The Fatman Server

exactly. rerolling bites. i'm not doing it again.

#OccupyFatMan

This is what happens when people are told to suck it up and reroll. Enjoy!

This is awesome.

+1.

#OccupyFatMan

I take it you haven't read the hundreds upon hundreds of posts in regards to this. They have been working on transfers for quite a while now.

The transfer mechanisms must be complete before they can ever think about merging servers. It's the transfer systems that will prompt players who have been transferred so that they can:

A) choose which legacy they want to keep, the existing legacy or the incoming legacy

B) choose a new name if their existing names are already taken on the destination server

C) choose a new legacy name if their legacy name is already taken

D) provide the systems and locks to make sure someone with 6 characters isn't trying to transfer 6 characters into a system that only has 4 slots open

E) possibly expanding the amount of slots available on servers so characters can be transferred in

F) the coding to merge all of this character and status data from one server to the other

G) lots of other things I'm forgetting about

This stuff must be done before they start doing server mergers. If they tried doing it now it would be a customer service nightmare of epic proportions.

They've already successfully used a prototype of this system to transfer Guilds and players over to the PTS, if I'm not mistaken, somewhere around April 4th. I'm not really sure the basic transfer system was ready until that point, but that was probably the first big "live" test.

Now they're fixing whatever glitches they found and noted in preparation for allowing the transfer of Aussie and Kiwi characters over to their servers in their region. Then they can work on matching that to the web or application front end so we as customers can go in and find out servers, select which characters we want to transfer and the origin and destination, the attached payment gateway to pay for that if payment is required, and then the automated processes that will make it work.

Suggestions they could just "do it now, but aren't" really aren't that solid. And demands that they "speed up the process" don't really acknowledge the realities of programming and system design. It'll be ready when it's ready. And they haven't ignored anyone.

Haha yea rerolling sucks. So when even more people leave the game, then maybe the queue will just drop and server will still be full. Sounds like a plan to me.

And hell I am moving to the east coast in a few months anyways, Fatman here I come!

Edit: O and they have said time and again they are NOT working on server merges. Its not even on the proverbial "to do" list. So unless you like playing solo (or on moderately empty as mine is, "standard" my ***, its almost dead), either unsub for a couple months or just reroll. Because it is NOT happening ANY time in the near future if they stick to what they said recently.

fatman is the best server

I told people before 1.2 that there would be queue soon, the guy who wanted to reroll there laughed at me.
But hey

Pretty funny that "fatman" is the fattest server

Fatman is cool, but just don't bother trying to play on Sundays I got d/c last night (it happens alot on Fatman) and it took me 40 minutes to get back in. In the meantime, the group I was with had long since moved on.

I rolled another toon on another server to play on Sundays or other times when queue is nasty.