How to handle server merges

Ozcanius

I was listening to the latest dev stream where they were talking about how they were going to handle server merges. It sounds like the current plan is kind of boring. When a server needs to be shut down, I would suggest something more along the lines of a cataclysm scenario. Basically, terrible cataclysms start happening signaling that the world is about to end. However, quests become available that will allow players to open portals to let them escape to other worlds, (not necessarily all of them escaping to the same world). This would allow them to save their characters and some of their possessions and arrive in another world as refugees where they can start to rebuild their lives. Anyone else like this idea or have other ideas or things to add to the idea?

Lust69

The best solution to this I’ve heard is merge two small or two dying servers together instead of a small or dying server merging into a bigger one.

BaSkA_9x2

Any cool events in-game before a server merger happens are cool. But the important thing is to merge dying servers into a brand new server, instead of moving people to existing servers.

Depraved

Ozcanius wrote: »

I was listening to the latest dev stream where they were talking about how they were going to handle server merges. It sounds like the current plan is kind of boring. When a server needs to be shut down, I would suggest something more along the lines of a cataclysm scenario. Basically, terrible cataclysms start happening signaling that the world is about to end. However, quests become available that will allow players to open portals to let them escape to other worlds, (not necessarily all of them escaping to the same world). This would allow them to save their characters and some of their possessions and arrive in another world as refugees where they can start to rebuild their lives. Anyone else like this idea or have other ideas or things to add to the idea?

what about returning players? or someone who wasnt able to play for a few days. they will be offline and wont be able to do the quest.

Jahlon

This is a very important question and I dedicated an entire video to it.
The best way is to take two dying servers, do a world ending event, everyone to a new version of Verra and we try again.