Possible future EU/US Server Merge!

The loyalty period you refer to is used for the 2nd tier beta testers - so the 1st tier may have already been in for some time.

And thinking about it, IIRC, isn't it the case that you don't get money refunded if you cancel - you effectively just don't renew your sub. So many who pay 6 or 12 months at a time may already have paid for the qualifying period and so could, theoretically, be let in now if GR beta was running (and tier 1 had been invited already).

I currently expect tier 2 testing to coincide with the loyalty badge though.
I'd hope this, but wouldn't assume it.

Currently waiting to see if non-GR/expansion gets much by way of story content or if the devs consider expansions the way to do most, if not all, story content in future.

I'd now guess that if GR does even reasonably well then we'll probably see expansions (rather than subs-funded issues) for Atlantis and Space/moon. And I expect GR to do very well with any players who've been here for 6+ months.

BTW I consider GR going live in December (as opposed to 2010) as coming soon(ish).

That could give us:

I16 in August.
Sept is bug fixing on I16.
GR Tier 1 testers Oct
GR Tier 2 tetsers Nov
Tier 3 start of Dec

With tier 3 (pre-order) getting just a week or so (maybe 2 weeks) of testing pre-release.

Isn't guessing fun!

I think it was before GR was announced

I think I will go with this - a lot more optimistic than mine

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And when neither i16 or GR have the promised story progression? Then what?

I suppose you'll say it will be in i17 instead?

At what point do you stop and say "Oi! You've been promising this for x amount of time. WHERE IS IT?"

GR will have lots of story content

I do hope so.

Wait .. You were very confident that i14 and i15 would have lots of story content weren't you?

Is it a case of, just pick the next issue - say the same thing - and hope for the best?....

Indeed. Such are the ways of the Fanboi: no matter how much it gets slapped with a wet cod, it still grins and bears it and occasionally asks for more.

I14 had a lot of story content, actually

But once GR was announced, it was clear that was the story focused Issue, and the ones leaidng up to it would be used to add more QoL features and long term player requests.

But fangurls are more intelligent than that

Because there'd then be 15 servers to choose from when you were experiencing the story rich content of GR

The thread got Golden Girl'd - what the heck does the original topic have to do with anything now?

Yeah, but we ALL know that you're really a 500lb trucker named Bubba.

Hey, she held longer than three weeks...

Would there be Global name conflicts? I thought they were Global, meaning, across every server (EU and US) -- You would see conflicts in the MA if there were any... wouldn't we? Isn't MA global?

MA's global in the sense of the actual globe, global names are global in the sense they reach across the EU/US database. Clearly this is NC Soft's subtle way of attacking American foreign policy.

They'd probably handle them the same way they handles forum handles. Slap _NA or _EU in the end, and let the players scrambles to be the first to remove it again

Well, I've ridden in a truck, I know someone who knows someone called Bubba, and while I'm nowhere near 500lbs, I still weight something - so I sort of match your decription

This is why you're on my friends list mate.

I think that would lead to epic amounts of DOOM. Not from me, but some people.

That reminds me of some people who set up a RP alliance on Virtue way back after i12 because i13 would involve the coming storm... and then they said the same about i15.

All your base are belong to us?