How will the following merge issues be handled?

[Leela]

Sidious

you have over a month to select your world

I can not find anywhere that ppl can select their world now already, what I read is that ppl have to be online during those 9 days or else will just being randomly distributed across the worlds.

What bothers me with this is that ppl are getting forced, SE shows us that migration is possible, why set a time limit? If a server is full fine, but give ppl the (paid) option to server transfer at a later time.

[Mychael]

Sidious

I can not find anywhere that ppl can select their world now already, what I read is that ppl have to be online during those 9 days or else will just being randomly distributed across the worlds.

What bothers me with this is that ppl are getting forced, SE shows us that migration is possible, why set a time limit? If a server is full fine, but give ppl the (paid) option to server transfer at a later time.

You're both wrong, really. We have 1-19 March overall, but there will be a "Stage 2" of the selection process a week or so in after which full servers are completely out of the question. So the actual time to choose your server can be up to 18-19 days (too lazy to find the hours) depending on the population of the destination server.

Quote:

Selecting a Transfer Destination
During the transfer selection period indicated below, players will be able to select a destination World on the World Transfer Application Page. Players who do not select a destination World during this period will be automatically distributed across the Worlds.
* The World Transfer Application Page is scheduled to be available from March 1.

Transfer destination selection period: From 0:00 a.m. PST, March 1 (Thursday) to 0:59 a.m. PDT, March 19 (Monday), 2012.
* Transfer selection period will consist of a first and second stage.

First Stage: From 0:00 a.m. PST, March 1 (Thursday) to 0:59 a.m. PDT, March 12 (Monday), 2012.
- Players will still be able to change their destinations, even after making a selection.
* Players will not be able to select Worlds that have already been filled. Players can, however, move from Worlds that have been filled to other Worlds.

Second Stage: From 1:00 a.m. PDT, March 12 (Monday) to 0:59 PDT, March 19 (Monday), 2012.
- Worlds that have been filled will be locked, and players in these Worlds will not be able to transfer to other Worlds.

[Sidious]

You're both wrong, really. We have 1-19 March overall, but there will be a "Stage 2" of the selection process a week or so in after which full servers are completely out of the question. So the actual time to choose your server can be up to 18-19 days (too lazy to find the hours) depending on the population of the destination server.

Quote:

Selecting a Transfer Destination
During the transfer selection period indicated below, players will be able to select a destination World on the World Transfer Application Page. Players who do not select a destination World during this period will be automatically distributed across the Worlds.
* The World Transfer Application Page is scheduled to be available from March 1.

Transfer destination selection period: From 0:00 a.m. PST, March 1 (Thursday) to 0:59 a.m. PDT, March 19 (Monday), 2012.
* Transfer selection period will consist of a first and second stage.

First Stage: From 0:00 a.m. PST, March 1 (Thursday) to 0:59 a.m. PDT, March 12 (Monday), 2012.
- Players will still be able to change their destinations, even after making a selection.
* Players will not be able to select Worlds that have already been filled. Players can, however, move from Worlds that have been filled to other Worlds.

Second Stage: From 1:00 a.m. PDT, March 12 (Monday) to 0:59 PDT, March 19 (Monday), 2012.
- Worlds that have been filled will be locked, and players in these Worlds will not be able to transfer to other Worlds.

All I gathered from your post is that you excel in providing inane responses.

[Griss]

Sidious

I can not find anywhere that ppl can select their world now already, what I read is that ppl have to be online during those 9 days or else will just being randomly distributed across the worlds.

What bothers me with this is that ppl are getting forced, SE shows us that migration is possible, why set a time limit? If a server is full fine, but give ppl the (paid) option to server transfer at a later time.

You do have over a month to "Select" your server. You have over a month to network and talk to your friends and community to pick a number between 1 and 10.

[Choyi]

You do have over a month to "Select" your server. You have over a month to network and talk to your friends and community to pick a number between 1 and 10.

If you have an active life (work, school, family etc) you have to realise that getting online at the same time as everyone else of your LS/friends group/etc to make a decision that suits all, a month isnt alot of time at all.

This is by far one of the worst server merger systems ive seen, instead of taking "low pop server A" and merging it with "medium pop server B" which would be the simplest solution to cater to both casual, active and inactive players.

Now we'll have this scenario instead where friend groups and LSs will be split up and end up on different servers in many cases.