Merging Servers

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Wednesday, March 6th 2013, 11:34pm

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I hate logging in to some servers and running around not finding a soul in site. Having too many servers can make populations be down.

I think servers should be merged to keep the population up. Like merge servers by languages like English, German, Spanish, French, etc. because there are more then one country that speak the same language.
By doing this server population can stay up and people from same speaking country's around the world can communicate.

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RoMunited

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Wednesday, March 6th 2013, 11:51pm

You also will need to take into similar toon names, guild names, moving gear and items, lag issues, siege war system changes, time zone differences, auction house items and economies, server specific problems, PvP and PvE servers, and a host of other problems

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gigilomann

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Thursday, March 7th 2013, 12:27am

I think It's a good idea, however according to FA and even GF I think, due to either the contract or other issues this cannot be done.

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Stickingit

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Thursday, March 7th 2013, 1:52am

It can be done, it has been done in lesser MMOs, efficiently mind you.

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timthum

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Thursday, March 7th 2013, 2:08am

technically possible but not very feasible,main reason siege war times.
and undoubtedly a metric ---- tonne of work to accomplish. but merging forums may indeed be a good idea for information.
if the population of us servers could warrant a server merge i would be all for it.

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Blade187

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Thursday, March 7th 2013, 3:09am

Quoted from "timthum;591673"

but merging forums may indeed be a good idea for information.

Honestly the emergency maint was expecting to see the USA/AU forums merged. Since most of the info is found on the US forums now and it seems being in the same server pool we are tending to have some similar issues.

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Thursday, March 7th 2013, 3:40am

Merging servers means that instead of regular Reni riff-raff, we get riff-raff from other servers. And can you imagine the fun of 8 or 10 OP guilds fighting over Targonharl haxing instead of just 2 or 3?

I say ixnay that idea.

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Thursday, March 7th 2013, 3:53am

they should at least figure out a way to merge the only 2 pvp servers

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Thursday, March 7th 2013, 5:29am

Quoted from "karmakarma;591682"

they should at least figure out a way to merge the only 2 pvp servers

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Agreed. Grimdal is really slow and it is very discouraging to keep playing. Everywhere is like a ghost town and hard to find any runs and people to join guilds. Love the game and would like to have an omega pvp server instead of 2 pvp servers.

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Thursday, March 7th 2013, 6:11am

Siege war is pretty much a massive server merge, so it can be done. Its just... well, look at how well siege turned out...

On another game, they have a massive server where toons could transfer in from any server to this server, kinda like siege, but not for PvP purposes. Zones are still the same. Naming problem in tis server is solved by adding server name to character name while in this transfer server. Would be awesome to se one for RoM... but unlikely.

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EscapeTheFate03

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Thursday, March 7th 2013, 10:51am

Quoted from "gigilomann;591662"

I think It's a good idea, however according to FA and even GF I think, due to either the contract or other issues this cannot be done.

either it's per their contract or they just need to hire new ppl to do it coz their current staff keeps insisting it is not possible. in other parts of the world where RoM isn't ran by Froggie or GF, the OTHER PUBLISHERS OF THIS GAME have moved characters & merged servers. if it wasn't possible, why can other publishers of RoM, like Tahadi, can merge RoM servers yet GF & Froggie couldn't? if not Tahadi, at least have our RoM be published by a more well-known publisher like Aeria, maybe they'll know how to give us good sales!!! lolol some versions from other publishers to check out: http://es.runesofmagic.aeriagames.com/ http://tr.runesofmagic.aeriagames.com/ http://pt.runesofmagic.aeriagames.com/ http://mystone.aeriagames.jp/ http://rom.tahadi.com/en http://mfm.moliyo.com/index.shtml http://runes.imbc.com/ http://www.runesofmagic.com.tw/ http://rmonline.ru/

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CammoXD

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Thursday, March 7th 2013, 12:29pm

Quoted from "EscapeTheFate03;591700"

either it's per their contract or they just need to hire new ppl to do it coz their current staff keeps insisting it is not possible. in other parts of the world where RoM isn't ran by Froggie or GF, the OTHER PUBLISHERS OF THIS GAME have moved characters & merged servers. if it wasn't possible, why can other publishers of RoM, like Tahadi, can merge RoM servers yet GF & Froggie couldn't? if not Tahadi, at least have our RoM be published by a more well-known publisher like Aeria, maybe they'll know how to give us good sales!!! lolol some versions from other publishers to check out: http://es.runesofmagic.aeriagames.com/ http://tr.runesofmagic.aeriagames.com/ http://pt.runesofmagic.aeriagames.com/ http://mystone.aeriagames.jp/ http://rom.tahadi.com/en http://mfm.moliyo.com/index.shtml http://runes.imbc.com/ http://www.runesofmagic.com.tw/ http://rmonline.ru/

yep....its funny how others can do it and yet gameforge/runewaker cant/wont even bother to try.

p.s Don't be surprised if you get banned off the forums for linking those lol

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Thursday, March 7th 2013, 1:20pm

Quoted from "CammoXD;591702"

yep....its funny how others can do it and yet gameforge/runewaker cant/wont even bother to try.

p.s Don't be surprised if you get banned off the forums for linking those lol

That would be bad move...

So now that we know it is possible, what is the problem?

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Thursday, March 7th 2013, 2:13pm

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Thursday, March 7th 2013, 3:09pm

Quoted from "RoMage;591708"

That would be bad move...

So now that we know it is possible, what is the problem?

Could be problems with the contract itself. As i said in my post, it can be done.

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Thursday, March 7th 2013, 6:59pm

Ah, I can talk for the Brazillian version of the game, they're even more lazy. Open beta is running with CH4 since december last year and they don't even have coast of oportunity, item shop. Skill damage calculations are wrong, no Miller's Ranch, titles appears as sysname_xxx and the list goes on...

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Thursday, March 7th 2013, 7:03pm

Those are translation issues... probably just laziness on their part.

As for contract issues, imho it should be in interest of both - RW and GF to have happy customers.

On the other hand, we already have fair level of drama on Rani as it is.... nah, a bit more drama would not hurt.

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BigBig5

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Thursday, March 7th 2013, 9:35pm

Quoted from "ruisen2000;591689"

Siege war is pretty much a massive server merge, so it can be done. Its just... well, look at how well siege turned out...

On another game, they have a massive server where toons could transfer in from any server to this server, kinda like siege, but not for PvP purposes. Zones are still the same. Naming problem in tis server is solved by adding server name to character name while in this transfer server. Would be awesome to se one for RoM... but unlikely.

That would be nice to have a transfer toon tool to any server and have it make you change the name of the toon if name is taken.

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RoMunited

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Thursday, March 7th 2013, 9:37pm

Quoted from "BigBig5;591803"

That would be nice to have a transfer toon tool to any server and have it make you change the name of the toon if name is taken.

They already modify your name in the arenas with your server name

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Friday, March 8th 2013, 1:10am

thats cloning though when u go to arenas/siege...god i wish they would merge servers though. everything i heard was that it would not be even remotely easy because of internal database stuff which would require a ton of work from runewanker. this was old info but i think it comes down to info/tools etc that the publishing end just doesnt have access to. who knows

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