There’s been a lot of threads requesting the merge of servers to that PvE isn’t so… dead. This thread itself, is to discuss some of the complications that could arise and hopefully provide positive solutions to those IF servers were to ever merge.
For example, I’m in a situation where I’m a Member of Guild A on Server X. I’m also a member of Guild B, on Server Y. I joined A before release because I wanted an active experience from the get go, B is just all my friends who jumped onto the server they are on because it wasn’t full and they could all be together that way. I figured with guesting coming I shouldn’t have a problem being in A for the most part and jumping into B when my friends wanna do stuff.
As I’m the only member of Guild B, on Server X… I’ve taken it upon myself to spend a bit of influence to get the guild vault. I’ve stopped at this point so far for one reason… Guild upgrades are server specific – so what would happen if Servers X and Y merged?
I’m fairly certain that I will continue to unlock the full 250 slots for guild storage on my server, our personal banks max at 240 and it costs more to get gems than influence. I’m going ahead with this because Server X is consistently full population speaking, and Y isn’t so bad either so a merger between those two seems highly unlikely. But is it a ‘continue at your own risk’ scenario?
I would certainly like to get a heads up before a merger does take place, if I need to pull my stuff out of the vault to keep it from getting lost in cyberspace I have no problems doing so. Devs are great at communication so I’m certain they would be kind enough to do that.
But what about the investment in the upgrades? I said that getting influence was cheaper than getting gems to unlock bank tabs – I certainly am not saying it’s free. If I alone spent time earning influence to unlock the 250 slots I would be earning it for near on a year before that occurred. I’m not asking for a refund on the influence earned though – in the guild panel it clearly keeps record (though for how long I am uncertain) of who uses items to grant influence to their guild. Would there be any chance that tomes of influence would be given to those who lost upgrades due to a merger so that it wasn’t all for naught? Please note I’m not asking for coin back, as going to a guild promoter to support your guild shouldn’t be refundable imo – just the influence to be used on other upgrades since I did go out and pay for it.
What other possible problems do you all see concerning a merger? Hopefully we can help the devs with their considerations on the process, since merges are fairly staple in any MMO game anyways I figure the least we can offer are possible solutions to problems that can happen rather than complain about things after the fact…