Runes of Magic US / AU

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FASTER.
lol

I truly hope we get to keep Disturbed as our guild name when the merge happens, if not i am quitting the game. We have worked hard for our guild to be where it is at and i ain't changing our guild name. We are the oldest active guild on Reni i hope people in charge will take that into account, if not bye bye

gg retartemis
fml might have to name change

Quoted from "TWMXC"

gg retartemis
fml might have to name change

Quoted from "TWMXC"

gg retartemis
fml might have to name change

I would go Retartem and it would mean a lot ;-)

All I can say is bring it on,
Will suck to loose my main toon name from Reni, since I already know it has been taken on Artemis...but oh well no problems or gripes here the merging of Reni into Artemis got me stoked.

The quicker this happens the better IMO.

Lets Go Merger!!!

Thanks for the F.A.Q. update.

Why Reni + Art + Aus you think? Is reni 2nd most populated? reni + aus + artemis = same population as all the other servers combined?

Wouldn't surprise me. Reni has quite alot of people. Several midgame guilds.

Quoted from "bleedingblak"

Why Reni + Art + Aus you think? Is reni 2nd most populated? reni + aus + artemis = same population as all the other servers combined?

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Guilds will be transferred according to their leader status. If the
guild leader qualifies for the merge, then the guild will also be moved.
If the leader is inactive, the guild will not be merged.

What will happen to a guild with an inactive leader on the target server like Govinda?
Is it like everything is being moved to a new server and so will not exist anymore or will it continue as if it didn't need to be moved?

I am excited about the merge, only regret is I still strongly feel single combined server would be better option.

Was hoping to get a chance to run with ppk/reni people to test/compare dps etc, think would have being fun but oh well

P.S. Bteam is recruiting

Also, as per question above, I suspect folks from home server like Art or Gov will stay and others merged to it as oppose of creating 2 black new servers - this is just my opinion, however.

Will anything happen to guilds on the target server with inactive guild leaders?

This looks promising. I had wished that Reni + Osha would end up in the same place but I suppose not.

As for the inactive guilds on Artemis thing, I would imagine this point has some hints buried in it:

"Q3: Why are only active accounts being merged and not all?
The bigger the amount of data, the more time it will take to merge the servers. Additionally, it’s always good to have a clean database to work with, improving several processes."

"good to have a clean database" - I would guess the new Artemis and the new Govinda would have new servers and databases to work with. from what I've seen and heard, it seems Gameforge inherited the servers from Frogster and perhaps they're full of junk and not taken good care of. Having brand new, newly provisioned servers with up-to-date copies of OS's, verified RAID's and RAM and such on them would be beneficial to everyone involved.

I would handle (and have handled in a previous project) such as this and would anticipate it being done the same way for Gameforge:

* Install brand new RoM Server, 100% clean database. Call the server Artemis.
* Move accounts/characters/houses/guilds/etc fitting the criteria of "activeness" to the new Artemis. Archive the old Artemis databases for returning players. Any guild with an inactive leader would be trashed.
* Then, move the accounts fitting the criteria of "active" from Thalia and Reni into the new Artemis. Archive those servers.
* ????
* Profit and more work for the GM's

I would hope doing it this way would lessen the load of the servers have to sift through probably a million or two inactive accounts to find the right one. Hopefully we'll see a speed boost.

I'd like to see names based on age instead of target server. Nothing stopping trolls from making lvl 1 alts to force a name change.

And nothing stops you from gobbling up any names you're fond of, as soon as possible. Best of luck, I understand that people started this process as soon as server merge plans were announced.

Quoted from "TWMXC"

I'd like to see names based on age instead of target server. Nothing stopping trolls from making lvl 1 alts to force a name change.

I agree with this 100% but I also do have the name of my main character on both reni and artemis. I just hope they give me the option to delete my alt version of it before I have to rename my main character. Obviously I don't want Mongosmash on my level 1 warrior on Artemis.. I'd like it on my 90/90/87/x/x/x character..

Perhaps I'm being a bit thick here, but how would one suddenly have more than 8 chars on their accounts?

Did they mysteriously find some chars made by magicians on the way?

I think names should be offered by age also.

also... 3 months and those inactive get deleted. You are essentially throwing away all the diamonds those inactive players have spent, as it is, the game is charging a ::cough:: fortune for diamonds and when I was still playing it was costing 50 bucks for each piece of gear, I hate to think what it is now and you are just going to delete those accounts.

For once... I am speechless, I have no rage/demeaning terms to put here at the moment, I'm too stunned.

Quoted from "suprra"

also... 3 months and those inactive get deleted. You are essentially throwing away all the diamonds those inactive players have spent, as it is, the game is charging a damned fortune for diamonds and when I was still playing it was costing 50 bucks for each piece of gear, I hate to think what it is now and you are just going to delete those accounts.

I would imagine a RoM Email would have to be sent out about the plans. This way, those inactive players are warned that this will happen.

i thought it was going to be a year of inactivity and deleted.? not just three months ? or am i just readin it wrong.

From how I understand it, those that have logged in 2015 will get transferred, those that haven't, once the merge happens they will have 3 months to rescue their data.

Quoted from "suprra"

Perhaps I'm being a bit thick here, but how would one suddenly have more than 8 chars on their accounts?

Did they mysteriously find some chars made by magicians on the way?

If a person has 8 on Artemis and 4 on Reni, after they merge, that will be 12 chars on the account for the new merged server.