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Yeah but don't forget about griefers.
Who will frequent those RP locations just to do their thing, even if they wouldn't care on a normal PvE server.
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Not need to apologize, it wasn't meant as a slight.  However, if forced surnames is the "straw that broke the camel's back" for you, I think it is pretty clear you were on your way out before this announcement.
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If someone really wanted to grief RPers, they would roll a character on the clearly marked RP server, just like Horde griefers rolling Gnomes and spamming the Ironforge AH area all night long.
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I better transfer off Evindra now just incase they listen and I get stuck on the lowest pop server in the game when they keep it separate.
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By your own admission, it is clear that RPers and regular PVEers don't frequent the same locations, so you won't have any problems in a megaserver either.
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Unless I can change my name to being Warrior(first name) Muffin(last name) i will be really annoyed by this name change policy. I shouldn't have to have a different in game identity because of server merges. If i created my name first I should have the ability to keep it the same as the head start. If you really make me add a last name, to my character that already has a first and last name i will be really disappointed
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Lemme put it this way:
On Evindra, when I bought an item and it was the wrong color, someone mailed me the gold to make up for it and said 'Sorry that happened dude'.
On Evindra, when I expressed fear of moving to a new game, I was welcomed with open arms.
On Evindra, when I asked where an item dropped so I could go farm it, someone mailed me the item (which sells for 56g atm on AH, maybe not a lot to you, but to a lowbie like me, that's a lot)
 
Evindra has a nice, kind, giving community. They are such nice people, they are a wonderful community, I adore them. 
 
We are not going to have that anymore the moment we get merged. 	
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This just makes me sad for you. It reminds me of a native american description of 'the white man' walking through life with cobwebs over their faces, not seeing the wonders around them. Your loss. Evindra is a magical place for me and many of the people posting their concerns here. Its sad you walked right by it unseen.
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Hope they dont listen, The irony needs to be real,
 
Plus, you never know, if the RP community is as strong as it claims to be, this wont phase them as much as the complaints.. they will find a way on the new megaservers to do their thing.
 
Plus for all the RPer that wanted PVP, this is your chance, you can RP in a pvp world now, :)
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They're merging Evindra with PvE, not PvP.
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The nastiness in this thread towards RPers exemplifies why we need some kind of walled-garden.
 
It doesn't take much to see people making fun of us, mocking us for focusing more on our brand of fun than leveling, cheering at our destruction, et cetera.
 
And the people who say they never see much RP on Evindria... Funny how I've never heard of their characters or RP'd with them (given that I RP in Ilium's gardens like 5 nights a week).	
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I've played on Evindra since launch. That vasty majority of the RP happens in housing on personal plots. I can count the number of times I've seen people RP in main cities with one hand and there is zero RP interactions in zone chat (from what I've seen leveling up 3 characters). Saying that a mega server is going to kill Evindra's community is a foolish claim. It'll be just as easy to RP in the house zone as is now once the mega servers go live.
 
Besides having our heads stuck in the sand, there are added benefits of having a bunch more people on a single server. Like a better economy and more people to quest with. Not to mention someone who has never role played before might be intriqued to join in if they pass by players who are RPing.
 
 
I'll let the door bite you on the way out.
 
I also like your list of level-nothings in your signature. I'm sure the community will really miss out not having you.
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Overall good change.  Sad about the RP ruleset loss.  Is there going to be a /say replacement? Or is /say itself going to become optional? Are CS reps prepared to handle harrassment complaints from merging the communities?
 
Need more flexibility in name changing, if necessary an optional full name change.  For example, my main character is named "Amarria", a reference to my days playing EVE Online.  I'd rather merge all my characters under the same Surname but have different first names (Pax Amarria, Virtus Amarria, etc).  It makes a good RP tool and identifies alts to guildmates.  The names we have now were created in a world without surnames and often have the surname built in (one of my alts is PaxAmarria, another is PaxAmmaria, you get the idea).  Just tagging a random surname onto what you already have is not cool.
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The nastiness in this thread towards RPers exemplifies why we need some kind of walled-garden.
 
It doesn't take much to see people making fun of us, mocking us for focusing more on our brand of fun than leveling, cheering at our destruction, et cetera.
 
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			How long is the average transfer time for characters? I'm transfering 6 characters from Bloodsworn to Pergo.	
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So, on these "Feedback" threads... how about we take off the option to quote people and have it snowball into 100 different personal arguments and everyone simply give their reaction to the OP?
 
This thread might be more like 5 pages, instead of 25 by now.
 
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My point is since they ARE merging servers, any RPs on Evindra or not can go to the merged PVP megaserver to start their own RP community
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And the people who say they never see much RP on Evindria... Funny how I've never heard of their characters or RP'd with them (given that I RP in Ilium's gardens like 5 nights a week).
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I don't know, just walking over to the popular RP areas seems a lot more convenient.
I'm sure there are lazy griefers who just didn't want to go that extra mile you're describing.
Until now.
But hey, we'll see.
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- EU Languages
So you've mentioned theres going to be realm wide language channels, this is good.
But what about Zone chat?
The main form of contact in the game is via the Zone chat, and as i currently understand it this channel will still be one version per zone.
I think in order to avoid the channel wierdness, there needs to be EN FR and DE versions of every zone chat, other wise there will be every language in the zone chat to organise events in the zone.
 
Otherwise every language will be asking stuff like: Scorchwing? Aile Scorch ? Scorch Flügel ? Tree event anyone? Arbre cas quelqu'un? Baum Ereignis jedermann? 
Disclaimer I googled those translations :P
So hopefully might be able to have language chat channels for every zone, rather than realm wide channels?
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Lemme put it this way:
On Evindra, when I bought an item and it was the wrong color, someone mailed me the gold to make up for it and said 'Sorry that happened dude'.
On Evindra, when I expressed fear of moving to a new game, I was welcomed with open arms.
On Evindra, when I asked where an item dropped so I could go farm it, someone mailed me the item (which sells for 56g atm on AH, maybe not a lot to you, but to a lowbie like me, that's a lot)
 
Evindra has a nice, kind, giving community. They are such nice people, they are a wonderful community, I adore them. 
 
We are not going to have that anymore the moment we get merged. 
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Um...
 
What are you talking about? Who said anything even vaguely like that? I've RPed all over Nexus.
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 As for harassment, if griefers wanted to harass RPers with the kind of frequency you guys are imagining, they could easily roll a character on the clearly marked RP server and be griefing you within 10 minutes... yet nobody seems to be doing that.
 
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The name change will be a full name change, not optional.  You will be able to use Amarria as your surname, I have one I typically lump all my characters under as well. 
 
The only thing they really need to do is allow us to hide the surname.
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The new channels that we will introduce are zone-wide, like the current /advice. 5 new channels will be added : RP (English) / DE / FR / DE-RP / FR-RP. It is assumed that the usual channels (/zone, /advice, /trade) will remain primarily focused on English (with the occasional guild/community recruitment in another language (especially on EU Megaservers)).
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PS: I'm one of the Evindra-ites trying to keep a clear head and talk my friends down from the ledge. No door is going to bite me on the way out since I'm not leaving.
 
Second... are you Dominion? Because the RP in Black Hoods Bar in Thayd is pretty regular. I won't call it constant, but if you ever travel to the southern half of Thayd, you probably hear the RPs though you might lose it in the zone spam.
 
If you've played on Evindra on Exile anyway, and you've missed the RP in Thayd... I just don't even know what to say. Not the most observant person then.
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			Also, are surnames going to be a thing (god I hope not), or are they going to be just for those players that have the same name?	
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PS: I'm one of the Evindra-ites trying to keep a clear head and talk my friends down from the ledge. No door is going to bite me on the way out since I'm not leaving.
 
Second... are you Dominion? Because the RP in Black Hoods Bar in Thayd is pretty regular. I won't call it constant, but if you ever travel to the southern half of Thayd, you probably hear the RPs though you might lose it in the zone spam.
 
If you've played on Evindra on Exile anyway, and you've missed the RP in Thayd... I just don't even know what to say. Not the most observant person then.
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The kind of harassment I'm thinking of is people seeing RP'ers in the park or the bar in Illium, and deciding toe jump up and down, using the sit animation to imitate blow jobs, say "poop" and such in /say randomly, and generally try to stop you from doing whatever you were doing.  Typical attention whoring stuff.  These are the people that used to park their Mammoth mounts on the Dalaran mailbox.  It's the kind of thing that stupid people do when the opportunity presents itself, not so much something they seek out.  I don't expect it to be common, but the only way to stop it is to intervene while it's happening and I hope CS is prepared to to live responses within 10 minutes of a ticket so this kind of thing is controlled.
 
Good about the name.  A full reset I can work with.
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			Something just hit me like a brick while i was going through the servers list.. isnt Evindra a PvE/RP server as is?	
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The nastiness in this thread towards RPers exemplifies why we need some kind of walled-garden.
 
It doesn't take much to see people making fun of us, mocking us for focusing more on our brand of fun than leveling, cheering at our destruction, et cetera.
 
And the people who say they never see much RP on Evindria... Funny how I've never heard of their characters or RP'd with them (given that I RP in Ilium's gardens like 5 nights a week).
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Also, are surnames going to be a thing (god I hope not), or are they going to be just for those players that have the same name?
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			PLEASE don't add surnames! I worked hard to get my name during the pre-order bliz. I don't want someone that just started playing to have it with some shitty last name.	
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			Wow, that's lame... surnames are bad enough.. but on all new characters as well? So much or being slightly unique.	
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 You are at least half way bringing this on yourselves. Why? A few reasons. One all of the whining could make you seem weak and emotional to people who like to prey on such people. Two almost everyone here who rps and is mad about it is acting, and basically right out stating that everyone on pve and pvp servers are hateful, stupid, toxic, sadistic people and you don't want to be associated with their "filth", that exclusionary "we are better than you" attitude has certainly pissed off more than one person here and turned them against rpers even if they didn't care before.
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The nastiness in this thread towards RPers exemplifies why we need some kind of walled-garden.
 
It doesn't take much to see people making fun of us, mocking us for focusing more on our brand of fun than leveling, cheering at our destruction, et cetera.
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You do realize this has literally no impact on Carbine or NCsoft? 
I mean unsub by all means (though I'm sad to see you go) but... that's no reason to give money to a bad cause instead.
 
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I  have to say that the easiest way to combat some issues here is an /ignore fuction that makes the character invisible. Would help for griefing, stalkers and other players that people are not comfortable around. I don't think some people here understand the level of harassment that exist, from the obvious namecalling (that can be crazy nasty) to people sending you mails and jumping on alts to continue the issue. Most griefing is opportunity-based, which is why it was so low on Evindra and now will be a lot more widespread, and as soon as some of these people find a good target the harassment can be continous. Evindra was safe, which is why this bothers me, personally.
 
There are a lot of nice players out there and we know that, but we're talking about the bad ones, so don't come with the 'not all players' thing. It's silly. We're trying workarounds now, not just silent screaming.	
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Weak emotional people deserve abuse, I guess. You must be a joy to sing Christmas Carols with.
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Thats not the case, The pedastal standing is strong many..Bitterness the taste of ones own medicine occurs
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You act like things like that don't happen on other servers. I know I have offered up my researched weapons that I get as a byproduct of learning a recipe. Sure, it's not much, and now that it's changed so you can't over-charge that initial schematic, they aren't that great, but to that person that got it, they were quite happy.
 
This is the kind of thing that irritates me about this RP discussion. The RP people act like regular PVE players are only the trollers, hard-core raiders, and selfish bastards, when there are plenty of polite, friendly, generous players on every single PVE server.
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			The RPers are certainly not making themselves popular in this thread, if they are worried about griefing on the new servers they should probably stop trying to *cupcake* everyone off :P	
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Good to see someone else spreading the Word. :)
 
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Weak emotional people deserve abuse, I guess. You must be a joy to sing Christmas Carols with.
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It's not a bad cause if the company is giving the customer what it wants.
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Almost seems like Evindra people are The Proud Elves that hate all humans or other races lol...
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Someone hit you with a Yoda stick?
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Now the only complaint is the RPers, which honestly, aren't a large enough community to matter. Sorry, but it's the truth. There's not enough of you to warrant a separate server, so you'll have to (just like in every other MMO) create your own community stuff yourself.
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On a new front: I'm not seeing anything new in this thread to throw here: TL;DR Consolidation Post
 
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Lemme put it this way:
On Evindra, when I bought an item and it was the wrong color, someone mailed me the gold to make up for it and said 'Sorry that happened dude'.
On Evindra, when I expressed fear of moving to a new game, I was welcomed with open arms.
On Evindra, when I asked where an item dropped so I could go farm it, someone mailed me the item (which sells for 56g atm on AH, maybe not a lot to you, but to a lowbie like me, that's a lot)
 
Evindra has a nice, kind, giving community. They are such nice people, they are a wonderful community, I adore them. 
 
We are not going to have that anymore the moment we get merged. 
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Um... I'm sorry. I play on Evindra too, granted I'm a lowbie, but I do also RP on the forums and I have to say this post just upsets me.
 
It's as if all the times I have bought someone on my PVE server their mount, for no other reason than to be nice, is overlooked. As if all the times I have given away mailboxes to people on my PVE server are moot. As if the hundreds to thousands of times I've gone out of my way to help someone or an entire group of someones complete something means nothing because I'm on a PVE server, so therefore I must be a JERK.
 
 
Thank you.
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Weird.. I  haven't played on one of the other PVE servers on this game, but any other MMO it's always bad. It's really rude, snarky remarks, sarcasm to any questions, people saying you're an idiot if you ask any question/to google it, that RPers are bad players/suck at the game/can't do anything right/a plague on the community blablah..
 
I dunno. I hope it doesn't change, but I also hope they keep my idea of /Server chats where if you had a char there, you can use the chat to that server if so desired.
 
Here's hoping it stays positive, but eh.. never happens usually. )':
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Note to the people who didn't know. I rerolled a couple of days ago on evindra for the community. I don't rp that much because I find it hard to maintain character, or write one's that don't suck. The megaserver's are going to happen, you pretty much aren't changing that no matter how much you whine, because more people will leave to dead servers than will leave from any rp issues.
 
Where you go from there is up to you. Unsub, cry about it while still paying money, or dealing with it are pretty much your options.
 
 
It's hard to be on your side when you make insulting insinuations both about everyone who doesn't rp, and me when I'm trying to get you to see reason.
 
This is why I don't like overly emotional people, they never seem to think when they can FEEL. I will think first, I can feel later if I need to.	
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Won't characters coming in at different points across the board in terms of cash, items, & stockpiled mats mess with the economy?
 
How will carbine be handling the economy tremors?  Here's a sample situation I see happening.
 
CREDD sells for 5 plat on my server, but with this bit of information, that means I should go buy CREDD now and sell it on a different servers where CREDD sells for 20 plat, then just wait for the merge.  Then since everyone will probably be together, I sense the CREDD value will drop with the higher supply to something like 6 plat.  Then I buy it back up then and BAM.  I've gotten 10 months of playtime + 140 plat.  Just my thoughts on how I'd use this information to my advantage and I'm sure other folks have done the same.
 
Or how about those bot farmers?  They would aim for the lower population servers to make as many characters as possible to stockpile mats/rare items.  Wait for the servers to merge, then resell everything with the new influx of buyers.
 
Won't this make it harder for new players who wish to have a "Fresh Start"?  Like if I were to roll on a pvp server... pretty sure I'm going to be camped nonstop as there's too many new/geared 50's who are bored.
 
Can our PCs/your code keep up with the high volume of people?  I recall at the end of beta how everyone from beta was in the capital city playing around with the GMs.  I would expect to see similiar numbers from now on whenever I go to the city as a result of this megaserver.  Does that mean I should give up on ever seeing beyond 5fps in a capital city?	
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Wildstar isn't as big as "those other MMOs".  Most people playing a niche title are only here because they really want to be.  I played on a normal PVE server during beta and it was just as courteous as Evindra. I find PVP servers are where the most competitive/toxic players go.
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			Can the RP channel have a radius like /s does? Then groups are rping in different areas of a zone they won't be talking over each other in the channel.	
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Wildstar isn't as big as "those other MMOs".  Most people playing a niche title are only here because they really want to be.  I played on a normal PVE server during beta and it was just as courteous as Evindra. I find PVP servers are where the most competitive/toxic players go.
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Soooooooooo
 
everyone going to Hazzak EU in the meantime then?
 
Cant understand people bitching about this. Everyone is moaning that their servers are dead, Carbine are sorting it by having everyone on the same server (pvp/pve). Great move. Last names so people cant *cupcake* about losing their names (although i note someone above is ALREADY bitching about having a last name....jebus)
 
Roleplayers are literally the only people who can have a SMALL gripe and if getting laughed at for roleplaying is that big a deal then i dont know what to tell you. Roleplay a happy person who doesnt get annoyed at being laughed at by jerks.
 
This is EXACTLY what wildstar needs right now. Lets hope it isnt too late, and we can manage to get all the lost guildies back into the game.
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I'll simply leave my stance at this...
 
I am as I said, upset and saddened as a player on Evindra by this. I understand it's need and would help honestly that Evindra had been left alone, but I don't have numbers to back anything up as Carbine would either. I only have my own play experience to go on and Evindra is a positive server I really enjoy and have had a lot of fun on when I'm online.
 
With that said I see people using GW2 as a citation and it is and isn't a good citation. IT is a good citation because it did have a large RP community and while I will not say RP died the nature of it certainly did change. For me it changed from the realm having a larger more open community with "free reign" to the "work around" state of being, but that's just from my experience. However when it happened in GW2 i wasn't upset as much because in GW2 the devs had actually said they didn't officially support RP and this is reflected in their realm labels as no server was designated as an official RP server.
 
This is where I'm more upset, because unlike GW2 we actually had an official RP server.
 
Moving on from that point though...
 
The imposed naming on characters and guilds is very nasty. The people I feel bad for most are those who like myself reserved a name during the name reservation process(Which was a mess in itself). While I'm not hurt because my names tend never be taken it does suck if you were dead set on that name and now you've got to change it up or use a different name entirely.
 
Not too pleased with character slot cap...I don't think I need to touch that with much of an explanation.
 
I don't like people raging at RPs that are upset, but I also don't agree with RPers leaving over just this announcement in itself, but I can understand their worry. It is also their money and their interests as well. I myself while I'm concerned, I'll be seeing how things pan out and settle...I'm very much a community oriented person and simply put if the community isn't to my liking after the megaserver I'll politely bow out and wish everyone the best. Things change and whether it's better or worse varies depending who you ask.
 
I hope it pans out well, but like I said I'll wait and see...
 
 
 
Ideally I would like it to be more like this:
Megaservers consisting of PvE, PvP, and RP
Free transfers between all 3
I can't say I know how the server structure will be made software and or hardware wise, but if possible have RP as a split off from the PvE server like a partition of sorts...and if it doesn't pan out just merge the sucker in. I say this because some of those people who might want to be on an EP server might actually transfer to an RPserver after this...hence the free transfers
Reserved names take priority over those who didn't reserve.^Reserved names and anyone who does not share a name can opt to not have a last name.
Character slots raised to whatever the current account cap is...
 
That's just me though. I'll wait and see what happens...
 
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Hm.
Okay, I'm not exactly a "roleplayer", although I do it from time to time AND I rolled a small army of Dominion alts on Evindra.
Imagine this:
You have a club you like to go to.  The club has a specific dress code.  You love the dress code and the environment.  The club is friendly and relaxed.  It feels like a safe haven where you can be yourself without worry.  The dress code filters some people out.
 
Now let's say the club isn't getting enough people showing up, so they lift the dress code.
Now anybody can show up.
The people who show up laugh at the folks who dress a certain way.  They prance through the lounge where the "regulars" are trying to have a nice conversation and start making fun of them loudly, pointing and throwing insults, maybe even knocking their drink over "accidentally".  The regulars can barely have a conversation now, and most certainly cannot relax and enjoy themselves with the extra noise.
So maybe now the club can carry on, but it's not the same any more.
The things that made it "relaxed" and "special" are gone.
 
My thoughts are now towards "moving the club"...in this case, guilds or circles or other more private settings...but it's almost like the club's being moved to a totally sketchy part of town and now, to get to your nice little club, you have to walk through a gauntlet of people grabbing their crotch and laughing at your "dress code", throwing insults and items at you, and maybe even beating you up (hey, PvP flag).  That does make for a much less pleasant experience overall.
 
I have found that I like the "RP Club", though, and hope they'll keep a nice clubhouse for me to go to.  I'll also hope that the cupcakes won't be jumping us out in the world.
 
Disclaimer:  None of this is to imply that roleplayers are part of some exclusive "cool kids club".  Not in the slightest.  Just a lot of 'em happen to be very nice and friendly people, and also tend to be very passionate and sensitive.  There are a lot of bullies and trolls out there who just love to mess with anybody they think is having fun.  I sure wish that wasn't the case, and I am saddened to see people hurt and leaving.
 
Also:
My feedback on surnames is that I REALLY hope that they offer a free rename!  I have a character or two that, as a few others before me have mentioned, have a "FirstnameLastname" style character name.  And also...I like to use X where a surname is required, but I haven't thought one out.  Works for me...although I can see how it can be annoying to have one forced on you.
 
-T.
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CREDD sells for 5 plat on my server, but with this bit of information, that means I should go buy CREDD now and sell it on a different servers where CREDD sells for 20 plat, then just wait for the merge. 
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I've been Roleplaying in WoW for 2 years now. After raid, I'd hop on my RP alts and play "hardcore" as in, 100% in character all the time. I love RPing and plan on tackling it here in Wildstar in the future.
 
I also Roleplay on the Emerald Dream server, one of the most popular RP-PvP servers in the US. It's like a conduit for ZERG PVP and PvPers alike along with a lot of PvP minded RPers as well. Not a day went by, while RPing on my hardcore RP alts, that there wasn't some yoloqtswagxx running around in /y and /s talking shit or disrupting chat and all that. It sucks, it breaks immersion and it is extremely irritating at first. It also gets better over time.
 
I hate to say this but Evindra players need to get over the concerns. Emerald Dream's RP community is vastly smaller than the PvP/Zerg PvP community that the server fosters. The server itself has basically been over run with PvP transfers since Cataclysm. If the RP community can survive and even thrive (when not in content droughts pre-expansion), despite being taken over by a bunch of yoloqtswag PvPers, than you guys can survive too.
 
When the megaservers hit, I am just itching to create my first hardcore RP character (A mechari medic!) and it's going to be a blast. You'll bet your ass I'll be looking for an RP guild dominion side.	
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I mentioned above that I never played on one of the other WS PVE servers, but this doesn't usually ever happen on other games. The toxic communities over overflow the pot and the nice people get buried at the very bottom. 
That's my issue - the nicer people tend to be the overflowing on Evindra, whereas my other game PVE experiences are the opposite. 
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This is just complete bull. There's been enough of us to warrant a separate server since the game has launched, and we've chugged along with a quite happy and stable population.
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I want to clarify that the main problem with losing Evindra's identity isn't the trolls themselves, but that Carbine needs to do everything in its power to minimize the chance of RPers feeling like we need to become reclusive. There are certain game features that, with our RP-specific server, are extremely RP friendly but will become unfriendly once the merge occurs.
 
We need:
 
1. The ability to ban individual users from public housing plots. Without this, many RP plots may choose to go neighbor-only, which is NOT a good thing for an open and inclusive RP community.
2. Better tools for searching housing plots. Ideally, we need some kind of searchable list (just look at Rift's Dimensions UI). A "favorites" list would also be useful.
3. A shorter /say and /e range so that I'm not hearing RP going on in Blackhood while standing up by Academy Corner. This is vital because the amount of /say clutter is going to skyrocket once you shove us into a bunch of communities used to using /say in an OOC manner. I don't really like blacklisting people who haven't done anything wrong.
4. The ability to manually switch between server channels. I know they exist. Let us move between them willfully. It might be appropriate to flag one as RP-friendly and more heavily police trolls there. While having an RP tag on the channel might be a troll "magnet", it will also give RPers a place they know they can go without having to either 1) hope they landed in the Thayd channel with all the rpers, or 2) cycle through a bunch of channels in desperate search.
 
Some little bones you could throw us that would go a long way in easing our pains:
1. Drop the faction language barrier.
2. Cross-faction mail, please.
3. Why are you cutting the number of characters we can have? I appreciate that as an individual server, we're getting an increase, but it is overall a decrease. I don't understand why you couldn't have just combined the character slot numbers of all PvP and all PvE servers into two totals.	
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Awesome!
 
BUT, I HATE the idea of forcing us to have last names.
 
HATE HATE HATE, get rid of this and I'm fine!
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I want to clarify that the main problem with losing Evindra's identity isn't the trolls themselves, but that Carbine needs to do everything in its power to minimize the chance of RPers feeling like we need to become reclusive. There are certain game features that, with our RP-specific server, are extremely RP friendly but will become unfriendly once the merge occurs.
 
We need:
 
1. The ability to ban individual users from public housing plots. Without this, many RP plots may choose to go neighbor-only, which is NOT a good thing for an open and inclusive RP community.
2. Better tools for searching housing plots. Ideally, we need some kind of searchable list (just look at Rift's Dimensions UI). A "favorites" list would also be useful.
3. A shorter /say and /e range so that I'm not hearing RP going on in Blackhood while standing up by Academy Corner. This is vital because the amount of /say clutter is going to skyrocket once you shove us into a bunch of communities used to using /say in an OOC manner. I don't really like blacklisting people who haven't done anything wrong.
4. The ability to manually switch between server channels. I know they exist. Let us move between them willfully. It might be appropriate to flag one as RP-friendly and more heavily police trolls there. While having an RP tag on the channel might be a troll "magnet", it will also give RPers a place they know they can go without having to either 1) hope they landed in the Thayd channel with all the rpers, or 2) cycle through a bunch of channels in desperate search.
 
Some little bones you could throw us that would go a long way in easing our pains:
1. Drop the faction language barrier.
2. Cross-faction mail, please.
3. Why are you cutting the number of characters we can have? I appreciate that as an individual server, we're getting an increase, but it is overall a decrease. I don't understand why you couldn't have just combined the character slot numbers of all PvP and all PvE servers into two totals.
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Same here....i shall be known as "Kayweg dontwantnodarnsurname"
Hopefully there'll be a "hide surname" option.
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As someone on Evindra, honestly I'm not that disheveled by the news. The pop needs to be helped in some way and megaserver does seem to be it. Trolling for RP can happen even on a RP realm, yes rare, but still can and I've seen it it happen before.
 
My more concern is the forced surnames. Most RP ppl by now have had surnames lined up, they didn't have to wait for this. Some squished their two names into one, and others even have chars wit a one name sorta like a cool title.
 
My Warrior I never planned to have a surname, nor was his first made in plans to have to do so. So thus I went wit a sorta cool title or nickname. Now wit a surname it'll sound really weird. I would rather be able to avoid this.
 
I'm wondering, could it at least be made available for free name changes? This would help most wit restructuring their name to better include a surname. I for one will need to rename at least 2 of my toons.	
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As someone on Evindra, honestly I'm not that disheveled by the news. The pop needs to be helped in some way and megaserver does seem to be it. Trolling for RP can happen even on a RP realm, yes rare, but still can and I've seen it it happen before.
 
My more concern is the forced surnames. Most RP ppl by now have had surnames lined up, they didn't have to wait for this. Some squished their two names into one, and others even have chars wit a one name sorta like a cool title.
 
My Warrior I never planned to have a surname, nor was his first made in plans to have to do so. So thus I went wit a sorta cool title or nickname. Now wit a surname it'll sound really weird. I would rather be able to avoid this.
 
I'm wondering, could it at least be made available for free name changes? This would help most wit restructuring their name to better include a surname. I for one will need to rename at least 2 of my toons.
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As someone on Evindra, honestly I'm not that disheveled by the news. The pop needs to be helped in some way and megaserver does seem to be it. Trolling for RP can happen even on a RP realm, yes rare, but still can and I've seen it it happen before.
 
My more concern is the forced surnames. Most RP ppl by now have had surnames lined up, they didn't have to wait for this. Some squished their two names into one, and others even have chars wit a one name sorta like a cool title.
 
My Warrior I never planned to have a surname, nor was his first made in plans to have to do so. So thus I went wit a sorta cool title or nickname. Now wit a surname it'll sound really weird. I would rather be able to avoid this.
 
I'm wondering, could it at least be made available for free name changes? This would help most wit restructuring their name to better include a surname. I for one will need to rename at least 2 of my toons.
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You are getting a full rename when it's your turn.
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I want to clarify that the main problem with losing Evindra's identity isn't the trolls themselves, but that Carbine needs to do everything in its power to minimize the chance of RPers feeling like we need to become reclusive. There are certain game features that, with our RP-specific server, are extremely RP friendly but will become unfriendly once the merge occurs.
 
We need:
 
1. The ability to ban individual users from public housing plots. Without this, many RP plots may choose to go neighbor-only, which is NOT a good thing for an open and inclusive RP community.
2. Better tools for searching housing plots. Ideally, we need some kind of searchable list (just look at Rift's Dimensions UI). A "favorites" list would also be useful.
3. A shorter /say and /e range so that I'm not hearing RP going on in Blackhood while standing up by Academy Corner. This is vital because the amount of /say clutter is going to skyrocket once you shove us into a bunch of communities used to using /say in an OOC manner. I don't really like blacklisting people who haven't done anything wrong.
4. The ability to manually switch between server channels. I know they exist. Let us move between them willfully. It might be appropriate to flag one as RP-friendly and more heavily police trolls there. While having an RP tag on the channel might be a troll "magnet", it will also give RPers a place they know they can go without having to either 1) hope they landed in the Thayd channel with all the rpers, or 2) cycle through a bunch of channels in desperate search.
 
Some little bones you could throw us that would go a long way in easing our pains:
1. Drop the faction language barrier.
2. Cross-faction mail, please.
3. Why are you cutting the number of characters we can have? I appreciate that as an individual server, we're getting an increase, but it is overall a decrease. I don't understand why you couldn't have just combined the character slot numbers of all PvP and all PvE servers into two totals.
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A suggestion.
 
Everyone just use the name of their server as their surnames. So, Cassybrit will become Cassybrit Thunderfoot.
 
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They dont owe you anything, in terms of even throwing a little bone, just like how they dont owe players who did Silver Dungeons anything by changing it to bronze only for attunement
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For the love of Nexus, please don't make surnames standard for all new characters. It's bad enough for those of us that like our current names and will be forced to have a surname, but if you implement this for new characters as well, names in general will lose any uniqueness.
 
"Hi my name is Legolas McBobberson, this is my guildy Legolas McPooferton. Would you like to go on a run with us? Our friend, Legolas McHeals will be joining us."
 
The option to hide a surname wont make this any better cause then its all just a bunch of Legolas's....
 
Please... please no...	
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They certainly owe us the best game they can provide.
 
 
While your addon is nice and all (I use Visitor, which has a similar "type name in and it'll search for the plot for you" function), it's not what I was talking about in that line. An actual database list of housing all housing plots that we can scroll through is what I want.
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I am so happy about this decision, thank you so much CRB!
 
There are some doom & gloom people, but i can't help but think they're simply wrong. Coming from GW2, Megaservers brought massive new GW2 activity into otherwise dead servers and dead zones. New players actually had people to level with, and communities weren't split.
 
Surname/RP/etc might be valid complaints, but Megaservers are spot on and well overdue. Awesome job!! Thanks again :)	
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			The surnames mean that they don't have to do the character name lottery all over again, because the likely hood of two players choosing the same first and last name is low. So mandatory surnames makes sense, technically. As to the aesthetics and RP reasons for and against, so long as they let us have spaces in the name, you can make it into a "suffix" or a "title" as opposed to an actual surname. Draken could go for something like <yourname> of clan <clanname>, or <yourname> of Mikros, if you wanted. As to hiding them, it would be facile for an addon (like Killroy) to dump everything after the first name when pushing something to chat. I assume name plate folks could modify their addons similarly and if Carbine really wanted to be helpful they could build some options into the default addons. So that can be dealt with, one way or another.	
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			idk.my boyfriend's been playing WoW for like 10 years and has done everything from heavy RP, to PVP, to PVE...whatever. mostly, he just PVP's now. but i thought considering he's a PVPer...an occasional ganker...an occasional troll.... and has been playing these types of games for long enough i'd ask his perspective...his opinion on it this: "It's not as bad as everyone thinks..only on occasion. I'm a huge PVPer but I always respected RP and so has everyone else I've played with. Guys who harass RP-ers, also harass PVP-ers. As for RP being merged with everyone else: PVPers are too busy fighting each other and PVE-ers are too busy fighting the world. I find people are more interested in RP like 'cool costume!' or whateveridk i think everyone's being a bit melodramatic maybe people are being a bit overly sensitive to the trolling that occurs. i mean have you guys ever even been on the other servers? (i've played on like 2 other servers besides this and although i wasn't actively roleplaying, i never saw anything bad happening) so, how much do we really know of wildstar trolling? it might not be as bad as on other games. *shrug* we'll see what happens i guess.but either way the fact of the matter is regardless of how active the RP seems to be, the game is really struggling. servers are more or less empty. if the choice is having a game with a bad reputation and empty servers, slowly die out, and cease to exist; or nipping the problem in the bud and making the game last while loosing small scale servers and an RP specific server...idk about you guys, but i'd rather have an aurin to play than none at all. or be embarrassed to say i play because everyone knows the servers are dead. or have subscriptions hiked up because no one is playing. the empty servers are a major problem for the game as a whole and it cannot be denied even by roleplayers.
			
				
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Yep, which is exactly what they are working towards doing for its majority playerbase with this change
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For the love of Nexus, please don't make surnames standard for all new characters. It's bad enough for those of us that like our current names and will be forced to have a surname, but if you implement this for new characters as well, names in general will lose any uniqueness.
 
"Hi my name is Legolas McBobberson, this is my guildy Legolas McPooferton. Would you like to go on a run with us? Our friend, Legolas McHeals will be joining us."
 
The option to hide a surname wont make this any better cause then its all just a bunch of Legolas's....
 
Please... please no...
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@Kaelish: could you also add the suggestion to make PvE -> PvP possible to your post?
 
I hope that might make it more visible for other and maybe even helps to make this change too :)	
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3. Why are you cutting the number of characters we can have? I appreciate that as an individual server, we're getting an increase, but it is overall a decrease. I don't understand why you couldn't have just combined the character slot numbers of all PvP and all PvE servers into two totals.
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			Hmmmm Ok Carbine! For the RP servers... Here's an Idea:Since megaservers will come with overflow channels (I guess, right?)Why not have an RP Overflow instance? Which you can get inside with a command? /syncRP ?Like... when we had overflowed zones, and had to "sync to party" Why dont we have something like that for RP folks? like, /syncRP ?Just an idea.PD: OMG gathering circles will BLOW (edit, in a good way)PD2: just transfered my alts to evindra, wanna meet the community	
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The new channels that we will introduce are zone-wide, like the current /advice. 5 new channels will be added : RP (English) / DE / FR / DE-RP / FR-RP. It is assumed that the usual channels (/zone, /advice, /trade) will remain primarily focused on English (with the occasional guild/community recruitment in another language (especially on EU Megaservers)).
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(also, OMG gathering circles will BLOW)
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			What are you talking about? My post has nothing to do with me approving or disapproving of anyone's name. I don't even know what to say....	
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Just a little tip.
They say that all of your characters will transfer over, you just can't create a new one until you're down to 11.
 
Work it out.
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but either way the fact of the matter is regardless of how active the RP seems to be, the game is really struggling. servers are more or less empty.
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And I am offering them suggestions which would further the goal of improving their game.
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Megasevers! Excellent news.
 
I previously wrote about why megaservers are necessary here.
 
Some feedback:
 
1. I don't think requiring surnames is a good idea. Some people are very attached to names. Requiring a surname or a total rename for names that are identical is okay, but if someone has a non-conflicting name you should let them keep it -- surnames optional.
 
2. How will sharding work? To my understanding, what makes megaservers different than server merges are megaservers have special infrastructure to deal with massive capacity. My guess is most megaserver implementations are a cluster of servers that act as one, and sharding happens at the lowest level possible when necessary to accommodate population changes. However that's just my guess, I don't work in the game's industry, I work in web development and have had much experience with AWS infrastructure and other PAAS solutions. Are you able to go into more technical details? Will communications be hindered? Will we have to deal with phasing., such as having to sync with our friends to ensure we're in the same shard?
 
ESO had a bit of a rough launch because of its megaserver troubles interfering with grouping and communication. Solving those issues are key to a successful megaserver launch.	
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Uh, explain please. Not seeing it.  :huh:
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I have already thought of that, actually. But then I thought... when/if they release new race/class combinations (that I want desperately... @.@), I'll either have to delete all characters so I'm down to 11 or whatever, or have to not make use of said new combinations. So, it's not actually a solution. And my point remains.
 
 
I'm not asking them to make another megaserver specifically for RP. They're obviously not going to change that. All of my suggestions were tailored towards making the experience of roleplayers in the PvE megaserver better.
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Hmmmm Ok Carbine! For the RP servers... Here's an Idea:
 
Since megaservers will come with overflow channels (I guess, right?)
Why not have an RP Overflow instance? Which you can get inside with a command? /syncRP ?
 
Like... when we had overflowed zones, and had to "sync to party" 
 
Why dont we have something like that for RP folks? like, /syncRP ?
 
Just an idea.
 
PD: OMG gathering circles will BLOW
PD2: just transfered my alts to evindra, wanna meet the community
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Megasevers! Excellent news.
 
I previously wrote about why megaservers are necessary here.
 
Some feedback:
 
1. I don't think requiring surnames is a good idea. Some people are very attached to names. Requiring a surname or a total rename for names that are identical is okay, but if someone has a non-conflicting name you should let them keep it -- surnames optional.
 
2. How will sharding work? To my understanding, what makes megaservers different than server merges are megaservers have special infrastructure to deal with massive capacity. My guess is most megaserver implementations are a cluster of servers that act as one, and sharding happens at the lowest level possible when necessary to accommodate population changes. However that's just my guess, I don't work in the game's industry, I work in web development and have had much experience with AWS infrastructure and other PAAS solutions. Are you able to go into more technical details? Will communications be hindered? Will we have to deal with phasing., such as having to sync with our friends to ensure we're in the same shard?
 
ESO had a bit of a rough launch because of it's megaserver troubles interfering with grouping and communication. Solving those issues are key to a successful megaserver launch.
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1. I don't think requiring surnames is a good idea. Some people are very attached to names. Requiring a surname or a total rename for names that are identical is okay, but if someone has a non-conflicting name you should let them keep it -- surnames optional.
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			This whole surname situation stinks to me of taking the easy way out.  They saw a looming naming conflict problem, but rather than taking the time to implement a proper nonunique naming system they force us all to adopt a two name system.  It wouldn't surprise me if we are limited to one space, since they probably are just changing their chat system to expect two word names instead of single word names.	
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I wonder if they will add it in like a legacy system they have in SWTOR, where you can create a family tree
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Hello!
 
I'd like to ask Carbine to police the situation with free realm transfers. Please do this in any way possible (even if it involves reaching out to the community), because as far as I understand the current situation, players are free to harass then transfer, or transfer then harass, and carry no longterm consequences as a result of the megaserver merges. This could have a significant impact on the already controversy-heavy situation we're going to be going through from now until these new servers are live.
 
What you don't want, and we don't want, are the current servers turning into a "no consequence" trollfest of bad behaviour because of an incoming whitewash (name changes, no server identities).
 
Basically what I'm saying is: Your server communities could take a dive into the toxic if you continue with the free realm transfers. I'm +1 for megaservers, and at first I was like "cool, free transfers!"... but someone has already rolled on a certain server and begun to troll. This is not going to be a good way to promote "change is positive" mentality, haha.	
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more people in a "server", more people gathering stuff/stuff to gather in housing, more money? :-0
 
my server is kiinda dead, and my circle doesnt have that many dudes *sadpanda*
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This whole surname situation stinks to me of taking the easy way out.  They saw a looming naming conflict problem, but rather than taking the time to implement a proper nonunique naming system they force us all to adopt a two name system.  It wouldn't surprise me if we are limited to one space, since they probably are just changing their chat system to expect two word names instead of single word names.
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OH. I think you got a slight language goof in there!
What you meant was "blow UP". What you said was "blow", which (ironically) means the same as "suck".  :lol:
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Please elaborate so I can update my post? I wasn't in that game.
 
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I know there have already been complaints from others about this but I also think adding mandatory surnames is a bad idéa.
 
I understand that the reason for adding surnames, is that there will be characters with the same name on different servers. When I made a character I was under the impression that surnames weren't required, and frankly I didn't want one to begin with. Of course some players might like the idéa of surnames for their characters, but the point is that surnames weren't required at launch and I Think it would make more sense to stick with the current naming format.
 
When some MMOs have merged servers they've simply added a suffix (usually the name of the former server) to the characters name, and this is an awful solution and I think adding surnames is quite similar (sure it's slightly better but you still end up with a suffix to you characters name that you never wanted in the first place).
 
If you want to add surnames that's fine but please don't make them mandatory. I Think a better solution would be to give characters a renam 'token' or something like that, then the players who want a surname can have one and those who don't want one can try and see if their old name is still available, some people will inevitably have to get a new name but at leas this way people would have more options.	
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Or, why they just didn't force '-server' onto our names to make them unique. Like other big MMOs have :)
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Please point to me the PvPers and the PvEers who are having their server purpose removed.
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This whole surname situation stinks to me of taking the easy way out.  They saw a looming naming conflict problem, but rather than taking the time to implement a proper nonunique naming system they force us all to adopt a two name system.  It wouldn't surprise me if we are limited to one space, since they probably are just changing their chat system to expect two word names instead of single word names.
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I think just about every player doesn't want you guys to adopt the surname change, some feel they can deal with it but I can tell you it was a hassle in any game I played using it to whisper players. I'd highly encourage Carbine to think of a better way to allow players to keep their names, would rather lose my original name than HAVE to always create a last name.
 
Really need to put your heads together and think of a better way to please RPers too, the answer is definitely not a region wide channel.	
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To play the devil's advocate, I can see why people would rather a surname than @Evindra or @Pergo attached to other's names.
 
"It breaks immersion" is one thing that comes to mind (even though I personally would prefer it :T). So I can respect that in that regard.
 
But I still wish Surnames were optional.
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			Unsatisfied RPer here, big surprise. (I apologize for some of the hostility from my fellow RPers, we're all very stressed and worried right now.) I think what some people are trying to get across, is that our identity is being taken away. We're no longer going to have an [RP] next to our server name, we don't just PVE or PVP, we make a rich community through in-character events and storylines and cross-faction gatherings. Every single RPer adds a unique character to the story of Wildstar. Our server has a distinct tag because it is indicated that people can go there and RP and be safe, have fun, and not have to worry about griefing. I've been playing on the game since beta, and not once have I ever dealt with someone spamming their abilities. People on the RP server, who came to this game to RP, shouldn't have to wiggle their way around loopholes and the like to ignore griefers - because this is the type of game we're paying for. I believe a lot of the people causing an uproar are the ones who realize that. We shouldn't have to stick to circles and a 'RP channel' and we shouldn't have to go into hiding to avoid the inevitable griefing. I'm not saying all PVE and PVP players are awful folks, but let's be real in saying that toxicity seems to linger on those types of servers.Basically, RPers are nervous that we're going to have to once more dance around firecrackers and walk across eggshells just to ensure we don't get interrupted in our RP. Giving the RP community a 'deal with it' is a huge blow to the face. The rejoice on the WSRP website when we noticed we got our own RP server? It was astounding. It was something we'd all been waiting to hear about, if we'd actually get a server for our own. And we did! But now it's being taken away from us. Get it?To give you an example, we're suddenly going to be shoved into a server that isn't RP-focused. The folks from the PVE servers won't be as affected by this because they've been doing their thing. PVE. The PVE players outnumber the RPers, sure. But imagine Evindra being a small saucepan of deliciously amazing alfredo sauce or something - and then someone comes along and dumps us into a gigantic pot of water. With this 'merge' we're being diluted. It's honestly disheartening because I've never experienced such an amazingly fun and nice community that I have on Evindra. And we feel threatened and until this happens, you're going to see people bitching and moaning about the merge.	
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Personally, the 12 character thing is one of two items that actually made me happy. My altitis was always chaffing at having only six slots to play with. And no, I couldn't make characters on other servers because they weren't RP servers. That's how important that little tag is to roleplayers.
 
Don't get me wrong, I get that Carbine is doing what they have to for the health of the game. I just think they should have likely re-thought their launch date and built this tech in BETA, where such things should be implemented and tested as opposed to LIVE. Then they wouldn't be breaking up the RP community in this way, they wouldn't have had dead PvE and PvP servers and they wouldn't have had the bad press and ill will they've garnered. Hindsight's twenty twenty and all, and I'm sure that you had backers breathing down your necks, but these missteps will cost the longevity of this game as I'm only too sure you (Carbine) must be aware.	
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Another option for the RP community could be to have their surname be the name of their old RP server, f ex Evindra. If the option to hide surname will exist, it will make the change seamless for this community.
 
Then there is the issue of the chat channels. A global/zonewide RP channel is fine, but the general /say will still suffer the clutter of non RP. Add an /rpsay and this issue is solved.
 
So, all in all, for an old RP'er on a megaserver you would need:
- Your lastname to be hidden (and using previous servername as surname will solve the whispers)
- Using global RP channels
- Using /rpsay
- Hiding/leaving conventional non rp chat channels
 
With this in check, the only thing left is the visuals of non RPers which is hard to solve without going back to the previously "tough reality of logistics".
 
I'm not an RP'er, but i see the issue for those players which is why i took the time to write this although its past midnight at my place and i should have gone to bed long ago haha. With that said, i'm all for "mega"servers, and good night ;)	
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This whole surname situation stinks to me of taking the easy way out.  They saw a looming naming conflict problem, but rather than taking the time to implement a proper nonunique naming system they force us all to adopt a two name system.  It wouldn't surprise me if we are limited to one space, since they probably are just changing their chat system to expect two word names instead of single word names.
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I am not sure if this was mentioned or covered. I would like the option to hide our last names.
 
I just always liked my toons to have a single 'word' name.
 
Gracias.
 
-Xy	
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			When Aion first did server merges they had the the first 2 letters of the server you came from at the end I think it was, or a free name change.   That would be the best solution, that way all the RP's will all have the same tag thats easy to type to or they can go for a new name.	
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OK, then maybe Carbine could answer this question.
 
Why didn't you just append -server to everyone's name to solve the name conflicts? Did you think we'd be happier with surname? Or did you not do that because you want all traces of previous servers to disappear?	
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To give you an example, we're suddenly going to be shoved into a server that isn't RP-focused. The folks from the PVE servers won't be as affected by this because they've been doing their thing. PVE. The PVE players outnumber the RPers, sure. But imagine Evindra being a small saucepan of deliciously amazing alfredo sauce or something - and then someone comes along and dumps us into a gigantic pot of water. With this 'merge' we're being diluted. It's honestly disheartening because I've never experienced such an amazingly fun and nice community that I have on Evindra. And we feel threatened and until this happens, you're going to see people bitching and moaning about the merge.
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Unsatisfied RPer here, big surprise. (I apologize for some of the hostility from my fellow RPers, we're all very stressed and worried right now.) I think what some people are trying to get across, is that our identity is being taken away. We're no longer going to have an [RP] next to our server name, we don't just PVE or PVP, we make a rich community through in-character events and storylines and cross-faction gatherings. Every single RPer adds a unique character to the story of Wildstar. Our server has a distinct tag because it is indicated that people can go there and RP and be safe, have fun, and not have to worry about griefing. I've been playing on the game since beta, and not once have I ever dealt with someone spamming their abilities. People on the RP server, who came to this game to RP, shouldn't have to wiggle their way around loopholes and the like to ignore griefers - because this is the type of game we're paying for. I believe a lot of the people causing an uproar are the ones who realize that. We shouldn't have to stick to circles and a 'RP channel' and we shouldn't have to go into hiding to avoid the inevitable griefing. I'm not saying all PVE and PVP players are awful folks, but let's be real in saying that toxicity seems to linger on those types of servers.
 
Basically, RPers are nervous that we're going to have to once more dance around firecrackers and walk across eggshells just to ensure we don't get interrupted in our RP. Giving the RP community a 'deal with it' is a huge blow to the face. The rejoice on the WSRP website when we noticed we got our own RP server? It was astounding. It was something we'd all been waiting to hear about, if we'd actually get a server for our own. And we did! But now it's being taken away from us. Get it?
 
To give you an example, we're suddenly going to be shoved into a server that isn't RP-focused. The folks from the PVE servers won't be as affected by this because they've been doing their thing. PVE. The PVE players outnumber the RPers, sure. But imagine Evindra being a small saucepan of deliciously amazing alfredo sauce or something - and then someone comes along and dumps us into a gigantic pot of water. With this 'merge' we're being diluted. It's honestly disheartening because I've never experienced such an amazingly fun and nice community that I have on Evindra. And we feel threatened and until this happens, you're going to see people bitching and moaning about the merge.
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Done, do you want this before megaservers or after? As in a request to have it in game now or to jump from one megaserver to the other?
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Unsatisfied RPer here, big surprise. (I apologize for some of the hostility from my fellow RPers, we're all very stressed and worried right now.) I think what some people are trying to get across, is that our identity is being taken away. We're no longer going to have an [RP] next to our server name, we don't just PVE or PVP, we make a rich community through in-character events and storylines and cross-faction gatherings. Every single RPer adds a unique character to the story of Wildstar. Our server has a distinct tag because it is indicated that people can go there and RP and be safe, have fun, and not have to worry about griefing. I've been playing on the game since beta, and not once have I ever dealt with someone spamming their abilities. People on the RP server, who came to this game to RP, shouldn't have to wiggle their way around loopholes and the like to ignore griefers - because this is the type of game we're paying for. I believe a lot of the people causing an uproar are the ones who realize that. We shouldn't have to stick to circles and a 'RP channel' and we shouldn't have to go into hiding to avoid the inevitable griefing. I'm not saying all PVE and PVP players are awful folks, but let's be real in saying that toxicity seems to linger on those types of servers.
 
Basically, RPers are nervous that we're going to have to once more dance around firecrackers and walk across eggshells just to ensure we don't get interrupted in our RP. Giving the RP community a 'deal with it' is a huge blow to the face. The rejoice on the WSRP website when we noticed we got our own RP server? It was astounding. It was something we'd all been waiting to hear about, if we'd actually get a server for our own. And we did! But now it's being taken away from us. Get it?
 
To give you an example, we're suddenly going to be shoved into a server that isn't RP-focused. The folks from the PVE servers won't be as affected by this because they've been doing their thing. PVE. The PVE players outnumber the RPers, sure. But imagine Evindra being a small saucepan of deliciously amazing alfredo sauce or something - and then someone comes along and dumps us into a gigantic pot of water. With this 'merge' we're being diluted. It's honestly disheartening because I've never experienced such an amazingly fun and nice community that I have on Evindra. And we feel threatened and until this happens, you're going to see people bitching and moaning about the merge.
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I'm just going to apologize for my negative response earlier in regards to this whole megaserver and rp community hijacked thread. Indeed, we are very protective of our server, and I think most (maybe not all) of the people in Evindra will agree that if you spent the time there, you would understand why we're in panic mode. I wanted to address some of the back and forth banter that's been going on:
 
No, not everyone in the PvP/(Normal)PvE servers are jerks. That's just ridiculous to assume. Again, a lot of us are just in panic mode and I apologize for those negative statements. Even if those in my server who said it won't :)
 
Some of us may have jumped the gun on all of this, but again, try to understand that we are just on panic mode and most of us will calm down and get over it. I think it's no different from other servers raising their concerns about population, loot, pvp and what not. Sometimes, people just get emotionally charged when clinging on to something they really really like. We are just genuinely concerned about losing the RP community that many of us cherish.
 
I would like to ask the players of Evindra to please refrain from falling into the negative responses because as some have already pointed out in our server forum, this only gives a negative perception of what it's like in our server. If we really want the other servers to understand our concern, then it's better for us to respond in a way that best reflects what our community is about.	
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So, about surname being the solution to characters on different realms having the same name.
What will happen with my account? I have my nick reserved (lvl 1 chars) on all EU realms.
Will I have (insert number of EU realms) characters named Nra with the same surname on the megaserver?
Or will there be some RNG of which one of these characters win?Or will they all get some temporary numbers added to them and allow me to rename them (I would just delete them though, as they mean nothing but a reservation).
 
I am scared.	
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