lag issues if you choose a server further away from your actual location. Hope this helped.

Hmm, thank you for your help! I just haven't seen any official TES response to this question so I thought a player might. Thanks again :)

i never got the option to pick a server. they just put you in one i suppose. i havent found a way to check latency in the game either. personally the queues during this beta event have been rather unacceptable.

and im not saying that from an entitlement standpoint, im saying that from a - this is a CLOSED, INVITE ONLY beta event and we are seeing queues. i mean, what are they going to do at launch? what are they going to do for open beta?!

Megaserver my ass. more like Mediocre- sad excuse for not opening multiple servers Server

seriously this is a problem folks. they sent out a lot of invites but there were only TOPS 500k players and honestly i think thats stretching it. this game is slated to sell over 1.5mil copies - they need to fix this server queue crap FAST.

Yeah I agree, but sadly I can't even play it yet since there is no console beta yet. : (

The queue/server/crashing/loading/etc is what they are testing, why do you think it's called a stress test? It's so they can see how much the servers can handle, thus the queues, etc. I don't think the servers are fully open for beta either, at launch there should be no problems with it (there most likely will be cause there always is).

http://www.tesof.com/topic-megaservers-question

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