About the World Merge and Character Transfers (02/09/2012)

[Kailok]

A little hitch in your theory on server merging using options 1-3 vs option 4... you pointed out that just merging world A with world B would only have 2 communities clashing together which is a completely false statement within itself. because each server is almost guaranteeing to have minimum of 15-25 different communities within it. Furthermore in those 15-25 different communities there are those that are already clashing on the same server. now you are merging it with another server with similar circumstances so now you have double the amount of communities with the possibility of endless conflicts

Note that I did say "2 worlds" originally. "Worlds" implies that I mean multiple communities. Those sub-communities have become, as a whole, an entity within the server and as such the server itself can be counted as a community. So then how is 2 worlds (and their communities within) different from a mixture of 17 different servers and some of their communities? You'll have people trying to figure out their place in their world, eventually one majority will take power, and then suddenly we're all slaves to some sort of Lalafell dictator's campaign.

But in all seriousness, you have to think of it in the way that someone earlier, I believe it was Gramel, said: Our worlds are spiderwebs of communities.

I know a person, and we're friends, good friends, but they also know a person, who knows a person, who knows a person, and that person's friend likes to do Endgame, but I don't, so some friends want to go with other friends, and so on and so forth. It'd be wonderful if I could trust the majority of linkshells within my server to get together and figure it all out, but what happens when it fills up and 2 linkshells get left out of it all? Suddenly, they've lost -tons- of friends.

Either way, with option 4, you lose friends. Sure, you will gain more on your new server, but why should I sacrifice friends for that? I WISH I could get every single person on my server in the same new server, but chances are, it won't happen that way.