[TERA PC & Console] En Masse is closing, but TERA lives on! We will continue to support TERA PC (NA) and TERA Console until service is transferred. Stay tuned for more information.
[TERA Console] The Grotto of Lost Souls update (v85) is now live! Read the patch notes here: https://bit.ly/TERACon_v85

[TERA PC] The 64-bit update (v97) is now live. Check out all the changes delivered on August 11 here: https://bit.ly/tera64_patchnotes
[TERA PC & CONSOLE] Summerfest Part 2: The Beach Bash is on from August 11 until September 1! Participate in event activities to earn tokens redeemable for costumes, consumables, mounts, and more! Details: https://bit.ly/tera_sf20

Anybody Else Extremely Annoyed with Server Merge Rules?

Anybody else going to lose like 1/2 of their characters due to this Server Merge?
Did I mis-read the rules?

I have 5 characters on AV and 5 on TR and I am now going to lose 5 characters?
Why?
  1. Their Database is FULL?
  2. They aren't making enough Money and want a big up tick in New Character Slots purchases?
  3. After all this time - having had characters from back when AV and TR were the servers to play on - I'm being punished for being a long time player with lots of characters. Right.. GG as they say.

Years ago AV and TR were the two PVE servers, so if you are a long time player, you have your characters there, and with the slots they gave you over the years, with new Class introductions, you have a bunch of characters on each of those servers.

So, Enmasse? You are trying to get me to go play some other game by deleting 1/2 my characters?

Seriously?
Please tell me I have this wrong.

a99

But seriously, Server merges mean that the game is not being played at the rates when it once was, so they are trying to consolidate hardware. So it's a good thing to punish all the folks that are still playing the game, right? So let's design a server merge that does that to the extent possible.
«1

Comments

  • Oh, yeah. If I decide to purchase those extra character slots after the merge, they don't help, since I can't apply them until I log in with a character, which I can't do UNTIL I DELETE HALF MY CHARACTERS.

    Right? Or is there something else I missed?
  • MeningitisMeningitis ✭✭✭✭
    Alien99 wrote: »
    Oh, yeah. If I decide to purchase those extra character slots after the merge, they don't help, since I can't apply them until I log in with a character, which I can't do UNTIL I DELETE HALF MY CHARACTERS.

    Right? Or is there something else I missed?
    If your character is above level 40, they'll be put into "deletion state" which puts them on a 24 hour timer to be deleted. You can log in while they're in deletion state, apply your slots, and then cancel their deletion.
  • edited September 2018
    You missed one point which will help you specifically, but not everyone.

    Starting tomorrow at 11am PDT until the merger happens, they will be distributing 8 free character slot items via item claim to everyone who logs in. If you use 5 of these character slots on the server that has the most slots now (in your case either AV or TR since they're the same), you will then have a total of 10 slots on the merging server, and won't have to delete any.

    So in your case, just use the character slot items, and you will be okay.

    Now, if you had 15 on TR and also 15 on AV or something... then you'd be screwed because the max is 20. So in that case you'd have to transfer some off to either CH or MT/FF, or delete them.
  • MeningitisMeningitis ✭✭✭✭
    You won't even have to delete anyone. If you have 5 on TR and 5 on AV, you can apply the 8 free slots to one of the servers and when they merge you'll have 13 slots on the new pve server. That's enough for all 10 of your characters.
  • Worry not, you will receive 8 character slots tomorrow free. Last time when VoT got merged I got 4, so it's a pretty sweet deal for most people.
  • Alien99Alien99 ✭✭
    edited September 2018
    Oh I see. Instead of making it so that it just works. They are only going to help folks that actually are paying attention and log in.
    Starting tomorrow at 11am PDT until the merger happens, they will be distributing 8 free character slot items to everyone who logs in via item claim. If you use these character slots the server that has the most slots now (in your case either AV or TR since they're the same), you will then have a total of 10 slots on the merging server, and won't have to delete any.

    Do you have a link to that page please?
  • Them fast typers answering before me lol :+1:
  • MeningitisMeningitis ✭✭✭✭
    Alien99 wrote: »
    What 8 free slots? What Did I miss? I didn't see anything about 8 free slots?
    http://tera.enmasse.com/news/posts/faq-for-the-tera-pc-server-merge Free slots mentioned here, and the number of 8 was confirmed in the merger Q&A stream.
  • LancerJivaLancerJiva ✭✭✭✭✭
    Just log on TR or AV tomorrow and use your 8 free character slots . Problem solved
  • kamizumakamizuma ✭✭✭✭
    2IKYnz8.png

    ya man feelsbad
  • Alien99Alien99 ✭✭
    edited September 2018
    Post still says free slots are TBD, but ok. I did a text search of the page for Free and slots and only saw TBD.
    That mitigates part of my issue. Not sure why they didn't just make it automatic. Something like:
    AV and TR will be merged and you don't have to do anything unless you have more than 20 characters across those servers.
    That would have made the whole thing automagic. You know, the way computers without bugs are supposed to work?
    Sigh.
    We'll see tomorrow.
    Thanks all for the clarifications.
  • VinyltailsVinyltails ✭✭✭✭
    Alien99 wrote: »
    Post still says free slots are TBD, but ok. I did a text search of the page for Free and slots and only saw TBD.
    That mitigates part of my issue. Not sure why they didn't just make it automatic. Something like:
    AV and TR will be merged and you don't have to do anything unless you have more than 20 characters across those servers.
    That would have made the whole thing automagic. You know, the way computers without bugs are supposed to work?
    Sigh.
    We'll see tomorrow.
    Thanks all for the clarifications.

    It was stated on their stream of the character slots

    mEME being mEME and not editting their own posts
  • MeningitisMeningitis ✭✭✭✭
    Alien99 wrote: »
    Post still says free slots are TBD, but ok. I did a text search of the page for Free and slots and only saw TBD.
    I guess you didn't read my whole post citing the source of the 8 slot info.
  • TJKatTJKat ✭✭✭
    My condolences for 29 of @kamizuma 's characters.
  • CatservantCatservant ✭✭✭✭
    My condolences @Kamizuma.
Sign In or Register to comment.