Server Merge?

Eoria - Harshlands

truekossy wrote: »

Make 5 characters on server 1. Do the same for server 2.

Max characters per account per server is 8 but if servers 1 and 2 merge you have 10. What happens? b:cute

I know for the first server merge on MY-EN, what happened was eight of your chars would be visible and the others would be viewable as you deleted a char. So say you deleted char#2...char#9 would appear at the bottom as soon as char#2 was deleted.

Bubbles - Morai

Eoria - Harshlands wrote: »

I know for the first server merge on MY-EN, what happened was eight of your chars would be visible and the others would be viewable as you deleted a char. So say you deleted char#2...char#9 would appear at the bottom as soon as char#2 was deleted.

Do you know what version my-en was when they merged?

If it was tb or earlier then that would explain why. With our version scrollbars should appear...

truekossy

Eoria - Harshlands wrote: »

I know for the first server merge on MY-EN, what happened was eight of your chars would be visible and the others would be viewable as you deleted a char. So say you deleted char#2...char#9 would appear at the bottom as soon as char#2 was deleted.

Makes me wonder if you could spam tickets to get your characters restored on a different account...

OontzOontz - Dreamweaver

Eoria - Harshlands wrote: »

I know for the first server merge on MY-EN, what happened was eight of your chars would be visible and the others would be viewable as you deleted a char. So say you deleted char#2...char#9 would appear at the bottom as soon as char#2 was deleted.

There wasn't a scrollbar, but you could press down or up arrow keys and get to hidden characters.

Tsukyini - Raging Tide

Alsiadorra - Sanctuary wrote: »

I would have liked server transfers better, but whatever.

The problem is that server transfers for the point of redistributing the population (as opposed to just selling transfers to people who wanted to try a new server/move to play with other friends/etc) usually ends up just making the problem worse. People will transfer off to the more populated servers (usually), and the lower pop server just ends up even more of a ghost town than before. Even free transfers to the low pop servers usually doesn't help any (Blizzard found this out when they offered free transfers from high pop servers to low pop).

The problem with server merges is that it seems to not help either (in the long run). Sure, right after the merger there will be a noticeable increase of players/catshops, but eventually it will thin back out. (My statements on this are based on having gone through two rounds of server merging in FFXI, so of course YMMV depending on the game).

Server merges seem to mainly beneft the company as far as decreasing their server costs. There's nothing wrong with that in and of itself, as obviously the company has to be making a decent profit or else they have no incentive to keep the game going. I just don't think that merging servers is going to fix the problems in the game the way some people seem to think it will.

Eoria - Harshlands

Bubbles - Lothranis wrote: »

Do you know what version my-en was when they merged?

If it was tb or earlier then that would explain why. With our version scrollbars should appear...

The merge I'm refering to happened before tb.

The second merge occurred between that merged server and the new server they opened up for the tb expansion. Not sure when that merge was though as I'd quit and came to this version between the time they did that first merge and when they finally implemented the tb patch.

Bubbles - Morai

Eoria - Harshlands wrote: »

The merge I'm refering to happened before tb.

The second merge occurred between that merged server and the new server they opened up for the tb expansion. Not sure when that merge was though as I'd quit and came to this version between the time they did that first merge and when they finally implemented the tb patch.

I see.

Either way, those characters will still show up in list whether it's by scroll bar or what oontz said, use arrow keys.

There is a way of getting around the 8 character limit, but I haven't done it myself since it involves editing the main exe and some other shenanigans. The friend of mine who did it got a scrollbar to show up.

seitori

So long as they expand the character slots on the remaining servers, so we could transfer all our characters too the remaining servers (if they ever did do a merge) I wouldn't mind a merger...

But if they did a merger {W/O} that as part of it, I'd be way P*ss*d off at them (If I was forced too loose either my (2nd or 3rd) sets of characters I have on the other (2 of the 3 servers) that I play on, on my only single (account/client)....b:surrender


But that possibility of any mergers, is still quite a ways off b4 we end up with any possible ones here (The Euro-servers have never really had a very strong player base presence on them, unlike ours...)

Frankenstein - Momaganon

Tsukyini - Raging Tide wrote: »

The problem with server merges is that it seems to not help either (in the long run). Sure, right after the merger there will be a noticeable increase of players/catshops, but eventually it will thin back out.

That is my opinon too. b:victory

Perfect World Europa make currently very much Advertise at German pages, that the game is 100% german. If they change now the german to an english server, I think that 50-80% of the current german players will leave the server as the server is no longer german.

Xainou - Sanctuary

Frankenstein - Momaganon wrote: »

If they change now the german to an english server, I think that 50-80% of the current german players will leave the server as the server is no longer german.

Uh, you would still have your German client and the announcements in german too. Do you mind other nationalities in 'your' server that much...?

/ontopic: Don't really care, I don't play on the EU servers and Sanc is very much alive and kicking.

Frankenstein - Momaganon

Xainou - Sanctuary wrote: »

Uh, you would still have your German client and the announcements in german too. Do you mind other nationalities in 'your' server that much...?

I play currently the english client on the german server and the most announcements and system messages are in the german language.

In Europe learn everybody 8-9 years english minimum, but the most do not know much english and the most want to play in the sparetime on a german server. And if advertisment is that the game is 100% german and player start the game as they think that it is 100% german... I am sure that the most of these players will leave within some months. Additional will join not so much german player as they can not make advertisment that the game is 100% german.

The next problem is Server War. With next expansion can come server vs server. If we have only one European Server, at which time should be the Server War?. At 3 am European time or at 10 am US time?

The German Server is not dead. I don't know about the french one, but if the french is dead, they can change the french to an english server and keep the german one.

Bubbles - Morai

Xainou - Sanctuary wrote: »

Uh, you would still have your German client and the announcements in german too. Do you mind other nationalities in 'your' server that much...?

/ontopic: Don't really care, I don't play on the EU servers and Sanc is very much alive and kicking.

red chat is determined by what announcents pwe set up server side, not client side
except for the generic messagees like duke shouts
item name name will still ne determined by server though

Xainou - Sanctuary

Bubbles - Lothranis wrote: »

red chat is determined by what announcents pwe set up server side, not client side
except for the generic messagees like duke shouts
item name name will still ne determined by server though

The OP states that system announcements would be in the language of your client though

And I just don't get the big deal. lol I mean hell, even my server got some Germans who seriously got some rotten English, but they get by o_o

Gnip - Raging Tide

Forgive me, if this was discussed previously. But what if you have toons on several servers (same account) I'm fairly certain I have max toons on most servers. What happens in that situation?

Bubbles - Morai

Xainou - Sanctuary wrote: »

The OP states that system announcements would be in the language of your client though

And I just don't get the big deal. lol I mean hell, even my server got some Germans who seriously got some rotten English, but they get by o_o

they meant the generic announcements then
pwi is not google translate, whatever the gms write in game or server side is what you will see, it won't be magically translated

Bubbles - Morai

Gnip - Raging Tide wrote: »

Forgive me, if this was discussed previously. But what if you have toons on several servers (same account) I'm fairly certain I have max toons on most servers. What happens in that situation?

as stated on the previous pages, you'll have 9+ chars on one server
you'll either use arrow keys or a scroll bar to see the extra chars

Sarrafeline - Sanctuary

A single EU server would possibly work to PW's advantage. I could see a lot of British players switching over if the game had English help available on the forums/in game. For alienating the German players or French players, well, if the servers are a ghost town as it is now, then they wouldn't be losing much if they merged, anyway.

Amea - Heavens Tear

I don't forsee many European players joining any of the US servers again, because I remember many Europeans left our server to join European ones when they were released. If they merged them into one, what language would they speak? So confusing.

Alsiadorra - Sanctuary

Tsukyini - Raging Tide wrote: »

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I just want off sanctuary without having to start over 6 characters :P

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b:surrender i vote for merge

ovenusarmanio

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