Runes of Magic US / AU

How come the old Australian Server isnt listed in the US forums since it is now on US soil.

And for those of you who don't know yet, the Australian Server was ninja moved last Maint to the USA, none of us know why, but means all US players will have great ping while the AU player now suffer with 250-350 regular pings and lag spikes over 15,000ms ping regularly.

We were told it won't go back to Australia anymore, so the only hope for a dieing server is to be merged in to one of the great US servers and purhaps be another channel maybe.

Since the server move we lost almost all decent endgame players, there is barely enough left to get a group for Tosh or KBN. The 2nd largest guild Avalon folded and 5 members stayed in the game and went to differnet guilds. The last guild left that can raid GC or higher is also about to fold. 8 Well geared and experianced players all said their goodbye's and encurraged the rest to go with them to other game.

What is left of the server now is people who basicaly had diamonds left to spend and are holding out till they are gone and will disapear too over time.

The AU server was popular, busy, had lots of players, lots of well geared and very experianced players, then gameforge took over from the Australian company N3V Games (http://n3vgames.com/), so essentually Australia was a private server but running under the flag of Frogster at the time. The change over saw a lot of players get upset with the harse management style, the item changes like no rubys bonuses, ABLs gone. Originaly AU wasn't part of the reason why gameforge made those changes so for us it was a rude shock, we didn't do anything wrong but we felt like we were treated as criminals in a ploy to destroy the games ecconomy. Our server was running smooth, diamond prices were around 10k, ruby prices were around 5k, people raiding were unbinding gear and giving to new players (or selling cheap) so help build the community of players up. But suddenly that changed.

Anyhow, it has been proven now that no server is safe, moving the server is a way of cutting costs and it wont stop there, gameforge already axed 20 jobs at the end of last year, so axeing a server and maybe a few more is still in stall. The AU population was small compared to a US server, the main company that controls the internet data in Australia called Telstra seriously over charge for bandwidth and may have been part of the demise of the server.

So, heads up our new USA brothers, we have a suspision that some day all US server may end up in Germany as a final attempt to cut costs. We have been told that account transfers are not possible. So for many Australian we are waiting for the day when we try log in and there is that gloomy message of Account no Found, or No Server Found.

If we are merged in to another server I realy hope we all get along and can raid together and play together as friends.