Progression Server

[cd288]

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

As far as I know there isn't a legal issue. It's just up to the devs when they want to roll a new server.

My hunch is they are still torn on how they want to do it. Will they merge green and blue? If so, how do the characters from both servers on a single account get merged together nicely? If the servers don't merge, then the population is probably going to be too split. If they delete a server and it's characters, you'll probably get a lot of people who just stop playing, etc.

They already said if you have duplicate names that they would add an X to the Green char's name if you used the same name as your Blue character.

They also gave a very explicit warning upfront that if you created Green characters on the same account that you use on Blue, and in the aggregate had more than 8 characters between the two accounts, you would not be able to see some of the characters on the character select screen post-merge. You'd need to delete existing characters to have the excess ones show up. They were clear that this was a limitation of the client and not P99...so not sure if they'd ever be able to find a workaround for that, but in any case they were very clear about the risk and if someone didn't listen to them that's on that person not the staff.

[DeathsSilkyMist]

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

They already said if you have duplicate names that they would add an X to the Green char's name if you used the same name as your Blue character.

They also gave a very explicit warning upfront that if you created Green characters on the same account that you use on Blue, and in the aggregate had more than 8 characters between the two accounts, you would not be able to see some of the characters on the character select screen post-merge. You'd need to delete existing characters to have the excess ones show up. They were clear that this was a limitation of the client and not P99...so not sure if they'd ever be able to find a workaround for that, but in any case they were very clear about the risk and if someone didn't listen to them that's on that person not the staff.

Oh I agree it isn't an insurmountable problem, and they can cover themselves by giving people warnings. But people are often unreasonable, and/or may have missed the memo.

It's still a risk you'll lose players if the merge doesn't go smoothly. Especially for players who can't play their favorite character right away for whatever reason.

Personally I think merging is still the best option so you don't have a 3-way population split. That will end up being worse than merging issues, unless they really drop the ball somehow.