I think people will naturally congregate to whatever server is most populated, skilled, with decent connection etc. Which is fish-- assuming there is english language functionality ofc, for the website and so on.

Demurity

United States424 Posts

March 29 2017 15:52 GMT

#22

Is ROOT taking applicants?

TT1

Canada10045 Posts

March 29 2017 15:56 GMT

#23

On March 30 2017 00:52 Demurity wrote:
Is ROOT taking applicants?

For the time being we just wanna see how things look once 1.18/BW:HD comes out (the scene, the level of activity etc.). Nothing really set in stone yet.

Let's try to keep this thread related to 1.18 questions/chat channels.

ArmadA[NaS]

United States347 Posts

March 29 2017 15:58 GMT

#24

How about root academy for us noobs :D

Poly_Optimize

Canada156 Posts

March 29 2017 16:06 GMT

#25

You listed every servers except for iccup. Do you expect it will die once 1.18 is released?

Demurity

United States424 Posts

March 29 2017 16:07 GMT

#26

Two concerns I have are: out of all the interest BW is receiving, how many people are potentially coming back to play (for an extended period of time), and what is Fish going to be like. I'm hesitant on how receptive Koreans will be to an influx of foreign players, if any. It's pretty clear at this point, Fish is pretty tight on the way they like to do things and the barrier to entry is high. Foreigners who know how to work around and manage communications with Koreans can do it but it takes time to learn the mannerisms. Will Fish be changed at all? The fact that it's going to be an integrated server means that anyone can join it- does that imply that anyone will be able to play with anyone now with the expected matchmaking system to be in effect? I fear the current residents of Fish would not want the skill level to be diluted. What are your thoughts?

Cele

Germany4016 Posts

March 29 2017 16:12 GMT

#27

On March 29 2017 23:38 TT1 wrote:
1.18 is coming out soon, what server is everyone gonna play on? Are Europeans gonna play on EU or are we all gonna play on US East? Which players/teams are planning on making Fish their main server?

ROOT is making a BW team so we're gonna have a meetup channel on Fish and US East most likely. Personally, if i see there aren't enough people on US East or if the level of play is too low I'm mainly gonna play on Fish (but i'll still be going back and forth between servers), i'll give US East a shot tho. Our clan channel for every server is gonna be Op ROOT, ideally it would be fun if we could start a big meetup channel where people can interact, find custom games and start flamewars with each other (kek).

I'm not sure whether or not bnet is gonna have a /chs all feature, hopefully it does so we can easily find chat channels. If it doesn't i'll put together a list of channels so people know where to go, feel free to post your teams chat channel and your main server (hopefully everyone ends up playing on the same b.net server). I'll update the OP with everyone's info.

On a side note i think it's kinda dumb that we don't have a single centralized server/gateway like ICCup or Fish on bnet. I'm not sure the player base is gonna be big enough to support multiple servers but i guess we'll see. Ideally it would be best if we had a single server with a strong player base so we could have a lot of pub games and higher quality matchmaking games, that would also create a close knit community

.

Op Teamliquid has always been a popular channel so i'll add it as the default channel for every server.

Fish:

Op Teamliquid
Op ROOT

US East:

Op Teamliquid
Op ROOT

Europe:

Op Teamliquid

US West:

Op Teamliquid

ShieldBattery (still in beta)

why isn't iccup on the list? Please add us.

Dazed.

Canada3301 Posts

March 29 2017 16:13 GMT

#28

Why should we even care if the skill is diluted, or care if they care? Bad players will bottom out at the bottom end of the ladder. If someone isnt as skilled as you, you simply wont be playing them. I am concerned with whether or not they will be culturally accepting of foreigners, because some koreans can be rather xenophobic and racist. "I am korean" to activate an anti hack says all that needs to be said. But I can only imagine if the servers getting integrated that some level of concessions are going to be made on things like this; seems weird that blizzard would endorse a server that, previously has been called by the people who run it "a korean server for koreans" if that werent the case.

Demurity

United States424 Posts

March 29 2017 16:16 GMT

#29

ICCUP was not included because it already exists right now. And US East is our true home

EndingLife

United States1605 Posts

March 29 2017 16:33 GMT

#30

Been US East before Brood War came out

BisuDagger

Bisutopia19368 Posts

March 29 2017 16:40 GMT

#31

Root is actually making a team? Sick! TT1 how come you aren't signing up for Fight Club?

Shura

France54 Posts

March 29 2017 16:40 GMT

#32

i'll get on the BEGINNER serv, where i can meet some new player like me and get a feel for the game :p

ted.

United States84 Posts

March 29 2017 16:47 GMT

#33

On March 30 2017 00:32 Th1rdEye wrote:
Id enjoy hopping on US East again. That's my home, yo!

nohunters, motel, clan x17... come back!

Although I haven't played in nearly two years, motel turned into )v(.

I plan on starting back up again and )v( was always the channel on east where most the good bgh players met up.

If anyone wants to get some good bgh games, I plan on hanging out in )v( and I hope others will too!

Biolunar

Germany224 Posts

March 29 2017 16:51 GMT

#34

Brood War DEU-1 @ Europe
The only place to be.

B-royal

Belgium1330 Posts

March 29 2017 16:56 GMT

#35

Probably going to stick with Fish unless Europe turns out be celestial.

mca64Launcher_

Poland629 Posts

March 29 2017 17:15 GMT

#36

please add op [KDV on all servers. KDV is the best polish clan in the polish sc history. Thank you.

SirGlinG

Sweden933 Posts

March 29 2017 17:16 GMT

#37

I remember playing with someone who told me about channel "Sex" once existing on U.S East, having a bunch of people having Cybersex or such.

So after the game I left Europe and entered channel sex. This was like in 2010. there was 8-10 accounts in there typing out links to pictures and sexing it up, having links in their profiles of pics of "them". Was a weird experience. Just sat there watching it happen, wondering why. Thinking of B.net as a secret dark web place as it lives on while the sc2 and the world goes on. Like if this exists what else exists? Channel NSDAP? Channel ISIS?

It was probably a bunch of 13 year old boys pretending to be young girls, but that's where I'm gonna be hehe;)