I see what Villemar's saying, too. $info doesn't mean jack anyways these days because barely anyone sells anything on most servers. But it takes a long time to fully flesh out a character with all items, and for collectors as opposed to practical users for PvP/duels, it takes a really long time.
I gave up my main a long time ago when I started venturing out to the other 2 servers. Mains are overrated unless you seek only to play with the character, not the player themselves.
If anything is done to the servers, it'd be a merge way before a close. Shutting a server down would alienate a lot of paying customers and that's not something SOE would likely do. Sure, they don't care enough to actually improve our gameplay (and regularly dampen our spirits) but absolutely denying us won't happen. That'd cost them money! :O
I could be gravely wrong though. Nothing really surprises me anymore. >_>
At any rate, enjoy your respective server(s). They're all awesome!
Bayamos wrote:
True, but beyond even that its your identity that you've built up over the years, the friends on that server, your faction; even little things like your emails from LE characters thanking you and giving you a reward, your buddy list....the list goes on. 4 years is a long time to build up a persona. I mean I'd have no problem with a /copychar to an active server if the dead one was abandoned or shut down. Its not that we're lazy its just a lot of us have invested a lot of time into these characters, and it just seems like a waste to cut them loose arbirarily.
Edit: And Garu yeah I built up three secondary characters on Recursion too...one lvl 50 Merovingian, and two in the high 20's in the other two orgs with rep points over 100 in each that I would use to run all the other org's crits. So lets say the Server du Jour is Syntax, then I wouldn't just be cutting loose my main character but also my three favorite secondary characters as well.
Villemar_MxO wrote:
I'm confident we won't have to worry about that. If anything happens to a server, the characters will just be relocated like before. My mindset about all of this is:
SOE doesn't care if we don't have anything to do. However, they do care whether or not we can get online to said nothing. That's because if we can't access our characters, we don't log in, thus we don't sub.
Pylat wrote:
I would stick around if everyone came to my server, but I would not expect nor demand they have to. Because I refuse to leave my server I won't tell others to do the same. Unless SOE allow people to move their characters over to a new server I won't support a server merge.
I hear you there, but you would still have your main available when you want to run as a 50. I think the OP is saying let's all get our game-on in one place (along with the new peeps who are just starting) and maybe we can have some fun as low levels. Our 50's are still available on our respective servers. I don't think SOE is going to help us on this as far as a merge or /copychar. The merge thread grew to over 400 posts, so gathering on one server will probably be up to us if it will ever happen.
Well after reading this thread with interest thought id put 2 pennys worth in. I must agree i think the idea of a merger is a fantastic idea to build up the number of players and to maintain a busy server. This will i believe encourage more game play and would be a positive added aspect to the game .So yes to 1 server........
But... i have several lvl 50s on one server ie syntax and i would not be that pleased if i had to lvl another character to lvl 50 say on vector or recursion come to that. I have read that many suggest the copy character system.. yes i agree if we could all agree one server but i would want to transfer my whole accounts to that server.. if i was needing to lvl again im not sure i would stay.
Brillant game and many fantastic people i have met playing.. roll on the merger but with the extra option to transfer charaters form server to server..
Come on SOE get your fingers back in this pie ... it tastes fantastic .. really lol
no need to rush to 50 as it would be all about gaming and player rp....
Lvl 10 is the new lvl 50... ftw
Good luck on getting everyone to agree on which server
MarsNova wrote:
Why wont they just let us transfer servers? What is so hard about that? People can do it on other games. Give us an option to hop servers and everyone pick a server to merger ourselves.
I'll tell you why. It would take 3 things that SOE isn't willing to give us.
1. People (to physically code it)
2. Time (to transfer everybody wherever they want to go)
3. Money (to pay the <1> People for their <2> Time)
They are only giving us the 3 servers we have, nothing more and nothing less.
ArchDuke wrote:
MarsNova wrote:Why wont they just let us transfer servers? What is so hard about that? People can do it on other games. Give us an option to hop servers and everyone pick a server to merger ourselves.I'll tell you why. It would take 3 things that SOE isn't willing to give us.1. People (to physically code it)2. Time (to transfer everybody wherever they want to go)3. Money (to pay the <1> People for their <2> Time) They are only giving us the 3 servers we have, nothing more and nothing less.
I'm not sure what's to code. There's already the /copychar command in the system already, I think it was last used to let ppl go to the QA Server to test out CR2. And that was post-Lith.
I'm just guessing, of course, but that command by itself is no good. Going on previous experience, there's no way they coded the database dynamically, so not only will you need the /copychar command re-enabled, you'll also need the destination server to have an empty entry ready to accept your character(s). That would have to get programmed (or whatever word you want to use for manipulating databases). There would probably also be a few other limits hardcoded into the program which would have to be changed. Probably nothing too difficult, but it would take ages for someone who doesn't know the code inside out to figure out where all the changes would have to be made.
It's an interesting idea, T, but even if the game is dying I'll never let go of my current main character. It's not just that he's level 50, or that he's collected a few trinkets; Procurator has a history, and I can't let that go.
Grinding on this game sucks. I would unsub before I had to roll a 50 on another server.
We're all here to do different things, and where we ended up serverwise is a good indicator of that. From a Vector PVPer's standpoint, non-hostile server PvP is repetetive and boring because it's always in Mara, and the blue snipe/gather at the HL and rebuff before we fight again is just dumb. It's like pre-Revolutionary War tactics, where each side would stand in a line, salute, bow, do a little twirl, and then on the command, each side would fire their muskets at the other. Vector is guerilla PVP, where you want it when you want it, provided you can find a target that doesn't run away.So, maybe that idea would work for SynCursion. I dunno about any sort of high-volume transfer between a non-hostile and a hostile server.
We're all here to do different things, and where we ended up serverwise is a good indicator of that. From a Vector PVPer's standpoint, non-hostile server PvP is repetetive and boring because it's always in Mara, and the blue snipe/gather at the HL and rebuff before we fight again is just dumb. It's like pre-Revolutionary War tactics, where each side would stand in a line, salute, bow, do a little twirl, and then on the command, each side would fire their muskets at the other. Vector is guerilla PVP, where you want it when you want it, provided you can find a target that doesn't run away.
So, maybe that idea would work for SynCursion. I dunno about any sort of high-volume transfer between a non-hostile and a hostile server.
This!!! I love pvp but just can't stand the blue attacks or hardline away to go deflag. Some very big lilnub has been showing the me the best ways of doing it lol Such a turn away. Look i can hit conceal right beside you and you can't do jack till the snipe goes through, wth lol Buffs seem to be alot more used aswell and also the vast majority of people don't flag up till theres more of them... i'm sorry but that just ain't quite pvp. I'm normally on the outnumbered side, and guess what, i still pvp. Buffs do however normally get people to log so i end up a billied v a gank ha ha
I understand what the OP is trying to do but it won't happen. Vectorites will not leave (no wonder) and well people are to scared of the hostility. You know that recon button, its a quick touch to get back into the LA... You live, you die. Way of life.
I'm all for having a better population. Only way i can see anything happening is a server merge with reccy/syn and maybe offer a transfer to 'pvprs' to come over. Or the, choose which server before you log in.
The_Bruceter wrote:
Bayamos wrote:We're all here to do different things, and where we ended up serverwise is a good indicator of that. From a Vector PVPer's standpoint, non-hostile server PvP is repetetive and boring because it's always in Mara, and the blue snipe/gather at the HL and rebuff before we fight again is just dumb. It's like pre-Revolutionary War tactics, where each side would stand in a line, salute, bow, do a little twirl, and then on the command, each side would fire their muskets at the other. Vector is guerilla PVP, where you want it when you want it, provided you can find a target that doesn't run away.So, maybe that idea would work for SynCursion. I dunno about any sort of high-volume transfer between a non-hostile and a hostile server.This!!! I love pvp but just can't stand the blue attacks or hardline away to go deflag. Some very big lilnub has been showing the me the best ways of doing it lol Such a turn away. Look i can hit conceal right beside you and you can't do jack till the snipe goes through, wth lol Buffs seem to be alot more used aswell and also the vast majority of people don't flag up till theres more of them... i'm sorry but that just ain't quite pvp. I'm normally on the outnumbered side, and guess what, i still pvp. Buffs do however normally get people to log so i end up a billied v a gank ha haI understand what the OP is trying to do but it won't happen. Vectorites will not leave (no wonder) and well people are to scared of the hostility. You know that recon button, its a quick touch to get back into the LA... You live, you die. Way of life.I'm all for having a better population. Only way i can see anything happening is a server merge with reccy/syn and maybe offer a transfer to 'pvprs' to come over. Or the, choose which server before you log in.
I agree man, That's why i said Vector from the word go, people who don't want to PvP can go sit downtown and do what they normally do, which is i don't know what.......... They wouldn't be troubled.And if you don't like to PvP on this game then what the hell is wrong with you! Matrix is all about fighting with guns and fists, and if you bought the game because of the storyline, then it's gone now, so you really should turn to RPPvP or something, because there is nothing left for you to do...........
