SE How Hard? (About the World Merge and Character Transfers (02/09/2012))

[zaviermhigo]

This is what I am worried about.

1) I don't understand why they don't just merge the smaller servers in with the more populated servers as you said.

2) We have about a week and a half to make the server changes, not everyone can hop on day one and do it. What if worlds get locked and some LS members can't get on it. Now all the other LS members have to move again, make the shell again, now what happened if in the process of doing that, that world gets locked. Now they have to move again, repearl AGAIN etc etc rinse dry and repeat until HOPEFULLY your whole LS gets on the same server?

This seems like a silly way to do server mergers, I mean they even handled FFXI's server mergers better. Come on SE..

Just take the top 5 full servers, then take the bottom 5 and merge them onto a fuller server.

Example (Because I don't know the pop of each server)::

Selbina (Low Pop) merges onto Wutai (High Pop) Selbina goes way and now everyone's on Wutai.

At least this way LS's and friends people have made stay together and we don't have to HOPE we all get on a server before it's full.

Making everyone move is just silly.

Love how you put Selbina as low pop, that is a blatant lie we're probaby #2 for active characters, just bad example.

[ssppiikkeeyy]

Love how you put Selbina as low pop, that is a blatant lie we're probaby #2 for active characters, just bad example.

she didnt no as she said lol i found it cute she put us at low pop lol

[LlenCoram]

Throwing in my voice for this one. I find the current planned method to be completely ridiculous and all it will serve to do will be to break up linkshells and friendships.

[Kyri]

Throwing in my voice for this one. I find the current planned method to be completely ridiculous and all it will serve to do will be to break up linkshells and friendships.

And in the process make new friendships and new linkshells~

[Biggs]

Here's the problem: Even if the majority of the server agrees to pick a specific number, the more people you tell about it the less likely you and your friends will have a chance to get in.

Hold on a sec. If the servers are large enough to support a forced 2 world merge, I think they are large enough for this guy to tell everyone on his server to move to a specific one, and have room enough for everyone to get it. I think most of you are SERIOUSLY overestimating how many people are actually playing this game right now. Are there enough people to fill up a server, probably, but I wouldnt think there is enough right now to completely fill 2 or 3. This notion that certain servers (that have no names right now mind you!) are going to fill up right away is absurd. The player base (myself included) actually has ZERO idea what max capacity is for a single server , just like most of us dont have any idea how many people are left playing now that they have started charging.

This has to be the first time in the history of my life I have ever heard of a bunch of people crying about being given the freedom to choose something for themselves instead of being forced to do something without being asked in advance. Absolutely amazing.

Also, your default server merge does absolutly ZERO to help the minority of European players that aren't enjoying the game as much because they arent playing with enough people that speak their language. If they force moved everyone, and then let people do a one time move, you would still have unbalanced issues as well as people trying to move to a server with friends where not everyone gets in. Also, as sad as it is to say, we have been asking for LS admin tools since the second month of the games release. Its not gonna happen anytime soon. (and i HATE it!)