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yep same old server merge as usual delete detete delete
to bad you own character slots out fits skins mounts pets what ever , like last time you loose them all !
so no change from last merge we had , just loose and rebuild/replace
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Delete (or transfer) any characters you don’t need. Character slots on the new servers will be limited to the highest number of slots unlocked on either of the merging servers. For example: If you have a total of 4 character slots on Fey Forest, and 9 on Mount Tyrannas, you will have a total of 9 slots on the new server.
The new servers will have characters slots equal to the highest number of slots on either of the merging servers (MT and FF, AV and TR). Again, players with characters on both merging servers will enter their new server with character slots equal to the highest number of character slots on either of the servers. (Remember: This is based on character slots, not actual characters.)
Example: If you have four character slots on Tempest Reach and two character slots on Ascension Valley, you’ll have four character slots on the new server (not six).
The maximum number of characters slots on any server is now 20, so plan accordingly.
https://forums.enmasse.com/tera/discussion/28541/tera-pc-server-merge-faq#latest
so no change from last merge we had , just loose and rebuild/replace
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and that is why you quit spending money and just play for free
If you are forced to delete characters with bound items on them due to being over the server character cap, I would recommend contacting Support. They talk about refunding for character slots, so maybe something can be worked out. It wouldn't hurt to ask, if you're legitimately in this situation.
lol. Yeah...
Well, they would probably try to find other ways other than refunding, but I'd at least give it a shot if you have no option but to delete characters that have bound cash shop items on them.
I mean, they could at the very least do the right thing and rebind them from characters that are about to be deleted to keeping ones.
The merge post makes it seem like they REALLY want you to just delete what you paid for and get nothing in return, getting back at the "but don't delete characters with costumes on them!" over and over.
Since they did take the lazy approach of not caring one bit to change anything and instead keeping us in hold for old news, and the approach to the merge was bad to begin with, they could at the very least take the economized energy to deal with it slightly better.
They just bet too far on their ToS saying you don't own anything and try to push it down our throats as "you've agreed to it, deal with it now".
so according to the tos, since we don't own anything and they can make changes and remove stuff at any given moment, then technically if everytime we bought something it could get deleted after lets say a month or two, forcing us to buy the same item over and over again. that is what they have done in the past in a way when we had to delete characters and items. so if we have max characters on 2 different servers and the 2 are getting merged together, and we have character bound items for each one, then we have to delete maybe 16 or more characters and items and never get reimbursed for them or compensated for them. but then again, we did agree to the tos, so its our problem and not theirs. it is messed up but I guess in a way we did agree to it. I like the idea that someone had about any overflow of characters should maybe go to ch server so that people wouldn't lose their characters or items. I also feel like eme should have just made the new servers with an unlimited character space. that way someone like kami could go into one server with his 80 characters.
For instance I doubt people play two severs like AV and TR with 8+ characters on each. I must be missing something
if eme keeps feeding players bullets to bite, one day those same bullets is going to kill this game....meaning we are tired of temporally renting items we buy and if they keep getting taken away from us, then eventually the ones that spend money in the game will quit spending out of fear that their new purchases will be taken from them again whenever eme decides to do another server merge.
so far, I am in a good position cause the majority of my characters are on av and ch. if they were to have merged ch with av, then I would lose 16 characters and 100s of dollars in items. you have people that will lose much more than I would have. I feel like eme is going to have a hard time convincing those players to spend more money in tera once they lose all their items and characters with this merge, and many of those whales spend 1000s of dollars a year on tera. I really feel bad for those players.
PC cap is 20, consoles are the ones with 16, right now. (K-Tera seems to already be at 21, IIRC.)
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People might have decided to restart on a different server. If they didn't delete (or transfer) the characters, then they can easily enough get into a situation where they have more than 20 total between the two.
There are 13 classes, after all. So if you have one of each, even if you aren't gearing all, then you would already be at over a dozen. You might also have duplicates of certain classes (ease of farming, because you like the looks of multiple races in costumes, or whatever), and it gets even easier to have a higher number of them. You also only just need enough on the two so that the total is higher than the cap, so if you built up say 5 on one before restarting and building up 16 there, what with the various leveling events and new classes and class combos, then you already are in the realm of needing to delete something.
If you do keep adding classes for leveling events (or for whatever other reason), and you at any point start putting costumes on them, then you might be loathe to get rid of them. To say nothing about purely sentimental reasons like the memories attached to the character.
People might also have friends on multiple servers. Be it that they moved, or just joined the different servers in the first place. Just adding a character here or there, for the sake of playing with them, can also quite easily pile up the characters over time.
Some people might also simply like alts. Level them up, dress them up. They might not even care all that much about getting into the end-game grouping, instead rather doing other things. In such a situation, especially if they are buying their costumes directly, they might simply not care about the server beyond it being a storage location. Once you hit max characters on a server, you can easily just start adding more on a different one then, in such a case.
There are likely a number of other reasons to end up in that situation as well.
It's certainly not going to be the majority of (or even any all that many) players, but just because it's not a situation that you find yourself in doesn't preclude there being others who are in it.
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Will that sentiment hold though if they decide to force consolidation of guilds? It's all good and well to have more people, but if they just keep clinging to a (likely) dead past with an inactive guild, then it's not like it'll actually help.
Just a personal example, I have 11 characters on TR and 7 on AV. Since I have a founders account (starting at 8 per server), I enjoyed creating a lot of alts in the past and trying different servers, and a lot of them have cash shop items bound to them. (Got up to 11 on TR because of the free character slots given with new classes.) So even though I don't actively play all of them today (a few on each server for various classes), they have bound items I wouldn't want to just delete. If they added CH to the mix (since I have characters there too), I'd overflow the max character limit entirely, and would overflow the bank + wardrobe, so I'd have to start throwing cash shop items out (unless I could work something out with support).
If I didn't have a founders account and had to have bought all my slots starting at 2, I probably would never have made so many. But there are some who did that as well. Some people just have lots of alts.
why slow a train wreck from happening rather than fix the problem ? and why should the problem some players are having with their game play be at the expense of other players
why cant they fix the problem with out being at the expense of any player base
and with the nice touch at the opening of the server merge announcement thread "and because this isn’t our first rodeo" !!! is that to suggest they learnt some thing from the last as im not seeing it
just how to redo what was done before
"we know you’ll want to know what’s happening to your characters" , well we know coz its the same as we went thru last time
its just sad that band-aid fixes like this only slow the problem and don't fix anything