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Thursday, September 25th 2014, 12:35pm

Server Merges

Dear Inhabitants of Taborea,

For a while now, you have been discussing the population in some of the Runes of Magic servers. The topic was brought up to our Product Team as part of the community’s feedback and the situation was being analysed.

The server merge topic has now entered the planning phase. Yes, this means we will merge some servers. Please understand that the planning and the technical preparation take some time and we won’t make it by this year. We will, however, use these last months to prepare everything needed for this.

Now the next focus will be to work out the best combinations and solutions for servers with for example, different languages, and make sure the technical background is ready.

We will keep you updated and we hope these are good news for all the Taboreans!

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Good news.. Thoughts?

MY biggest concern is they said the technology wasn't there.. unless Runewaker finally cooperated with them? Or their just going to copy toons onto new servers? Or were they lieing to us the whole time?

ANy follow up by a GM would be nice. thanks guys!
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Thursday, September 25th 2014, 1:46pm

<-- Curious as to how they are going to handle two characters that have the same name on different servers being merged into one.
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Thursday, September 25th 2014, 2:26pm

I love how GMs have been all up in arms lately saying at every possible turn "No it's not possible, now stfu about it. /thread now closed" and now this.

So yea either GMs have been lying, or there is little to no communication going on between GF "employees". And if none of what i just said is the case, then certain GMs need to learn how to better word their "facts"

I too wonder about their overall plan for merging though. I have quite a bit of stuff, incredible gear (and incredible swap gear), incredible stats, incredible runes, incredible weapon, STOCKPILES of buff food, a level 68 pet, etc.

Idc what server gets merged where, but i better not a single thing. And i better not have to put in a single ticket to recover a single thing

Other than that, for the good of a dying population, i honestly think this is a good thing
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Thursday, September 25th 2014, 3:08pm

I am genuinely happy to hear this and honestly think it will be good for everyone. Does it really matter what they have been telling us? I mean maybe they are upgrading something or maybe they now have people there that are willing to take on this task. Regardless of what we were told, just the fact that they are working on it makes me happy. I am sure there will be bugs and stuff when the merge happens , there always is in this sort of situation. We all just need to be willing to work together and communication will be the key in the days leading up to the Merge. That is my opinion anyhow. :thumbsup:


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Thursday, September 25th 2014, 3:15pm

It is most definitely needed. I hope the 'untruth' was the past, and not the current news to get people to stay on. It is definitely 'amusing' how the impossible became the possible.

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Thursday, September 25th 2014, 3:40pm

This will be good, just wonder if this is for the NA servers only or if they plan on merging the AU ( and similiar server clusters ) together or actually taking the regional server group and merging them....

So what server would you want your server to merge with?

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Thursday, September 25th 2014, 4:47pm

In general everything we post is based on the information we have available when posting. We can not predict the future but inform when things change.

The only thing remotely similar to a merge that has been done to RoM before was the Chapter IV Closed Beta with copying just the characters. And even that caused massive problems back in the days so it is certainly not possible to merge servers just because people scream "but we want a merge" and open a new topic every other week about it when it was told multiple times that it isn't possible with the available methods.

This is something that is still true today, otherwise it would not take quite another while for merges to happen (as per todays announcement) , but resources (manpower mostly, I *guess* actual technical resources like hardware might follow later) are being put on this by now, so the goal is to be able to do merges without creating a black hole that consumes the earth, so to speak ... Once the technical foundation is set, merges can happen.

As to which servers get merged to which other servers, that is a step to decide when it's actually in a working state.
Watch out for announcements during the coming weeks and months regarding this, as this is information likely to be provided by the CMs ;-)

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Thursday, September 25th 2014, 4:52pm

Idc what server gets merged where, but i better not a single thing. And i better not have to put in a single ticket to recover a single thing

Start getting screenshots, then. I know you said you don't want to have to put in tickets, but would you rather put in tickets or lose all your stuff?

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Thursday, September 25th 2014, 5:23pm

If anything tho what servers would merge(cuz reni sounds like a better name than the other servers XD) ?? Also a point was made what about toons with the same name? And would u just be copying the toons to a chosen server or merging the servers into one and what about the lag?

Even with small servers lag is bad with servers merged wont that make it any worse?
Or maybe if a server merge is possible maybe whatever is hosting the server here in the US could be changed and merged with something that can run faster and handle more cuz the system for the game sucks if the lag was gone this game wouldn't lose players as bad and it looks to be getting worse as time goes on.

Around he 72-77 cap i NEVER lagged ever the only places i lagged were the camp you go to right after heffner and dalanis (or laganus as i call it) Also from someone ik that was a GM on a private server he said in the coding there were like copys of every npc in a void under the one that we see in the world and that could cause immense lag as well. But once the 80 cap came out i started more and more lag. It is now at 87 cap and and i lag more than ever. It seems that something needs to be changed to reduce the lag there is SOMETHING that can be done and NEEDS to be done. A server merge without fixing those issues would break everything.

This game has pretty good graphics if you can have them on high. But the lag is so bad most of the time no one can have it on high.
After this last patch i can't run as good as i could before so if im doing an run or sw or something i have to lower them and considering how vain i am i do NOT like that. My same comp used to be able to run with so much less lag and i have the fastest internet around as i did back then. Now i lag and nothing but rom has changed.

Fix the lag
tout de suite Chop chop NOW
And hop to it BEFORE making a merge or the game will break if aritmus and reni or any of the other servers merge no one will be able to move an inch


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Thursday, September 25th 2014, 5:37pm

I still suffer from post traumatic stress from the last bout of ticket mayhem from losing a ton of my stuff from my house a couples years back.

If i am to be made to submit tickets to recover ANY of my gear and pet and everything i have put plenty of RL money in to buying diamonds over the course of playing, then they can keep it in the black hole of the server merge as a sacrificial offering, and i will bid this game adieu


@Aspho- who is "everyone?" Everyone on Reni?

I, and others, run the game perfectly on max settings. Hell, 85% of my playtime is doing dailies, minigames (right in the heart of Varanas) RIGHT DURING SIEGE HOUR, as I am not a pvp'er, this is the perfect time to do my personal junk like that, and I have no issues doing it on High, Max Distance, etc, etc, etc...

Maybe Govinda has remained more stable?

Maybe your computer needs cleaning, idk.
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Thursday, September 25th 2014, 5:58pm

Well finally that Gameforge acknowledge the issues we were asking for and people are still acting like little kids. If they do merge the servers and i hope they do and we will have even more fun. For those who are afraid to lose stuff, well take screenshots, i do it every month just to make sure, gear, level, TP and stuff in bank, guild bank and chests in my house, oh ya house keepers too ;-).

I lost my house and housekeepers 2 or 3 weeks ago, i went through support and it was fixed almost on the spot, Great service BTW Saito ;-).

People seem to forget : GM's, CM's players like us, not Gameforge employees!!! is it that hard to get in your little brains?? Gameforge will not pass them vital information until they decide too, why?? i hve seen what some old GM's did with that in the time of Frogster, telling buddies and guildies of incoming sales, events etc, no ty.


I was here when we lost chests, gear from our accounts 4 or 5 years ago and took 1 1/2 year to get a stupid useless compensation but that was Frogster. Gameforge and the GM team have my +100000000000000000000000 on this, TYVM keep up the good work!!!!

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Thursday, September 25th 2014, 6:13pm

If you would take the time to fully read before you jump up on your soap box and preach the same copy paste speech every thread you post in, i clearly stated the GMs need to word things better. NOT provinding info is very different than providing WRONG info.

I can provide examples were the GMs flat out said "no its not possible, itll never happen". Perhaps, as a "professional" and a representative front man for the company, a GM might word things "we have no information on server merges at this time, if we find out anything we'll let you know, in the meantime there is no need to open more threads about it."

Catch my meaning? Use that "little brain" to fully read others posts before spewing you propaganda that no one rallies around
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Thursday, September 25th 2014, 6:24pm

Will this include merging Thalia into US?
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Thursday, September 25th 2014, 7:09pm

Have to agree with Xaldyn on how they handled talk about server merges. Just 3 weeks ago, Agualink stated flat out and very dramatically that it's not possible, so shut the blank up (dramatic license), and stop creating threads about it. :)

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Thursday, September 25th 2014, 7:18pm

Xaldyn get a life, there is no mention of you in my post and certainly not directed at you since you apparently own the soap box. :cookie:

As far as i know THEY DO NOT WORK FOR GAMEFORGE!! THEY DO NOT HAVE A PAYCHECK!! They are here as a buffer and try to help us out, THEY HAVE NO REAL POWER!!! God, some people are just morons.

The only person that might get a bit more info would be Saito and i doubt they give him much. He is and will remain with Dionnaea the best 2 GM'S we ever got!! With all your whinings, you are lucky he'S still here, if he goes the game will die for sure. Seems that a lot of you want that, good job ;-)

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Thursday, September 25th 2014, 7:52pm

Cool it with the name calling.

This is a topic of much interest to many people for obvious reasons. I'd suggest some brainstorming about all the aspects of our characters that we've put time and effort into, and would like not to lose. Things like titles, badge interface, pets/zodiacs/ruby pets and all the TP and skills and levels related to them, recipes and craft levels. The list goes on; time to populate it more fully.

Will there be tickets after the fact? Most definitely. It's an exciting time to be brand new, I tell you what.

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Thursday, September 25th 2014, 7:53pm

Yikes! Settle down people. So talks are underway about server merges - great. This won't fix all of RoMs issues but it is a step in the right direction IMO.

Instead of bickering, we all have an opportunity here to constructively express our opinions and make suggestions to help make this happen all the more smoothly. So let's agree that we disagree on certain things and see if we work together to help move t his along to everyone's mutual benefit. Win/Win

Edit: Lol Heron beat me to it. Please quit mind reading Heron, it's very disconcerting. :P

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Thursday, September 25th 2014, 7:54pm

The GM's are the spokesmen for the company. It doesn't matter what their financial status with the company is. It doesn't matter what power they have.

I suspect the insults some direct at others are actually more suitable, more applicable if the person would only look in the mirror when spouting them. :) In this case, I would say they would be highly accurate. And again, Xaldyn is correct on the way this subject was treated in the past.

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Thursday, September 25th 2014, 8:55pm

my thought on what to merge where:

--the 2 PvP servers together(I'd say more, but I don't think people would like to be moved from pve to PvP and vice versa)
--palenque, OSHA and govinda together
--reni and Artemis could either stay seperate servers or merged together.
--AU could really go into any of them at this point. I'd suggest putting it in with palenque, as then you could group the 2 "international" servers together...
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Thursday, September 25th 2014, 9:04pm

Thank you guys, and it would probably takes days just for one person, so anytime by next year seems sufficient.

When the technology is avaible, I would suggest putting us on brand new servers ;) And scrap the old ones, start us off fresh, give us New Sever names, LIke Grimdigo! (lol)

But I feel new servers is the best way to go.

Also the reason RoM might lag is of all the files it has to open, to even play RoM. Hence the slim client which helped me a lot, but I still have problems. The game itself is Processor heavy, not Graphics card heavy. Which some people fail to realize.

And please, enough with the name calling, children, Zid, no offense, but it seems like you are a taunter in almost every thread. Please stop because this is a good discussion and don't want it closed.

But before we all get our hopes up they have to make sure everythings in place, the people and whatknot before it's even possible.

Goodluck Gameforge... and goodluck picking which servers to merge with what... and... will AU servers be merged as well, or will that be worse off for them /w ping issues..

Curious, which servers would you want merged? I'd say Artemis and Govinda and Palenque are the three strongest servers ;) (just my opinion) IN ranks of players... PVE 1. Artemis. 2. Govinda. 3. Palenque. 4. Reni. 5. Osha. PVP 1. Grimdal. 2. Indigo
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