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Originally Posted by Zuranthium
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No characters get wiped though? At the end of Green server's cycle, they just get moved to Blue, where they can continue being played there if they want to. Yes people will gravitate around the same content but unless they re-code the game (which I think they should for new server, but they likely won't), that will always happen.
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This is not confirmed. The term "recycle server" was created by the players, with the assumption that characters on Green/Recycle would be folded back onto Blue at the end of each Green/Recycle cycle (2-3 years). However the staff has never confirmed that this will happen, and there are some serious logistical considerations to be resolved first.
For instance, Green will have several thousand players, and the odds are high that a thousand or more will have the same name as characters on Blue (because everyone wants to play Raistlin and Drizzt, /sigh). How exactly do you get a thousand players, all at once, to fix their names ... to new names which also don't conflict (on a completely different server, if they're somehow doing this while they're on Green)? Or alternatively, if you just move everyone and add an "X" at the end of their name, how do you let a thousand or more players change their names without hiring a million more GMs to accommodate all the extra humans needed (because you know that at an embarrassing percentage will try changing their name to something like "dickbag", so you need humans reviewing the changes)?
It's entirely possible that solving that problem (or some other problem that we haven't considered but the staff has) will be more work than the staff wants to put in, and as a result they won't "recycle" Green/Recycle at all. Or they'll find a solution and recycling will happen: we just don't know.
TLDR; "Recycling" Green is an idea the devs mentioned as a possibility once, but since then it's been mostly a player promoted idea. At this point no one except the staff themselves (and quite possibly not even them) knows for sure whether Green will actually recycle.