Quote Originally Posted by Dreadnought View Post
whats the difference between 4 and 2?
Some will say "nothing", but they're quite wrong.

Option 2 is what Yoshi refers to as "basic consolidation" with the added bonus of free electable transfers. At the end of the day, it takes two full communities and smashes them together-- save the for the stragglers who opt to transfer elsewhere. No matter where they go, however, they will be joining a world that has two or more communities coexisting.

Option 4, when it was still an option, created new worlds from all of the current worlds collectively. It provided no structure to preserve communities. However, it had the added benefit of population control at the time of the merges. Also, the a new server's community would be established from the ground up as a "new" community unique to that server. This is as opposed to two pre-established communities coexisting, as we see in option 2.