Servers
When the game was released, there were three types of servers - Player versus Environment (PvE), Team Player versus Player (Team PvP) and Free-for-All Player versus Player (FFA PvP). The game was released with 14 servers but following the poor launch and initially low player retention, the 14 were merged into just two servers:
- Halgar PVE EU (merged from Gelenia and Infineum)
- Telon PVE US (merged from Tharridon, Varking, Sartok, Gelenia, Infineum, Frengrot, Targonor, Florendyl, Flamehammer, Seradon, Shidreth, Thunderaxe, Woefeather, Gulgrethorm, Xeth, and Hilsbury)
These servers were merged into two servers on July 7, 2010.
The original servers were: Thunderaxe (US/PvE), Florendyl (US/Role-playing Preferred/PvE), Woefeather (US/PvE), Wulgrethor (US/PvE), Targonor (US/PvE) (unofficial oceanic), Hilsbury (US/PvE), Shidreth (US/PvE), Flamehammer (US/PvE) (unofficial French), Tharridon (US/FFA PvP), Varking (US/Team PvP), Gelenia (EU/PvE), Frengrot (EU/Team PvP), and Infinium (EU/PvE).
SOE announced on May 31, 2007 their intention to begin merging servers; the mergers were completed in August 2007. All player-owned housing was reset at this time, causing some controversy among the player community. The mergers left Vanguard without a dedicated role-playing server and without a team-based player-versus-player server.
Read more about this topic: Vanguard: Saga Of Heroes