Thanks for ruining the only experience that keeps me playing.

[Bongeh1986]

This isn't at all an attack. I genuinily want to hear how we could have both, as you say. It seems to me that by giving everyone the option to move where they want, along with the time to collaborate on who is going where, they HAVE given you both. As opposed to just slap dashing 2 servers together and hoping for the best. Explain how that is fair to the french and german people that have no one to talk to on the server they are on, but now have a place to go that increases their play experience. I see a lot of poeple commenting that they want it BOTH ways, but as of yet, no one has been able to offer a real suggestion as to how everyone (globally, not just in north america) can have their cake and eat it to.

Phase 1: Merge servers, 2-3 into 1, until they get 10 servers with near balanced numbers.

Phase 2: Once transfers are made, 2 weeks later (giving people a chance to settle and decide if they like the new people they've been introduce to, along with their old friends. Open up server selection transfers, for those that wish to commune together on an FR/DE server etc.

I dont understand why that is difficult to grasp

[Biggs]

Phase 1: Merge servers, 2-3 into 1, until they get 10 servers with near balanced numbers.

Phase 2: Once transfers are made, 2 weeks later (giving people a chance to settle and decide if they like the new people they've been introduce to, along with their old friends. Open up server selection transfers, for those that wish to commune together on an FR/DE server etc.

I dont understand why that is difficult to grasp

Because forcing people to merge then giving them the option to move will undo the balancing of the servers as you mention above. Lets say they do what you suggested above. What happens when an entire linkshell decides the merge sucked, tries to move 50 or more people, and not everyone gets in? Better yet, how does the above suggestion become fair to those that would like to play on a server with a higher population of people that speak their language? If you merge 2 server with 12 french speaking people on them each, thats not really helping the issue at all. Even after doing so, its not like they would have any idea what server they should then choose afterwards to increase ther chances. I just think the issue itself is much more complex than both sides are making it out to sound. Slap dashing 2 servers together has just as many issues as the way they are currently going about it. They chose one, and it just happens to be one some people don't agree with. I think the best thing we can do is use this next month to organize ourselves the best we can so that everyone gets the most out of it. I would spend less time complaining about what won't be changed and more time changing things that are within my realm of control. I think in the coming days and weeks we will see a number of threads open up that have servers organizing themselves for the move. That, to me anyway, seems better than giving some people no option at all.

Also, it was my understanding that all of this is only temporary until the new servers are developed for 2.0, but I could be wrong.