About the World Merge and Character Transfers (02/09/2012)

[Jinko]

As far as I can see the only difference between 2 and 4 is that rather than everyone picking whatever they want you're given a 'suggested server', so to speak, and if you don't want it you can choose any of the other worlds.

I think the vast majority of people in World B would just go ahead and let the automatic transfer happen, barely anyone would opt for a different world, and World A would go over its set capacity. This would result in even more stress for the people who can't go to World A with their LSs and such. Although it sounds great, it wouldn't be perfect and you'd most likely lose friends or LSs to the population cap., which would be more traumatic to both parties.

Thats why they would need to calculate before hand roughly how many active members would transfer to each server.

ie - merge a heavily populated server with low populated one. (leave enough space for people to transfer) or (only allow people to transfer a week later)