What Happens to Guilds When the Servers Merge?

[RistoffDervish]

I have a couple hundred accounts in my Arcane Alliance guild on Orien. Will all of my guild members go with me to the new server and remain a part of my guild? I am all for a server merge, I think it's the shot in the arm we need right now, especially if the new data center will be able to scale the servers up if the population explodes again from some random act of advertising or something.

Just wondering if the Devs had any ideas rolling around.

[Impaqt]

there is no merge int he works right now.

But yes, in the past, when servers merged, guilds came alone with.

[RistoffDervish]

there is no merge int he works right now.

There's this:


We plan on revisiting the idea of server merges after we've moved to the new datacenter which is slated for in sometime in the new year.

We want to make sure we have lag under control before we concentrate the players. We recently made some fairly large changes to help combat lag, particularly in the Stormhorns and other places where monsters can use persistent AoE effects. We haven't heard any feedback that lag is reduced, but the nature of that beast is that we only hear about it when lag is bad.

There are some obstacles to overcome, like making sure shared storage and guild move over and players have good tools to deal with name collisions for both characters and guilds.

Sev~

[Krelar]

There's this:

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Sorry, let me rephrase.

We don't plan to consider any type of server merge until we are not only moved to a new datacenter. We don't plan to consider any type of server merge until we see how lag is with the new and improved hardware.

If we ever did consider the idea of server merges, not that we have definite plans to do that, it would not be until the aforementioned issues were already addressed.

In other words I was saying that server merges were definitely off the table currently for technical reasons, and we are not saying that they are planned out.

Sev~

[RistoffDervish]

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I didn't see that. Thank You!