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Free transfers will stay live until Megaservers come.
 
Current free transfers must follow all existing rules of our realm transfers. When the Megaserver comes, your guild will move with the guild leader.
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From the Megaserver post:
 
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The normal “realm transfer” restrictions will not apply during this transfer.
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If i come on this thread after the mega servers hitting and everything has gone down hill. the first thing i will say is "I warned you."
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Yes, many people have combined a first and last name into one name already.  I don't use it in game, but take my forum name for example.  In game it would be UnicornMilk.  It needs to become Unicorn Milk on the megaserver not UnicornMilk Surname.
 
Adding a surname to a combined first name just doesn't work.  At all.   	
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RP players...
 
seriously?- id presume you have your guild and Channels to do your RP chat. id prefer a full on game with players than no game at all.
 
think about that.
 
WS players really need to look at the big picture.
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Carbine made this choice. We developed some new technology that made this possible, combined with the need to consolidate some of our realms, and it was a really great opportunity to make this change for WildStar. It is not without cost, but almost no option is (even inaction has a cost).
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If a separate RP server is out of the question, please consider initiating an RP phase/shard for Thayd and Illium.
 
Large scale cross-faction RP is going to be extremely difficult; perhaps allow Dominion and Exiles to group together with disabled PvP?
 
I hope we will be allowed full character renames. Adding surnames to first names that weren't meant to go together is extremely disconcerting.	
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			Why not just make an RP flagged instance for each zone that people can choose to go to, and just ban people from being able to select rp instances if they're found to be trolling the rp'ers?	
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when has a game cared about RPers honestly? every mmo i have ever played said they would but in the end they dont. As for the poster who commented about the RPers being upset about the merg it would be the same as if you built a nice little community from the ground up and an oil refinery just suddenly moved in crushing more then half your houses. Now the once nice community is tainted with the ugly toxicity that is trolls/griefers and those who enjoy causing others issues.
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*runs off to make a new character"
 
 
For my fellow Evindra players:
 
1. Get that add-on that flags people as RPers and has a biography section. It's already pretty popular and would diffuse several of the issues raised here.
 
2. Be a bit more open-minded about the change; prove yourself to be as solid as you claim our community is
 
3. Recognize that, although Carbine are in a sense breaking previous commitments, this is a common MMO occurence. We all skipped the terms of play but we know what's in there— Carbine reserves the right to change stuff as is needed to improve the game and to make it fit their vision, as its creators
 
4. If the game is just intolerable or significantly weakened by this change, post about it then. What would you have said if someone started to ramble on the forums, the day after launch, about how the game's population will inevitably decline and the game will suck? You would have said, with a very rational thought-process, wait and see.
 
 
RP has never been well-supported in MMOs, so I'm a little surprised that so many people are so upset and feel violated by this change. It's always been up to you, the community, to make RP happen, to make it fun, and to attempt to place boundaries and rules. The same situation exists right now... it will require more from all of you (more patience, more time), but it could also result in more as well (more community, more fun).
 
It would be a great victory for everyone if megaservers resulted in a flourishing, tolerant, and diverse group of players because that is the best we can hope for from the future of MMO gaming, and from real life.
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Well as many have state, the population for evindra was not bad at all and i am assuming that there is more than one server for RP in general. perhaps instead of doing one PvP server and one PvE/RP server note the /RP part just do one PvP, one PvE, and one RP server. it will make alot of RP'ers more happy but at the same time allow for the servers to have the same benefits as what the mega servers supposedly has to offer.
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Ah yes, much better to snag those precious realm firsts on a server where you're the only guild around.
Those achievements mean a lot...  :rolleyes:
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RP has never been well-supported in MMOs, so I'm a little surprised that so many people are so upset and feel violated by this change. It's always been up to you, the community, to make RP happen, to make it fun, and to attempt to place boundaries and rules. The same situation exists right now... it will require more from all of you (more patience, more time), but it could also result in more as well (more community, more fun).
 
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They've said it more than once. There aren't enough RPers to justify it.
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Which i disagree with entirely.
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			Regarding surnames: I was talking to some engineers in the studio and they confirmed that we will be flagging the entire name for renaming and not just picking a surname. BAM!	
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Yeah, I'm gone. Thanks for everything but my community is now being dissolved.
 
Well done. Every choice this team makes is the wrong one for me. I am sorry my sub renewed this weekend.
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"I'm mad because now I have to compete for my firsts!"
 
wut.
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Regarding surnames: I was talking to some engineers in the studio and they confirmed that we will be flagging the entire name for renaming and not just picking a surname. BAM!
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Regarding surnames: I was talking to some engineers in the studio and they confirmed that we will be flagging the entire name for renaming and not just picking a surname. BAM!
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Regarding surnames: I was talking to some engineers in the studio and they confirmed that we will be flagging the entire name for renaming and not just picking a surname. BAM!
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Regarding surnames: I was talking to some engineers in the studio and they confirmed that we will be flagging the entire name for renaming and not just picking a surname. BAM!
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Regarding surnames: I was talking to some engineers in the studio and they confirmed that we will be flagging the entire name for renaming and not just picking a surname. BAM!
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Keep reading, that interpretation was a misunderstanding. :)
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Surnames will not be able to be hidden, no. We'll look into what we can do on the name change front for those of you with "combo" first names and/or for those that just want a new name given the new environment. No promises there, but we'll look into it for sure.
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Why not just make an RP flagged instance for each zone that people can choose to go to, and just ban people from being able to select rp instances if they're found to be trolling the rp'ers?
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Who are we to trust, Carbine who has the numbers and metrics or your gut feeling?
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Regarding surnames: I was talking to some engineers in the studio and they confirmed that we will be flagging the entire name for renaming and not just picking a surname. BAM!
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Regarding surnames: I was talking to some engineers in the studio and they confirmed that we will be flagging the entire name for renaming and not just picking a surname. BAM!
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Regarding surnames: I was talking to some engineers in the studio and they confirmed that we will be flagging the entire name for renaming and not just picking a surname. BAM!
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I'm looking forward to this because I will finally be able to meet up with WS amazing housing community without having to grind to lvl 14. Behind the scene tours, live stream shenanigans etc ..I say bring it on !!!
 
Yes mergers can be scary esp. to players that might not have been thru one but all you have to do is take a breath and wait and see how this one turns out. If done right it's a win / win for all !! :)	
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That's a good start.
 
Now talk to the Engineers and get confirmation we can have 30 characters, not just 12, please.
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And they're required 100%, or only if you're trying to use a name that is already taken?
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Free transfers PvE to PvP
 
Any chance to lift those restrictions and allow players to transfer from pve to pvp servers prior to megaserver?  This would allow some of the community to get settled prior to the big change over to mega servers, unless of course you have plans to introduce paid megaserver change PvE to PvP & vice versa.
 
my example, I came with players adamant on playing on a PvE server ( I tried for PvP trust me), but now I'm the last one still playing.  Another good example is the large rush you got a launch and the amount of players wanting a pvp server but fell short a few days due to a full status.
 
The argument over leveling on a PvP to PvE server falls flat when a player can level through battlegrounds to cap, does Carbine have a stance on this? or is it strictly technical at this point?
 
I would gladly take a free transfer to a low pop PvP server from my PvE server and wait out megaservers if the option was there. 
 
thanks~
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If you are over the cap, they'll transfer across and you just won't be able to make new characters until you are under the 12 cap.
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100% required.
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Regarding surnames: I was talking to some engineers in the studio and they confirmed that we will be flagging the entire name for renaming and not just picking a surname. BAM!
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Sorry for the confusion. I'm agreeing with you. That was my interpretation of the original poster you responded to :>
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100% required.
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Q 3. Are you doing Megaservers because of declining server population?
 
The increased server capacity to cope with the launch rush is no longer required. Megaservers allow us to increase player capacity per server so you will always have plenty of people to play with.
 
The fact that this question isn't answered with a clear "no" should tell you a lot.
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100% required.
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It's not as big as PvE or PvP but it is enough to lose a serious chunk of the profit from WS if people do leave, which adding the mega servers is just making that inevitable.
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This is a good decision Carbine. It will stave off future population collapses where people can't play because people are leaving.
 
This was especially needed since you have so much content that requires a massive amount of people.	
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It's not as big as PvE or PvP but it is enough to lose a serious chunk of the profit from WS if people do leave, which adding the mega servers is just making that inevitable.
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			I assume you can't transfer your guild with you? So all of the guild progress has been lost? Or am I wrong?	
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Pleaaasse make this possible. I would also gladly pay to transfer to a PVP server! I don't see any reason to not allow this :/
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I always feel lucky when I manage to get a name I like in any game, so in light of the impending megaserver, I attempted a work around. I am not sure how it will work out.
 
As far as I can see, there are 7 PvE servers available to me. So, I tried securing some names across all 7 of them; as you could imagine, I didn't have a ton of luck. My mains name is "Not Important" which I managed to get on 4/7 PvE servers. My alts had less luck with 3/7 2/7 etc...
 
My question is this...
 
One of my alt names I managed to get on 7/7 PvE servers. If I wait until the megaserver merge thingy is complete, and I delete all but one of these 7/7 will I be able use the remaining character without having to use a surname?	
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Sorry cougar, carbine just lost all my respect for not only the Megaserver but also the rename being forced. we were given the opportunity to create our own names for a reason and not need to have surnames. the original launch was great and you promised a great many things, but are not delivering. it's reminding me of alot of mmo's where the developers are not listening to the player base, it's becoming a habbit. if you get money, the player base doesnt matter.
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So basically 'I have no facts, but your game is still doomed if you don't listen to me.' Right.
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Curious if I could get some clarification on this FAQ question:
 
"Will I be able to transfer from PvE to PvP realms or from PvP to PvE realms?
No. Once the Megaservers are live, the current plan is all realm transfers will be disabled."
 
Does this mean that you can currently transfer from PvE to PvP or Vice Versa with the free Transfer?  Cause this has never been the case in the past are you guys going to lift this constraint prior to Megaservers going live.	
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I don't think the problem is really that there aren't enough RPers.
 
I think the problem is that there aren't enough players without the RPers to make it work.
 
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I assume you can't transfer your guild with you? So all of the guild progress has been lost? Or am I wrong?
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			I believe someone already mentioned this, but I recently transfered my 2 toons to another server Sunday Night, and wondering is there going to be some form of refund with this announcement, say a week back on all transfers or give Credd's for reimbursement?  Or is it a sorry for your loss, but thank you for the money given and the repeat business and hope you continue playing?	
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I'm not going to say anything that hasn't already been said, but it is a rather bad move to pull the rug out from underneath the RPers feet. People have been active in the Wildstar RP community since early beta, with the creation of the WSRP forum and Wikia, so this community is a lot larger than people understand. Most RPers have been around in the game's infancy and heard all the promises that Carbine made. It's not that wereall of the sudden this little group of people - we've been building the community for a LONG time.
 
In addition, it is also a financially dumb move. RPers are the people who stick around and complain the least, and will continue drag along a dying game long after others left. Why do you think WoW is adding more and more toys and costumes in their game? Why they still keep their RP servers seperate from the rest? It might be a rather old game these days but they've had a hell of a run because people get involved in their characters, write fiction and make art of their characters due to the interest the RP community give them.
 
Lastly, what will happen to new players? Evindra is wonderfully welcoming to new people wanting to learn both the game and RPing in general. If there's no actual RP server, most will not even know where to turn to find RP, and lack of world RP will not help getting non-Rpers interested in it. Also, while some people here might trivialize it, griefing is a big problem and can be outright nasty. There are griefing guilds on some MMOs that exist just to mess with other peoples fun time, because the anonimity of a player means no repercussions. /ignore is a good thing, but it is not a fix for this.
 
The general feeling I get here is that people think that RPers are somehow not allowed to arge about something that breaks their idea of what Wildstar is to them, even though we pay for the same thing - a thing that is now completely changing for us, but keeping PvP and PvE essentially the same. If people have the right to yell about content changes for their character classes, I reserved the right to be annoyed about my playing style being shafted completely.	
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Amusing to find you still trying to deny this, we will see when it happens Skoryy.
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I believe someone already mentioned this, but I recently transfered my 2 toons to another server Sunday Night, and wondering is there going to be some form of refund with this announcement, say a week back on all transfers or give Credd's for reimbursement?  Or is it a sorry for your loss, but thank you for the money given and the repeat business and hope you continue playing?
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Yeah, totally shocking that people would try to deny exaggerated claims on the internet. That never happens.
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Since everyone here is being a naysayer and complaining that their community of 15 roleplayers is going to have less people to play with, I implore you to band together with your tight knit community and take advantage of the free transfers to increase the community you've been wanting for so long on another server.
 
I for one am extremely excited to finally be able to play with people again.  Many of my friends have transferred away, and now those of us that stayed will be able to play with them again.  A few of my friends will certainly be returning to the game, as now their playtimes will be full of interaction with other players instead of by themselves.
 
I do find it annoying that they kept it secret this long, milking people for transfer money, as paid transfers should never be to find a functioning population.
 
Cheers for a much needed (although a month too late) bit of server transferring.
 
All in all a good thing I guess.
 
itt: the only people that RP in wildstar
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You're delving into conspiracy theory territory here. Please reconsider.
Really though, I want to know why people think the RP community is bigger than the general community in a game focused around hardcore PvE.
 
Last I checked RPers were the minority in pretty much every game with the exception of Second Life, but I could be wrong.
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Just put in the function where /ignore makes someone invisible and you're golden!
 
im totally stoked.
 
-An Evindra RPer	
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Regarding surnames: I was talking to some engineers in the studio and they confirmed that we will be flagging the entire name for renaming and not just picking a surname. BAM!
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			Alright guys, I'm trying not to be one of those people, but I'm getting so upset my hair is tingling. Can someone just reiterate, or confirm what was said, because I took it to mean "everyone is losing their entire name 100% and all names have to be re-created". Is that what I am hearing? I have a lot of three-letter names, most of them are level 50, does this mean I have to spam the log-in servers to log in first so my name registers as the one I want? (or rather log in quickly and re-type my name then log in, then alt+f4 and continue doing this for every other character)? The anxiety of this during pre-reg, and then on the 17th when names were released, was awful. If I'm wrong about this, please set me straight.	
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If people have the right to yell about content changes for their character classes, I reserved the right to be annoyed about my playing style being shafted completely.
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The general feeling I get here is that people think that RPers are somehow not allowed to arge about something that breaks their idea of what Wildstar is to them, even though we pay for the same thing - a thing that is now completely changing for us, but keeping PvP and PvE essentially the same. If people have the right to yell about content changes for their character classes, I reserved the right to be annoyed about my playing style being shafted completely.
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Love the sarcasm in that remark, but to be real. im going to ignore your post.
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Amusing to find you still trying to deny this, we will see when it happens Skoryy.
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			How about this, lets remove the PvP servers and just put one big PvE/PvP/RP server eh? we will all get along just fine!	
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I'm going to have a good read tomorrow when I get chance but for now myself and my guild have a lot to discuss.
 
My gut reaction to this news is well done Carbine, genuinely well done for listening to the feedback you were getting and acting on it. Trust me as a GM I know this all too well, you simply cannot please everyone and when you try it usually ends up something which nobody wants.
 
This move will hopefully ensure the survival of our wonderful game and make sure the player base that has formed post launch rush always has a healthy population for groups/ world PvP etc. I can say as one of the last functioning guilds on Zhur this news came right at the last minute as many members were starting to seek other games and server moves. A dead server just doesn't have the elements needed to support casual players, things like other players in zone chat or a well stocked auction house.
 
For all the RP players out there who are being affected by this, I'm really sorry for your sacrifice. You're giving something up for the sake of the bigger picture and for that you have my thanks. I know this wasn't a choice you made but if it came down to a simple choice of the game surviving or not then hard decisions have to be made right? 
 
For everyone else wading into the devs and being overly harsh maybe you should pause and take a moment to consider the wider view. This game needed this for a good chance to a) survive and b) grow into a long term MMO. If Carbine had just bunkered up and driven it into the ground then that would be that. This was the brave choice and as far as I'm concerned the right choice but regardless lets try and be positive rather than complaining about every single thing the devs do.
 
Thanks,
Genophix
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Everyone calm down!!!!!!!!
RPer's, you're being really nasty to non-RPers. That's not going to get them to treat us any better once everything merges!!!
Let's make the best of it while we can.
For one thing it's not like they're merging Evindra with a raging, gank-filled PVP server. We're getting merged with PVE, if I understand correctly?
 
Furthermore, it might not be as bad as everyone is saying. We can still open world RP. Have I gone up to random toons in sylvan glade and waved and started RP-ing with them on Evindra? (Yes and no). Let's face it, EVEN ON OUR RP SERVER, we're not just wandering around IC all the time. I've gone to events in Sylvan Glade because they were pre-planned on the Wildstar RP forums. I've met people to RP with through just posting my journals on tumblr, through the dossiers on the WSRP forums. I then met with these people ON NEXUS (not at housing because I rp-ed for a while before getting to level 15), because of interaction outside of the actual game itself. But, I have RP-ed with someone from wandering into them in game. But even then, they saw me and another RP-ing in /say and then that person WHISPERED ME, asking "Are you RP-ing? I love RP-ers." and I responded, "Yes, come join us!". Everyone is all starry eyed, but let's face it...this is how RP works...and none of these ways of interacting are going to be any different.
 
Lastly, chat windows? I almost NEVER use the main chat. I have 3 different chat windows open since I started RP-ing. The first one is just everything. The second I have Labled "RP" which ONLY has activated: say, emote, and occasionally party. Then I have a third labeled "Private", which has activated; whisper and party.
I almost NEVER go into my first chat window that has zone chat and everything else activated. This, I will continue doing when we merge. It will help a lot. I suggest everyone do similar things.
 
As for "griefing", it might not be as bad as everything thinks it's going to be. We're adults, handle it like adults. Pop the person on ignore. Or, if we're in a large group....have everyone in your circle flag PVP at the same time and gank them until they go away. *shrug* Make something RP interesting out of it "look at the clearly deranged person....what a shame" and move on. People do this for a reaction. If no one gives them a reaction, then how fun is it going to be to hop around RPers? I can't see them sticking around more than a few minutes. But, the way the RPers are acting in this thread is SHOWING the potential trolls that we are reactionary and that we do fear them and that gives them fuel.
 
STOP FEEDING THE TROLLS.
 
And as someone else brought up...this brings in the potential of having casual players or people who didn't RP just cause...be introduced to it and thus widening the RP circle. I for one, am a total noob. My boyfriend has been playing WOW for like 10 years and I played last summer with him and his friends. It was ok. He showed me wildstar during beta and I was just....love at first sight (I always liked gaming but never did an MMO). Unfortunately, my boyfriend and his friends are hardcore PVPers. When launch happened within the first week and a half his only 2 friends who got Wildstar were already at level 50, and I was stuck bumbling around an empty PVP server by myself with almost no experience. I almost quit the game. I paid my subscription for the month of July and didn't log in once. I decided maybe I should give RP a try....and that if anything Evindra at least is open to interaction. So I did it...and bumbled around empty starting zones for like 10 levels by myself, alone, and almost quit (again). IF THERE WAS A MEGASERVER, THIS WOULD HAVE NEVER HAPPENED. IF THERE WAS A MEGASERVER, ON MY FIRST ROLL I WOULD HAVE WANDERED INTO MORE PEOPLE AND STUMBLED UPON RP. I wanted to RP with my first roll on that PVP server, but never saw anyone to do it with.
 
I know there are more players like myself out there who just need to SEE other players, and other players interacting; to make me want to play. This megaserver will make that happen, and for the people already RP-ing; we can potentially get a lot of new RPers from it. I'm being positive, possibly because I've never experienced what you all are afraid of. But I think there are a lot of possibilities. And we still have our housing plots. So, let's all try to handle this gracefully and not feed the trolls in the process?	
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After lurking this thread a bit more: I do feel that some people are overracting a bit about the RP server issue... Hell, I was overracting, too, but really, we need to calm down and hang in there. Seems that the one freaking out the most are RPers who are saying their gonna ragequit and claiming that Carbine are nothing but dirty backstabbers (which isn't the case). And it really sucks because if anything, we need the RPers to STICK AROUND AS MUCH AND AS LONG AS POSSIBLE.
 
Roleplayers: Don't just abandon Wildstar because of this. The sky isn't falling yet. We just need to figure out some solutions to MAKE THIS WORK. Some people after already posted a few ideas and they were almost completely ignored.
 
I'm sure if we put our heads together, we'll figure out a way  Freaking out and screaming "IT'S ORGE" just going to make things worse.	
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This, please.
 
PvE & PvPers don't give a shit sideways, but this is sort of a big deal to the RPers. It looks like a majority of RPers are holding on and are being positive, but give us the room to complain.
 
Thanks for looking into the naming, Cougar!
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You're delving into conspiracy theory territory here. Please reconsider.
Really though, I want to know why people think the RP community is bigger than the general community in a game focused around hardcore PvE.
 
Last I checked RPers were the minority in pretty much every game with the exception of Second Life, but I could be wrong.
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What effect will this have on the commodity exchange???
 
Happy about the megaserver (stoked that I will see lots of ppl in the main city now)
Double edged sword.
 
Not sure why I bothered to ask deep down I know the markets will crash hard as hell lol.
Well at least now animal meat, bones and rare flowers should be more abundant at least.
 
Credd and basic mats that are farmed will get undercut to shit then over time may stabilize.	
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Regarding surnames: I was talking to some engineers in the studio and they confirmed that we will be flagging the entire name for renaming and not just picking a surname. BAM!
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You asked for thoughts, so I am sharing.
 
I was kind of excited at first but then I got to the part where im forced to have a last name, and won't be able to log in until I do so and it just disappoints me immensely. Personally I dislike surnames. And I feel like the unique factor in not having repeated first names is now poof. It disappoints me to think the name I spent so much energy and effort to snag my unique name first is now out the window as anyone and everyone could use it.
 
Honestly. I just feel sad about this news. I wish you just let there be free transfers off the lower pop servers and call it a day. Or even do it Tera style and merge with forced renames. They added numbers to everyone and issued a free rename, then first to log back in and rename gets to keep the unique name, else they still got a free rename.
 
Anyway. I am sure for my one con there are other sub's that don't give 1 poop so I will just say.. So long, and thanks for all the fish cupcakes.	
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What effect will this have on the commodity exchange???
 
Happy about the megaserver (stoked that I will see lots of ppl in the main city now)
Double edged sword.
 
Not sure why I bothered to ask deep down I know the markets will crash hard as hel lol.
Well at least now animal meat, bones and rare flowers should be more abundant at least.
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You guys were very explicit that you'd only be making enough servers to meet demand so you wouldn't have to consolidate or have long lines.
 
We are less than a year into the game and already the servers are being consolidated.  What happened?  Why is the game not popular enough to warrant the servers you have?  What happened to your careful server planning that supposedly was designed to avoid this?  
 
Also, I don't want a last name for my character - is my only recourse to just quit?
 
You announce the megaservers like it is an accomplishment - this is a VERY concerning sign for a new game.
 
Also, with this last name situation, it really makes the whole "unique name" even more of a waste than it already was.  
 
Carbine - lock it up cupcakes.  If this is your idea of what is going to make me resubscribe, you are sorely mistaken.	
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Regarding surnames: I was talking to some engineers in the studio and they confirmed that we will be flagging the entire name for renaming and not just picking a surname. BAM!
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Since you guys want segregation, then here you go.  A spot that all roleplayers can go to discuss their frustration about the recent news:
 
https://forums.wildstar-online.com/forums/index.php?/forum/114-roleplay/
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Yeah, but let's be honest, the markets should have all been x-server at the beginning imho.
In the meantime, we have a timeframe at least, so that should be enough warning to liquidate anything that's valuable on your server
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So there's going to be a dedicated server for each EU and NA PvE and PvP. Adds up to four servers.
Can't tell me that a fifth server dedicated to RP will kill the company.
 
Megaservers? - fine, we can learn to deal with that.
Surnames? - Okay, we'll arrange ourselves with that.
 
To lose the RP-Realm-environment? - that's going to get tricky.
 
As mentioned by someone else before, the RP-community you build with a game may not be large compared to the overall amount of customers, but they're usually the crowd you'll keep to the bitter end.
Just throw Evindra, Lightspire, Toria and that FR-RP-Realm (if there exists one, which name I can't figure out because my French is miserable if not existant at best) into one pot for a fifth server and call it a day.	
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I was told the same thing would happen at GW2. We're still thriving and roleplaying there.
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I play on Evindra. If given a choice I'll always pick a RPing server. I've never role played in my life. I might be giving out a secret here but RP servers are full of nicer people. People (usually) don't steal "tasks?" when you're fighting a MOB right in front of said task. Someone asks for help and a complete stranger will run across the map just to lend a hand. Lots of waves and bows to say hello. It's like playing with a bunch of Canadians. Losing this is what I fear most moving to a mega server.
 
But I know it needs to be done and I do have high hopes for the Wildstar community at large. 
 
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This. I still see people roleplaying there.
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Just throw Evindra, Lightspire, Toria and that FR-RP-Realm (if there exists one, which name I can't figure out because my French is miserable if not existant at best) into one pot for a fifth server and call it a day.
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You announce the megaservers like it is an accomplishment - this is a VERY concerning sign for a new game.
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Q 12. Will I be able to transfer from PvE to PvP realms or from PvP to PvE realms?
 
No. Once the Megaservers are live, the current plan is all realm transfers will be disabled.
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			Instead of jumping to the worst possible conclusion, it would behoove the RP community to actually test the waters after the merge instead of crying about the sky falling.	
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Severely concerned RPer here. I'm on Evindra and there are A LOT of active RPers, roleplaying out in the world on a spontaneous basis. I really just RP, not even leveling anymore (will get around to it eventually). The fact that there's a 'roleplay channel' is frankly useless as RPers actively use /say and /e when RPing. This allows for cross-faction RP and for the control of who hears what based on distance etc. With this merger, RPers will be subject to the whims of griefers from I-don't-know-how-many-other-servers and we'll have to go into hiding into private housing plots, which will suffocate and kill off role play guilds one by one. 
 
Please, Carbine. Keep RP servers separate! This is seriously the most fun I've ever had and until I heard this, I had NO INTENTION of going back to WoW. I still don't, but if the merger goes through I fear I may have no game to play at all in the end. Don't do this. 	
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Hey all,
 
I was talking with a bunch of people internally about some of the feedback here, and Bardic weighed in heavily internally, and in our free realm transfer mappings we didn't preserve a way across the PvP - > PvE rulesets (which was existing behavior). We will put in a link to go from PvP -> PvE today or tomorrow with the free transfers. However, we are limited on our technology there, so we can only put in 1 destination from PvP -> PvE, but once you get across that boundary, you can wait 7 days and then transfer to any of the destination realms you want as they all link to one another.
 
Assuming you want to make that same type of transfer.	
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Severely concerned RPer here. I'm on Evindra and there are A LOT of active RPers, roleplaying out in the world on a spontaneous basis. I really just RP, not even leveling anymore (will get around to it eventually). The fact that there's a 'roleplay channel' is frankly useless as RPers actively use /say and /e when RPing. This allows for cross-faction RP and for the control of who hears what based on distance etc. 
 
With this merger, RPers will be subject to the whims of griefers from I-don't-know-how-many-other-servers and we'll have to go into hiding into private housing plots, which will suffocate and kill off role play guilds one by one. 
 
Please, Carbine. Keep RP servers separate! This is seriously the most fun I've ever had and until I heard this, I had NO INTENTION of going back to WoW. I still don't, but if the merger goes through I fear I may have no game to play at all in the end. Don't do this. 
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Severely concerned RPer here. I'm on Evindra and there are A LOT of active RPers, roleplaying out in the world on a spontaneous basis. I really just RP, not even leveling anymore (will get around to it eventually). The fact that there's a 'roleplay channel' is frankly useless as RPers actively use /say and /e when RPing. This allows for cross-faction RP and for the control of who hears what based on distance etc. With this merger, RPers will be subject to the whims of griefers from I-don't-know-how-many-other-servers and we'll have to go into hiding into private housing plots, which will suffocate and kill off role play guilds one by one. 
 
Please, Carbine. Keep RP servers separate! This is seriously the most fun I've ever had and until I heard this, I had NO INTENTION of going back to WoW. I still don't, but if the merger goes through I fear I may have no game to play at all in the end. Don't do this. 
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I was told the same thing would happen at GW2. We're still thriving and roleplaying there.
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After lurking this thread a bit more: I do feel that some people are overracting a bit about the RP server issue... Hell, I was overracting, too, but really, we need to calm down and hang in there. Seems that the one freaking out the most are RPers who are saying their gonna ragequit and claiming that Carbine are nothing but dirty backstabbers (which isn't the case). And it really sucks because if anything, we need the RPers to STICK AROUND AS MUCH AND AS LONG AS POSSIBLE.
 
Roleplayers: Don't just abandon Wildstar because of this. The sky isn't falling yet. We just need to figure out some solutions to MAKE THIS WORK. Some people after already posted a few ideas and they were almost completely ignored.
 
I'm sure if we put our heads together, we'll figure out a way  Freaking out and screaming "IT'S ORGE" just going to make things worse.
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With this merger, RPers will be subject to the whims of griefers from I-don't-know-how-many-other-servers and we'll have to go into hiding into private housing plots, which will suffocate and kill off role play guilds one by one. 
 
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Oh did i mention, DnT's typical atitude. "We dont care for anything that doesnt interest us." aka RP'ers.
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I doubt you'll even notice a difference, except that there will be as many people around as there were at launch.  The sky isn't falling.
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So attempting to put together a string of logical thoughts and questions and feedbacks about all this news.
 
Overall good news, servers will look fuller and work on giving the impression the servers will be nicely populated again.
I've been playing on Hazak, so I never had the opinion the game was dieing or losing players, Illium always seemed nicely populated.
 
I'm gonna skip over issues that have already been written about, so RP communities, surnames, free renames etc
 
So just a few questions and issues I think to bring up:
 
- Instanced Zones?
When the game launched and servers were over populated in the leveling rush, individual zones were instanced so if any zone became overly populated, the game would create a second version of the zone. 
 
So many version of the arkship caused great confusion on launch and syncing groups, and I remember seeing a launch stream a Exile player trying to go to the same place as a Dominion viewer to have a pvp 1v1. They both reached the same place in Whitevale to not find each other because they were in different versions of whitevale with no way to be in the same instance of Whitevale
Is this how these megaservers will behave? Find this instanced world concerning and immersion breaking, hope you folks try and minimize instancing as much as possible.
 
- 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?
 
-Surnames
So I did have a massive section on this, But replys from cougar on twitter and earlier in this thread mostly seems to have answered my questions.
Surnames will be character based, So Kal Rell and Kal Rall will work on the same server.
Renames will force renames on the whole name "Kal Rell" which includes the surname.
 
I think the main issue will be coming up with decent names for those of us used to single word names like me with Kalrell, and if I'll become Kal Rell or Kalrell space Surname. :P
And what about all the alts and stuff, all stuff to consider but not really dev feedback here.
 
Will probably come back here with more feedback whenever my brain can come up with it. :D	
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I am a little concerned about how packed the capitals will end up being. A lot of RP happens there, but with all the PvE players from a region on one server? I'd expect the capitals to get instanced frequently, which would mess up RP meetups. As it is, Evindra's Thayd is often standing room only and Illium has a few seas of names too.
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To the RP crowd, my heartfelt sentiments.
 
But please do give it a chance, do not give up just yet. The megaserver might be a good thing after all. Just give it a chance  ;)	
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Hey all,
 
I was talking with a bunch of people internally about some of the feedback here, and Bardic weighed in heavily internally, and in our free realm transfer mappings we didn't preserve a way across the PvP - > PvE rulesets (which was existing behavior). We will put in a link to go from PvP -> PvE today or tomorrow with the free transfers. However, we are limited on our technology there, so we can only put in 1 destination from PvP -> PvE, but once you get across that boundary, you can wait 7 days and then transfer to any of the destination realms you want as they all link to one another.
 
Assuming you want to make that same type of transfer.
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I don't get where the ad homs are coming from. I was just saying that luckily this wasn't out of the blue. We've got a timeframe so we can pull out of the server economies with plenty of time if we think our investments are going to crash. I mean, we have to do it fast before people dogpile onto it, but at least we have some warning, right?
 
I get it, you got a raw deal, but you are not helping the community you purport to care about here. Throwing a tantrum only makes you look bad.
 
Trust me, after playing GW2 casually and coming from SWTOR (land of the Great Server Merges of 2012) I know what it's like to see communities dissolve. I also know that it's better to have a merged community than no community at all. 
I know, being on Evindra, you have lived in relative comfort with your server pop, but I was on Rowsdower and nobody deserves to be stuck in a dead, empty server. It's not cool. Could they have done server mergers? Sure. But they've decided that the megaserver route is the best and I'll trust them for now.
 
 
 
OUCH. This is disappointing :( No xfers from PvP mega to PvE and vice versa? Bad move imho. Nobody wants to reroll to switch guilds.
 
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You're missing things:
 
TL;DR about server transfers cross pve/pvp 
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New chats such as the RP chat they suggest except, /RPSAY and /RP.
Those on RP servers at the moment are tagged with the RP state somewhere on their accounts.
 
 
 
When you merge the servers to where ever only those tagged with RP in their name can see /rpsay /rp that's it. Add a choice when creating a character if they want to be in RP or not then that character can see /rpsay /rp chats, enabled an option for current characters to ignore troll /rpsay + /rp people that abuse /rpers. 
 
 
 
Also I hope much more strict temp bans on people being abusive on your system that ruin groups and just gaming/in world/adv/dungeons and over all.
 
Edit:
to those complaining about surnames i don't like it either but what would you do? with toons with the same names? re roll the whole name? what if your the 2nd person since live to have it would you like to rename all together or have a surname?
 
I figured out a possible solution to the RP problem, I dont RP..	
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My husband and I already unsubbed; however... we did so before this news hit.
 
Surnames now mandatory? I would have quit due to that alone. Yes, because a Chua named Mischievous, really needs a last name... I don't like that at all. Yes, I'm no longer subbing, but what I said isn't exactly a moot point since I have been considering buying CREDD with the plat I had accumulated. 
 
So... 12 toons total, yes? What happens if you have more than that? I have Orias and Evindra, filled. I have Stormtalon almost filled, too, plus a couple on other servers (that are NOT level nothings). So...what? Pick and choose which ones to keep and which to delete? That is total bull, if that is the case.
 
I know megaservers were begged for, for a while, from some, but you have just lost a *cupcake*tonne more people because of a few new things. It's a bit too little, too late... Eh, who knows; maybe you'll finally get the hundreds of thousands of hardcore, uber-elitists that you only wanted from the beginning.	
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We'll notice a difference. Evindra is actually a special snowflake. This is a big loss, but I think that not all is hopeless with this new crazy Megaserver.
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please also make PvE -> PvP happen.
 
there is literally no reason to not have it :'(
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Okay I heard some talk about cougar's twitter post.
 
So I have a one word name right now. It is a last name deal. When the new servers hit can I use THAT name as a last name and pick a first name or is that rule only for being able to split double names into a first and last?	
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I don't get where the ad homs are coming from. I was just saying that luckily this wasn't out of the blue. We've got a timeframe so we can pull out of the server economies with plenty of time if we think our investments are going to crash. I mean, we have to do it fast before people dogpile onto it, but at least we have some warning, right?
 
I get it, you got a raw deal, but you are not helping the community you purport to care about here. Throwing a tantrum only makes you look bad.
 
Trust me, after playing GW2 casually and coming from SWTOR (land of the Great Server Merges of 2012) I know what it's like to see communities dissolve. I also know that it's better to have a merged community than no community at all. 
I know, being on Evindra, you have lived in relative comfort with your server pop, but I was on Rowsdower and nobody deserves to be stuck in a dead, empty server. It's not cool. Could they have done server mergers? Sure. But they've decided that the megaserver route is the best and I'll trust them for now.
 
 
 
OUCH. This is disappointing :( No xfers from PvP mega to PvE and vice versa? Bad move imho. Nobody wants to reroll to switch guilds.
 
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I think it is a good idea in the long run. more people in a server make it easier to form guild and make friends. However, I do have 1 concerns and 1 suggestion.
 
My concern is with dailies. Currently dailies is in 2 very small maps. it is hardly doable wiht more than half a dozen of people. Can you image the frustration it will cause with a lot more people doing the same thing?! The devs need to make them a instance with no more than 10 people or make the maps much larger. Or this will be a seriously problem. Of course the devs can also make more interesting dailies available to replace the current ones.
 
My suggesttion is about the name change. In stead of  just making use add a last name. How about give us the option to change our character name all together. Some name just don't sound cool with a last name and some character name may already have a last name combined like my JediGuardian. Give us the option to change our name will be a great gesture of goodwill from the devs.  	
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I really like a lot of things about this game.  The classes all feel very different; the fighting mechanics are great; the dungeons and raids are EXCELLENT.
 
Some really weird decisions were made around itemization, overuse of RNG, overuse of grinding (eg, attunement, questing), bugs, boots, and balance.
 
I'm not a huge fan boy, but I honestly think Carbine is working to address all the weird decisions while the core of the game remains outstanding.  It sucks to have a last name, but I view the megaserver as yet another step in the right direction.
 
I see an end to beta coming up soon and the game going live with lots of good fundamentals in place.  This reminds me of the Final Fantasy reboot.	
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Just to weigh in I am both pleasantly thrilled and also nervous about the upcoming merge. 
 
Pros:
Better economy (provided Carbine can fix the numerous issues with the Auction House, in it's current state it utterly blows)
More populated cities. - Ilium may finally feel like the bustling, beautiful city it should be. 
More populated zones - group quests will be easier to complete at that level versus having to return at a higher level to complete quests. 
Evidence that the devs are listening
 
Cons:
I am also an RPer who comes from Evindra which has an incredible culture filled with players who defended this game even when things were, and still may be, at it's worst. As it stands, it was one of the last havens of good will and optimism in Wildstar, and this could ruin things for all of us. This will *cupcake* a lot of people off.
 
However... I played on Emerald Dream (RP -PVP server) for MANY years in WoW. We experienced griefers daily and blizzard didn't do shit about it. What did we do? We adapted. We limited RP to party/raid chat. We found instanced areas to RP. We simply didn't acknowledge the griefers and used the "ignore" tool liberally. 
 
We will be able to find RPers out in the world, there are ways to tell them apart. Bread crumbs you can leave... and if someone is an RPer they will take the bait. 
 
ttldr: I'm happy for this change and not particularly worried. 	
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What I know is that on Evindra, we've had people transferring to our server from every other server, even Stormtalon, because "you guys have the most active community".  I know that our server has not had problems with lack of population, even when it seems that almost every other server has.  Heck, my guildies PUG nearly every day for both PvP and PvE stuff, and I've not heard any of them complain about queue lengths, etc.
 
Feel free to do a free transfer over to Evindra and see for yourself though.
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We tried that; it was instantly locked and we were sent here. You're stuck with us.
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Everyone calm down!!!!!!!!
RPer's, you're being really nasty to non-RPers. That's not going to get them to treat us any better once everything merges!!!
Let's make the best of it while we can.
For one thing it's not like they're merging Evindra with a raging, gank-filled PVP server. We're getting merged with PVE, if I understand correctly?
 
Furthermore, it might not be as bad as everyone is saying. We can still open world RP. Have I gone up to random toons in sylvan glade and waved and started RP-ing with them on Evindra? (Yes and no). Let's face it, EVEN ON OUR RP SERVER, we're not just wandering around IC all the time. I've gone to events in Sylvan Glade because they were pre-planned on the Wildstar RP forums. I've met people to RP with through just posting my journals on tumblr, through the dossiers on the WSRP forums. I then met with these people ON NEXUS (not at housing because I rp-ed for a while before getting to level 15), because of interaction outside of the actual game itself. But, I have RP-ed with someone from wandering into them in game. But even then, they saw me and another RP-ing in /say and then that person WHISPERED ME, asking "Are you RP-ing? I love RP-ers." and I responded, "Yes, come join us!". Everyone is all starry eyed, but let's face it...this is how RP works...and none of these ways of interacting are going to be any different.
 
Lastly, chat windows? I almost NEVER use the main chat. I have 3 different chat windows open since I started RP-ing. The first one is just everything. The second I have Labled "RP" which ONLY has activated: say, emote, and occasionally party. Then I have a third labeled "Private", which has activated; whisper and party.
I almost NEVER go into my first chat window that has zone chat and everything else activated. This, I will continue doing when we merge. It will help a lot. I suggest everyone do similar things.
 
As for "griefing", it might not be as bad as everything thinks it's going to be. We're adults, handle it like adults. Pop the person on ignore. Or, if we're in a large group....have everyone in your circle flag PVP at the same time and gank them until they go away. *shrug* Make something RP interesting out of it "look at the clearly deranged person....what a shame" and move on. People do this for a reaction. If no one gives them a reaction, then how fun is it going to be to hop around RPers? I can't see them sticking around more than a few minutes. But, the way the RPers are acting in this thread is SHOWING the potential trolls that we are reactionary and that we do fear them and that gives them fuel.
 
STOP FEEDING THE TROLLS.
 
And as someone else brought up...this brings in the potential of having casual players or people who didn't RP just cause...be introduced to it and thus widening the RP circle. I for one, am a total noob. My boyfriend has been playing WOW for like 10 years and I played last summer with him and his friends. It was ok. He showed me wildstar during beta and I was just....love at first sight (I always liked gaming but never did an MMO). Unfortunately, my boyfriend and his friends are hardcore PVPers. When launch happened within the first week and a half his only 2 friends who got Wildstar were already at level 50, and I was stuck bumbling around an empty PVP server by myself with almost no experience. I almost quit the game. I paid my subscription for the month of July and didn't log in once. I decided maybe I should give RP a try....and that if anything Evindra at least is open to interaction. So I did it...and bumbled around empty starting zones for like 10 levels by myself, alone, and almost quit (again). IF THERE WAS A MEGASERVER, THIS WOULD HAVE NEVER HAPPENED. IF THERE WAS A MEGASERVER, ON MY FIRST ROLL I WOULD HAVE WANDERED INTO MORE PEOPLE AND STUMBLED UPON RP. I wanted to RP with my first roll on that PVP server, but never saw anyone to do it with.
 
I know there are more players like myself out there who just need to SEE other players, and other players interacting; to make me want to play. This megaserver will make that happen, and for the people already RP-ing; we can potentially get a lot of new RPers from it. I'm being positive, possibly because I've never experienced what you all are afraid of. But I think there are a lot of possibilities. And we still have our housing plots. So, let's all try to handle this gracefully and not feed the trolls in the process?
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Forced last names? Uhmmmm... *Puke* *Cough* *Crackle* *Spit* *Cry* *Suicide*
 
But the megaserver thing sounds great. More the merrier imo. 
 
I just hope it doesn't make fighting over quest objectives and dailies an all out cut-throat frustrating experience. You better make respawn times somewhere around negative .2 seconds. The next ones should start respawning before the first are even dead.
 
But for the luv of the creation of the universe, space, time, and everything else in it, pls find a better option than forced last names.  There will be a lot of REALLY awkward looking names everywhere. My friends and I will never stop giving each other crap for the dumb last names that we had to make.	
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To all the RP's out there, please start thinking up some ideas. You all are a huge part of WildStar as it is atm. Even though I have never RP before , I've always respected the communities you've all built.
Just please people don't freak out. Like others have said, when GW2 did this people we're just as upset, but I see tons of role playing over there to this day. I think we can figure something out for you all role playing folks. :) :)	
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"Just don't look."
 
Ignore them. Roleplay around them. Don't even acknowledge their existence outside of maybe guild chat. Its free, its easy, and it works! I should know, I've been using this tried and true method for over a year!
 
Seriously. Trolls are gonna troll. They should have already flocked to Evindra and its giant 'EASILY ANNOYED ROLEPLAYERS' beacon by now, regardless. Just ignore them. They bore easily and will wander off. Its as easy as that.
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So... 12 toons total, yes? What happens if you have more than that? I have Orias and Evindra, filled. I have Stormtalon almost filled, too, plus a couple on other servers (that are NOT level nothings). So...what? Pick and choose which ones to keep and which to delete? That is total bull, if that is the case.
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Hey all,
 
I was talking with a bunch of people internally about some of the feedback here, and Bardic weighed in heavily internally, and in our free realm transfer mappings we didn't preserve a way across the PvP - > PvE rulesets (which was existing behavior). We will put in a link to go from PvP -> PvE today or tomorrow with the free transfers. However, we are limited on our technology there, so we can only put in 1 destination from PvP -> PvE, but once you get across that boundary, you can wait 7 days and then transfer to any of the destination realms you want as they all link to one another.
 
Assuming you want to make that same type of transfer.
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Ignore them. Roleplay around them. Don't even acknowledge their existence outside of maybe guild chat. Its free, its easy, and it works! I should know, I've been using this tried and true method for over a year!
 
Seriously. Trolls are gonna troll. They should have already flocked to Evindra and its giant 'EASILY ANNOYED ROLEPLAYERS' beacon by now, regardless. Just ignore them. They bore easily and will wander off. Its as easy as that.
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Everyone will have to rename their entire character with a first and last name of their choice.
 
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Okay I heard some talk about cougar's twitter post.
 
So I have a one word name right now. It is a last name deal. When the new servers hit can I use THAT name as a last name and pick a first name or is that rule only for being able to split double names into a first and last?
 
 
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I think the main issue will be coming up with decent names for those of us used to single word names like me with Kalrell, and if I'll become Kal Rell or Kalrell space Surname. :P
And what about all the alts and stuff, all stuff to consider but not really dev feedback here.
 
Will probably come back here with more feedback whenever my brain can come up with it. :D
 
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Better economy (provided Carbine can fix the numerous issues with the Auction House, in it's current state it utterly blows)
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Is it really?  That's funny, I haven't noticed playing there since launch.  It's about the same as any other server, actually
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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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			Stick the rpers on the pve realm more likely to be less hassle then a pvp realm.	
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			Though with all this being said, i know ive stated that i will fight against the mega servers. but at the same time, the biggest thing i am fighting for. is my home server, Evindra. i do not want to see it go, if i have anything to say about it. it wont.	
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At least have an Option to turn off the surname above your head. Like a title. Pls.
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The Devs are doing their best to please everyone but they have clearly stated they cannot justify an entire separate server for the RP players because they are now merging all servers into two mega servers, you want another mega server just so you can RP and they have said they cannot justify the resources to provide this. They have apologised and I really don't see what more they can do.
 
And I have to say, the RPers are not coming across well in this thread. Make your points sure but please try to be civil about it.
			
				
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At least have an Option to turn off the surname above your head. Like a title. Pls.
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Nice.  Any chance we could do a PvE -> PvP transfer?  Seems like that would be more likely for some people then PvP -> PvE
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I hear a lot of 'ignore griefers' and 'play around them' but the issue is that we shouldn't HAVE to. It starts sounding a little like victim-blaming to just say 'pretend it isn't there'. Yes, we do it, a lot and in nearly all games out there but this was one of the firsts were we didn't have to, because the RP community had such a good foothold in Evindra and the trolls had better things to do.
 
I'm very much for the /ignore = invisible thing	
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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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1. I don't like how it clutters the screen, so I don't use it.
2. That's kind of an unfair thing to tell us. We've been open minded about a lot of things. For the past couple months, while people have been clamoring for server merges, Evindra is the one server where we have SPECIFICALLY said we don't want to be merged.
3. Also not really a fair thing to bring up. Customer dissatisfaction is ALWAYS valid.
4. No, I'm not going to wait until things are already implemented to critique the decision. That just makes getting any changes to it even harder. I will be as loud as necessary from now until things improve to make sure that the damage to the RP community is as minimal as possible. That includes demanding better controls to housing plots (i.e. the ability to ban individual players from a public plot, a better search function, and an accessible list of all plots), reduced /say and /e range, free name changes to accommodate name conflicts, and more.
 
 
This, too. My character does not HAVE a surname, ICly.
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Now they are complaining @ Carbine, when Carbine cant justify making a megaserver JUST for the RP people, so now they are sour and saying Carbine doesnt care for them lol..
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Forced last names are a TERRIBLE idea. I've been supportive of this game from Beta, fought back against the naysayers, but please, PLEASE reconsider the forced last name stuff. All of my characters are designed around a singular, very powerful concept name. There is no way that adding a last name to them will be cool or wanted. I'd much rather have to rename them than to have them be "Mercykiller Johnson". My wife has the same problem, of having concept names and descriptive names that do not work at all with last names.
 
Please. While it does sadden me that folks have apparently abandoned the game en masse, I have not. I feel like I'm being punished for others' decisions to ignore a great game.	
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Regarding surnames: I was talking to some engineers in the studio and they confirmed that we will be flagging the entire name for renaming and not just picking a surname. BAM!
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Sorry that my dyslexia, along with other neural disabilities (and reading it on my phone at 5am) made me not take in every last, little detail. 
 
Not renewing my sub anyways, you can totally forget that. 
 
Forced surnames? Bite me.
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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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If there's going to be phasing, is it possible that you could add some kind of options ingame that throw people who are RP flagged into an RP-flagged only instance? If you could preserve JUST Illium like it is now on Evindra, that'll help mitigate most of the damage.
 
Also, to the other RPers threatening to quit: please don't. I'm not going to quit, and I want you to stick around. The only thing that can really kill the RPing community is us.
 
This will hurt, but we can manage. Our presence is greatly underestimated by the devs and our fellow players.	
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If there's going to be phasing, is it possible that you could add some kind of options ingame that throw people who are RP flagged into an RP-flagged only instance? If you could preserve JUST Illium like it is now on Evindra, that'll help mitigate most of the damage.
 
Also, to the other RPers threatening to quit: please don't. I'm not going to quit, and I want you to stick around. The only thing that can really kill the RPing community is us.
 
This will hurt, but we can manage. Our presence is greatly underestimated by the devs and our fellow players.
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			Would love a blank option, and an option to reserve these names rather than fight what will inevitably be an error-ridden log-in patch night.	
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Regarding surnames: I was talking to some engineers in the studio and they confirmed that we will be flagging the entire name for renaming and not just picking a surname. BAM!
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One more server, which means going up from four to five, will not even tackle a company like that even slightly hard. If it does, this can solely be caused by two situations, namely...
- they're broke.
or
- they're greedy.
I sincerely do hope for Carbine that none of the two is reason here.
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One more server, which means going up from four to five, will not even tackle a company like that even slightly hard. If it does, this can solely be caused by two situations, namely...
- they're broke.
or
- they're greedy.
I sincerely do hope for Carbine that none of the two is reason here.
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Ok, so now we are seeing that our entire name is going to be flagged for a name change. How will that effect those of us that reserved our names before the game went live. I would be seriously upset if I lost the name that I reserved due to this. Currently my name is a first name and surname combined, so what is to stop someone taking that name before I can rename my main to the new split name ?
 
Still have my sub going at the moment, but I am awfully close to the unsub button. Just talking to my guildies on Skype to try and get them to come back to the game. The general consensus is that you guys are too late in announcing this. You really dropped the ball on this issue by staying quiet for so bloody long. I will keep trying to get the guild members back, but I dont think I am going to be successful.	
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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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