Quote Originally Posted by Murugan View Post
Triple Spark is still debating where we want to go, and I was wondering where many in Selbina are thinking about going.
I am a leader of a social linkshell on Selbina which is equally distributed between members from the EU, US and about 25% of the members coming from eastern countries. We also have bonds with a german language linkshell, and this means that a lot of stress is heading my way, too. And I spent the last night thinking a lot.

Well, the biggest problem is that the servers have a limit. This collides heavily with many veteran (or "endgame") players, especially those who having nothing left to achieve on the game in its current state, except for leveling crafting maybe. We have many of those people on Selbina, and they are not taking a break until 2.0 like Yoshi-P guesses - they will be back for 1.21, play the new content until for 2 weeks until verything is done here, and then they'll disappear again (oh well, does he really think that people may be paying for 1.x just not to play it? He should cross-check the current subscriber against the logins, but that's another story. Back to the main topic now.)

Well, I will do "linkshell events" for the server merge, develop a strategy for this and repeat this for the time zones. And of course I thought about talking to other linkshell leaders, or maybe even the Selbina community can decide as a whole, to which server to go to (like some french XI linkshells agreed on going to Besaid 1.5 years ago).

But the server limits are a big threat here, because not everyone will be able to migrate from Selbina to the designated new world, probably. And those who are not actively playing for several hours per day (or at least during weekends) during stage 1 will most likely be left behind.

One thing is very likely: Server 01 will be filled up in no time. Probably the same will happen with the server 9, followed by 2, 5, and 8. Maybe the same with 10, but I have my doubts that this will be an effective solution (only few french people speak german well enough, and vice versa - in both countries the kids are learning the english language as a primary foreign language and the bonds to the english communities will be stronger). Server 10 will most likely end up in a mess.

So, as a result, I would focus on server 3, 4, 6, or 7 for the migration of my linkshell, simply there we'll have more time to get things organized than on the other ones which are more likely to be picked by other people.

But only as long as there is no decision made between Selbina citizens to migrate to a specific world, of course.

So, in case this may happen, my proposal for Selbina would be server #6 at the moment.

Reasons:

- Server #1 will be filled up in no time. It's the first on the list and everyone will head there.
- Server 2 will follow next.
- Server 9 will most likely be next, because it's also easy to reach and has an attractive position on the end with the list. Like the markets, the upper instance like Tinkerer's Ward fill up first, then come the last ones, and then the middle ones - Grocer's or Chirurgeon's ward are usually the last ones to be crowded, because they require the most keystrokes and drown between the others on the list.
- Servers 4 and 5 are the ones in the middle. They will follow next.
- This leaves servers 3, 6 and 7. I bet that 3 and 7 will hit the limit after 2 and 8 did, so 6 will have the highest chance to get most Selbina players on it until the end of the merger stages.

So, what do you think? I am really interested in your thoughts, because that's my responsibility as a LS owner. Thanks for input.

Sol