Server Merge

[Cynfael]

you mean dying.

You have killed the joke.

You have earned 1 xp.

[AnaviAnael]

I watched the game dye.

It is now blue.

[Titor]

I watched the game dye.

It is now blue.

your face is blue.

[Squa11_Leonhart]

your face is blue.

someone's choked up.

[Sho86]

Some servers honestly seem like they need it though. I've been server hopping for the past week or so now just to see different markets and populations along with how they act towards each other. You got the obvious places like Balmung that are packed to the brim, full of RPers, market that is pretty decent considering how fast items sell, though faults when it comes to trying to do FATEs/Hunting Logs as a lowbie (Yoshi's intention to liven up the FATEs are kinda backfiring in that standpoint; can never get more than a silver as a newbie alt due to the max sync'ed 50s tearing through them.)

Then you have other places like Siren for example, up on the top spending tier for housing, and yet seems like a ghost town comparatively. Few people sitting/crafting in town, FATEs pretty much left to themselves, market way slower in sales. My main server is Brynhildr and even that seemed more lively than Siren, yet we're on the bottom tier for housing prices.

[Chihaya]

I'd love if they offer free server xfer off the more crowded servers to the less populated ones

[DarkStaoneDragon]

After reading this I got concerned. Not about just population but names. See my name is unique but my wife is concerned her name could be taken on another server.
How would this work? The account that is active would get to keep the name? Also houses and FC's if there isn't enough room for FC/Personal houses would the server that gets merged be left out? Server mergers happen in every MMO that I have played.

Also this part of the world transfer info page it says this in the disclaimer:
With the introduction of the World Transfer Service, there may be cases where players are requested to transfer to other Worlds due to fluctuations in population. We may also consider the splitting or merger of Worlds. Because of this, there may be instances where players who have used the World Transfer Service are requested to move to a different World. Please note that in such cases, applications for World transfers cannot be canceled or refunded.

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How do you think it would be handled right now my wife and I are on one of the lower tier housing servers so if our server gets merged we are risk of losing names,FC and personal house plots due to lack of room.
how do you think they should handle names? Like I said I think the one that is the most active should get priority over taken names.
I know it may not happen anytime soon but it will happen look at FFXI.

[Yamimarik]

/snip

Probably should have read more than just the OP's wild accusations. There is no server mergers happening any time soon. Just look all over here, Lodestone, or any other SE/FFXIV:ARR official site. No need to worry about anything at all. Your name and your wife's name are safe.

EDIT:
As far as any merge, or server transfer of any character that has the same exact name. The server that you would be going to, that person already on there, would have priority, just how these things work unfortunately. Though I'm not sure FFXIV:ARR is really set up just yet for server merges just because of how housing works at the moment.

[DarkStaoneDragon]

Probably should have read more than just the OP's wild accusations. There is no server mergers happening any time soon. Just look all over here, Lodestone, or any other SE/FFXIV:ARR official site. No need to worry about anything at all. Your name and your wife's name are safe.

I was not referring to the OP but I know it will happen sooner or later I was just wondering how you all (the community) would think names,houses and things like that would be handled. like lets say 1-10 years from now for example after you worked hard on your character and then you and your house gets transfer and your name is taken or your house plot or lack there of plots you get the idea.

[Sho86]

Not everyone thinks alike for names. I've made alts with names I thought for sure would've long been taken but pleasantly surprised when they came up as usable. It helps a ton we're using First/Last names finally in MMO land, so unless its seriously a very generic name there might be some hope on that end. As for housing, if its some-odd years in the future, we've already doubled and perhaps even doubled again in terms of availability. I think the same system I was thinking about for 30-day abandonment could work here too; give people a voucher of the same plot/house type and they can get another place - only concern is items within being transferred to the new server NPC holder. Not ideal but not a total loss.

Now of course looking on the bad end of things, flames razing the forums, cats and dogs living together, that kinda stuff could very well happen too lol...