Discussion: One game, one global server access

So.... global rename tokens. Are those a yay or a nay?

I think an official post early on stated that all affected accounts would have a global rename token. No idea if anything has changed that but I really doubt that we'll be left with the games choice of global forced upon us.

It's been said that downtime is required, so I'd guess the 10th along with the merge.

Please can we move our characters from our EU account into the US one? I started up again on US Virtue server because of the lack of people on the EU ones, but I actually have been playing on for like over 5 years now since City of Villains came out (City of Heroes was marketed as very cheesy and bland so never picked it up I'm more of a Batman Begins kinda girl The base idea really attracted me too because I thought it would be more like Dungeon Keeper 2, said it before say it again that it is a shame that you couldn't have them used more with the game story than just pvp, which I used to enjoy now and then actually before the ridiculous issue 11 or whatever changes where they made blasters have scrapper durability whilst doing more damage, etc, which you think they would have realised killed off most of the pvp players even on Virtue it seems and rolled back by now, I don't get that. Also killing off motivation for going to the areas other than people who enjoy doing stuff for no real reason - I actually liked to bring my supergroup to RV and fight over the turrets before the whole AE farming crap I remember it actually meant something to control RV) - my account on the EU ones I have not logged on for ages but the characters I have have purples and stuff that I have not bothered to regain in my year or so on the US servers - I basically gave up playing the game, although I had already cos of boredom anyway really, I didn't want to restart afresh totally because it is such a ridiculous grind to get to the top now with invention origin enhancements, so just ignored it in favour of RP... If I had my characters back I might actually play missions again, and I bet I'm not the only one, I have bumped into quite a few people on Virtue from the UK.

Also VERY IMPORTANT: Can we please please please please also please move our supergroups? For people that want to restart on the more populated Virtue server like I did, it would encourage them to actually keep communities alive rather than the rather depressing "yeah, but see that mountain you need to climb to get a large base again? you start UNDERGROUND." Prestige built up over years is not really replacable - I have a dormant SG on my EU account with none of the people apart from me still playing, I would actually be interested in reviving it if I knew there were more people alive to actually enjoy it (e.g. on Virtue rather than the utterly dead server in comparison Union) -- One thing maybe that could be simpler would actually be to give us the option of transferring the only real unreplacable part of SGs (people can move freely, it can't) which is the prestige, even that would be good really if that would be easier on the programmy kind of things for us to remake the SG and then have the prestige transferred, I wouldn't mind remaking the entire base just to have the prestige back

Would be very very grateful if you could take the time to include options to do this to people who supported you early on in the EU rather than mostly leaving us by the wayside and saying "hey, if you want to play on the US servers you now have the option, but you're going to have to lose half of your characters by dropping either your US or EU account and one of your supergroups one way or another") - they would be much, much, more appreciated than more veteran rewards




at least give us the option to merge our US and EU accounts if we already have a US account (characters and supergroups mostly, but veteran rewards too)... Otherwise it's kind of like a reverse veteran reward punishment for supporting the game early on (when city of villains came out) on my EU account ...

Let us move our characters/supergroups to US account if you truly care about your most loyal players (e.g. those of us who were foolish enough to start playing on the EU server and played it for years even as it slowly died, before then BUYING THE GAME AGAIN just to carry on after the EU servers died down, at the US servers like I did)... it would be way way more appreciated than pets and stuff!

<-- Bit the bullet and made a new US account and joined Virtue about a year ago when I saw that there were loads and loads and loads of people making the UK&EU servers look even more dead in comparison, feels a bit like I'm being punished for recognising what it apparently took NCsoft years to notice :( Kinda wish I had waited one more year before coming back to the game now :(

They have no plans to merge accounts, or allow anything like avatars, bases or SGs to be moved form one account to another, as it's a very complex process.

Who said that though and where? If so that is no excuse whatsoever, they said exactly the same about power colour customisation years ago too (I am from Union server on the EU ones originally, I made a US account)... :

'Complex' is not the same as 'impossible'. If they are saying no then it means they just don't consider their most loyal players (who bought the game more than once just to carry on playing after the EU servers died down!) worth the development time...

Hell, it's not just those of us who moved already losing our characters and veteran rewards that it shows a casual disdain for that (we are now being told 'cancel an account or pay twice' rather than being allowed to *properly* merge our EU and US accounts ... I am basically being punished for supporting the game twice...):

It's also EU players in general that this is going to be bad on, since of course most people, especially roleplayers, after trying the Virtue server and seeing the sheer amount of active, lively people, will do the same thing as I did and move there... Yet we only have a character transfer from server to server and not over from EU to US account, and not supergroup transfer. Surely it wouldn't be *too* hard to put in a system to let people vote on whether to move their (*years* of work) groups for this unprecedented event?

Look at the bright side--the forums will also be going down any minute here, and stay down for 6 hours!

No more having to read posts about how the global server list merge is ruining people's lives!

Seriously, people, it's a feature that's good for the game. Put your ridiculous sense of entitlement to the side, just for a day, and see that this is going to allow for better service and support in the long run.

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Originally Posted by Nethergoat it's NEVER too late to pad your /ignore list!

So that whole name will be changed to the last toon you log out on?

Yeah, that didn't work.

EDIT: Actually, forget that - I just realized I was on the wrong account

I purposely made sure the only thing I'd logged in on for the last week and a bit was my main that I wanted to keep my global - Soul Storm my PB. I never got an email of any kind telling me my global name was going to be renamed so imagine my horror when I login and fint out my new global name is @Torsion!!!

I've never heard of another @Soul Storm or even @SoulStorm out there and changing it to have a EU on the end just serves as a bitter reminder how I was screwed out of the name I've had for 7 years. Not happy.