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I wanted to start playing Mabi again after a longggg break and found that my home server, Tarlach, is DEAD, DECEASED, GONE. What? I saw maybe 10 people the whole hour I was on! ON THE SHOPPING CHANNEL. Wut? This literally hurts my heart. Why hasn't Nexon NA done a server merge? I don't want to play is I'm the only one on! I'm sure others feel the same. This is so sad.
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It won't happen because some NA players can't fathom the thought of not having the unique username xx_godofde4th_x or Kirito212940812.
If your username is so common that it gets sniped instantly, I'm sorry, it wasn't unique. I know people do have attachment to user names as I do my own, but willing to continually cause harm to the game so you can be "special" is wrong. It's absolutely mindblowing that some people are so set on being special that they wouldn't even be willing to have a (R/T/A/M) at the end of their name.
I wanna break a billion in the bank and just spend my days hunting collabs guds to finish my OCD collections.
Also, OP, just curious. With the Auction House releasing (and making shops kind of moot) wouldn't it be possible for a new channel to be the most popular one?
I totally wouldn't mind a tag saying where I originally came from. =D
Also, this is the second Server Merge thread tag and they were apparently both made at 12:42pm today, so expect those to get merged too. =T
Here.
http://forums.mabinogi.nexon.net/discussion/2157/server-merge
There are a couple problems with usernames in this argument- personally, yeah, I'd be hecka upset if I lost my name (I'm very picky, that I will admit) but at the same time a great workaround to this would to also give us name changing in the cash shop.
Also, it's less about being special, but having made an identity for yourself over the years only to have changes made to it. I know, not a good argument, but people are picky like that. I've never let this get in the way of me wanting a merge though (I'm more worried about Dunbarton and Belvast shop spaces). Names are just a small, dissatisfying price to pay for something that benefits the larger population of the game.
I don't know, your post was in the morning on a weekday, so it seems as if you were looking for people when most players would be at work or school. Most people don't use the Market Channel after the Auction House update. It would also really depend on where you are looking for people. Most of the afk people are probably at Lake Neagh right now.
This doesn't sound like a good idea. Not only does it sound like more work than a server merge, but forcing everyone to rename everything (obligated to make it different?) sounds unnecessary. This is basically the same thing as a merge except instead of merging to one server we have multiple for some reason. Also it's pretty coincidental to see two Server Merge threads posted at the same time on the same day by users with 1 post.
Oh yeah. I forgot about the time of day thing. So used to soloing because I've been ranking skills a lot by myself lately. XD
The only thing that people will need to worry about is whether their guild stone will be in the same spot or not; woop dee doo.
On a serious note, I would have security concerns of hacking during a merge. There would be numerous issues that would have to be addressed in a transition especially with how vulnerable cybersecurity has been as of late.
Market Channel is 7 now. Either that, or you're clearly looking in the wrong places.
Tarlach isn't dead. You just need to spend more than five seconds actively looking.
A very good point.
Not to mention that, while having gotten better compared to the past, Nexon still has quite a few issues. The LAST thing I would trust them with is a server merge.
There will be no opportunity to steal character names whatsoever because there will be no reason to delete them. A server merge is just a database merge, nothing more. There would be no reason to clear a characters name field; likely that field is set to NOT NULL meaning it can't be made blank. No one will have to fight to get their name back.
Hacking will also not be an issue. Again, this is a database merge. It all occurs internally inside a building in LA and then goes live in the new state. There will be no opportunity to hack because there will be nothing to hack.
Obviously, you've never witnessed Nexon at their "finest" /sarcmark. The issue with names comes when people on different servers have the same username, and one is forced to change theirs. Or, in the likely event people are asked to enter a new name during the merge (so that no name conflicts happen when finally merging the servers).
Another issue is how to manage
1. People with different main characters on different servers.
2. People with different accounts for different servers.