5 Foot Step wrote on May 2^nd, 2015 at 1:37am:


I expect they will lose interest after "Potatoe" which will be somewhere shortly after 3, but before 5 clicks.

CanadianCurseword wrote on May 2^nd, 2015 at 1:41am:


LOL this guy can't even count to potato , must be that canadian math.

DropBear wrote on May 2^nd, 2015 at 1:42am:


The rename convention is already established. The character transfer script adds a currently adds a -1 and grants a free rename token. IF they do whatever they did in the past to merge servers, it would add -Ghallanda to conflicted character names and guild names.

Favor already transfers over with character transfers. Guilds are easily recreated on the other side if necessary since they simply have less variables than even a single character. (Name, roster, ship)

TR caches and Shared bank space are the wildcards. I'm not sure how they would handle that.

5 Foot Step wrote on May 2^nd, 2015 at 1:49am:



I know they have done server mergers in the past and the methods used.  During one of my walkabouts, I came back to find several of my toons had been renamed (despite already being on the destination server).  No rename tokens were in my inventory.

But it has been many years since they did that - I doubt anyone remains from that time, and the game and data structures may have changed in that time (eg. max number of inventory tabs has increased - the previous script may have been hardcoded only to copy 5 inv tabs across).

I thought someone mentioned earlier that favor and raid completions don't tfr over.  Apologies if i misread.
Favor would be a big one for those who have ground out the 5,000 favor.  If it does, then no probs.

Creating new guilds on the other side sounds easy, but I think they would need to bring across guild structures.
Can you imagine the angst it would cause trying to rebuild guild rosters in larger guilds.  Lots of little things crop up like dormant players or entire guilds that go dormant for a year or two and then return.  You come back and can't remember the toon names or guildies?
I can imagine the mischief that could be done if G'land were merged into another server and some players on the destination server set up Guilds with the names of all the prominent G'land guilds.

5 Foot Step wrote on May 2^nd, 2015 at 1:17am:


Wow, that is pure evil genius! The populace widely bought the "we abandoned the API server for Hardware reasons", so cary it to the next logical step!

Jelly_Muffin wrote on May 29^th, 2015 at 11:40am:


Our expectations of Turbine are just that low.

5 Foot Step wrote on May 2^nd, 2015 at 1:37am:

I don't, no.  The other problem (besides everybody mentioning guilds, etc.)... who the hell's gonna do that?  They're short staffed as it is.  There's no way they could pull it off in any reasonable amount of time.  I think even moving Wayfinder's population somewhere would be a nightmare.  Hands up, anybody who doesn't have at least an alt there.  Anybody?  They have to move that.  Then six months later you try and run it, and you're burdened.  Open ticket, wait.

If your scripts aren't bulletproof, you're dealing with a lot of manual stuff.  They'd have to hire Amazon's Christmas labour force to make it work.

Jelly_Muffin wrote on May 29^th, 2015 at 11:40am:

Bigjunk wrote on May 29^th, 2015 at 11:48am:


And we are the Drama-less Server...

Though all the downtimes we have at the moment are starting to get on Leslie nerves, he started being grumpy the last few times...

G-Land is up

Jelly_Muffin wrote on May 29^th, 2015 at 11:40am:


Ghallanda - the Canada of DDO 

GooFY wrote on May 29^th, 2015 at 4:50pm:


Yeah, we should call up turbine and tell them that WE'RE sorry.

Speaking of calling them, has any Ghallandite tried calling turbine support in an effort to finangle some free server transfers using the ole' "the server is down more than it's up" complaint?

Ah Pook wrote on May 29^th, 2015 at 12:46pm:


Or maybe pay more than $5/hr and get a competent programmer who has experience in this area.  Engage a consultant and make them responsible for ensuring it works.
With a good person on the job, a plan and some pre-testing, it should go reasonably smoothly.

Revaulting wrote on May 29^th, 2015 at 8:27pm:


Wow, that is surprisingly accurate.... Are you sure you don't work there?