Quote Originally Posted by Sidious View Post
It doesn't fix what I was saying earlier.

"I have no problem with people wanting to stay with their friends. The issue arrises is when these people don't want to move at all, keep their entire ecosystem, and have the rest of us try to fit in somewhere in that well-established equation. Every blanket merge I've been a part of hasn't yielded a cohesive community. It's yielded two communities trying to coexist, sometimes quite unsuccessfully. It sucks."

Option 2 doesn't alleviate that. It's still just a blanket merge, and I don't want that. No matter where I go, there will have been a blanket merge and the community won't be cohesive.
Hmm... I see your point, but are the current communities really that cliquish as to not be able to bond with the new, incoming communities from merging worlds?

As a relatively new player, I've been able to integrate into at least a small part of the already existing community pretty easily, so I don't think it'd be that hard for two existing communities to merge successfully. I could be wrong and you could be right though.

I guess the "community total restart" aspect of option ④ would help in the case that you're right, but I'd still be unhappy about losing my old community and not having any control over my server name.