Runes of Magic US / AU

Hello all,

Herebe a thread for questions pertaining to the server merges taking place in November as announced by Celes.

You can read more here: Update: Server Merge and Instances

The FAQ was posted here and still remains true: Future server merge plans

If anyone has any questions that have not been answered by previous posts or FAQ's, please post them here. We will collect them and attempt to get answers.

FYI - the latest news mentioned the players putting forth suggestions regarding the server names, we have a collection thread for those, too. You can find that thread here: Server merge news and need suggestions for new server names

Quoted from "radeon"

I still can't understand what is so difficult about moving a toon's info to another server. I think of a board game (server) with playing pieces on top (players), can't you just take all the playing pieces and move them onto another board? I can't off the top of my head think of what my toon does in a game that in some way changes the server underneath such that it has to be almost permanently attached to it. Is it a bad analogy or bad programming or just the sheer size of data to be transferred is so great that it just will take a long time?

I'll answer this right away as its pretty typical to any MMO and you've made a great analogy.

Using your board (server) and playing pieces (characters) analogy, you must account for all the guilds, friends, and items on the server.

So, using the same board, dump several thousand more playing pieces onto the board to represent all the players on that server.

Then, dump several billion (Probably several trillion, I'm assuming) items on the board with a small tag that has the owner's name on it, in no particular order to represent all the items the server has on it.

Then, rubber band all of the players who are in the same guild together.

And finally, wire all of the characters together that are friends.

Then, move your character to the other board, taking all of their possessions with and cleanly break all of the ties to not destroy any other characters or their possessions or information in the process.

Please remember that this is a thread for questions directly related to the server merges for Gameforge. Comments or questions not directly related, please direct elsewhere. thank you.

I've gotten some answers regarding some questions asked:

* Will more channels be added to zones containing world bosses?

That was already written in the FAQ:



Q12: Will there be more channels available in the merged servers?

Not to begin with. If after the merge it seems necessary to add more, it will be reviewed.





* can we please have a specific date in November so we can take screen shots of our things the night before in preparation?

The merge will be announced with time.. as with AU.



* Can we increase the number allowed in siege after merge?

Also answered in the FAQ:


Q14: Are there any changes planned for the Siege Wars as a result?

Nothing is going to change regarding the Siege War. The system
works the same with more or less servers, so there is no need to adapt
it regarding this.

As for character transfers: Nothing we can share at this time.