Ever getting server merge?

[Hanayumi]

Was wondering if there will ever be a server merge among the smaller servers? It pretty dead lately in Mateus, think we are the smallest population for NA, and seen a few other servers complain about the low pop in their servers as well. While server transfer is a thing, not everyone is willing to do such, and I rather not end up leaving like 1/2 my friends and FC mates in a dead server, not to mention all the hard work we have done, so yeah...

[Nghthawk]

Well if they do happen better hope the other server merges with yours, if not you might lose all that hard work and not by choice.

[LandricFrey]

I can see this work if they add 2 more sub-districts to each housing zone and they copy paste from one server on to the other. If not, then I don't want any mergers.

[Sove92]

Unless they can deal with the housing issue that would come with it, there won't be any merges. And it's not like there are too many servers, the real problem is that everyone and their grandmother wants to play on those few specific servers.

SE should offer free tranfers away from those servers so people who wouldn't mind a lower-pop server have an incentive to do so.

[MihaelB]

The best approach for this would be to wipe X servers and transfer them to a new server, otherwise housing would clash, FCs & names.

This would still take a lot of resources so the amount of servers dead would need to satisfy the cost of a new server+ transfer costs.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

As long as housing exists, it's not going to happen unless the devs magically make more wards. No matter how dead some severs appear to be, there's bound to be players using houses and last thing we need is more poo fan storms over housing again.

[Sove92]

The best approach for this would be to wipe X servers and transfer them to a new server, otherwise housing would clash, FCs & names.

This would still take a lot of resources so the amount of servers dead would need to satisfy the cost of a new server+ transfer costs.

How is that gonna solve the housing and FC problems? Forcefully take away all houses, dissolve all FCs and linkshells? That would make people happy for sure.

[MihaelB]

How is that gonna solve the housing and FC problems? Forcefully take away all houses, dissolve all FCs and linkshells? That would make people happy for sure.

It doesn't, it solves the dead population issue. You can't merge something with existing conflicted data which is housing, FCs & character names.

If you ever used excel or any basic merging program, it's the fundamentals.

[Catwho]

Since the population for the game is theoretically growing, what SE does instead is lock the over-full servers to new character creation, and encourage people to plop onto the lowest population server instead.

It will be a few years before SE considers server merges. As Sove said, they're far more likely to to encourage people to transfer off the over populated servers than they are to merged two lower population servers.

It wasn't until most of the XI servers had a prime time population under 1000 that they merged them.

[LandricFrey]

It doesn't, it solves the dead population issue. You can't merge something with existing conflicted data which is housing, FCs & character names.

If you ever used excel or any basic merging program, it's the fundamentals.

Actually server merges are commonplace for MMO's. Same character name? They give you a free name change before you can log in again. Same with (guild)FC names. More housing areas would be needed to place the old servers player housings. I don't know, I think it could work, but really at this point I don't think a merger is necessary, even on my home, Goblin.