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Server Merges coming August 13th
Cutedge
Member Posts: 92
We have some very important news for our players regarding Dungeons and Dragons Online: Stormreach (DDO).
Dungeons & Dragons® has always been about having a good time with a party of your friends. With DDO, we bring that experience to life online for the first time, and appreciate all the time you, the players, spend inside Stormreach fulfilling the promise of D&D®.
Over the last few months we have seen an increase in the number of players asking us to make it easier to find groups. Since grouping is such a core part of the DDO experience we looked at a variety of ways to make the grouping process easier for players of all levels. Various options were considered, but the best way to make a change that improves the situation for everyone is to concentrate active players on a smaller number of servers.
To this end we have developed a plan to merge the games servers which will greatly improve player experience across the board while also improving the performance of the game by upgrading to a stronger infrastructure on the back end.
We want to thank you for all of your patience as we implement these changes to the game.
New Server Details
We'll be combining the source servers on the left into the destination servers on the right.
? Mabar becomes Argonnessen
? Fernia becomes Ghallanda
? Lhazaar becomes Ghallanda
? Aerenal becomes Sarlona
? Adar becomes Sarlona
? Aundair becomes Khyber
? Riedra becomes Khyber
? Xoriat becomes Thelanis
? Tharashk becomes Thelanis
Before we get started with the complete server merge, we are planning to run a public preview on Risia. On Wednesday, July 25th, we will be bringing Risia up with the Mabar/Argonnessen server merge and we'd love it if you'd hop onto Risia and help us confirm everything is operating as expected. Any players that have created a character on Mabar or Argonnessen before July 23rd are invited to participate in the merge preview.
Once we have completed the merge preview and evaluated the results we expect to begin merging the main servers starting the following week.
The process of merging the servers will be divided into two downtimes.
Khyber, Aundair, Riedra, Thelanis, Xoriat, and Tharashk will be offline on Thursday, August 2nd, between 2am and 7pm EDT. Around 7pm, Khyber and Thelanis will come back online and contain all of the merged characters and data from their respective servers.
On Monday, August 6th, Fernia, Ghallanda, Argonnessen, Lhazaar, Adar, Sarlona, Aerenal, and Mabar will be offline from 2am until approximately 7pm EDT. At about 7pm, Argonnessen, Ghallanda and Sarlona will come back online and will contain all of the merged characters and data from their respective servers.
When all service resumes on August 6th, the DDO servers will be: Argonnessen, Ghallanda, Sarlona, Khyber, and Thelanis.
On August 13th, all servers will be offline from approximately 7am until 1pm EDT, for server maintenance and optimization after the merge.
Comments
Oh can't wait to read the doom-sayer posts, especially from a certain someone.
I'm all for it though.
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Cool! I think this is great news for getting groups, although I'm still only level 5 while everyone else in DDO is level-capped so it may not help me much.
I left DDO a couple months ago with a primary reason being the population on Tharashk was so unbearably small that forming a group during non-peak hours meant more sitting around than playing most of the time. As far as nay-saying goes, a server merge is the only thing that will help the few new players that do trickle into DDO from leaving immediately. DDO is not a solo-friendly game--grouping is what makes the experience decent. I would like to give kudos to the devs for finally addressing the population problem.
"I am the greatest swordsman that ever lived."
This is awesome!
I personally wish they would combine all servers down to a single one. Now it's time to develop some real tools for advertising your adventures and communicating with your Friends.
I want a Global Friends List damnit!
Hmm I may come back after the merge. I've read about the updates and they seem like they've added a lot of content since I've quit, my only problem was my server had a low population. I think a few others might come back too now that the servers will have a healthy population.
After the merge milhoan6 just make another email address and get the trial. You probably have the CDs so it will save you from downloading the trial. Then you can see what has changed. Of course if you had high level characters then you won't be able to see Giant Hold on a trial account since you would be low level.
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This might even get me to resubscribe for a month!
(I doubt it, but ya never know... Dark Age of Camelot is getting pretty boring nowadays...)
I just may dust off my old account after reading this.