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