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When will there be a SERVER MERGE?

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When will there be a SERVER MERGE?

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Valakhnarr
05.05.2012 , 08:25 AM | #671
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What about people's legacy names? What about guilds who will not just be destroyed but lose their name and anything they have paid for like guild bank unlocks?
Merging servers would imply that everything, including legacies and guilds get transferred. There may be some issues with name conflicts, but it's not the impossibility you seem to imply.

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Uchylszybe
05.05.2012 , 08:26 AM | #672
Quote: Originally Posted by Leggomy View Post
Why not re-roll on a better/more populated server?
Because can't spend another 20 day's in game played time to get everything I have on my main char, and other 6 on my alt. And things like white crystals, titles and other things are not available anymore. Time is what i can't afford for leveling other toon on other server. It is same for most of the players playing on dead servers.

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Uchylszybe
05.05.2012 , 08:29 AM | #673
Quote: Originally Posted by Leggomy View Post
You act like it is just oh so simple to do. What about people's legacy names? What about guilds who will not just be destroyed but lose their name and anything they have paid for like guild bank unlocks? What about people who dont want to have to fight 100 people trying to ninja their quest mobs etc? If you dont like your server you have a solution. Reroll or wait on server transfers.
100 people won't show in one area. If you played on populated servers, you would have known there are zones for selected amount of players. if there is too many, they would play in other zone. And still , you can transfer between those if you want to group up with someone else. So no, noone would steal your mob.

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JeramieCrowe
05.05.2012 , 08:35 AM | #674
Quote: Originally Posted by Valakhnarr View Post
Merging servers would imply that everything, including legacies and guilds get transferred. There may be some issues with name conflicts, but it's not the impossibility you seem to imply.
Actually, that's possible with transfer/shut-downs, too. No need to "merge".
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Valakhnarr
05.05.2012 , 08:46 AM | #675
^^^ Yes, transfers should be available, but without merges, you'd get the holdouts that might be the few people left on an otherwise empty server. Also, if BW merges servers, one would hope they could do it properly to balance populations. If people just transfer, you'll get a much more uneven distribution.

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Kytea
05.05.2012 , 09:00 AM | #676
Quote: Originally Posted by Leggomy View Post
Why not re-roll on a better/more populated server?
I did
Now the new server I am on begins to lose population. Do you want me to re-roll on a third one?

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Leggomy
05.05.2012 , 09:03 AM | #677
Quote: Originally Posted by Valakhnarr View Post
Merging servers would imply that everything, including legacies and guilds get transferred. There may be some issues with name conflicts, but it's not the impossibility you seem to imply.
You assume a lot here.

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Leggomy
05.05.2012 , 09:03 AM | #678
Quote: Originally Posted by Kytea View Post
I did
Now the new server I am on begins to lose population. Do you want me to re-roll on a third one?
When you rerolled you should have went to one of the 6 heavy to very heavy pop servers. Why reroll on another server with standard pop?

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JeramieCrowe
05.05.2012 , 10:20 AM | #679
Quote: Originally Posted by Valakhnarr View Post
^^^ Yes, transfers should be available, but without merges, you'd get the holdouts that might be the few people left on an otherwise empty server. Also, if BW merges servers, one would hope they could do it properly to balance populations. If people just transfer, you'll get a much more uneven distribution.
Maybe, but that scenario is extremely unlikely, given how well it worked for RIFT last year. They put a message on the server that said, basically, "move it or lose it, you have three weeks, and the server's going down". That tends to motivate.

And that works a HELLUVA lot better than an actual merge. Merges tend to be a buggy, convoluted, overly complex way to basically do the same thing as a transfer/shut-down.
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GrimaIdi
05.05.2012 , 12:09 PM | #680
With the roll out of 1.2 not having ranked pvp matches, and no word on cross server queues, though populations are up those who pvp is way down. Furthermore, the situation on lower populations is getting much bleaker. I love the game and appreciate the plethora of new content being introduced but I think a triage mindset must be employed and the singularity of mergers or transfers must transcend all needs at this junction.

The game made a great move with the free month, in terms of player loyalties and apologies, but do not waste that goodwill by delaying for months something that was needed months ago. Legacy, and dual spec are noise when you have nobody to play with. The crux of what makes mmos so addicting is the community they foster!

I think I speak for everybody when I say no one wants to be the best of 10 people, or log on to raid without enough people to do it with...Sometimes queueing takes longer than the games themselves or cannot start at all until later in the day. We even get accused of hacking the queue system because we will have games of 8 of us or fighting ourselves, the reality is there is nobody else queueing! The purpose of designing content that cannot be played or used is as if it was not designed at all.

We must all voice our support to focus funding immediately to save the lives of tens of thousands of subscribers wallowing away with no hope in sight, if we do not we will lose many players who would gladly love to add value to whatever server will allow them to call it home, and most likely they will never to come back. In the hospitality field its far easier to retain a current customer than attract a new one, we must make good now! Even if it you take the lowest 5-10 servers and manually start moving them to other lower servers to bolster their populations while saving the closest to death, the numbers are not huge and it was given to Asia which should be numerically within scope.

it would be a great act of generosity this community would appreciate. We need this, I hope someone important reads this and realizes that to save the game we have no choice and we must act soon....nothing matters as much as this and early summer is too late....to save the game for many servers. Please sign if you agree!

-Grimaldi, leader of bloodpact (Hedarr Soongh)