Posts by DaGreat

I have submitted a Bug on this through the ticketing system. Hopefully they either fix quickly or let us bypass these restrictions temporarily.

The event ended when the merge started so no missed event time.

Since I cant reply to the announcement thread and this appears to be the active discussion on the server merges. I have the following general questions that hopefully can make it into the FAQ although maybe many of you all know the answers. I have put the questions in black and the white text is my commentary.

1. What is considered a "community"? I'm guessing this is the location ID for each server group.

Context: "All 1x servers within each community will be merged into a single 1x server. All 4x, 5x, 8x, and 10x servers within each community will be merged into a single 5x server."

2. Is there any consideration or timeline for all "communities" to be merged into one international community?

I feel like the community is owed this answer even if there is no plans currently, since the communication and transparency has been so poor for over a decade that players need to understand what the actual results of these new mergers will bring. In my opinion this is a major determining factor in what type of server is worth my time to continue to play after these merges. While the community mergers are overdue by about 8-10 years this is an opportunity for GF to make right and create these international servers sooner than later.

3. Will there be any option for 1x Server characters to move to 5x or plans to eventually merge those servers together?

Similar to question two, this is also important for the community to understand. I worry that the standard servers are going to remain died even after this change as the current incentives bring no new players to these servers as new players will still be pushed to younger servers. I believe the rational behind 5X or higher servers should be allowing players to catch up to then eventually be combine to a main server? I personally think that 1x servers are outdated and were fine 10+ years ago but frankly the 4-5x servers should just be the normal speed and everyone should be combined together. For those that will complain that the 1x servers have existed longer see my sentence above this is offset by the server speed. Regardless, the more segregation (communities, speed of server, etc.) active players are forced into the more the community suffers in my opinion.

4. Will there be any modification to the current Castle system?

Even after these mergers I would be shocked if any server will maintain 50 active players on the server let alone within an alliance. Can these limits be removed or modified? In conjunction with the reply's above above inactive knights will have to be kept or multi-accounts will need to be allowed within the same alliance in order for us to actually field enough to continue raids. I saw a suggestion about the old raid system coming back which might be welcomed with combination of our current one. Either way something about this system needs to change unless there is a way to get hundreds of active users back into the same server. I'm by no means an expert on this so I'm sure someone has a better solution.

Regardless I am happy to play again even if it will be for 90 days before it turns back into the same old story. For the first time in 8 years I have loaded up on some Rubies and I feel that GF and the community should be given some credit here for doing something meaningful to the game we all enjoy. Hopefully, we can actually get some well deserved dialog since it seems like GF has not completely forgotten this game exists.

Hi All,

As some or most of you know, a new server has been created and I think it would be cool to get as many of the active player base that are interest in playing to make an account on the UKs Server 25.

I will be starting up an order and looking for old/new faces who want to enjoy another spin at this game!

Maybe we can add some unwritten rules as well such as 20 player caps for orders to encourage more wars, etc.

Just some thoughts. Hope to see you all there!

Thanks,

DaGreat

Are there any status updates on this (server merges)? I feel that it is pretty universal that server merges need to happen. Are there plans? Is there anything being put in place to inject these changes?

I think I speak for most when I say there is absolutely no communication from GF regarding the future of this game... as pointed out in the post above it would be nice if they just informed us even if it was to say there is nothing planned for the future.