Newsflash: Zholain and Kaeros to be neighbors :)

[Jay]

<div>If you've read the Producer's Letter, you've heard about the server consolidation. By a strange movent of Fate's hand, Highkeep (where our esteemed Zholain lives) is moving into my server, Butcherblock.</div><div> </div><div>While I know this move is probably not a happy one for those *being* moved, I have to say from a purely selfish standpoint that I'm of course looking forward to meeting Catareina in-game. A long, long time ago we talked about being on the same server and hunting together, and who knows, that may now become a reality. <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></div><div> </div><div>Zho, how are you and your guild feeling about this? I imagine it's probably a difficult pill to swallow. I obviously can't speak for a whole server, but I think you'll like the community on BB, and I hope we can make you guys feel at home. <img src="/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></div><div> </div><div>"Won't you be...my neighbor?" ROFL</div>

[Blackin_DeMast]

<div></div>I Don't want to move to GUK.   :smileysad:

[theorbell]

<div></div>sounds like fun guys.  i doubt very much my guild will disband so we'll be heading to blackburrow.  when i first read the note i said w000t - i may run with kae and other famous ranjahs - then i noticed i was going to the other BB haha.  hoping to meet some fun ranjahs over there (see other post)

[Zholain]

<font size="2">When I first started reading the Producer's Letter, I thought to myself 'Dammit.  I like Highkeep.  We have a great community.  This is going to suck.'Then I kept reading, and I saw we were going to Butcherblock, and then I thought 'Well I don't want to move, but there is no choice in that matter now.  So if we have to merge, I could not have been more fortunate.'  I think it'll be a blast.A lot of my guildies have friends on Butcherblock, but I think in the end we will probably decide as a group whether to exercise our option to go somewhere else or go with SOE's plan.  As long as our guild name is not taken, and my character's name is not already taken, odds are we'll go with SOE's plan.  And I'm <i><b>really</b></i> looking forward to meeting some of my forum buds in-game    <img src="/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />"Hi neighbor"</font><div></div>

[Qwexer]

I have to agree with you, this is the ONLY good thing that I have seen of the whole feasco. I am looking forward to hunting with the best.  It does sadden me that we are losing our forum though, I was trying to create a place for the HK community to meet; I started a Market post for ppl with wares to sell, buy and trade, and a Poll for HK to vote on what we would call ourselves (although I closed the polling earlier due to the announcement Highkeepers was in the lead). I hope that BB forums and community is willing if not already doing the same.<span>Highkeep/Ranger/Woodfire--Community Relations (hehe j/k)Trader of collectibles pst me anytime</span>

[King Leor]

<div>Woot, mistmoore is not being tainted. I think it would cause alot of issues raid wise...lol. But could also be cool. Never really know. Hope those of you merging tdo have a good time with one another and dont' fight too too much. :0)</div><div> </div><div>LeoricLevel 60 ranger</div>

[AmericanPsycho]

<div></div>We have Grobb coming into EF, can't say I know anyone from there though. We got any rangers here from Grobb?

[TaleraRis]

<div>Yanno they're offering a free char move. If any of y'all aren't happy with where you're going, come to Najena <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />  I'm lonely with just Shadowsflame in channel most of the time for company.</div>

[Deml]

<div></div><p>Nope, no Rangers on Grobb at all.  lol</p><p>If you ever see me and I say I'm bored, don't follow Vos.  I do lots of stupid/crazy things when I get bored.  Usually leads to lots of debt. lol</p><p>My guild was discussing this last night, trying to figure out if there were big raiding guildson EF, where they were in content, etc.  Should be interesting to see what happens.  I know one of the raid guilds on Grobb, Paragon, has already started trying to recruit folks on EF. lol</p>

[brandi7920]

<div></div><p>Hmm - so Lavastorm is moving to Nektulos. I think it'll be nice to meet lots of new people. I'm hoping that my puter won't crash every time I think 'Qeynos Harbor'..and I sure hope they can come up with an amiable solution to the name issue. It appears my name is not an issue but my bf and a few of our friends all have people with the same name on Nek.</p><p>It will still be great to make lots of new friends and breathe a bit more life into the game, hopefully quite a bit more life into the lowbie zones - as sometimes when we have an alt night and do a /who - we are the only ones in the zone (RE and RoV, aside).</p><p>So any Ranger pals on the Nek server and what do you think abotu Lavastorm moving in?</p><p>...a little excited, a little worried, a little hopeful... :smileyvery-happy:</p><p> </p>

[KnightOfTheWo]

<div><span><blockquote><hr>Blackin_DeMaster wrote:<div></div>I Don't want to move to GUK.   :smileysad:<hr></blockquote>Guk is a lot of fun. If you need to locate a friendly Ranger on the server please feel free to look me up. <span>:smileyhappy:</span></span></div>

[Jeris Nefz]

<div>A few here from Grobb... myself, Demlar, Taubin and a few others.  We are all good peeps, even if some chose being androgynous wood elfs.  We have a good time.  I am looking forward to meeting some new peeps and mixing it up with you EF'ers.  I just hope that 100 people in QH isn't going to make the game come to a screeching halt every time I want to zone to SS. </div>

[chanaho]

Jay, I will repeat what I said in a recent post...You and Zholain are eternally linkedtogether.  Not even separated by servers!  Can you deny it now?Oh by the way, I come with this package deal also. <div></div>

[Jay]

<div></div><p>You can check your character names here: <a href="http://eq2players.station.sony.com/en/players_index.vm" target="_blank">http://eq2players.station.sony.com/en/players_index.vm</a></p><p>Just choose your destination server and search on your toons' names. As it stands now, ppl being moved are the ones slated to lose their character names if there's a conflict, but Smed did say they're looking into methods to defer to the older, more active character.</p><p>Zho, you and your guild should be fine - there's no Catareina on my server, nor is there any guild called The Chosen. So I hope that means you'll join us and we'll get to be neighbors after all.  <img src="/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />  We'll have to chat soon and see if there's anything I can do ease the transition for you and your guildmates.  </p><p>And yes, Chana, I do remember the 'joined by fate' comment... and yeah, I'm starting to think you were on to something. LOL!!</p><p>Personally, I'm looking forward to this, and not just b/c I get to have Zholain <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[Zholain]

<font size="2">We were doing some checking last night and I continued for my own purposes this morning.  According to our guild forums, it looks like we're going to proceed with the move to Butcherblock.  And for the most part, everyone is <i><b>really</b></i> looking forward to it.  I know I am now.  Then more I think about it, the more excited I am.  It sort of feels like we're moving away from home, but we all admit that the additional guild competition and comeraderie(sp?) will be a great thing.  We've only got a few members that will possibly lose their names.  But if what Smedley says comes to fruition, most of our mains have been around since launch, so that will possibly allow some to keep theirs.  I'm not quite sure how I feel about that, though.  I hate for anyone to lose a part of their character that they have grown attached to.  It would be awesome if they could just add a masked character to the end of one of the duplicate names.  That way there would be a uniqueness for database reasons, and everyone would be happy.Anyway, I'm really looking forward to it.  Like I said, if I've got to move, I can't think of a better place to go.And I, too, am beginning to think Chana may be on to something....this just keeps getting weirder and weirder.   LOL</font><div></div>

[Bayler_x]

Any chance you guys can swing by Antonia Bayle on your way to the new servers, club some non-roleplayers over the head, and take them with you?<div></div>

[TaleraRis]

<div>How would you send tells though? I think there'd be a lot of confusion with two names exactly the same. I ran into a lot of name confusion back in EQ1 as well. I was Melisande. We had a Melisandre and an Melisandee and some others, all who came after me. I was an old fart <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />  But I kept getting mistaken for them. Then when we merged with Veeshan, it was even more confusing.</div><div> </div><div>So I can only imagine what the same names with masked chars on the end would do.</div>

[Jay]

<div></div><blockquote><hr>Zholain wrote: <font size="2">We were doing some checking last night and I continued for my own purposes this morning.  According to our guild forums, it looks like we're going to proceed with the move to Butcherblock.  And for the most part, everyone is <i><b>really</b></i> looking forward to it.  I know I am now.  Then more I think about it, the more excited I am.  It sort of feels like we're moving away from home, but we all admit that the additional guild competition and comeraderie(sp?) will be a great thing.  We've only got a few members that will possibly lose their names.  But if what Smedley says comes to fruition, most of our mains have been around since launch, so that will possibly allow some to keep theirs.  I'm not quite sure how I feel about that, though.  I hate for anyone to lose a part of their character that they have grown attached to.  It would be awesome if they could just add a masked character to the end of one of the duplicate names.  That way there would be a uniqueness for database reasons, and everyone would be happy. Anyway, I'm really looking forward to it.  Like I said, if I've got to move, I can't think of a better place to go. And I, too, am beginning to think Chana may be on to something....this just keeps getting weirder and weirder.   LOL </font><div></div><hr></blockquote><p>Yeah, I'm excited for it. Our server doesn't feel 'empty' per se, but it'll be great to have more friends at hand. I'm pleasantly surprised at how ppl seem to be taking it, at least according to the threads on the BB forum - most HK players seem to have a good attitude about it, and I think most folks on BB will be welcoming.</p><p>We already have an interesting name conflict - Lilae, fellow ranger and a guild leader on Highkeep, has the same name as one of my sweetie's alts. <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />  Go figure. Unfortunately, she doesn't want to delete the alt, but she doesn't want to force Lilae on HK to change the name of her main. We're hoping that SOE gives us on BB the chance to change the names of our toons without having to just delete them altogether. It'd be nice to be accomodating if possible, esp. when it's someone's main.</p><p>I'm really glad to hear you're excited about it, Cat - I'm definitely looking forward to it. Just think, we might eventually raid together.... wow. That's...wow.</p><p>Yeah, this is *definitely* getting to be a little bizarre  <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[Zholain]

<div><span><blockquote><hr><font size="2">TaleraRis wrote:</font><div><font size="2">I was Melisande.</font></div><hr></blockquote><font size="2">Jaqueline Carey fan?  Phaedra.  Ysandre.  Nicola.  Any of those names sound familliar?  I<i> <b>love</b> </i>those books.I'm not saying there wouldn't be kinks to work out, but something like this should be no problem for a group of quality developers. (Please try to control your hysterical laughter)</font></span></div>

[Zholain]

<div><span><blockquote><hr><font size="2">Jay42 wrote:</font><div></div><blockquote><hr><div></div><hr></blockquote><p><font size="2">We already have an interesting name conflict - Lilae, fellow ranger and a guild leader on Highkeep, has the same name as one of my sweetie's alts. <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />  Go figure. Unfortunately, she doesn't want to delete the alt, but she doesn't want to force Lilae on HK to change the name of her main. We're hoping that SOE gives us on BB the chance to change the names of our toons without having to just delete them altogether. It'd be nice to be accomodating if possible, esp. when it's someone's main.</font></p><p><font size="2">I'm really glad to hear you're excited about it, Cat - I'm definitely looking forward to it. Just think, we might eventually raid together.... wow. That's...wow.</font></p><p><font size="2">Yeah, this is *definitely* getting to be a little bizarre  <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></font></p><hr></blockquote><font size="2">It is my understanding that the 'merged' characters who have duplicate names of those on the destination server will have an 'x' appended to their name upon initial login with a one time opportunity to /changename.  Although it is rumored that Smedley has stated that he is thinking about giving older characters priority and appending the 'x' to the younger (time wise, not level wise) character.  I don't think even SOE is cruel enough to make us delete characters because of something like this.</font></span></div>

[Cron]

Whooo hooo... Cat's coming to my server... Heya Cat <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Zholain]

<font size="2">LOL.   Heya Narsan !!!  I'm looking forward to it  <span>:womanvery-happy:</span></font><div></div>

[brandi7920]

<div></div><font size="2"></font><div></div><blockquote><hr>Zholain wrote:<div><span><blockquote><hr><font size="2">TaleraRis wrote:</font><div><font size="2">I was Melisande.</font></div><hr></blockquote><font size="2">Jaqueline Carey fan?  Phaedra.  Ysandre.  Nicola.  Any of those names sound familliar?  I<i> <b>love</b> </i>those books.I'm not saying there wouldn't be kinks to work out, but something like this should be no problem for a group of quality developers. (Please try to control your hysterical laughter)</font></span></div><hr></blockquote><div>Hmm I was guessing Melisande (the Red Witch) from the George R R Martin books. (a Game of Thrones, etc)</div><div> </div><div><img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> I <3 George R R Martin!</div><div> </div>

[valer]

<div></div>Where can I read this letter? Anything happening on Neriak?

[Bayler_x]

<span><blockquote><hr>valerik wrote:<div></div>Where can I read this letter? Anything happening on Neriak?<hr></blockquote><a href="http://eqiiforums.station.sony.com/eq2/board/message?board.id=testdev&message.id=7376&view=by_date_ascending&page=1" target="_blank">Producer's letter</a></span><div></div>

[Blackin_DeMast]

<blockquote><hr>KnightOfTheWord wrote:<div><span><blockquote><hr>Blackin_DeMaster wrote:<div></div>I Don't want to move to GUK.   :smileysad:<hr></blockquote>Guk is a lot of fun. If you need to locate a friendly Ranger on the server please feel free to look me up. <span>:smileyhappy:</span></span></div><hr></blockquote><p>I may do just that.  Got a nice welcome from Kendricke on the Tox forums. </p><p> </p><p>How is the ranger population out there?</p>

[Jay]

<div></div><blockquote><p></p><hr>Zholain wrote:<p><span><font size="2">It is my understanding that the 'merged' characters who have duplicate names of those on the destination server will have an 'x' appended to their name upon initial login with a one time opportunity to /changename.  Although it is rumored that Smedley has stated that he is thinking about giving older characters priority and appending the 'x' to the younger (time wise, not level wise) character.  I don't think even SOE is cruel enough to make us delete characters because of something like this.</font></span></p><hr></blockquote><p>Oh, right - of course they won't *force* a deletion, that'd be ridiculous. I just meant that right now, it seems like we on BB can only accomodate an incoming HK toon (with the same name) by removing that character from BB. In the case of Lilae, we would hate to force Lilae of Highkeep (who is a high 50s ranger, a guild leader, and obviously has invested a lot of time and effort into her character) to adapt the name of her main, especially b/c it's just an alt of Amalia's. But it seems like the only thing Ama could do to enable Lilae of HK to preserve her toon's name is to delete the alt that's causing the conflict.</p><p>That said, we haven't tried or seen anything about proactively petitioning for a name change. If possible, I bet Amalia would petition and just change the spelling of her alt's name, so Lilae of HK could join BB without having to change her name at all.</p>

[Zholain]

<font size="2">Aye.  I suspect that situations like this are bound to arise.  Regardless, it really stinks that anyone would have to lose their name.  Hopefully BB Lilae and HK Lilae will get some solution from SOE that will be as unobtrusive as possible.</font><div></div>

[AmericanPsycho]

<div>Lol yeah sounds about like what alot of us do Dem. I was testin out exactly how far I could safe fall in the mage tower in south qeynos the other night. Made it pretty far. I think the yellow floor was just a bit too high. I hit part of the small landing on the way down and put an end to my high jumping for the night right there. Boredom can be pretty painful. Right on though, it'll be cool havin some new people over there. EF is a pretty cool server in general. I think you guys'll like it. I keep forgettin about the ranger channel but one of these days I'll have to stop bein lazy an shoot the breeze with some of ya's.</div>

[TaleraRis]

<span><blockquote><hr>Zholain wrote:<div><span><blockquote><hr><font size="2">TaleraRis wrote:</font><div><font size="2">I was Melisande.</font></div><hr></blockquote><font size="2">Jaqueline Carey fan?  Phaedra.  Ysandre.  Nicola.  Any of those names sound familliar?  I<i> <b>love</b> </i>those books.</font></span></div><hr></blockquote>Nope. I don't know where I heard it, or maybe I combined two names I liked. She's not from any book or movie, but a RP character I've had since 1997ish and someone I wanted to bring to EQ when I tried out the enchanter class. My actual first mains were a wizard named Riandar who I played in D&D prior to EQ and a druid named Lyinar, who has become my online persona in IRC and around EQ related boards like EverCrest. Oh, and a baby mage Talera which is where my handle comes from. Talera Ristain, another former RP character from EfNet on IRC.I thought the RP character Melisande fit well with how I imagined an enchanter personality to be, so I went with it <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />   </span><div></div>