Server merges

[Runespider]

The amount of topics complaining about the merge after the update is going to be immense, the server merge for me was the most horrible thing I've experienced with this game and was one of the biggest things that made many people I knew to quit.

Being unable to do content is going to be the biggest negatives but also losing the familarity will be another, so many people changed name on my server when it went through the merge that it seemed like I simply changed server completely.

I feel sorry for you guys about to experience this.

I know they offset the players they will lose over the merge by the money they save on having less servers but I still hope this is the last for a long time.

[svengalis]

I am dreading this. When I look online now I see over 2k people online with 1200 of them being level 90. The NMs on our server are overcamped as is and we haven't even been hit with the merger yet. This is the wrong time to be merging IMO. They should have waited until they introduced new content so people won't all be after the same things.

[Anewie]

support /

wow im agreeing with you all alot today.
Just came from brareus (/wave leon) so many groups after brareuos.

[Neika]

My boyfriend and I have been doing so much Abyssea stuff this week to try to get alot of the stuff we want done before the merge. We are both not looking forward to it. We enjoy being on a server that at most has 1.5k people on it, and even now there are some NM's that are nearly impossible to get because of all the people camping them. I can just imagine what it's going to be like after the merge...

[Airget]

Name wise it shouldn't be as bad hopefully since they did do their best to swiftly close access to character creation to the destination worlds. Overall though it will be curious to see how things play out with this. They are attempting to divert the population increase with the changes being made to abyssea though odds are there may be more changes to be made later on. Perhaps "Enhanced Playability" refers to balancing the way content is atm. One ne main issue that will probably surface is the increased difficulty in obtaining Empyreans in the merged worlds, while they have added more +1 +2 areas they haven't really made any mention of the items needed for Empyrean.

One simple idea is if they continue with their "Battlefield status" that they are introducing with dynamis and Voidwalker,

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...Dynamis-Reborn!

"Battling boss NMs:

* Battles will be conducted in Confrontation format, with a maximum of 18 players able to participate.
*Confrontation: A unique battle format in which the combatants are isolated from all non-alliance players and monsters for the duration of the battle."

If congestion with Abyssean mobs did become a problem I would imagine they could implement a system like this into the NMs that drop loot needed to upgrade the Empyrean weapons. While you may wonder why not just add more ??? to spawn more then one at a time, an imbalance issue that could come from that would be a group hoarding all the ??? and then brewing the 3 NMs at once or something like that lol.

If Confrontation works in the manner it sounds like it would work, it could become a viable way to create duplicates of the same NM so when it comes to bigger pop ??? it helps to lower the amount of time one will need to wait to fight the pop NM they desire.

[Nidhogg]

I honestly can't see why they just don't reduce the spawn time on pop NMs to 1 minute, same time as the ??? in all the zones, cause that all the NM really is, its not like there is some magical brokeness if the repop time is that short.

[Rie]

I honestly can't see why they just don't reduce the spawn time on pop NMs to 1 minute, same time as the ??? in all the zones, cause that all the NM really is, its not like there is some magical brokeness if the repop time is that short.

Repop time of 1 minute won't help if it's a gimp DNC soloing it for 30mins.

[Siviard]

Being merged into Fenrir server....../shudder

Oh, and lolFeiwong (if he's still on that server under the name Riousan)

[Anathiel]

which server's are being merged? ^ awesome sig btw

[Fearforever]

Being merged into Fenrir server....../shudder

Oh, and lolFeiwong (if he's still on that server under the name Riousan)

Whats wrong with us on Fenrir? lol