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Hey Everyone -
 
We've written a news post about improving the game experience, reducing lag, and improving queues by introducing new realms. Read all about our planned changes and leave us your thoughts below.
 
Thanks again for all of your patience, we truly appreciate it.
 
Team WildStar
 
 
Frequently Asked Questions:
 
Realms, Realm Transfers, and Mergers
When will the temporary realms be merged back?We will merge the realms back together into Megaservers as soon as possible, but we need to fix our Megaserver technology to be able to support more players. As stated in the announcement, this split is a temporary measure to alleviate latency and queues.
Will realm transfers be available? Will they be free?Yes, and yes – but there are limitations. You can move any number of characters you want as many times as you want, but each character can only be moved once every 7 days. Also, players can only transfer from sister realm to sister realm – e.g. Entity to Entity-2 or Jabbit to Jabbit-2.
What is the plan for character names on the newly created realms if they will be merged back into the original ones?Character names that are already taken will be unavailable, and therefore will be unaffected when we merge the Realms back together.
How will player names work?All character and guild names will be shared between the Realms. Thus a character named Chua Lover present on Entity would have the name reserved on Entity-2.
If I transfer to a temporary realm, can I play with my friends from the source realm?Although we plan to merge these realms later, they are separate realms for now and so you would not be able to play with players from the other realm, except in cross-realm content, specifically those matched via the content finder.
Where will the new realms be physically located?The machines running these new realms will be in the same datacenters we use today in Dallas, TX and Frankfurt, Germany.
Any ETA on how long the temporary realms will need to be up?Until everything is stabilized, and we’re confident that the merger will not present more issues.
Will realm first achievements be available on the expansion realms? Will they merge back into the source realms?All current realm first achievements will be available on the expansion realms. If a realm first achievement is earned on an expansion realm, it will be retained when that realm merges, even if that realm first has already been earned on the source realm. It's okay to have multiple holders of a realm first achievement; the realm first achievement for defeating Avatus in the original Datascape is held by 40 players.
Will the Auction House / Commodities Exchange be linked between source and expansion realms?While the realms remain separated, so will their economies. Once the realms merge, their AH and CX will merge as well.
Does the 7 day cooldown still apply when I have moved my characters between Realms?Yes, upon moving your character into an expansion realm, you will be unable to move it back to a source realm for 7 days. All normal realm transfer rules apply – please see this KB article for more information.
How long does it takes for my characters to be effectively moved?It can take between 15 minutes and 24 hours.
I am receiving the error message “My character is busy” when I am trying to initiate a Realm transfer?We have a very good Realm Transfer FAQ that can be accessed here.
Characters and Creation
Will I still be able to talk to my friends on the other realms, or do I have to transfer?There is cross realm chatting in the game and whispering between account friends. That works across realms.
Is this temporary, or a long term solution?This is temporary solutions that helping to alleviate the issue of realm lag and increased queue times while we work on a permanent/long term solution.
Will characters be copied over to the 2nd realm?No characters will be copied over at this time, and the new realms will be a clean slate for a period of time. Players will however be able to freely transfer their characters for a short time.
Will there be a lock on Entity to prevent players from making new characters there?Not at all.
If I make characters on both servers and they merge, will I be able to keep all of my characters?If you make more characters than your account is allowed between both realms (i.e. two characters on Entity, and two characters on Entity 2), when the servers are merged together you’ll have all of them and you’ll be able to play them. However, should you ever delete those characters, unless you changed your account to Signature status or bought extra Character slots, those character slots will no longer be available.
What about region locking?Players can log into NA or EU at will, although your character data will be separate. Account items waiting to be claimed may be claimed in either region, but once in your account inventory they are bound to that region. Cosmic Rewards are applied to every character on your account, so those will automatically be waiting for you on any character you create in either region. Signature status applies to your account in both regions.
			
				
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Are...are you *cupcake*ing serious... I remember you guys opened more servers are launch as well, what happened? Oh yeah, THEY BECAME BARREN.
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			Will there be server transfers available to help move people off the existing servers? 	
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			Need some clarifications. You are planning to open up some additional realms to play on, correct. But afterward, once the main server issues are addressed, you will be merging those worlds back into Entity and Warhound?  What is the plan for character names on the newly created servers if they will be merged back into the original ones?	
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			Are...are you *cupcake*ing serious... I remember you guys opened more servers are launch as well, what happened? Oh yeah, THEY BECAME BARREN.	
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Are...are you *cupcake*ing serious... I remember you guys opened more servers are launch as well, what happened? Oh yeah, THEY BECAME BARREN.
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			YOU GUYS ROCK!	
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Are...are you *cupcake*ing serious... I remember you guys opened more servers are launch as well, what happened? Oh yeah, THEY BECAME BARREN.
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Are...are you *cupcake*ing serious... I remember you guys opened more servers are launch as well, what happened? Oh yeah, THEY BECAME BARREN.
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They specifically stated that these servers will be merged back into the existing servers once they resolve all the issues...
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1 more pve for both NA and EU.
1 more pvp for both NA and EU.
 
http://www.wildstar-online.com/en/news/2015-10-01-new-wildstar-servers-incoming/
			
				
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			Character & Guild/Circle/Team names will be unique across new & old servers, so the merger "should" be smooth. :)	
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Will we get the RP realm back?
Will there be free transfers to these new realms?
Are these actually going to be new relams, or just more hardware added to the mega server?	
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This is good news! Though I imagine a lot of the load on the PvP servers is coming from people trying to escape the crush on the PvE servers. Personally I would have opened 2 new PvE servers per region instead of 1 PvE and one PvP. 
 
I hope this helps!	
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			Just saw this posted on twitter myself.  Seems like it will be great and I'm looking forward to being able to jump back in game soon.	
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I'm stll a tad confused. So we currently have 1 'megaserver' with 1 realm per region. And we are getting 3 more realms, are these new 'megaservers' per realm or all on the same one, basically just beefin up pre-existing ones and spreading load across 4 channels.
 
Also what is your estimated timeframe on the merger, is it a few days to get things set up then merge? Or a few months waiting for population to die down?
 
Aswell as this, what happens to the newly added server capacity? After the merger happens does that mean we'll be back to the current capacity? Or are you actually combining all servers into one 'megaserver' and keeping the increased capacity?
 
 
Answers would be appreciated,
Thanks, Jowdan.	
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Will we get the RP realm back?
Will there be free transfers to these new realms?
Are these actually going to be new relams, or just more hardware added to the mega server?
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Need some clarifications. You are planning to open up some additional realms to play on, correct. But afterward, once the main server issues are addressed, you will be merging those worlds back into Entity and Warhound?  What is the plan for character names on the newly created servers if they will be merged back into the original ones?
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Thank you!
 
I'm glad that you are opening up new servers to accomodate the new player base.
 
(you may not read this next part but what the hell)
 
Don't go above your means! Only open up a couple, let them fill up and then open up one or two more. Open up more servers SLOWLY as the player base will deminish over the next few months. That happening will turn full servers into smaller ones. So prep ahead and be sure that you can merge a couple together as we go along. Prepare for the name conflicts and the ZONE capacity!
 
For Example!!! Just because a whole server can hold 5k players doesn't mean that one zone can handle 2k of that being new players.
 
Keep up the good work gals and guys! Happy to be a part of this new experience in the MMO you have created!	
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Been a rocky few days, but the time I've had I've enjoyed so this is good news.  Much needed.
 
Credit to everyone behind the scenes working so hard right now.  Must be more stressed than the servers right now.	
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Will there be server transfers available to help move people off the existing servers? 
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This please.
 
Will this be possible (hopefully free)? I got to level 16 already, i really don't want to go through that all again. However, I will be fine playing on a much lower pop server temporarily until the merge. Please let us know about this as soon as you can, thanks!
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Are...are you *cupcake*ing serious... I remember you guys opened more servers are launch as well, what happened? Oh yeah, THEY BECAME BARREN.
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			At least this time they flat out say they will be merged back in once things even out. So much for a "real" megaserver technology.	
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All name exclusivity will be shared across the expanded servers; the server expanded out from Entity will not allow any name taken on Entity to be made on it, for example. This way the merge will be clean. :)
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			I highly doubt the new pve or pvp server will be RP.	
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In the next 24 hours, we’ll be adding new hardware that will enable us to open up four new PvE and PvP realms in both the United States and Europe.
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			This is nothing short of excellent. Honestly surprised this wasn't done in the beginning. It really would have saved your hard working people some headache.	
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			what about the problems with your authenicator?! i keep getting Invalid Token on a wired internet connection! get that freakin annoying authenticator off it useless!!! even reaching a login problem or a login queue of 3 hours long would be better then that!	
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At least this time they flat out say they will be merged back in once things even out. So much for a "real" megaserver technology.
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I'll just quote the import part (IMO) since many seem to be asking questions that are answered in the announcement already.
 
"In the next 24 hours, we’ll be adding new hardware that will enable us to open up four new PvE and PvP realms in both the United States and Europe. Adding these realms will significantly increase the amount of players who can get into WildStar. We believe that this will address the issues above, dramatically improving the game experience, reducing lag, and improving queues. Once we have resolved the current issues, we plan to merge these additional realms."
 
EDIT: http://www.wildstar-online.com/en/news/2015-10-01-new-wildstar-servers-incoming/
			
				
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Can we get a lock on new character creation for entity so people actually use the new servers?
 
I mean i know none of the new people want to give up that level 5 character they have and all to reroll but lol.
 
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			Will there be server transfers available? Will there be an RP server?	
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			YOu guys are the f***ing best! :D so much love for the team!	
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			So is my interpretation of the plan correct? The new servers are temporary, and will merge into the existing two servers when the problems are sorted out? So like two PvE servers will go into Entity, and two PvP ones will go into Warhound etc?
			
				
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			Be careful with name overlapping!!!	
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I'm stll a tad confused. So we currently have 1 'megaserver' with 1 realm per region. And we are getting 3 more realms, are these new 'megaservers' per realm or all on the same one, basically just beefin up pre-existing ones and spreading load across 4 channels.
 
Also what is your estimated timeframe on the merger, is it a few days to get things set up then merge? Or a few months waiting for population to die down?
 
Aswell as this, what happens to the newly added server capacity? After the merger happens does that mean we'll be back to the current capacity? Or are you actually combining all servers into one 'megaserver' and keeping the increased capacity?
 
 
Answers would be appreciated,
Thanks, Jowdan.
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			Just wanted to say thank you for working so hard you guys/ladies must be tired...	
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			It's sounding like this is a temporary solution. Creating a clone server for people to play on then after hype dies down the servers get merged. I'm not a developer so I don't know if it's possible but why not use the additional servers as an expansion to the main server. Perhaps use the hardware to create instance shards?	
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			Thanks and good job carbine!	
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So am I correct when I say the plan is the new servers are temporary, and will merge into the existing two servers when the problems are sorted out? So like two PvE servers will go into Entity, and two PvP ones will go into Warhound etc?
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Why would they offer transfer's if they are going to merge them back...
 
Waste of resources and unnecessary since it's only temporary.
 
EDIT: it reads to me as one new PvE US and PvP US plus one new PvE Euro and one new PvP Euro 'four'. "In the next 24 hours, we’ll be adding new hardware that will enable us to open up four new PvE and PvP realms in both the United States and Europe."
			
				
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Why would they offer transfer's if they are going to merge them back...
 
Waste of resources and unnecessary since it's only temporary.
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			Too little too late. I've been reading the drama on the forums, but gave up trying to play a while ago. I'd hate to be a paying customer and fall victim to the lack of acknowledgement and response time of your studio.. see yea around cupcakes.
			
				
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I'm assuming you cant raid or do rated BGs/Arenas cross-realm still? Also, I know that this is temporary, but are you making improvements to your Megaserver tech to be able to handle larger amount of players on a realm or just banking on the idea that the hype dies down? If the latter, that's not good.
 
I want one big realm with everyone on it. Segregating the community sucks :(.
			
				
	Edited October 2, 2015 by redward	
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Why would they offer transfer's if they are going to merge them back...
 
Waste of resources and unnecessary since it's only temporary.
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			Q: will there be server transfers for free and will I still be able to talk to my guild on /g? 	
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Also what is your estimated timeframe on the merger, is it a few days to get things set up then merge? Or a few months waiting for population to die down?
 
Aswell as this, what happens to the newly added server capacity? After the merger happens does that mean we'll be back to the current capacity? Or are you actually combining all servers into one 'megaserver' and keeping the increased capacity?
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			As a temporary fix, this is fantastic. Due to the game being F2P the falloff of people playing shouldn't be nearly as drastic (hopefully none at all) and all the while people can actually get in and enjoy the game while things get up and running efficiently. It's a win/win for us.	
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Will characters created on new servers count towards my current limit of 12/12? If not, what happens when you merge the servers back, do I now get 24/24?
 
Are you sure there is a need for 2 pvp servers? I would be willing to bet quite a few pve players are getting their wildstar fix on the short que pvp server. Adding another pve and pvp server would give warhound no que ever. maybe even no players like a week ago...	
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Will characters created on new servers count towards my current limit of 12/12? If not, what happens when you merge the servers back, do I now get 24/24?
 
Are you sure there is a need for 2 pvp servers? I would be willing to bet quite a few pve players are getting their wildstar fix on the short que pvp server. Adding another pve and pvp server would give warhound no que ever. maybe even no players like a week ago...
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Too little too late. I've been reading the drama on the forums, but gave up trying to play a while ago. I'd hate to be a paying customer and fall victim to the lack of acknowledgement and response time of your studio.. see yea around cupcakes.
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			Q: Will I be able to switch between PVE adn PVP servers with my Chars? Because A LOT of people started on PVP only to avoid the massive wait to log on PVE, only to find now the same situation on both... would be nice to move and play where i originally wanted.	
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			How are the new server being divvied up? How many PvE and how many PvP? Any RP servers?	
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Questions:
 
1)  Existing player, with 12 full character slots on Entity.. if they re-roll on PvE Realm X (I vote for Everstar), what happens when merge time comes around? Based on previous comments, I'm assuming we'd get to keep the "extra" slots..but, some confirmation would be great (especially, if somehow we ended up over the 14 slot limit).
 
2)  Linked AH/CX - pre re-merger? it might help the players who re-roll to find items they need (bags, etc..).
 
3) Any ETA yet (I'm guessing no), on how long the temporary servers will need to be up?
 
4)  Does this mean you guys will go home and get some sleep after the new servers are stood up?	
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How are the new server being divvied up? How many PvE and how many PvP? Any RP servers?
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			question. why spend time on more pvp servers? no one is really using the current one. 	
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Will there be server transfers available? Will there be an RP server?
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Because people aren't reading the full announcement they are jumping to conclusions from the headline.
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Thank GOD, and *cupcake* all those fanboys that were saying this wasnt needed, WELL, it CLEARLY WAS!!...
 
Whatever im so glad they are even going to merge them back 
 
ITS A *cupcake*ING WIN/WIN SITUATION!!!!	
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			I predict that as soon as these new realms are up, the pvp servers will be mostly dead because most of the reason those servers are being slammed is because people are sick of being stuck in a queue of over 2 freaking hours as a sub, and go "screw it" and create a pvp toon just so they can play. So having one of each server is going to be a bad idea, they both need to be pve.	
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			So, what we have learned from this fiasco is that if you want Carbine to get things fixed, you need to send them pizza, got it! Expect more pizza in the future!	
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			Are the new NA servers "realms" going to be located in Dallas?	
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All name exclusivity will be shared across the expanded servers; the server expanded out from Entity will not allow any name taken on Entity to be made on it, for example. This way the merge will be clean. :)
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Are the new NA servers "realms" going to be located in Dallas?
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			Fantastic. Thank you. 	
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Instead of merging them back together afterwards, would you please relabel them afterwards as PvE/RP and PvP/RP?
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			Instead of merging them back together afterwards, would you please relabel them afterwards as PvE/RP and PvP/RP?	
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Last suggestion:
 
DONT close character creation on Entity, JUST grant free transfers to people that want to go to the new servers, there was in fact a LOT of people asking for a completely new server to play with, even if this is gonna be merged later i believe a lot of them will want to go to the other realm, inf act a bunch of people with low level characters arent going to bother with a transfer and just going to start over there.
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Instead of merging them back together afterwards, would you please relabel them afterwards as PvE/RP and PvP/RP?
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Awesome! Thanks for that. You all rock!
 
Edit: I also assume character slots will be shared among the new realms (appropriately)? Ex. For a Free to Play account they'll have 2 character slots total among, for example, four North American PvE realms?
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Last suggestion:
 
DONT close character creation on Entity, JUST grant free transfers to people that want to go to the new servers, there was in fact a LOT of people asking for a completely new server to play with, even if this is gonna be merged later i believe a lot of them will want to go to the other realm, in fact a bunch of people with low level characters arent going to bother with a transfer and just going to start over there.
			
				
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Are...are you *cupcake*ing serious... I remember you guys opened more servers are launch as well, what happened? Oh yeah, THEY BECAME BARREN.
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Why would they offer transfer's if they are going to merge them back...
 
Waste of resources and unnecessary since it's only temporary.
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Why do people want a dedicated RP server so badly?
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			This is excellent news. Hope this goes really smooth for you guys.	
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Instead of merging them back together afterwards, would you please relabel them afterwards as PvE/RP and PvP/RP?
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I predict that as soon as these new realms are up, the pvp servers will be mostly dead because most of the reason those servers are being slammed is because people are sick of being stuck in a queue of over 2 freaking hours as a sub, and go "screw it" and create a pvp toon just so they can play. So having one of each server is going to be a bad idea, they both need to be pve.
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Uh. Because they RULE!!!!
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But there is a pretty active RP community on Entity and there was an addon created that will flag a user as an RPer.
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Ok, but when? No ETA?
 
Another few days of unplayability?
 
Sweet.
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Ok, but when? No ETA?
 
Another few days of unplayability?
 
Sweet.	
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Ok, but when? No ETA?
 
Another few days of unplayability?
 
Sweet.
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Too little too late. I've been reading the drama on the forums, but gave up trying to play a while ago. I'd hate to be a paying customer and fall victim to the lack of acknowledgement and response time of your studio.. see yea around cupcakes.
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			In all honesty you prolly only need 1 realm per country the masses are putting into the pvp server from the pve 2 more servers 1 pve and 1 pvp i can see the second pvp server being deserted in no time	
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That was not your question, though.  ;)
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2 NA PvE realms.
 
not 4.  Unless they change the plan from what was just announced... they will be adding 1 PvE and 1 PvP to NA and the same for EU.
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Which will be nice when those new server will not be needed since most of the player will have left.  
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			well opening new server is good. to bad it is he same as opening new fire stations after the city has burned down. Then saying that later we will merge them all into one. Which will be nice when those new server will not be needed since most of the player will have left.  
			
				
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Adding new servers
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Uh. Yeah. That's why I said for example twice. And it was still taken literally.  <_<
 
Whether there are five new PvE realms or a billion, that doesn't change the question. Will we be capped at 2/12 characters (whatever your current maximum character slots per realm is) across all PvE/PvP servers? How is that going to work? 
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			Was about CUPCAKE time. Should have had those servers before f2p launch ready.	
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			How will players themselves be divided up among the new servers? It is clear that there are too many players assigned to the currently existing servers, so how are you deciding who gets the boot over to the new server for each region+type?	
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Transfers to a temporary realm, don't make any sense.. that seems like a waste to me.  
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I'm sure its been said already, but isn't this a bit shortsighted of Carbine?
 
Instead of being proactive and making sure they had enough servers in preparation of the F2P launch to avoid all these problems and make a good impression.	
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When you over fill a bucket with water and them set another empty bucket next to it... and direct the water flow into the new bucket...  Does the over full bucket become any less full?  Or do you need to poor some from the full bucket into the new bucket to releave the fullness?
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Why would they offer transfer's if they are going to merge them back...
 
Waste of resources and unnecessary since it's only temporary.
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This I'm curious. Because new players Are going to look at a new server without their character then look at the old and continue playing their already leveled char instead of rerolling anew
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			Any fix incoming for the loading screens? When you go to an area/dungeon and just dont load it, and we go back to character select screen.	
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Based on the level of patience we've seen today on the forums, I doubt many will think about that twice if they face a queue.
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I have 2 of my allowed 2 characters made and leveled to 6 on entity.
 
If a new realm opens... I assume I will not be able to make any new characters as I'm allready at my limit.  So I would not be able to play on it and would be stuck playing on the currently overfull server.
 
I can not imagine they'll let me make 2 new characters on the new realm and then have 4 when things are merged.
 
I would be happy to transfer over my 2 characters and play on the new realm and thus releave the pressure on the old server.	
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			So will guilds be moved together or how will this effect them? Will they be effectively on the same server for communication but instanced so that you would need to jump servers to play with friends? This has me very perplexed but I am 100% behind this plan. A fix is a fix. I BELIEVE IN YOU CARBINE!!!	
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Hey Everyone -
 
Thanks for all of your questions. I'll be updating the forums post with a FAQ and answers in the next day. I see that there's some confusion about timing, and the merger process in particular, and I hope I can help.
 
In regards to timing, we're looking to do this within the next 24 hours and we'll update you as to when that can happen when we have more information. We want to make sure that we've addressed everything before we make this move. And, in regards to the merger - a merger of the realms will happen once after dramatically improving the game experience, reducing lag, and improving queues.	
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			Thanks Sunshine! cant wait	
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Then you'd have people stuck on RP servers simply because the servers they wanted to create characters on were full, and people on the existing servers who want to RP would have to pay to transfer.
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Let me see if I've got this all straight.  I'm trying to piece it together from rumors and posts.  Could a Carbine guy jump in and say yes or no real quick?
 
1. A megaserver is a "realm", or actually server cluster, that dynamically instances zones and such based on demand.  More demand = more instances of a given zone.
2. Wildstar currently uses megaservers as defined above.
3. The login gateway is the failure point, not the megaserver itself.
4. The new realms are intended to relieve pressure on the gateway, until it is fixed.  Then the new realms will be merged and operate as a normal megaserver.
 
Have I got this right?  Or is the "megaserver" really just a giant, old-school server that's overloaded?
			
				
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Thank you very much guys for the hard work. I really love this game so i hope you do all the necessary to keep enjoying it!. What i like the most, its to see a LOT of people playing the game around me, so the future merge will be awesome!. I think open new temporary servers its the best option, because you guys are doing everything to fix the lag and its still here, so this is a real fix for now.
 
Again, thank you for give us this amazing game! and now F2P!.	
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Let me see if I've got this all straight.  I'm trying to piece it together from rumors and posts.  Could a Carbine guy jump in and say yes or no real quick?
 
1. A megaserver is a "realm", or actually server cluster, that dynamically instances zones and such based on demand.  More demand = more instances of a given zone.
2. Wildstar currently uses megaservers as defined above.
3. The login gateway is the failure point, not the megaserver itself.
4. The new realms are intended to relieve pressure on the gateway, until it is fixed.  Then the megaservers will operate as normal.
 
Have I got this right?  Or is the "megaserver" really just a giant, old-school server that's overloaded?
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			Keep the RP in the bedroom where it belongs  :D	
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			Please consider updating the OP with the various answers are giving throughout the thread, so people can get all the info in one place.	
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			so realms like other servers or realms like the "channel" system in eastern MMOS?	
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so realms like other servers or realms like the "channel" system in eastern MMOS?
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"Once we have resolved the current issues, we plan to merge these additional realms."
 
Awesome! I'm glad they are making a temporary fix.  I love this game, and I honestly wanted it to succeed, that's why I been so patient. You guys are great, thanks for all the hard-work! =) 	
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I have 2 of my allowed 2 characters made and leveled to 6 on entity.
 
If a new realm opens... I assume I will not be able to make any new characters as I'm allready at my limit.  So I would not be able to play on it and would be stuck playing on the currently overfull server.
 
I can not imagine they'll let me make 2 new characters on the new realm and then have 4 when things are merged.
 
I would be happy to transfer over my 2 characters and play on the new realm and thus releave the pressure on the old server.
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When you over fill a bucket with water and them set another empty bucket next to it... and direct the water flow into the new bucket...  Does the over full bucket become any less full?  Or do you need to poor some from the full bucket into the new bucket to releave the fullness?
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			Excellent choice - and sooner the better!	
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			This was inevitable and thanks for finally adding that hardware. Much appreciated.	
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If the new server is just an extension of entity does that mean my characters will be the same? If not what happen to the new ones when the merge is made?
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			If the new server is just an extension of entity does that mean my characters will be the same? If not what happen to the new ones when the merge is made?	
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Why pour water from Glass A, into Glass B, to pour it right back into Glass A?
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Thank you for making this decision, I hope it works out for those having such constant trouble.  I have been fortunate to have little issue.  I'm am glad to see you went with moderation this time.
 
 
If I may make a suggestion, for the time being you may want to considered opening free server transfer between the server types, PvE to PvE and PvP to PvP at least if not PvE to PvP and vise versa.  This way new and old players can still meet up for the time being but will eventually be all in one place once it settles down and is merged.  This of course is assuming that doing so wouldn't mess up something of a technical nature.	
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When you over fill a bucket with water and them set another empty bucket next to it... and direct the water flow into the new bucket...  Does the over full bucket become any less full?  Or do you need to poor some from the full bucket into the new bucket to releave the fullness?
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One PvP and PvE server per religion.
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Why pour water from Glass A, into Glass B, to pour it right back into Glass A?
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because you've been making glass A bigger in the mean time.
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This analogy isn't accurately describing whats going on, its a gating issue, from everything I've seen.  Imagine you have a pipe hanging over a bucket, with a hole in it, only so much water can get into that bucket, the size of the bucket is irrelevant.  The problem is that the hole isn't big enough.  So they are making more holes to allow more water(people) in the bucket(mega server), not more buckets.
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Hey Everyone -
 
Thanks for all of your questions. I'll be updating the forums post with a FAQ and answers in the next day. I see that there's some confusion about timing, and the merger process in particular, and I hope I can help.
 
In regards to timing, we're looking to do this within the next 24 hours and we'll update you as to when that can happen when we have more information. We want to make sure that we've addressed everything before we make this move. And, in regards to the merger - a merger of the realms will happen once after dramatically improving the game experience, reducing lag, and improving queues.
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			Thanks very much for the update.Simply letting us know what is going on and that you're working on it goes a long way.We'll see you on Nexus!	
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But the question is: we can transfer our character to the new server? And if yes, gor free?
 
Thanks
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			wow thats awesome carbine! i hope this fixes the ques/lag it was making the game unplayable, i'm really excited you guys listened to our feedback!	
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perfect
I AM going to create a caracter called Darvin on the Christian PVE Server
AND a character called Hitler on the Jew PVP server
dont have to balls to go on the muslim server
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			This is good news.  Stress on the current 2 servers have been a pain for everyone.	
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			Smart move Carbine.  :)  Looking forward to the new realms coming in.	
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But the question is: we can transfer our character to the new server? And if yes, gor free?
 
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Yes. You'll be able to transfer characters for free between "sister-servers" (e.g. Jabbit and Jabbit-2). This will be free while there are multiple servers - but we've planned to charge for it as part of free-to-play, so we'll get back to that after services are normalized. 
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This is good news.  Stress on the current 2 servers have been a pain for everyone.
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WTH and i thought we had Mega Servers.
 
Splitting the cmmunity up again, hm not smart.
 
And after the launch pressure will be gone, what becomes of the Servers?
 
Will the merge to one or what?	
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Yes. You'll be able to transfer characters for free between "sister-servers" (e.g. Jabbit and Jabbit-2). This will be free while there are multiple servers - but we've planned to charge for it as part of free-to-play, so we'll get back to that after services are normalized. 
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WTH and i thought we had Mega Servers.
 
Splitting the cmmunity up again, hm not smart.
 
And after the launch pressure will be gone, what becomes of the Servers?
 
Will the merge to one or what?
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good thing they pulled the trigger to do this before the heavy weekend traffic.
 
still thrilled there is this much demand to need more servers	
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			EU claims to be up and Free Realm Transfers (from Jabbit to Jabbit-2) are Available. Edit: Jabbit and Jabbit-2 both seem to work now.
			
				
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			This seems like a well thought out temporary solution. It adds capacity while avoiding the common issue of new servers becoming barren in the long run. I'm just afraid that all of the servers might still lag. Yesterday morning when I was able to play for a little bit the lag started coming in very early, about 8 am central Europe. I can't imagine that there was a massive load on the server at that time so something is likely wrong with the code, something that adding more servers might not fix.	
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I really like this solution!
 
But I still get disconnected by trying to travel somewhere and now got stuck in den char screen :(	
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			what of guilds? if we wish to transfer servers with the entire guild, do we need to leave the guild behind and rework through all the benefits?	
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			Auction house's are connected for the sister servers?	
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Thank a lot for that communication, that was what it missed the most during that last few days.
Its now clear of what is done and i'll be patient until the game experience become fun again.
regards	
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			Very nice way of adressing some problems and keeping everyone happy! Well done Carbine. Especially with the weekend comming up!	
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what of guilds? if we wish to transfer servers with the entire guild, do we need to leave the guild behind and rework through all the benefits?
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Hey Carbine, smart move. Glad you are doing this before our raid night :) Would be great if we actually could get a chance to finish GA this weekend!
 
Thanks for your hard work.	
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So what was the point in megaservers then? or are the megaservers not as mega as you would have had us believe?
 
I was under the impression that the game would only need one dynamically scaling server per ruleset (sorta like ESO) but I guess the megaservers were just a PR stunt after all.
 
Edit: I see this is just a temporary measure. In that case it's okay.
 
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I disagree. We had a dedicated RP server, and it got taken away when Carbine went to the Megaserver concept (which, by the way, has worked out wonderfully *rolls eyes*). So I'd say, were a new RP server ever opened in this game, the least Carbine could do is open free transfers to said RP server for those who wanted to play there, and free transfers off for those who chose it in error.
 
But that'll never happen, so it's a moot point.
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			I am so happy to hear this. I bought the game a few months back, even before the f2p thing. I was curious because I was told by a few that the game was awesome. It is assuredly different and I've truly enjoyed the experience - specially the Lore part of it. Unfortunately, the last couple of days I have not been able to log on - that little creature running around on his wheel goes on forever while trying to load my character. If they do load then I'm in que. I'm not know for patience so I walk away. I'm looking forward to being able to play. :)	
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			I see you're offering free realm transfer to Entity-2. How long will these transfers take?	
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Maw'dang :P  I'm sick right now and couldn't sleep, so came on here to check things out and saw the times the servers will be down.  If only I could have slept longer /cry.  
 
Now that's out of my system YAY CARBINE :D  Can't wait to get back in the game.	
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			And what about south american players that are waiting for S.A servers? I even have wildstar.cl (and i'm trying to tell everyone what I know about this game because I love it).Its a small group, 106 aprox, but still its growing everyday :DCheers from Chile	
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			Although there are problems during the kickoff, you guys are the best support out there, seriously for a f2p mode I'm impressed by your efficiency and active updates with fan community. Keep up the good work and wildstar will definitely be the legend game. Cheer up!
			
				
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Are...are you *cupcake*ing serious... I remember you guys opened more servers are launch as well, what happened? Oh yeah, THEY BECAME BARREN.
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I have a "bag of awesomeness" in my mail.  I apparently have already redeemed this, so I cannot take it out of mail.  It will be 88 days until it auto-deletes.  Until I get my mailbox cleared, I can't transfer servers.
 
:-/	
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			What I'm curious on is lets say I transfer my alt to the sister server (jabbit 2), will I be able to queue for instances and be in the same pool at jabbit 1 aswell? or only jabbit 2? because if it's only jabbit 2 then I say see queuetimes being disastrous for my lowbie alt :/	
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			transfers to jabbit -2 cant be performed, error messagecome back saying character is busy	
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What I'm curious on is lets say I transfer my alt to the sister server (jabbit 2), will I be able to queue for instances and be in the same pool at jabbit 1 aswell? or only jabbit 2? because if it's only jabbit 2 then I say see queuetimes being disastrous for my lowbie alt :/
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			I was wrong to assume you guys were prepared for this. What ever happened to preventive measure? You should have implemented these serves BEFORE launch not after. 	
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			This is a great short term fix idea, but why do you restrict the 2 way transfer?If i transfer to jabbit 2 and in a week the lag is okish in jabbit 1 and my friends are doing dungeons there i wanna come back but i have to wait for the merge? why?Thank god i tested the 2 way transfer with a new char before actually migrating mine.This is holding me in Jabbit one, can't you open the transfers so that we're able to come back when we want to?	
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I was wrong to assume you guys were prepared for this. What ever happened to preventive measure? You should have implemented these serves BEFORE launch not after. 
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			I just hope to get a free transfer from pve1 relam to pvp1 realm to move all my 50 lvl characters from pve to pvp which was dead for a long time and now live again.	
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They undoubtedly expected an influx of people, returning and new. The issue is that the influx of new players has been far above and beyond expectations. Add in that IP spoofing gold farmers and spammers are making countless accounts and you can see how things mount up to be an issue quickly.
 
It'll be ironed out within a week. All FtP transitions that I've had experience with have been identical to this really. They account for 2x the population, receive 8x. Then there's the people downloading the game as well, and the others hammering the login servers.	
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Hello,
 
Just a brief update regarding Realm Transfers right now. As some of you may have noticed, they have been disabled on European Megaservers since they were impacting stability of servers. Our team is working on a fix that should be deployed later in the day to address issues caused by transfers. They will then be made available again.
 
Thank you again for your understanding.	
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Well, good news but the Server-Realms problem is fking me...
 
I am Spanish and I was playing EU servers but dont know why now I am playing at NA servers (Entity and Warhound) so I lost my other characters...
 
I only hope to keep in one Realm and not have to change /restart my champs again  :angry:	
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"The Realm transfer can only be enacted from the character select screen, so you will have to wait in a queue to enact the transfer if there is one on the source Realm."
-FAQ
 
This is still the way you transfer right?  I have no idea what I'm doing.  Saw no transfer button anywhere. 	
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"The Realm transfer can only be enacted from the character select screen, so you will have to wait in a queue to enact the transfer if there is one on the source Realm."
-FAQ
 
This is still the way you transfer right?  I have no idea what I'm doing.  Saw no transfer button anywhere. 
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Akhem....
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			I was just wondering on Jabbit I have 7 chars on Jabbit 2 I have 2 chars but I can creat 12 on both of them, if they are to be merged I will have 24 chars on one realm what will happen to the surplus of those 12?	
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			If you're looking to have more than 12/14 characters, now seems to be the time. Since I doubt they'd just randomly delete characters after the merger if they don't fit into your current max character slot capacity. You could have 56 characters across both realms.	
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Once we have resolved the current issues, we plan to merge these additional realms.
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			FYI I do not blame the computer techs for reactive (not proactive) troubleshooting under stress to fix problems the bean counters / company caused in the 1st place. And its not the engineers fault Im betting either. One of the things that all good engineers are taught is to fight management over the cost / funds for more headroom and growth potential. And management never sees the need for a boat until they are neck deep in canal water.	
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			I have not been able to log in at all to Jabbit for 2 days now... Paying, signature customers don't get priority slots, that's for sure... 	
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But there is a pretty active RP community on Entity and there was an addon created that will flag a user as an RPer.
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			How i can transfer my Character to the secont server? i have q time like 30 minutes and still going....the new server dosnt have q! Can som1 help me how i can transver?	
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			Thank you for your ongoing efforts! :)	
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			Extra realms are good and all but any word on an Australian server?	
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Agreed. They knew tons of players were going to be coming back to the game with it went F2P, so it baffles me as to why they never added a second server since launch and then merge it like they are doing now. Not saying that it would solve all the problems, but it might have helped 
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			What will happen to the characters that are created on these extra servers? Will the free-to-play account then have a max of four character slots when the servers merge?	
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Hey Everyone -
 
I've compiled many of your questions, and I've updated my original post.
 
Thanks so much for your patience.	
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			I'm sure a lot of people are having this issue, but I'll say it anyways. I keep getting stuck on "retrieving characters."	
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			How does one even transfer a character?	
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			are you *cupcake*in serious man? server transfers can only be done to sister realms?! give me a break! im only on warhound because entity has a 5 hours que for christs sake, i dont wanna pvp i wanna pve, but i was forced to play on warhound. this is kinda ridiculous honestly.	
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If I make characters on both servers and they merge, will I be able to keep all of my characters?
If you make more characters than your account is allowed between both realms (i.e. two characters on Entity, and two characters on Entity 2), when the servers are merged together you’ll have all of them and you’ll be able to play them. However, should you ever delete those characters, unless you changed your account to Signature status or bought extra Character slots, those character slots will no longer be available.
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			I just wanna say thank you to all the DEV's who have been working around the clock to fix Lagstar, Kickstar and other issues. I understand why people find all of these issues frustrating as do I myself dislike them. However you guys *cupcake*ing kick ass. Thanks for the hard work and I look forward to playing the game in all of its glory in the near future.~TheMisfits Guild	
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			Well queueing isn't the problem. I manage to get into character selection screen and then while loading into game world. It just brings me back to character selection/creation part again.	
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Well all that is fine and dandy, but what about these libcef.dll errors that pop up every time I try and download the game?
I know I'm not the only one with this problem yet I haven't heard anything about that and the ticket I submitted had less than useful information on the subject. I'd love to hear what's being done about that.	
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I'm going to express a bit of dissapointement some may agree, others may not, but I think it is a FAIR and JUSTIFIABLE statement.As I'm reading through the Q/A I see you will allow FREE transfers from Entity to entity-2 etc. but not from Entity to Warhound and vice versa.Lets just put this in perspective, You've already built up days of frustration due to shitty server problem, I get it, server stuff can be complicated, fine, however, where I have a problem is that due to said problems, during the first day, people were only able to CREATE a character on Warhound, since entity was bugged. My statement would be irelevent if that would've only been a 1 day problem, however, there was no way for us to know back then, so people went ahead and made characters on warhound,,,, and to add on top of that, warhound so far didn't have a queue as bad as entity and had way less lag than entity, making it the perfect realm for new players. So people played, and leveled there.
 
Here's my point, MANY people, group of people especially, decided that due to server issues were going to play on warhound because it was the only way for them to play and try out the game without dealing with all the lag and bs that has been happening for the past couple days and some have been leveling non stop everytime the realm would work...  So some groups, including my group (Or I wouldn't be making this post) end up with half the people on Entity, the other on Warhound, when initially everyone wanted to play on a PVE realm.... but couldn't. I think it is fair to say that with a launch as terrible as this one, servers being in maintenance longer than they were up, it is nothing but fair to offer transfer too ALL realm for free for X amount of days to compensate with the shitty launch...would be kinda sad that some players have to reroll once everything becomes smooth and lose all their progress... Again, not trying to bash on the game, I love the game, but you can't change the truth, the launch was everything but smooth, and I think everyone at carbine knows it. You'll make your money back once stuff start running smoother, so please... please consider a small money loss on transfer to help all those groups that want to play together but got screwed by the servers smoking and burning.
 
That is all I have to say... hopefully you consider the suggestion.... show us that you still listen to the community.
 
Best regard, Nok.	
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I'm going to express a bit of dissapointement some may agree, others may not, but I think it is a FAIR and JUSTIFIABLE statement.
 
As I'm reading through the Q/A I see you will allow FREE transfers from Entity to entity-2 etc. but not from Entity to Warhound and vice versa.
 
Lets just put this in perspective, You've already built up days of frustration due to shitty server problem, I get it, server stuff can be complicated, fine, however, where I have a problem is that due to said problems, during the first day, people were only able to CREATE a character on Warhound, since entity was bugged. My statement would be irelevent if that would've only been a 1 day problem, however, there was no way for us to know back then, so people went ahead and made characters on warhound,,,, and to add on top of that, warhound so far didn't have a queue as bad as entity and had way less lag than entity, making it the perfect realm for new players. So people played, and leveled there.
 
Here's my point, MANY people, group of people especially, decided that due to server issues were going to play on warhound because it was the only way for them to play and try out the game without dealing with all the lag and bs that has been happening for the past couple days and some have been leveling non stop everytime the realm would work...  So some groups, including my group (Or I wouldn't be making this post) end up with half the people on Entity, the other on Warhound, when initially everyone wanted to play on a PVE realm.... but couldn't. I think it is fair to say that with a launch as terrible as this one, servers being in maintenance longer than they were up, it is nothing but fair to offer transfer too ALL realm for free for X amount of days to compensate with the shitty launch...would be kinda sad that some players have to reroll once everything becomes smooth and lose all their progress... Again, not trying to bash on the game, I love the game, but you can't change the truth, the launch was everything but smooth, and I think everyone at carbine knows it. You'll make your money back once stuff start running smoother, so please... please consider a small money loss on transfer to help all those groups that want to play together but got screwed by the servers smoking and burning.
 
That is all I have to say... hopefully you consider the suggestion.... show us that you still listen to the community.
 
Best regard, Nok.
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It's okay guys, just remember back, when everything was going to hell with wildstar in subscription, Stephan Frost stepped in and saved.... no wait he quit... Oh hey, at least we have a core team of 60 developers just for Wildstar... Oh wait they were laid off. 
 
 
 
			
				
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			Heck yeah! This is great! Now if you could only make it so people could actually log in to enjoy the game. 	
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			All works fine over here, had some problems yestrday but it seems to work.	
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Well queueing isn't the problem. I manage to get into character selection screen and then while loading into game world. It just brings me back to character selection/creation part again.
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			Just a question, will any of the signature players get some incentives for this days the game is unplayable?	
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That's the same for me. I am not seeing the additional realms as helpful at all right now. I'm experiencing the same hours-long character loops and being sent back to character screen when seeing loading screens after I finally do get into the game. I am never seeing a queue (haven't for 24+ hours) and can easily make new characters (they just can't load in after).
 
It sounds like the new realms are brand new, non-connected, will-be-merged-with-the-original-megaservers-later; so...why are they having the same issues? Opening more servers limited by the same technical issues and perform just as poorly is such a tease.
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It's okay guys, just remember back, when everything was going to hell with wildstar in subscription, Stephan Frost stepped in and saved.... no wait he quit... Oh hey, at least we have a core team of 60 developers just for Wildstar... Oh wait they were laid off. 
 
 
 
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If I make characters on both servers and they merge, will I be able to keep all of my characters?
If you make more characters than your account is allowed between both realms (i.e. two characters on Entity, and two characters on Entity 2), when the servers are merged together you’ll have all of them and you’ll be able to play them. However, should you ever delete those characters, unless you changed your account to Signature status or bought extra Character slots, those character slots will no longer be available.
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Hm... So I have to stay 2.5k queue to transfer my character from overloaded server or am I missing out of game transfer service?
 
P.S. Sorry for bad English.	
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			 :( I have been waiting nearly 2 hours on Jabbit 2 only 2011 in queue yey. Less than a minute to get in though. I got a good ten minutes of fun last night before it went down for the 8th maintenance of the weekend.	
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Hey Everyone -
 
We've written a news post about improving the game experience, reducing lag, and improving queues by introducing new realms. Read all about our planned changes and leave us your thoughts below.
 
Thanks again for all of your patience, we truly appreciate it.
 
Team WildStar
 
 
Frequently Asked Questions:
 
Realms, Realm Transfers, and Mergers
When will the temporary realms be merged back?We will merge the realms back together into Megaservers as soon as possible, but we need to fix our Megaserver technology to be able to support more players. As stated in the announcement, this split is a temporary measure to alleviate latency and queues.
Will realm transfers be available? Will they be free?Yes, and yes – but there are limitations. You can move any number of characters you want as many times as you want, but each character can only be moved once every 7 days. Also, players can only transfer from sister realm to sister realm – e.g. Entity to Entity-2 or Jabbit to Jabbit-2.
What is the plan for character names on the newly created realms if they will be merged back into the original ones?Character names that are already taken will be unavailable, and therefore will be unaffected when we merge the Realms back together.
How will player names work?All character and guild names will be shared between the Realms. Thus a character named Chua Lover present on Entity would have the name reserved on Entity-2.
If I transfer to a temporary realm, can I play with my friends from the source realm?Although we plan to merge these realms later, they are separate realms for now and so you would not be able to play with players from the other realm, except in cross-realm content, specifically those matched via the content finder.
Where will the new realms be physically located?The machines running these new realms will be in the same datacenters we use today in Dallas, TX and Frankfurt, Germany.
Any ETA on how long the temporary realms will need to be up?Until everything is stabilized, and we’re confident that the merger will not present more issues.
Will realm first achievements be available on the expansion realms? Will they merge back into the source realms?All current realm first achievements will be available on the expansion realms. If a realm first achievement is earned on an expansion realm, it will be retained when that realm merges, even if that realm first has already been earned on the source realm. It's okay to have multiple holders of a realm first achievement; the realm first achievement for defeating Avatus in the original Datascape is held by 40 players.
Will the Auction House / Commodities Exchange be linked between source and expansion realms?While the realms remain separated, so will their economies. Once the realms merge, their AH and CX will merge as well.
Does the 7 day cooldown still apply when I have moved my characters between Realms?Yes, upon moving your character into an expansion realm, you will be unable to move it back to a source realm for 7 days. All normal realm transfer rules apply – please see this KB article for more information.
How long does it takes for my characters to be effectively moved?It can take between 15 minutes and 24 hours.
I am receiving the error message “My character is busy” when I am trying to initiate a Realm transfer?We have a very good Realm Transfer FAQ that can be accessed here.
Characters and Creation
Will I still be able to talk to my friends on the other realms, or do I have to transfer?There is cross realm chatting in the game and whispering between account friends. That works across realms.
Is this temporary, or a long term solution?This is temporary solutions that helping to alleviate the issue of realm lag and increased queue times while we work on a permanent/long term solution.
Will characters be copied over to the 2nd realm?No characters will be copied over at this time, and the new realms will be a clean slate for a period of time. Players will however be able to freely transfer their characters for a short time.
Will there be a lock on Entity to prevent players from making new characters there?Not at all.
If I make characters on both servers and they merge, will I be able to keep all of my characters?If you make more characters than your account is allowed between both realms (i.e. two characters on Entity, and two characters on Entity 2), when the servers are merged together you’ll have all of them and you’ll be able to play them. However, should you ever delete those characters, unless you changed your account to Signature status or bought extra Character slots, those character slots will no longer be available.
What about region locking?Players can log into NA or EU at will, although your character data will be separate. Account items waiting to be claimed may be claimed in either region, but once in your account inventory they are bound to that region. Cosmic Rewards are applied to every character on your account, so those will automatically be waiting for you on any character you create in either region. Signature status applies to your account in both regions.
 
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If I make characters on both servers and they merge, will I be able to keep all of my characters?If you make more characters than your account is allowed between both realms (i.e. two characters on Entity, and two characters on Entity 2), when the servers are merged together you’ll have all of them and you’ll be able to play them. However, should you ever delete those characters, unless you changed your account to Signature status or bought extra Character slots, those character slots will no longer be available.
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			At least let me move my character back to a PVP server! This is ridiculous.	
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			This doesn't help those of us who already have a character on a realm.  I do not want to make a new character just to play the game.	
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Hey Everyone -
 
Character transfers on NA realms are now available. We do know that queue times are slightly less on the newer realms, and on our PvP servers. It's not ideal, but if you want to get into the game and check things out, that might be your best option at this time.
 
Thanks so much, and we're sorry for the inconvenience.
 
Team WildStar	
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Hey Everyone -
 
Character transfers on NA realms are now available. We do know that queue times are slightly less on the newer realms, and on our PvP servers. It's not ideal, but if you want to get into the game and check things out, that might be your best option at this time.
 
Thanks so much, and we're sorry for the inconvenience.
 
Team WildStar
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Its not working for me, says teh character is busy. All my mail is removed. 
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Can you give me your realm and character name? We're investigating this right now.
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Its not working for me, says teh character is busy. All my mail is removed. 
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			Same issue on Europe - every single friend transfered his character, I couldn't. I do not know whether someone has the same other issue, but today I've been playing couple of hours, I did not receive any OmniBit, BoomBox gave me nothing and daily is not updating for me - anyone?
			
				
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			I think many of us are having this issue (myself as well). No mail, no auction yet still busy.	
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Okay a bit of an update - basically the database is waiting on information as it is transferred over. That's likely why you're getting the character busy prompt. Best thing to do is to give it a bit of time, then check on it. If you're still experiencing an issue, let us know here. 
 
Thanks everyone, and thanks for the patience.
 
Also, please keep giving me your character information: Character Name / Realm Name
			
				
	Edited October 3, 2015 by CRB_Sunshine	
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Been trying to move a few characters over. Want to play with friends.Sekkes Cannonrot: Entity to Entity-2
Sekloa Painclaw: Entity to Entity-2
			
				
	Edited October 3, 2015 by Sekdatend	
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Getting character busy message. This is after waiting in a queue for over an hour just to get to the character loading screen. Empty mail box, 
 
trying to go from Entity 1 over to Entity 2
character name : Carter James	
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Okay a bit of an update - basically the database is waiting on information as it is transferred over. That's likely why you're getting the character busy prompt. Best thing to do is to give it a bit of time, then check on it. If you're still experiencing an issue, let us know here. 
 
Thanks everyone, and thanks for the patience.
 
Also, please keep giving me your character information: Character Name / Realm Name
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Been attempting to transfer off and on for about an hour now. When I get the busy message a few times I just log in and attempt to do something, and then when I lag out I close the launcher and wait a bit. Re-open and attempt the transfer off and on a few more times. :/ No queues or anything, but no transfer either.
 
Nefier Nightsong - Entity
			
				
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Are you saying that when you click on your character, you get that prompt, and you're not even trying to transfer yet? Or are you on the transfer screen?
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I am also getting the "character busy" error.Info :
Transferring from Jabbit-1 to Jabbit-2Character name:  Gugu MatrikI only have one character, so I can not test on another one.	
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Thanks Sunshine for a fast respond. However, I have been trying to transfer character for a whole day. I do not know whether someone has the same issue, but today I have been playing couple of hours, I did not receive any OmniBit, BoomBox gave me nothing and daily login reward is not updating for me - anyone?
 
Europe server:
Character name: Greyu Good
Realm: Now - Jabbit > trying to transfer to Jabbit2
			
				
	Edited October 3, 2015 by Greyu	
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"as" ? it is not even beginning the transfer, or I am reading what youre saying wrong?
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			My character's name is Vatira Sleenc, on the Entity realm.	
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Are you saying that when you click on your character, you get that prompt, and you're not even trying to transfer yet? Or are you on the transfer screen?
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Hello,
My character is in NA Entity Server, want to transfer it to Entity-2.
Character name is Saemon Havarian.(tried in game too, there is error)	
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I'm getting the same error as well. Character is busy. Been trying all morning and afternoon.
 
Trying to move from NA Warhound to Warhound-2.
 
Character name: Lestat Lioncourte	
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It will be easier to see it on this screenshot.
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and this occurs right after typing the name in to approve it
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It will be easier to see it on this screenshot.
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Psychogirl Redrun on Entity is character and realm. Getting Character is busy when trying to do transfer. Been having this for about 8 hours.
 
Trying to move to Entity-2
			
				
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Jabbit 1 Lopal Zareturno
 
tried like 10 time per day since the new server are up
 
keep up the good work team we love you	
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EU servers:I have 2 characters i try this afternoon to transfer my first guy and its done in 1 minute then try to transfer the secont one and i got the error, then we log in to my gf acc and we try to transfer her both characters too and nothing! both of her characters got the same error!what we can do? we wanna play together and atm we are on diffrent serversMy:Luminai 1 Phantom Duck has transfer succesfull to Luminai 2Luminai 1 Kamina Gurren got the errorMy gf's:Luminai 1 Lucius FireWalker got the error
Luminai 1 Secratea Cresent got the errorwe try for the last 12 hours with no success! i must have tried over a 50 times :-D	
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			I too am having a "character is busy" message when trying to transfer to Entity-2. My lvl 50 main transferred just fine, but my alt is getting the message. His name is "Tom Soyier". I have been trying all day	
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Also been getting the "character is busy" message all day.
 
Entity -> Entity-2
Character name: Specialist Kromulous	
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			I am having the "character is busy" error. I am trying to transfer from Entity to Entity-2, my character name is "MaxX PunkRock"	
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			Rumble TroubleJabbit (PvE) --> Jabbit 2 (PvE)Same problem as the others...Character is Busy...Not mails etc	
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			Logged back in character on Entity 1  after the restart at 5:30 pst area and after a small duration (no more than 30 seconds) was kicked off due to losing connection with the server. Subsequent attempts at relogging into the character have failed. However, logging on other characters of same server are able to happen.	
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I am also recieving the same Error: "This character is currently busy. Please wait a few minutes and try again"
 
Server: Entity -> Entity-2
Name: Milk Medic
 
Mail is empty, and I have tried about 20 times in the past hour.	
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It will be easier to see it on this screenshot.
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"Giving it time" is not really working for me either.  I didn't log into Entity for over a day since there has been such a long queue and when I did jump on after a server restart, it was a no go.  If more than 24hrs isn't doing it...
No mail or auctions. 
 
James Kaiden.  
Entity -> Entity2
 
Zilva Kaiden couldn't transfer either.  Same destination. 	
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			Character name Blazer Yiz have been trying to transfer from jabbit 1 - to 2 over 3 days and getting same eror pls fix this i wonna play with friends.. :) we know u have a lot up your plate but pls move this up a bit on your to do list...	
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I am also receiving the same Error "This Character is currently busy. Please wait a few minutes and try again".
 
Server: Entity ----> Enitity 2
Name : Dawnn Hart
 
 
Mail is empty. 	
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			Nezumi CalvawashWarhound-2 PVP -> Warhoundnothing in the mail. receiving busy message.	
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Just a small word of warning.
 
If you open multiple servers and that fixes the issues, 
AND you say, great..we fixed the mega server problem, LETS MERGE IT ALL BACK !
 
and it goes *cupcake*
*lemon pie*
*dry toast*
 
It is over. the population in MASS will leave.
 
No population of players will ever forgive you for fixing a bunch of huge issues, and then erase the fix.
 
If you fix something - don't break it, keep it fixed.	
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Okay a bit of an update - basically the database is waiting on information as it is transferred over. That's likely why you're getting the character busy prompt. Best thing to do is to give it a bit of time, then check on it. If you're still experiencing an issue, let us know here. 
 
Thanks everyone, and thanks for the patience.
 
Also, please keep giving me your character information: Character Name / Realm Name
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Hi I'mgettin the same problem, I still getting the "your character is busy" error, first I tried it yesterday. I had a mail but I already deleted it and after just getting this error.
I want to transfer my character from Luminai(pvp) --> to Luminai-2(pvp)
My character name is : Burg Harg
Thanks for your great work!	
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Im also unable to transfer characters
 
Transfer: Entity  ->  Entity-2
 
Name: Bonns Malandre
 
No mail no auctions, not even storage.
Name3 0xxvcvscx1427dsdf	
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			How come i cant see the same realms as my friend? Temporary or not? :/	
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