Server Merge: Najena to Unrest (Tuesday 12/14)Follow

Now to add my personal experiences from the Blackburrow to Everfrost merge last week!

1. House item ownership was not wiped like many feared. That means that no-trade items you've placed in others' homes or guild halls (and vice versa) will retain their appropriate owner. So no need to fear or rush around mailing items back to people.

2. Houses and guild halls did not have all of their items picked up, so no need to rush around saving layouts or anything.

3. The only housing oddity with items during the BB -> EF merge were salesman crates. Some characters had to re-place their crates.. in my case, all of my Everfrost characters had to replace theirs, but my two Blackburrow alts did not.

4. During the BB -> EF merge, there was originally an issue with names, but this was an oversight that was quickly resolved and the correct rule should be in place now for merges. For character names: In the case of a duplicate name, a player who has logged in in the last 60 days will keep the name. If both players of the same name either have or have not logged in in the past 60 days, the player with the most play time (/played) will keep the name. Account name and creation date have nothing to do with character names! Characters who lose their name will get an "X" at the end and a free /rename.

5. During the BB -> EF merge, there was originally an issue with some guild names, but this was a database error and it was also quickly resolved. This issue should not reoccur for any other merges. The rule for guild names: Whichever guild was created first keeps the name. Activity has nothing to do with it. Guilds who lose their name will get an "X" at the end and a free guild rename.

6. Another small issue which also hit other servers was the mail for the Frostfell Fanatic quest starter. This disappeared from some characters' mail boxes. They remailed this mail today and the issue is not expected to occur again, and may not have been connected to the merge.

7. Server heritage titles will take a few days to process. If you were on a server that gets one of these titles it should appear in your overflow when granted.

8. Many players could not enter their guild hall through the Magic Door to Guild Hall nor with the Call to Guild Hall spell. To counter this, one player had to enter the guild hall through its normal entrance, then the issue did not reoccur. It's unknown whether or not it's expected to happen again.

Edited, Dec 13th 2010 5:23pm by Cyliena

I got my title on two characters so far. But when you examine the item, nothing happens. I know they're looking into that but there's a workaround now. Put the piece of paper in a broker slot, then remove it. Voila - heritage title!

Rothgar posted an update around 9:15am PST:



Edited, Dec 14th 2010 12:16pm by Cyliena

A 1:45pm PST update:

Another update was posted just after 4pm PST:

Just saw this update around 7:15pm PST as well!



Edited, Dec 14th 2010 10:21pm by Cyliena

Unrest is up!! Party in Sinking Sands!



This did re-occur.

That sounds... dirty.

Found a bug last night too (/bugged it already)...

I went to deposit status into guildhall escrow and it did not update my previous constributions....instead, it created a second chracter with the same name and began a new total :D Both totals were shown for the 2 "Filmore's" in the deposit history list.