Updated Server Merge Timetable

Things are moving fast in the Server Merge process, and even we are having trouble keeping up. From Rothgar:

We plan to have all U.S merges done by Monday night, the 20th. International merges will come after the first of the year due to database maintenance that must be performed before we can start the merges.

Wednesday night at midnight we will perform two more mergers. Then Sunday night at midnight we will perform the final two U.S. mergers.

I’ll post the server names sometime tomorrow with the corresponding day that we are planning to do the merge.

Rothgar provided some more in-depth understanding of the Server Merge decision-making

The servers that are merging had very similar population numbers to begin with but I took the highest server and merged it with the lowest, and so forth. This was done to try to normalize the final populations as much as possible.

Also, I was going based on peak concurrent population, not the number of accounts or characters which would have skewed things towards the older servers.

In the end, all servers that were merged should be very similar in population to the new Everfrost.

Also, regarding the post about [Lucan D’Lere]… I’ve mentioned it a few times on here that we will look at the remaining servers as soon as the first set of merges are done and make a decision at that point. There’s nothing else I can really say about it beyond that. We have the new merge process that should be pretty flawless by the time we’re done and our goal is for all servers to have a healthy population. Obviously some servers are limited by contracts and rulesets which make it a little tougher. Fortunately the issue with LDL is simpler than with Live Gamer servers or PvP servers. But, we still need to decide what type of server to merge LDL with. I don’t think its possible at this time to merge them with AB without making some adjustments on the back end.

As Lucan D’Lere is a Roleplay server and the only other RP server is Antonia Bayle, this is a tricky decision.