EU PvP Populations Update #2 - Page 3

Groma · 03-31-2007, 10:49 AM

Dudos@Vox wrote:

So can i transfer off vox.

The million dollar question right there.

pharacyde · 03-31-2007, 11:34 AM

You never could transfer from Station Exchange on PVE servers ... I don't see why you suddenly could on PVP servers.

OnGaruda · 03-31-2007, 12:04 PM

news on date?

lemrin · 03-31-2007, 12:25 PM

Just wondered, what will happen if your toons name is taken on the new server? I know for a fact my swash, Tubby, already has an equivalent as when tried to start one with the same name it wouldn't let me.

AutumnKiss · 03-31-2007, 02:52 PM

lemrin wrote:

Just wondered, what will happen if your toons name is taken on the new server? I know for a fact my swash, Tubby, already has an equivalent as when tried to start one with the same name it wouldn't let me.

Well, as was experienced when servers were merged the last time, Neriak went to Kithicor, your toon will be given a new, but slightly similar, name. At least, that's what I would expect to see happen again. And if that's the case, you should then be provided with the option to change your name free of charge... which is what happened before if I remember correctly. All of the people whose toons were given new identities as a result were quite upset, understandably so, and therefore SOE provided them with the option to select a new name at no charge.

(Edit, typo)

Alycs · 03-31-2007, 03:42 PM

AutumnKiss wrote:

lemrin wrote:
Just wondered, what will happen if your toons name is taken on the new server? I know for a fact my swash, Tubby, already has an equivalent as when tried to start one with the same name it wouldn't let me.
Well, as was experienced when servers were merged the last time, Neriak went to Kithicor, your toon will be given a new, but slightly similar, name. At least, that's what I would expect to see happen again. And if that's the case, you should then be provided with the option to change your name free of charge... which is what happened before if I remember correctly. All of the people whose toons were given new identities as a result were quite upset, understandably so, and therefore SOE provided them with the option to select a new name at no charge.
(Edit, typo)

This has nothing to do with this subject, sorry for temporarily hijacking it....I just wanted to say your sig ROCKS. I love the work done on the face.

m0ya · 04-01-2007, 01:28 PM

WOOOOT!!

When? Anyone have a date? for PvE servers.... Ty!

Amphibia · 04-01-2007, 01:48 PM

Oops... nm SMILEY

Roald · 04-03-2007, 01:21 AM

Can we get an update on SE transfers?!?

If it helps i don't even live in he US so i cant use the service.

Edit: Bad spelling

Spyderbite · 04-03-2007, 03:25 AM

Roald wrote:

If it helps i don't even live in he US so i cant use the service.

Why not?

Palleon · 04-03-2007, 03:39 AM

Spyderbite@Venekor wrote:

Roald wrote:
If it helps i don't even live in he US so i cant use the service.
Why not?

Because its a US only service. Some legal mumbo jumbo wont let anyone else use it.

Leorange · 04-03-2007, 11:49 AM

Palleon wrote:

Spyderbite@Venekor wrote:
Roald wrote:
If it helps i don't even live in he US so i cant use the service.
Why not?
Because its a US only service. Some legal mumbo jumbo wont let anyone else use it.

Aye. Same happens all the time. Comic contest: only US. Queen Antonia Look-a-like: stage in US. They shouldn't have made any part of EQ2 non-US i.m.o.. Should've called the game 'international' to begin with. Don't translate. Don't make a difference. Neither having to transfer EU servers, since they wouldn't exist.

We are all world citizens! Norrathians! yay!

But, I'm not a DEV or SOE marketing man, am I SMILEY

/notwhining

Slay on!

ChinaC · 04-03-2007, 02:09 PM

Gallenite wrote:

1) There will be an abandoned-and-under-level-6 character wipe for level 6 and under characters that have not been played in 60 days on all PvP servers in order to free up names.
- Scott

Just a word of caution. I had three accounts active, two of which dated back to release. I terminated my subscriptions a few months ago, but keep an eye on this board and the game. The server I played on is Nagafen.

There will likely come a time when EQII produces another expansion that may look too good to resist, and a number of us may re-subscribe. If players re-subscribe and find under level 6 characters that were high level in crafting deleted, it is likely we will leave as fast as we returned.

My constructive suggestion on how to handle this is to wipe all abandoned characters under level 6 for "BOTH" adventuring and crafting. In that manner, you will avoide the above and likely accomplish similar goals.

-ChinaCat

ToejaM t · 04-04-2007, 05:56 PM

Thats a very good point ChinaCat. It sickens me at just how amatuer the decisions made are really. Not thought through at all, perhaps its about time the temps stopped making the choices.

Halishmali · 04-04-2007, 07:23 PM

I think the last two posts are pretty hilarious. Seriously guys, do you honestly believe SOE *only* considers adventure level when talking about what level a character is? SMILEY

Kasar · 04-04-2007, 09:40 PM

Halishmali wrote:

I think the last two posts are pretty hilarious. Seriously guys, do you honestly believe SOE *only* considers adventure level when talking about what level a character is?

My first thought was how bad a position would they need to be in to take things from former customers, that may, someday, possibly, return for a while, too seriously. They're doing some rather extensive server merging, I suppose losing their toon name might be just as bad to some.

Bozidar · 04-05-2007, 11:55 AM

*knock*knock*

"Who's there?"

*muffled voice* "The end of the week"

"Oh, you're early, it's only Thursday!"

*muffled voice* "Yeah, I know, I was excited to get here, just let me in already!!"

ToejaM t · 04-05-2007, 01:51 PM

Halishmali wrote:

I think the last two posts are pretty hilarious. Seriously guys, do you honestly believe SOE *only* considers adventure level when talking about what level a character is?

Yes. Look at the three desolate EU servers and a dying US server for proove of poor planning and thinking. ktnxbai.

vernon1974 · 04-05-2007, 02:00 PM

Gallenite wrote:

Greetings, everyone. I wanted to offer an update for where we are on the state of the EU PvP servers.
Our initial plan as I discussed in the original post at http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/...topic_id=350284 is going to be changing slightly, to make sure we're able to do this without much longer of a delay.
What we had hoped would be a simple and timely change to our billing system proved to be a more complex task than there is time to both implement and test properly.
Instead of making you wait through those changes and the testing to follow, we're going to approach the matter from another angle, and hopefully provide a better solution all at once.
1) There will be an abandoned-and-under-level-6 character wipe for level 6 and under characters that have not been played in 60 days on all PvP servers in order to free up names.
2) Venekor will gain the populations of Darathar, Gorenaire, and Talendor. We'll discuss specifics in greater depth by the end of next week and make sure you have significant warning. We'll be doing this step first to ensure that guilds that have advanced together, stay together.
3) Once the PvP server transfers are complete, players on all servers will have a week-long opportunity to transfer their characters for free.
This will allow affected people who may have instead wanted to play on Vox or Nagafen the chance to transfer their characters to those servers at no cost.
Characters on PvP servers will be able to transfer to other PvP servers at no cost.
Additionally, characters on PvE servers will be able to transfer to other PvE servers at no cost.
Following the one week free-transfer period, PvP <-> PvP character transfers will remain enabled at the standard transfer cost.
Once we have a specific timeline for these steps, we'll post it here. We're aiming to get that timeline post up by the end of next week.
- Scot

he said "aiming" more of a definitely maybe than a definitely will......... Left waiting in anticipation once again SMILEY

pharacyde · 04-05-2007, 10:12 PM

They should announce an estimated timeline for when they gonna give the timeline on the merges. At least we can then figure out if we will have the merges before the year 2008 or after.

Glandeur · 04-05-2007, 10:19 PM

Any news?

Posted by : A desperate french guy...

Eybietie · 04-06-2007, 03:18 AM

Epsy@Darathar wrote:

Any news?
Posted by : A desperate french guy...

omg vouleuz vous... et etc etc....

zorros · 04-06-2007, 09:11 AM

Epsy@Darathar wrote:

Any news?
Posted by : A desperate french guy...

Nothing new there SMILEY

TSall · 04-06-2007, 10:00 AM

I waited long enough....deleted all my chars now SMILEY

/Naayia@Darathar

Nithavellir · 04-06-2007, 12:32 PM

TSall wrote:

I waited long enough....deleted all my chars now

/Naayia@Darathar

Feeling excactly the same... 70 Lvls and 100 AA is still somewhat an "achievement" i'm finding hard to throw out the window. But it feels more and more like time wasted than spent.

pharacyde · 04-06-2007, 12:44 PM

False claims all over the place from SoE for the EU PVP community. - MMO ... Once in a year - PVP ... Once in a week - we are truly sorry ... NO you are not, if you were it would have been fixed long time ago. - more news soon ... we aren't asking for a weather forecast for 2010 - we are working on it ... work hader - we are trying ... try harder Must be a normal thing to do in a big company.

Kaleyen · 04-06-2007, 12:47 PM

Why is keeping the people who pay their salaries up to date with what the heck is going on so difficult to do?

ZuhalterVati · 04-06-2007, 01:44 PM

Drool YAWN.....

ToejaM t · 04-06-2007, 04:45 PM

Time is it server side? Less than 12 hours to make a post or is your end of the week a Sunday (in the year 3228?) Where does one go to get a name and shame of a company publically announced?

Meatmonster · 04-06-2007, 05:40 PM

Is the nerd rage and other hysteria here really appropriate? I realize it's frustrating, and I prefer this process to have started by now, but is deleting your characters and then quitting because they didnt respond fast enough even remotely reasonable? I dont understand how this kind of silly drama is reasonable. It's a game. They said they'd try to give us a timeline this week, but they didnt promise anything. Get a grip on yourselves, go outside, get some fresh air.

03-31-2007, 10:49 AM	#61
Groma General Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: www.eq2flames.com Posts: 679	Dudos@Vox wrote: So can i transfer off vox. The million dollar question right there.

03-31-2007, 11:34 AM	#62
pharacyde Loremaster Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 308	You never could transfer from Station Exchange on PVE servers ... I don't see why you suddenly could on PVP servers. __________________

03-31-2007, 02:52 PM	#65
AutumnKiss Loremaster Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 111	lemrin wrote: Just wondered, what will happen if your toons name is taken on the new server? I know for a fact my swash, Tubby, already has an equivalent as when tried to start one with the same name it wouldn't let me. Well, as was experienced when servers were merged the last time, Neriak went to Kithicor, your toon will be given a new, but slightly similar, name. At least, that's what I would expect to see happen again. And if that's the case, you should then be provided with the option to change your name free of charge... which is what happened before if I remember correctly. All of the people whose toons were given new identities as a result were quite upset, understandably so, and therefore SOE provided them with the option to select a new name at no charge. (Edit, typo) __________________

03-31-2007, 03:42 PM	#66
Alycs Loremaster Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 357	AutumnKiss wrote: lemrin wrote: Just wondered, what will happen if your toons name is taken on the new server? I know for a fact my swash, Tubby, already has an equivalent as when tried to start one with the same name it wouldn't let me. Well, as was experienced when servers were merged the last time, Neriak went to Kithicor, your toon will be given a new, but slightly similar, name. At least, that's what I would expect to see happen again. And if that's the case, you should then be provided with the option to change your name free of charge... which is what happened before if I remember correctly. All of the people whose toons were given new identities as a result were quite upset, understandably so, and therefore SOE provided them with the option to select a new name at no charge. (Edit, typo) This has nothing to do with this subject, sorry for temporarily hijacking it....I just wanted to say your sig ROCKS. I love the work done on the face. __________________ By alycss at 2009-01-15

04-01-2007, 01:48 PM	#68
Amphibia Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 2,256	Oops... nm __________________

03-31-2007, 12:04 PM	#63
OnGaruda Loremaster Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 17	news on date?

03-31-2007, 12:25 PM	#64
lemrin Loremaster Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: England Posts: 24	Just wondered, what will happen if your toons name is taken on the new server? I know for a fact my swash, Tubby, already has an equivalent as when tried to start one with the same name it wouldn't let me.

04-01-2007, 01:28 PM	#67
m0ya Loremaster Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 192	WOOOOT!! When? Anyone have a date? for PvE servers.... Ty!

04-03-2007, 01:21 AM	#69
Roald Loremaster Join Date: May 2005 Location: London Posts: 1,417	Can we get an update on SE transfers?!? If it helps i don't even live in he US so i cant use the service. Edit: Bad spelling __________________ Lickle Milambers Qtoon

04-03-2007, 03:25 AM	#70
Spyderbite Server: Venekor Guild: Dark Vengeance Rank: Member Loremaster Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Connecticut Posts: 4,262	Roald wrote: If it helps i don't even live in he US so i cant use the service. Why not?

04-03-2007, 03:39 AM	#71
Palleon Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 192	Spyderbite@Venekor wrote: Roald wrote: If it helps i don't even live in he US so i cant use the service. Why not? Because its a US only service. Some legal mumbo jumbo wont let anyone else use it.

04-03-2007, 11:49 AM	#72
Leorange Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Qeynos, Norrath Posts: 236	Palleon wrote: Spyderbite@Venekor wrote: Roald wrote: If it helps i don't even live in he US so i cant use the service. Why not? Because its a US only service. Some legal mumbo jumbo wont let anyone else use it. Aye. Same happens all the time. Comic contest: only US. Queen Antonia Look-a-like: stage in US. They shouldn't have made any part of EQ2 non-US i.m.o.. Should've called the game 'international' to begin with. Don't translate. Don't make a difference. Neither having to transfer EU servers, since they wouldn't exist. We are all world citizens! Norrathians! yay! But, I'm not a DEV or SOE marketing man, am I /notwhining Slay on! __________________

04-03-2007, 02:09 PM	#73
ChinaC General Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 34	Gallenite wrote: 1) There will be an abandoned-and-under-level-6 character wipe for level 6 and under characters that have not been played in 60 days on all PvP servers in order to free up names. - Scott Just a word of caution. I had three accounts active, two of which dated back to release. I terminated my subscriptions a few months ago, but keep an eye on this board and the game. The server I played on is Nagafen. There will likely come a time when EQII produces another expansion that may look too good to resist, and a number of us may re-subscribe. If players re-subscribe and find under level 6 characters that were high level in crafting deleted, it is likely we will leave as fast as we returned. My constructive suggestion on how to handle this is to wipe all abandoned characters under level 6 for "BOTH" adventuring and crafting. In that manner, you will avoide the above and likely accomplish similar goals. -ChinaCat

04-04-2007, 05:56 PM	#74
ToejaM t General Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 121	Thats a very good point ChinaCat. It sickens me at just how amatuer the decisions made are really. Not thought through at all, perhaps its about time the temps stopped making the choices.

04-04-2007, 07:23 PM	#75
Halishmali Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 5	I think the last two posts are pretty hilarious. Seriously guys, do you honestly believe SOE only considers adventure level when talking about what level a character is? __________________ Corp Por - 70 wiz Mistmoore Sad Owner of Clan Banhammer

04-04-2007, 09:40 PM	#76
Kasar Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 540	Halishmali wrote: I think the last two posts are pretty hilarious. Seriously guys, do you honestly believe SOE only considers adventure level when talking about what level a character is? My first thought was how bad a position would they need to be in to take things from former customers, that may, someday, possibly, return for a while, too seriously. They're doing some rather extensive server merging, I suppose losing their toon name might be just as bad to some.

04-05-2007, 11:55 AM	#77
Bozidar Loremaster Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 3,292	knockknock* "Who's there?" muffled voice "The end of the week" "Oh, you're early, it's only Thursday!" muffled voice "Yeah, I know, I was excited to get here, just let me in already!!"

04-05-2007, 01:51 PM	#78
ToejaM t General Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 121	Halishmali wrote: I think the last two posts are pretty hilarious. Seriously guys, do you honestly believe SOE only considers adventure level when talking about what level a character is? Yes. Look at the three desolate EU servers and a dying US server for proove of poor planning and thinking. ktnxbai.

04-05-2007, 02:00 PM	#79
vernon1974 Loremaster Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Surrey, UK Posts: 13	Gallenite wrote: Greetings, everyone. I wanted to offer an update for where we are on the state of the EU PvP servers. Our initial plan as I discussed in the original post at http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/...topic_id=350284 is going to be changing slightly, to make sure we're able to do this without much longer of a delay. What we had hoped would be a simple and timely change to our billing system proved to be a more complex task than there is time to both implement and test properly. Instead of making you wait through those changes and the testing to follow, we're going to approach the matter from another angle, and hopefully provide a better solution all at once. 1) There will be an abandoned-and-under-level-6 character wipe for level 6 and under characters that have not been played in 60 days on all PvP servers in order to free up names. 2) Venekor will gain the populations of Darathar, Gorenaire, and Talendor. We'll discuss specifics in greater depth by the end of next week and make sure you have significant warning. We'll be doing this step first to ensure that guilds that have advanced together, stay together. 3) Once the PvP server transfers are complete, players on all servers will have a week-long opportunity to transfer their characters for free. This will allow affected people who may have instead wanted to play on Vox or Nagafen the chance to transfer their characters to those servers at no cost. Characters on PvP servers will be able to transfer to other PvP servers at no cost. Additionally, characters on PvE servers will be able to transfer to other PvE servers at no cost. Following the one week free-transfer period, PvP <-> PvP character transfers will remain enabled at the standard transfer cost. Once we have a specific timeline for these steps, we'll post it here. We're aiming to get that timeline post up by the end of next week. - Scot he said "aiming" more of a definitely maybe than a definitely will......... Left waiting in anticipation once again __________________

04-05-2007, 10:12 PM	#80
pharacyde Loremaster Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 308	They should announce an estimated timeline for when they gonna give the timeline on the merges. At least we can then figure out if we will have the merges before the year 2008 or after. __________________

04-05-2007, 10:19 PM	#81
Glandeur Lord Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Paris (France) Posts: 2	Any news? Posted by : A desperate french guy...

04-06-2007, 03:18 AM	#82
Eybietie Custom Avatar Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 799	Epsy@Darathar wrote: Any news? Posted by : A desperate french guy... omg vouleuz vous... et etc etc....

04-06-2007, 09:11 AM	#83
zorros Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 474	Epsy@Darathar wrote: Any news? Posted by : A desperate french guy... Nothing new there

04-06-2007, 10:00 AM	#84
TSall Defender Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Sweden Posts: 5	I waited long enough....deleted all my chars now /Naayia@Darathar

04-06-2007, 12:32 PM	#85
Nithavellir Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 11	TSall wrote: I waited long enough....deleted all my chars now /Naayia@Darathar Feeling excactly the same... 70 Lvls and 100 AA is still somewhat an "achievement" i'm finding hard to throw out the window. But it feels more and more like time wasted than spent. __________________ ____________________________ Papadoo of <Europa> (Naggy fan) & Aruak of <Catharsis> (Splitpaw) HoX in eternal glory!

04-06-2007, 12:44 PM	#86
pharacyde Loremaster Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 308	False claims all over the place from SoE for the EU PVP community. - MMO ... Once in a year - PVP ... Once in a week - we are truly sorry ... NO you are not, if you were it would have been fixed long time ago. - more news soon ... we aren't asking for a weather forecast for 2010 - we are working on it ... work hader - we are trying ... try harder Must be a normal thing to do in a big company. __________________

04-06-2007, 12:47 PM	#87
Kaleyen Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: kk thx la~ Posts: 1,341	Why is keeping the people who pay their salaries up to date with what the heck is going on so difficult to do? __________________ Blaye \| 80 Guardian \| Leader of Anomaly

04-06-2007, 01:44 PM	#88
ZuhalterVati Defender Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 3	Drool YAWN.....

04-06-2007, 04:45 PM	#89
ToejaM t General Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 121	Time is it server side? Less than 12 hours to make a post or is your end of the week a Sunday (in the year 3228?) Where does one go to get a name and shame of a company publically announced?

04-06-2007, 05:40 PM	#90
Meatmonster Server: Nagafen Guild: Highkeep Heros Rank: Raider Loremaster Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 216	Is the nerd rage and other hysteria here really appropriate? I realize it's frustrating, and I prefer this process to have started by now, but is deleting your characters and then quitting because they didnt respond fast enough even remotely reasonable? I dont understand how this kind of silly drama is reasonable. It's a game. They said they'd try to give us a timeline this week, but they didnt promise anything. Get a grip on yourselves, go outside, get some fresh air.