List of servers at launch

A list of servers at launch has been posted on the official site for Aion. Here’s the post for North America. I’m still wodering which one to choose…

LIST OF AION SERVERS AT LAUNCH

September 9, 2009 9:59 AM

Many of you have been curious to learn what the names of the Aion servers will be at launch. We’ve listed the server names below along with their associated time zones. The servers are aligned to those time zones (e.g. affecting fortresses) so that players on the East Coast as well as those on the West Coast can have blocks of game time to play during each server’s prime time. Daylight saving will apply at launch.

Before the start of preselection (which begins September 18, 2009), we will also give our fans from the Oceanic region the chance to take part in an online community poll where you can indicate what server you’d pick unofficially if you want to play with your friends and neighbors. We hope to show instant results in the poll so that you can see which server provides you the best chance to meet them.

We are going to post a similar community poll for roleplayers. We have decided not to officially tag servers as roleplaying servers and enforce specific rules on them. However, we do believe that roleplayers are an essential part of our community, and we support their initiative to claim their own unofficial roleplaying server. Aion gives you the ability to create your own chat channel, and we are already seeing a lot of roleplaying groups out there who are defining their own rules and building up their own communities. Take your time to organize your group before the poll goes live, and then pick the server that would give you the best chance to find players with the same roleplaying interests.

We are looking forward to seeing you in Atreia on one of these servers at launch!

[West] Siel	GMT-8/ PST
[West] Israphel	GMT-8 / PST
[West] Nezekan	GMT-8 / PST
[West] Zikel	GMT-8 / PST
[West] Vaizel	GMT-8 / PST
[West] Triniel	GMT-8 / PST
[East] Kaisinel	GMT-5 / EST
[East] Lumiel	GMT-5 / EST
[East] Yustiel	GMT-5 / EST
[East] Marchutan	GMT-5 / EST
[East] Ariel	GMT-5 / EST
[East] Azphel	GMT-5 / EST

East coast servers

Today I read on massively that the servers for Aion will be on the east coast, wich i a good new for me since I’m on the east coast. But then I started thinking about those on the west coast, and especially everyone else from Australia, New Zealand, etc. That’s a hell of a long way to go for some digital data. I can only wish them the game is made well enough for them to play without huge constant lag.

Ayase tries to convince everyone that everything’s going to be okay. I trully wish everything will be, more people = more fun!

It is correct that our North American servers are located on the US east coast, and the game servers for many of our other games have been for a long time as well. If any Oceanic players present here have participated in our closed beta stages, I do however think that most of you will be able to vouch for that this added distance does not constitute a major problem when it comes to latency.

Our servers are well-optimized and Aion is in its very core designed to tackle challenging client-server distances. Aion might not be launching with explicitly designated Oceanic Aion servers from day one, but we will carefully monitor the situation and if we see a large number of players experiencing issues as a result from their distance to our game servers we’ll make sure to take action; to do our best to prevent any such issues from continuing.

You can read the full article on Massively.