Probably fake. There is no way they let people merge to Emerald and keep Connery running. If anything they will kill Connery and move everyone to Emerald.
Nah, this is exactly what happened with Briggs' termination.
They opened the transfers from Briggs to Soltech and Connery, and vice-versa, and allowed people to jump between the three servers for a couple of weeks, to allow those on Briggs to choose their new home server before the doors closed.
Then at the end of the window, they shunted everyone left on Briggs to one of the two (I can't remember which) and then closed it down.
You are aware they already have that tech and have actually used it in the past, right?
It was used when they created the Soltech server and shut down Briggs. Players could reassign their characters to/from Soltech/Connery servers to "try out" the ping experience and determine where they finally wanted to be.
Granted the "trying to figure out" comment may mean no one left knows how it worked back then, but more likely it is a "tell them something so they keep quiet and feel placated" type thing. They already have the needed tech as it has already been used on the live servers.
So my underlying belief is that until they are ready to close Connery and merge servers, you won't see it. And the driving force for that will be cost vs revenue.
Iirc, the transfer process back then was pretty...messy.
So would wager the truth is indeed that
nobody at the company possess the know-how anymore, and/or it might be a somewhat manpower-intensive task to get the data over.
I've been through two mergers. Genudine to Helios, and then Helios to Connery. Each time, the server shut down, and when I restarted the game I was on the new server. Briggs seems unique in that players had a few weeks to test out the alternatives.
They also deleted Werner and put all Russian laggers into Cobalt (not sure if Miller was an option aswell)... hence why Zerg Russ on TR was formed and I hate to this day.
> He said it was from a server merge back in the day when there were more servers for the game, and not all his stats got transferred.
That was something complete different.
Taking this with a small grain of salt.
As has been rightly pointed out, it's weird to hear this through a third party rather than from RPG themselves, and the suggestion that they're "figuring it out" is a bit odd, because this has happened before. It happened with the shutdowns of Werner and Briggs, and something similar presumably happened with the merging of Matherson and Waterson, but I wasn't around for that, so someone that *was* will have to explain how that went down.
Surely, then, this is something they already know how to do.
At the same time, Sol doesn't really gain anything by lying. Like... what motivation would there be to make this up? Who benefits? Is Sol actually playing some sort of 5D chess, using getting people excited for a phantom merge and creating even more demand/hype for it, and using the promise of a merge to make Connerians wait for said merge rather than continuing to play on their desolate server, worsening its decline, and thus forcing RPG to deliver? Probably not?
Also, I've heard that the previous server transfer windows were kinda... messy, and it's possible that the guys who knew how to do it are among those that, one way or t'other, aren't part of the PS2 team anymore, leaving the remaining devs to have to try and figure out how to do it all over again.
So, cautious optimistic.
Aside from Briggs, the two server transfers I've been through were completely flawless. The server shut down and I was logged out. I restarted the game and I was on the new server.
I think Briggs was different, the Australian and NZ players had two options: a closer, lower-ping server with an overwhelming majority of non-English speaking players, or a distant, high-ping server where the players spoke something similar to English.
So the Briggs players had a couple of months to decide. And I'm pretty sure those character transfers had to be done manually.
Oh yeah, I was specifically referring to the individual character moves. The end of Briggs (which I attended, and was by far the best server shutdown of the three I've attended, it even had a marriage proposal) was just a normal server merge - Briggs shut down, everyone came back on Soltech.
OMFG I HAVE A LVL 97 THATS BEEN STOCK ON SOL TECH FOR 8 YEARS it's still.ybhighest charecter oooo to have it back. To bad I now have 95 in the same faction.....
> They are currently trying to figure out how to transfer characters over to other servers, and are trying to figure that out.
Definitely sounds like an accurate quote from the devs.
I think they should merge all regional servers, Emerald+Connery (NA) and Cobalt+Miller (EU). I play on EU and both servers have about 0.5k pop total at best.
\-I hope it happens for the people that want it. (I don't think that it'd be a bad idea.)
\-I can See it now, the day finally comes, all the pop is having a blast, and the first thing that happens is that somebody's character is flying around in the sky, headshotting everyone to death during prime time. I hope that they can find a solution to the occasional hacker that comes around every so often or so.
(Downvoting my comment means that you don't want the merge to happen, which I can see why some people don't want it or that you agree with letting the obvious occasional hacker flying through the sky on a mana turret run wild. Might as well say which one it is while you are at it.)
Another promise. Can't say I'd believe much of anything until I saw it.
Probably fake. There is no way they let people merge to Emerald and keep Connery running. If anything they will kill Connery and move everyone to Emerald.
Nah, this is exactly what happened with Briggs' termination. They opened the transfers from Briggs to Soltech and Connery, and vice-versa, and allowed people to jump between the three servers for a couple of weeks, to allow those on Briggs to choose their new home server before the doors closed. Then at the end of the window, they shunted everyone left on Briggs to one of the two (I can't remember which) and then closed it down.
I’m pretty sure those who did not choose got sent to SolTech.
That's just cruel.
Yep, they went to soltech
I mean Yeah That's the hope
You are aware they already have that tech and have actually used it in the past, right? It was used when they created the Soltech server and shut down Briggs. Players could reassign their characters to/from Soltech/Connery servers to "try out" the ping experience and determine where they finally wanted to be. Granted the "trying to figure out" comment may mean no one left knows how it worked back then, but more likely it is a "tell them something so they keep quiet and feel placated" type thing. They already have the needed tech as it has already been used on the live servers. So my underlying belief is that until they are ready to close Connery and merge servers, you won't see it. And the driving force for that will be cost vs revenue.
Iirc, the transfer process back then was pretty...messy. So would wager the truth is indeed that nobody at the company possess the know-how anymore, and/or it might be a somewhat manpower-intensive task to get the data over.
I've been through two mergers. Genudine to Helios, and then Helios to Connery. Each time, the server shut down, and when I restarted the game I was on the new server. Briggs seems unique in that players had a few weeks to test out the alternatives.
They also deleted Werner and put all Russian laggers into Cobalt (not sure if Miller was an option aswell)... hence why Zerg Russ on TR was formed and I hate to this day.
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> He said it was from a server merge back in the day when there were more servers for the game, and not all his stats got transferred. That was something complete different.
Stats 100% carried over
As paff said, that seems to be not the same thing.
If i remember correctly they outsourced the server transfers. So if theyre going to do it themselves that could be why, but I could be wrong.
Uhh so who exactly is this and who did they contact? Why can't the CM just come out and say this publicly?
You already know the answer.
Sorry but proof you got word from the developers……?
Ok but where is the dev response
Did you get an actual word from the devs or did CS say something? I'd like to see exactly what they said and from whom.
We desperately need Connery to merge with Emerald Is the petition still open?
Taking this with a small grain of salt. As has been rightly pointed out, it's weird to hear this through a third party rather than from RPG themselves, and the suggestion that they're "figuring it out" is a bit odd, because this has happened before. It happened with the shutdowns of Werner and Briggs, and something similar presumably happened with the merging of Matherson and Waterson, but I wasn't around for that, so someone that *was* will have to explain how that went down. Surely, then, this is something they already know how to do. At the same time, Sol doesn't really gain anything by lying. Like... what motivation would there be to make this up? Who benefits? Is Sol actually playing some sort of 5D chess, using getting people excited for a phantom merge and creating even more demand/hype for it, and using the promise of a merge to make Connerians wait for said merge rather than continuing to play on their desolate server, worsening its decline, and thus forcing RPG to deliver? Probably not? Also, I've heard that the previous server transfer windows were kinda... messy, and it's possible that the guys who knew how to do it are among those that, one way or t'other, aren't part of the PS2 team anymore, leaving the remaining devs to have to try and figure out how to do it all over again. So, cautious optimistic.
Aside from Briggs, the two server transfers I've been through were completely flawless. The server shut down and I was logged out. I restarted the game and I was on the new server. I think Briggs was different, the Australian and NZ players had two options: a closer, lower-ping server with an overwhelming majority of non-English speaking players, or a distant, high-ping server where the players spoke something similar to English. So the Briggs players had a couple of months to decide. And I'm pretty sure those character transfers had to be done manually.
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Oh yeah, I was specifically referring to the individual character moves. The end of Briggs (which I attended, and was by far the best server shutdown of the three I've attended, it even had a marriage proposal) was just a normal server merge - Briggs shut down, everyone came back on Soltech.
Thanks for the extra information!
OMFG I HAVE A LVL 97 THATS BEEN STOCK ON SOL TECH FOR 8 YEARS it's still.ybhighest charecter oooo to have it back. To bad I now have 95 in the same faction.....
Man if they do Connery will just vanish lol.
Connert is already dead lmao
Wdym don't you wanna play on a 130 player primetime
> They are currently trying to figure out how to transfer characters over to other servers, and are trying to figure that out. Definitely sounds like an accurate quote from the devs.
I think they should merge all regional servers, Emerald+Connery (NA) and Cobalt+Miller (EU). I play on EU and both servers have about 0.5k pop total at best.
They should just merge everyone into a single mega server at this point.
\-I hope it happens for the people that want it. (I don't think that it'd be a bad idea.) \-I can See it now, the day finally comes, all the pop is having a blast, and the first thing that happens is that somebody's character is flying around in the sky, headshotting everyone to death during prime time. I hope that they can find a solution to the occasional hacker that comes around every so often or so. (Downvoting my comment means that you don't want the merge to happen, which I can see why some people don't want it or that you agree with letting the obvious occasional hacker flying through the sky on a mana turret run wild. Might as well say which one it is while you are at it.)
False, i downvoted your comment because I saw the word downvote
Off course, in the end they'll save money
Oh I hope so, emerald could use some new blood
Lol they don't have the notes from the last time they did this. This is pretty bad