Merger Plans, Anyone?

[Aredhel]

Here they are!

Take a gander and let us know what you think! Feedback I've gotten so far is that they've done good. I'm anxious to finish reading them, myself, and see what this means for a lot of people! There are still things left for them to work out, so don't complain about the obvious, otay?

Hey Everyone,

Here are the details on the server merge. We don’t have a firm date as we are still getting all the back-end details worked out. The intent is to have them done within the next three weeks. We will announce a date as soon as we have it.

Please feel free to comment as I know you will. I will try and clear up questions as they arise. I realize that not everyone will be happy with all of the decisions, but I’m open to suggestions if someone presents a better idea and it’s something that is feasible for us to implement in time.



Servers

* There will be 2 US PVE, 1 EU PVE, and 1 US PVP server.
o Thunderaxe, Woefeather, and Gulgrethor would merge into server A PVE
o Targonor, Hilsbury, Flamehammer and Shidreth would merge into sever B PVE
o Tharridon, Varking, and Frengrot would merge into sever C PVP FFA
o Gelenia and Infineum would merge into server D EU PVE
o For Florendyl we will be soliciting feedback via a poll and discussion as to whether or not the players think it should be merged.
1. We are open to considering the option of leaving it up with the understanding that the population is way under what it needs to be to be healthy but we wouldn’t recommend it.



* All existing servers will go away and everyone will be moved to new servers.
* We will post a poll so you can vote on the new server names.
* PVP players will be able to move to PVP OR PVE servers.
* PVE players will only be able to move to PVE servers.
* PVP rule set will be FFA.



Characters that have not chosen a server will be moved based on popularity of servers.

* US characters moved this way will be on a US server.
* EU players moved will be on an EU server.
* PVP players will be moved to the new PVP server.
* Each character will get one free server move after the merge.



Character Naming

* Characters name priority is based on
o First created, if also played within the last 30 days
o Last Played
* Those characters that have name collisions will be marked, and upon next login will have to choose a new name before that character can log in.



Housing

* The price for the player’s plot is refunded to the player in coin.
* The resources used to generate the house are refunded to the player via the housing resource escrow.
* The current upkeep balance will be refunded to the character
* Fixtures and items in the house will be placed in the escrow.



Boats

* Boats will be marked as needing to be named.



VGPlayers issues

* We are still working out the specifics on this.



Corpses left in the world

* All corpses will go away.
* Any items left on corpses will go to your escrow account.
* Exp on the corpse will be returned to you.



Mail

* Any pending mail will be returned to sender.



Friends list

* We are still working out the specifics on this.



Guild names

* We are still working out the specifics on this.



Market items

* Items in the market will be returned via mail.



One to Two weeks prior to the consolidation, players will be able to type a slash command (MOVESERVER) that will select what server they want that character to reside on.

[Arctic_Slicer]

Not bad. It's a big improvement over how SOE handled the merges of "EverQuest" a couple of years ago. I am still not sure if the merges are necessary though and merging 3 or 4 servers into one seems a bit of overkill. Having 4 servers worth of population will change it from being underpopulated to overcrowded, which is also bad. Anyway I guess we will see how it all turns out.

[Icecus]

I honestly do not think the game will be over crowded. I like to do /enter to see who is in the chunk I am traveling through. (old eq pvp habit) Sadly there are rarely more than 10 folks in any given chunk. The number is usually less on Gulgrethor during prime time.

[Galahad]

with all the more players being put on the same server i kinda hope for some instancing to be implemented in future patches; because right now, even with such low server population, i've had to wait for hours for my turn to kill mobs for a quest. (i could always try and kill steal, but i'm not that kind of guy)

[Arctic_Slicer]

Originally Posted by Galahad

with all the more players being put on the same server i kinda hope for some instancing to be implemented in future patches; because right now, even with such low server population, i've had to wait for hours for my turn to kill mobs for a quest. (i could always try and kill steal, but i'm not that kind of guy)

The moment they implement instancing in this game is the moment I quit. It's one of the biggest causes for me to play this game.

Did you ask the other group if you could join them? If you are hunting the same stuff why not hunt together?

[Wolfstein]

Mergers are not going to help this game.

It is simply bleeding to death.