Quote Originally Posted by Shibi View Post
As someone who has done it innumerable times in other industries, a database dump onto new servers could likely be done well inside the 24 hours of maintenance. The servers wouldn't have been moved.

However I am ok with the defacto servers staying in Japan. I am less ok that the marketboard, fresh and new and completely empty, will have hugely inflated prices over the other regions.
Yep they don't need to move the actual server. They should move 2 old world into the new datacenter like they did back with the EU datacenter when they opened it to create a more stable foundation. Otherwise the population growtth might be much much slower since an empty server is really not appetizing to move in at the start. I imagine a lot will wait for it to grow before moving there which will further add to the problem of getting the population to grow faster.