Bloodworthy --> Tomb of Freedon Nadd
Bloodworthy is now one of (so far) 20 origin servers open to transfers to Tomb of Freedon Nadd. Our server population is guaranteed to drop even more now, question is by how much...
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Will have to see just how much damage they've done with this over the next few days but worst case scenario they may have just killed what little pvp action there was left.
Why they couldn't have started with merging servers I do not know. Had they gone that route nobody would have had to move themselves, no servers would have been left even worse off and guilds wouldn't have to disband and reform themselves elsewhere in order to move as a group. Sure they'll fix server pops on the "destination" servers by doing this and give players the choice to move if they want but servers like ours had pretty crap populations to start with and by them doing this they'll have made matters worse for those who choose to stay.
Perhaps they'll merge some of these servers they've left for dead once they've finished with the manual transfers or something but right now this just seems stupid.
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Do we move? stay? see how things go?
If we stay:
Our server could be left pretty much dead depending how many Bloodworthy players decide to leave. Those of us who pvp or join random flashpoint groups will be most affected if that happens. PvP games are already limited to certain times of the day now before the queues for the next game become longer to never ending. Unless BioWare open transfers TO our server later on or they merge our left over servers which have been made worse from the transfers our population is only going to get lower and this is something we can't guarantee they'll do.
If we move we will have to:
1. Clean our guild bank out and hold its contents across our characters that are transferring.
2. Completely disband our guild on Bloodworthy.
3. Each of us manually transfer ourselves over to Tomb of Freedon Nadd.
4. Reform our guild on the new server; 4 player party needed to create a guild and then we'd have to start reinviting everyone, losing inactive people from Bloodworthy in the process who may one day return or choose to stay.
5. Contact customer services to get our guild bank back.
Character and Legacy names may already be taken too and if so those people would have to rename themselves upon transferring. Guild names too though I can't see anyone else running around as the Shattered Star eXiles.
What does everyone think?
Moving over as a guild is not automatic like it should be but actually sounds like a pain in the arse. Do we want to basically delete what we've built on Bloodworthy and risk losing people in the process who may be inactive and possibly come back at some point to find us gone, or may just want to stay.
Wait and see how our bad our population is affected by this first? but what if we miss our opportunity and they shut them off?
Or stay where we are regardless and hope they have further plans to fix populations for the servers they've screwed?.
I don't like any of this really :/
Will be honest. I've been wondering whether I will renew my 6 month sub when it expires in mid August but I've still got another 2 months to decide so I may still be around after then, will have to see.
Besides our group, its members and playing for the class stories on my 2 characters it has been the pvp scene which has kept me entertained most days since Dec. Some months ago I could queue for a warzone anytime from just before lunch time to the early hours of the morning, any day of the week. Right now it all depends. If you're on at the right time you can only be waiting a couple of minutes for a game which is fine, otherwise I've seen queues of up to 40minutes at times. When it gets late now it basically cuts off and the queues are endless because there aren't enough people left to form any games. - Our population is about to drop even further now so I dread to think what this will be like when I login tomorrow and the next day. If they've managed to kill the pvp community by opening these transfers I'll basically have nothing to do and I can't see myself playing very often from this point on if that's the case, which would obviously lead to me not renewing my sub in Aug. - That being said come August I may be completely bored/burned out and not resub even if we DO move. Dunno yet.
Staying put and waiting to see if they come back and fix what damage they've most likely done by doing this is an option too I suppose, merging us with some of the others or something. Normally I have a lot of faith in BioWare and I'd be able to say with confidence that I thought they'd do something like that but I was expecting them to make us a destination server rather than an origin one so how wrong was I.
I dunno if they've announced when they'll be closing these transfers? but my only worry with this is that we hold off to wait and see, pop goes to shit and then they shut the transfers off before we've moved or are in the process of doing.
Moving.... Not automatic, very inconvenient, lose people along the way etc. Is it worth it?. Is the destination server guaranteed to be better?. If they allow too many people to transfers will we start seeing queues again? or, which I think is more likely, will they be keeping tabs on them and shut the transfers for that particular server before they reach that point? what if some of us haven't transferred yet? It is also pretty shitty that they've given guilds no warning what so ever as to whether their server would be affected or not so I'd say we should decide sharpish as transfers are already underway and unless I am mistaken we don't know just how long these will be open for. :/
Dunno what is best
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/sighface!
[Edit - Ok well normally from around 1pm the pvp queues are just as active as they are on an evening because this is the time that dailies reset. Today? Just 45mins after the reset there are literally only 3 people on the fleet and not one game being run either. Will login again tonight to see what it's like but as it looks now our server is dead. Tomb of Freedon Nadd however is marked as "heavy".
I've just posted this as news on our site and changed the MOTD ingame to get people to come by and comment]