Hmmmm... so EU players get 1 more day to play, it seems (for us merge will start on Wednesday).
btw. wanna be unique? Create bio for your toon, end of story (or is it?).
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josiahiyonMember, NW M9 PlaytestPosts: 396Arc User
Most likely, yes. However, I'm looking for an explicit confirmation that the 3 shards will be merged tomorrow. Upgrading technology to allow for a merge is not necessarily the same as merging shards.
Most likely, yes. However, I'm looking for an explicit confirmation that the 3 shards will be merged tomorrow. Upgrading technology to allow for a merge is not necessarily the same as merging shards.
The upgrade includes the shard merge, per the news blog.
Well, we’re almost there! In the very near future, we’ll be performing the long-anticipated server upgrade that will bring all players together in a single, unified shard.
ROLL TIDE ROLL
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I am excited about the merge, but i'm also afraid of the possible bugs from it. Like characters/guilds/items being lost in the transfer. Hope it all goes smooth.
Will the channel servers be down as well? I use Pidgin and like to chat sometimes with ppl in the game when I have to be out of it doing something else.
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dardoveMember, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild UsersPosts: 0Arc User
Will the channel servers be down as well? I use Pidgin and like to chat sometimes with ppl in the game when I have to be out of it doing something else.
I doubt it. CO and STO would have gotten a warning that it was going down and the only downtime message on the CO forums is that the account server will be down for part of the upgrade.
I just logged into the Gateway via my mobile phone and it now says the shard maintenance will begin tonight at 10PM PST. Has the time changed? Which is correct now? Thanks.
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dardoveMember, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild UsersPosts: 0Arc User
I just logged into the Gateway via my mobile phone and it now says the shard maintenance will begin tonight at 10PM PST. Has the time changed? Which is correct now? Thanks.
Yea, and here is the problem with this line of thinking. Its absurd, slightly paranoid, and borderline narcissistic.
You actually believe that, recently mind you, Cryptic took the time to code in a whole new feature. Simply to sniff out player names for the sole singular purpose to bolster the random name database for new characters. Lets completely ignore the whole mechanics of how the system manages to do this without selecting the thousands of copyrighted, offensive, parody, immature, puns, and just out of place names people seem to come up with. Such a system would be a marvel of programming brilliance.
We can, perhaps assume, that human action was needed. Some Dev, saw your name and liked it sooo much it was manually added to the generator. Again, for the sole reason to give one more name to the 10 or 12 they already had. This was such a priority that it had to be done recently, during module 2 and holiday event crunch time. Not, for Feywild, not for launch, but recently. This in light of the fact that they didn't even expand the list for Elven names with the additional two races. They just recycled the very same names for wood Elves.
So, either your name was always part of the random name generator. Or it has to be one of the above situations. Just looking at it as an outsider, what seems more likely to you?
like some game coders aren't lazy...i'm sure they would do such a thing as to steal names for a random generator...less work for them to come up with names
I mean if you got 10 coders how many names can they think up...yet you have 50,000 player base/.///boom instant random names
ok, so they are not gonna tweak the timers for prayer and such...but what happens when the inevitable massive glitch happens and the servers are down for 3 days? bet they didn't think of that one.
Well hopefully im wrong, but however this merge is gonna most likely break the game til at least morning. At least that is how perfect world's luck is most of the time anyhow. Not sure if it is coincidence stuff breaks all the time for them, or if it is just plain bad technicians trying to do a job they dont know.
If they make something idiot proof. They will come out with better idiots
Games are complicated, things can interact in unforeseen ways when altered, and stuff just plain happens sometimes. Don't knock the devs when there's no reason to do so.
Hey quick question. On the server before the shutdown, the announcement said that the shard will be down... for such and such amount of time. Is this shard maintenance singled out for the Mindflayer shard or all of them?
All shards are down for this maintenance since they're all being merged into one mega-shard.
Awesome! Thanks for the quick reply, much appreciated! Now to try and wrap around my head the ability to deal with the ridonkulous amount of spamme rs the gam e will have with the mega-shard in effect lol!
This is already covered in the extended FAQ. Nothing will be done because character names aren't unique in NW. Only your @handle is unique. So there could already be 1000s of people with the same character name as your character on your shard.
LOL - Arya Stark and Drizzt Do'urdens , millions out there!
May I please inquire as to why this couldn't be done at the same time as when the rest of the Cryptic games are brought down at 10 tonight?
Are the rest of the Cryptic games undergoing a similar magnitude change? (The long-sought transformation from individual shards to the Megazord, I mean, mega-shard.)?
Are the rest of the Cryptic games undergoing a similar magnitude change? (The long-sought transformation from individual shards to the Megazord, I mean, mega-shard.)?
Well, according to the Star Trek Online Forums, there is going to be an account-wide server maintainance starting at 10 pm PST and ends at midnight.
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I keep seeing 'servers will be upgraded' to support the merger, just looking for confirmation that the merger will occur at the same time.
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Um....server has nothing to do with framerate. That's wholly a graphics/hardware issue.
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btw. wanna be unique? Create bio for your toon, end of story (or is it?).
Most likely, yes. However, I'm looking for an explicit confirmation that the 3 shards will be merged tomorrow. Upgrading technology to allow for a merge is not necessarily the same as merging shards.
Iyon the Dark
The upgrade includes the shard merge, per the news blog.
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At present, there are still the three individual shards---merge isn't until later. Which shard?
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I doubt it. CO and STO would have gotten a warning that it was going down and the only downtime message on the CO forums is that the account server will be down for part of the upgrade.
The downtime notice was changed to 8pm PST.
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Yes, the entirety of the game will be down during the merge.
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like some game coders aren't lazy...i'm sure they would do such a thing as to steal names for a random generator...less work for them to come up with names
I mean if you got 10 coders how many names can they think up...yet you have 50,000 player base/.///boom instant random names
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Awesome! Thanks for the quick reply, much appreciated! Now to try and wrap around my head the ability to deal with the ridonkulous amount of spamme rs the gam e will have with the mega-shard in effect lol!
LOL - Arya Stark and Drizzt Do'urdens , millions out there!
Are the rest of the Cryptic games undergoing a similar magnitude change? (The long-sought transformation from individual shards to the Megazord, I mean, mega-shard.)?
Well, according to the Star Trek Online Forums, there is going to be an account-wide server maintainance starting at 10 pm PST and ends at midnight.
The independent, shardless Foundry server is down as well in solidarity with it's brethren apparently. :-(
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