Consequences of merging Blue and Green ?

[Viscere]

Pro

-decreased price of items
-easier leveling, more active lower level areas
-increased competition
-new server for those enjoying a fresh start

Contra

-harder to get specific camps
-harder to get specific raid items
- 1k - 1.2k prime time everyday : server lag?

[spoil]

I would think that more players would flock to the new Green server to offset the numbers gained from the merge.

[cd288]

Originally Posted by spoil [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I would think that more players would flock to the new Green server to offset the numbers gained from the merge.

True, depends on when they do it though. I could see a point where they merge and tell us they're still working on some coding for stuff for new Green and it will be a few months.

Would be cool to have everyone together on the same server again for a bit before they split the population

[magnetaress]

Originally Posted by spoil [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I would think that more players would flock to the new Green server to offset the numbers gained from the merge.

This. Yall would get new players. Old ones would stick around on blue or reroll on green.

It's not going to happen around the launch of Teek and Tormax tho.

[Toxigen]

yes

[Philistine]

I feel like prices for items are* already down. People are still farming the heck out of stuff, but not as many people need it. 28k cof, 35k torpor, 35ishk fungi, for example.

[branamil]

The cons are that the staff would have a lot of extra work for very little gain

[enjchanter]

Pros:
Who cares
Cons
Who cares

[cd288]

Originally Posted by branamil [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The cons are that the staff would have a lot of extra work for very little gain

While I do think they will eventually merge and start a new Green ("eventually" meaning anywhere from this year to a couple years down the road), this is probably right. While it might be relatively easy to merge servers, it's a lot of work for the staff to handle a larger player base on one server plus all the various classic changes they'd want to make for new Green that were discovered during the course of Green 1.0. Wish I knew how to do that coding stuff so I could help out haha

I think another commenter made a fair point of what do you do with the CSR who are on one server but play on another? Make them choose between playing or being CSR? Then you have to replace a bunch of CSR that quit? It's not an insurmountable issue, and I doubt it's why they haven't merged, but it is AN issue that you have to come up with a solution for, which isn't easy. Just another item of "work" for the staff.

[nvidor]

Originally Posted by cd288 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

While I do think they will eventually merge and start a new Green ("eventually" meaning anywhere from this year to a couple years down the road), this is probably right. While it might be relatively easy to merge servers, it's a lot of work for the staff to handle a larger player base on one server plus all the various classic changes they'd want to make for new Green that were discovered during the course of Green 1.0. Wish I knew how to do that coding stuff so I could help out haha

I think another commenter made a fair point of what do you do with the CSR who are on one server but play on another? Make them choose between playing or being CSR? Then you have to replace a bunch of CSR that quit? It's not an insurmountable issue, and I doubt it's why they haven't merged, but it is AN issue that you have to come up with a solution for, which isn't easy. Just another item of "work" for the staff.

For me having separate servers is more work than all being piled onto one. I can imagine mistakes were made down the line of someone trying to help someone on green but mistakenly was on blues db or vice versa.

If 250 people from green petition a ticket and 250 people from blue also petition a ticket in reality its the same exact work load just different servers.

As for some who questioned how characters with the same name could ever be merged this was a issue with Live EQ. All the staff had to do was make sure every new character to a server if the names match has an extra E attached to the end of it. This prevented the same names being used with exact spelling. So there tech is a way to do it if they chose to go down that route.

So if a character on green was named Xeon but that name has already been used on blue it would transfer the character as Xeone