To all players from haven&ra <important>

[Lebeau]

Here's my 2-cents blast-from-the-past:

Originally Posted by Lebeau

Ra (+ Piranha now) is the server this game is coded for. Period. Haven, Nemon & Valhalla all have much smaller userbases & thus, game/invasion mechanic scale issues have been a problem for all 3 servers at times. A merger of all 3 isn't a bad idea at all in order to keep population on all existing servers nearly the same, so as to reduce these scale issues. There's nothing standing in the way of such a merger ... except NGD, GameSamba, Gamigo & the conundrum of their financial concerns, control, proprietary rights & responsibilities, exact expenses & profit %'s, etc. I don't expect such a merge anytime soon, but who knows? A Nemon/Valhalla merge is distinctly possible tho. (since Gamigo owns both server-bases)

Originally Posted by Lebeau; From: "Server merge - Ra & Piranha" < General Discussion < English (closed thread)

Well, given all that's been said, all that's been tried, would NGD be willing to begin negotiations & talks with it's remaining distribution partners (GameSamba & Gamigo) & with the commmunities as well of the servers these partners host (Haven, Nemon & Valhalla) with the expressed intention of a triple-merge in order to boost population so that RA & 'Hamonla' at least resemble each other in terms of online population? Can NGD, GameSamba & Gamigo actually reach an accord on profit & power sharing for the good of their gaming communities? This could & should at least be considered & here's why...

Game as it is, was & is designed for RA, a large online population server. The merger of RA with Piranha means it's even bigger & that just widens the gap between RA & all other CoR servers. Either a merger of Haven/Nemon/Valhalla must be done to keep ongoing & changing game balance & game invasion mechanics functionally effective ... OR ... this game must be newly coded in some way to address the difference in server populations, so that CoR is scaleable (variable strength guards/doors & variable length timers) based on existing online populations. The current one-size-fits-all-servers game-model just isn't working well, at least not on Haven.

Originally Posted by Lebeau

...Realistically, however, it's UNavoidable. There will be more server mergers (a la Horus/Raven) as time goes on & game winds down .... the current 5 will become 3 or 4 perhaps .... those will become 2 .... the 2 become 1 .... then lights out, party's over .... it IS the traditional mmorpg way-of-things, no?

It's almost certain to happen; we're at 4 servers now & counting down; another ball will drop eventually, then another; it's just a matter of when....

Only way it won't happen is for Gamigo &/or GameSamba to no longer want to have their servers running, but also don't want to allow NGD use of their proprietary player-databases (& only if the contracts with NGD allow such a petty & vindictive option).