Runes of Magic US / AU

Currently, Gameforge and Runewaker are working on server merges. They currently do not have any more information to offer to us on the topic besides this , which was posted on September 25th. I believe everyone is anticipating the merge, so we all have to hold out until it happens.

Character transfer between servers is currently not possible and probably won't ever be offered.

However, as Zerienga pointed out, Gameforge is currently working closely with Runewaker to merge the servers. We don't have any info other than it's intended to happen next year - I'm guessing it will most likely happen around May/June as there's got to be a time of testing and whatever else as I do know that Gameforge wants this to go right.

After the server merges, the current policy on character transfer might change but I doubt it.

Haven't server merger's been done in the past? I've heard around on reni that someone had moved a toon from another server altho that was back in frogster days but might have been gf days idk. Still i don't see why it cant be offered unless the resources arn't around anymore.

Never heard that, before.... But does it really matter when there's a server merge upcoming next year?

The only people I ever heard say that they had transferred servers were the dupers/hackers that were trying to justify having all the money/gear they had even though no one had ever seen them before. They would say they just transferred servers so that stupid people wouldn't think twice about it.

I'm not a programmer and don't know much about computers, but why is it difficult to transfer toons between servers? I thought all the information connected to my toon was all just stored in one large separate file or folder that you can easily move. Whatever gear I have or where I stop a questline, isn't that information just saved in my toon's file so that if it's moved into another server, the server just reads it and picks up where it left off? I can't at the moment think of anything that my toon does that changes the server in any way or affects other players to the point where it has to be tied to a particular server. I mean if I just delete my toon, nothing changes for anyone else, other than lists like friends, guild, and mail recipients.

From what i have heard no server mergers have ever taken place. Im also not a programer, but i do some work within SQL databases. I would think the problem that they would have with server mergers is duplicate toon names on each server and how to get the data from getting corrupted with the other users data. Sounds simple enough in theory to just change toon name with a prefix of the server, but becasue the information attached to that toon (gear, stats, etc) is sorted by that toons name or ID, then it would be a larger task to rename all data associated to the toon/ID, that way no data is duplicated but still associated to the correct toon/ID. It could be as easy as adding a single server value to every entry, but i doubt that is the case or it would have already been done.

Then add to that the massive amount of toons that are not active. You are looking at millions and millions bits of data that needs to be transfered over. If it is not done correctly if will fail miserably. So I am one to say stay patient as it can be done, but will not be a short process. I figure they will start with lesser populated servers migrating together 1st as they are easiest to rollback if things do not go well.

I could be completely wrong, but from what i understand of databases, it can get tricky to get it done properly.