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:O what do you guys mean?
is it because i said COH feel dead? sorry lol i should have know i'll get flames for that :P
its just so hard to find a group this days >:
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i'm not sure but i think it may be a good idea,i'm playing on union and the game feel a bit dead, a specially on the villain side but not only.
is this been discuses before?
what do you guys think?
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Bad idea... there be a fight over name if two people have the same name, SG lost prestige and all items lost
only good thing would be an increase in players
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i'm not sure but i think it may be a good idea,i'm playing on union and the game feel a bit dead, a specially on the villain side but not only.
is this been discuses before?
what do you guys think?
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Bad idea... there be a fight over name if two people have the same name, SG lost prestige and all items lost
only good thing would be an increase in players
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you are right about the name thing,but the prestige and items lose i think is just a tech problem that can be fix by the developers
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i'm not sure but i think it may be a good idea,i'm playing on union and the game feel a bit dead, a specially on the villain side but not only.
is this been discuses before?
what do you guys think?
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Bad idea... there be a fight over name if two people have the same name, SG lost prestige and all items lost
only good thing would be an increase in players
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you are right about the name thing,but the prestige and items lose i think is just a tech problem that can be fix by the developers
[/ QUOTE ]say there a 1,000 SG out there to be moved and each SG has 150 people in that that be over 15,000 people to sort out make everything change over, then the base layouts, items auctions house and maybe alot more
Sorry if this sound likea shot in the foot but it isn't going to be an easy thing
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i'm not sure but i think it may be a good idea,i'm playing on union and the game feel a bit dead, a specially on the villain side but not only.
is this been discuses before?
what do you guys think?
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Bad idea... there be a fight over name if two people have the same name, SG lost prestige and all items lost
only good thing would be an increase in players
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you are right about the name thing,but the prestige and items lose i think is just a tech problem that can be fix by the developers
[/ QUOTE ]say there a 1,000 SG out there to be moved and each SG has 150 people in that that be over 15,000 people to sort out make everything change over, then the base layouts, items auctions house and maybe alot more
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well i'm not a game developer so i don't really know about this stuff.
but i don't see it so hard really,its not a server transfer,but a servers merger,take two servers and make them one,why anything need to be change ? (other then the name problem)
i'm not saying it something easy,but i think its possible..
i believe other games did it... (not sure about it tho)
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i'm not sure but i think it may be a good idea,i'm playing on union and the game feel a bit dead, a specially on the villain side but not only.
is this been discuses before?
what do you guys think?
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Yes, it's been discussed before, dozens of times, to death. The biggest problem with them doing such a thing is both character names and global names. Would you be willing to change the names of your chars if someone else happened to have the same name for longer? What about your global name?
There is NO way they would be able to perform a server merge without REALLY annoying a HUGE percentage of their player base, and quite possibly killing the game in one fell swoop. If EU populations ever drop below sustainable levels, they're far more likely to do what they did when they closed the Korean game down. Transfer everyone to the US servers, and issue free name change tokens where needed. That will still annoy people, but it's probably about the only solution they could take.
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for as far as i know, a guild or , as in COX, a SG is nothing more then a map of code lines.
so not only the SG name and type is in it, but also the links of players and base data.
the only risk of it is that it might not adept with the US server, which might make the problem you're worried about.
Its sunday not saturday right? I thought the server merge posts were restricted to saturdays only now.
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Yes, it's been discussed before, dozens of times, to death. The biggest problem with them doing such a thing is both character names and global names. Would you be willing to change the names of your chars if someone else happened to have the same name for longer? What about your global name?
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personally? it would suck to change my character name but i can live with it (done it before when i moved here from the US severs)
about the global name,but isn't global chat is for all the servers ? (and the same thing with the global name :P)
and sorry i didn't know it been discussed to death >:
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Its sunday not saturday right? I thought the server merge posts were restricted to saturdays only now.
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European Cup Final.
This thread is our salvation.
NO JUST BLOODY NO! end of *smiles*
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for as far as i know, a guild or , as in COX, a SG is nothing more then a map of code lines.
so not only the SG name and type is in it, but also the links of players and base data.
the only risk of it is that it might not adept with the US server, which might make the problem you're worried about.
[/ QUOTE ]but to some a SG is a home as well as a server. if we take this to real life. If you home caught fire and need to move for the house was unlivable, and moved to a new house. That new house would not have the same feeling as home as you lost apart of yourself though that fire
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European Cup Final.
This thread is our salvation.
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Only if we lose against Germany!
... which let's face it, it is very possible 
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Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! It lives yet again! Fleeeeeeeee! Women and rabbits first! Children can come later if need be...
In other words, not this again, and NO!
[/ QUOTE ]what England Vs Germany in football again.....yeah i know it bad :P
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about the global name,but isn't global chat is for all the servers ?
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It is yes, but for regional servers only. You see, it depends on what kind of merger you're proposing. Do you want to merge EU servers only, or would you prefer to go the whole hog, and shift us over to the US servers? It's quite likely that there are people in the US sharing the same global names as people in the EU. If we merged with them, people WILL lose their global names.
Even so, many many people find their character's name is a lot more important to them than they realise. I, for example, would be EXTREMELY angry if I had to change the names of ANY of my chars. I'm a roleplayer, and their names are essential to their entire concept. If this were forced on me, I *would* leave.
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There is NO way they would be able to perform a server merge without REALLY annoying a HUGE percentage of their player base, and quite possibly killing the game in one fell swoop
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Whilst I agree with this, I believe there also losing subscriptions by failing to react to the low numbers, Theyve already in the process of losing 3 x Subs from me due to lack of other players and lack of PVP.
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If EU populations ever drop below sustainable levels, they're far more likely to do what they did when they closed the Korean game down. Transfer everyone to the US servers, and issue free name change tokens where needed. That will still annoy people, but it's probably about the only solution they could take.
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I believe this is the only way forward, especially if they actually just add the servers to the US ones, that way for all the sticklers who think there NAME>OTHER PLAYERS can stay on there dead server with name intact. Whislt the rest of us can play on servers with at least some Teams/PVP happening.
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Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! It lives yet again! Fleeeeeeeee! Women and rabbits first! Children can come later if need be...
In other words, not this again, and NO!
[/ QUOTE ]what England Vs Germany in football again.....yeah i know it bad :P
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Really not a footie fan eh?
(England didn't even qualify. We suck. Hard)
On another game (daoc) they finally merged some parts of servers, pvp areas only; for example if they would do the same on CoX, John became John_Union if he belongs to Union server. Then you can have a John_Union, a John_Vigilance etc.. (btw you can do the same with Supergroup's names)
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It has been stated before, think it was Bridger but I stand to be corrected, that the name per say would not necessarily be a problem in a merge.
Personally I think the idea of a merge is a good one I for one would like to see more people running round the maps but with the issue of
.cough lag would be the killer the servers seem to struggle now with a thinner client base shall we say, god help us all if the servers actually had a heavy load on them.
In fact it would be interesting if everyone logged into one server one evening just to see what the effect could be 
system melt down perhaps
As for everyone on one server its already been done
beta COV the golden days playing with the yanks all on the one server until it was split for further testing
A lot of the separate servers seem to be an arbitrary choice, I for one would love to know how the decisions made as to population level to server availability.
What would be interesting, now the limits been taken off the servers for the number of alts you can have there would be the ability to swop un-used slots to another server I personally only play Defiant/Union there are two servers worth of slots I would love to move to a more usable location for myself
Anyway now my match has been lit I am off to get a torch
I may have a pitchfork somewhere as well
I heard a rumour that they did merge the servers on the long Monday/Wednesday maintenance periods - but to avoid a panic they're keeping us seperate from each other on the one server.
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European Cup Final.
This thread is our salvation.
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Only if we lose against Germany!
... which let's face it, it is very possible
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sad but true, don't care for soccer, but don't like Germany winning.
i'm not sure but i think it may be a good idea,i'm playing on union and the game feel a bit dead, a specially on the villain side but not only.
is this been discuses before?
what do you guys think?