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Originally Posted by Synphul
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It's not really that difficult to understand, my friend. Aside from the issue you pointed out which I doubt would be a quick and easy fix, you also have to rename a very large number of the characters being merged. Sure, they could probably automate an X at the end of everyone's name, but then who's going to take the time to rename at least 1000+ characters after the merge, or is everyone just stuck with CharacterX? Then the next merge is just CharacterXX? Is a guide going to sit there for 20 minutes while the player tries to find a name that isn't already in use on a name-diluted server? Are you going to have to petition here on the forums and exponentially increase the petition volume that already gets handled at a snails pace only to find out the name you want is already in use? Implementing any kind of system to do this is going to be a headache/time consuming to an already exasperated volunteer staff.
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They've said they can automate an X at the end of the name so that's what happens. Doesn't need to be done manually. Everyone knew that would be what happened, so if you created a character with the same name and don't like having an X at the end of your name after the merge (honestly, who really cares) then that's the player's fault. This isn't really a headache for the staff...you make another clarification post on the announcements board restating what you said at the beginning of Green and then you don't have to answer any petitions. Problem solved.
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The recycle/dump system they envision is wonderful in theory, but doesn't make a lot of sense with how invested people get in their characters in EQ and would result in a final product far from any kind of classic experience they tout here except on the active recycle server. (The 'hard time of year' situation even shows that the staff understands how invested people are here) And I think you'd be surprised how many people have accounts with near the max amount of toons. I'm not one of them, but I know at least a handful of people that have stuck to one account. The allure of different accounts on live was so that one could box, and so with the no boxing rule here, what's the incentive for the majority of casual Joe's to split their toons among multiple accounts? And if you could only re-use your Blue name on the same account, what do you think happened when they started Green? You can't only look at it from the perspective of a P99 raider where people plan to share the shit out of accounts.
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Really? People are soooo invested that they never play a different server? Really? If that was the case no one would ever play the new TLP. No one would have played Green. They would stick to their original account with their original characters. And when the merge happens your char doesn't get deleted, you can still play it. There are very limited instances where people don't use multiple accounts AND also have that account completely full of characters they play all the time. This is even more true after the under level 10 character purge that the staff conducted pre-Green...most accounts will now have at least one slot open and, if they don't, at least one of the slots is occupied by a random mule or very low level alt that the account holder never plays. Those can be easily deleted to make room for your character from Green.
Again, if you ignored the warnings from the staff that were very clear at the start of Green and made more characters on your Green account than can fit on the same Blue account, that's your fault. If there's one thing we know the staff doesn't really care about, it's players who whine about something that was their fault in the first place.
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Blue is by many in the community considered the Beta/Test and Green the official release. BAM!, P99's mission is officially accomplished after pushing out a timeline accurate classic server as was the original intent. Where they go from here is just extra icing. We also already see that at least some of the dev interest has waned in the last half a decade, so the merge solutions would have to be simple and would have to keep the player from feeling like all the work they did on Green was for nothing.
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Any work you do on a progression servers is always technically "for nothing". You play to enjoy the game and then you move on to the next progression server. They'll merge Green into Blue and make a new progression server as they've previously stated. Everything you say about this is baseless conjecture considering the statements the staff have made lol.