SOE
announced
today that the two existing PvP ruleset servers in EverQuest
II ,
Venekor and Nagafen, will be merged on October 20th. The Nagafen server
will be the destination server and keep its
name, with players from Venekor that are less than level ten with over
eighteen months inactivity and less than one platinum to be deleted.
Here is the official Customer Service Notification:
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Greetings from Norrath!
On or about October 20th, 2009
at 12AM (PDT), EverQuest®
II characters on the PvP server
Venekor will be merged into the PvP server Nagafen with the goal of
providing an even better PvP experience for everyone. As you may have
read on
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or on the EverQuest II
forums, the originally scheduled date for this server merge was
postponed so that we could upgrade the server hardware and database to
improve performance on Nagafen. Please check EQ2Players.com
periodically for any further updates on this scheduled server merge.
Preserve your Legacy!
As a result of the merge, some character names may be duplicates;
players who have logged in within the past sixty (60) days will be
given priority in keeping their character's name (see below for more
details). Additionally, characters on Venekor that are below level 10,
have less than one (1) platinum and whose accounts have been inactive
for eighteen (18) months or longer will not be transferred to Nagafen
and will be deleted as part of this event. Players whose characters
have been transferred from Venekor and any players on Nagafen whose
names have been changed as a result of this server merge may need to
restore their character's user interface settings.
As you may have additional
concerns related to this event, we are providing the following
information (and will additionally post a FAQ page through our
Knowledge Base ) in an effort to answer as many of such questions as we
can.
Server Merge: Venekor and
Nagafen
Character Names
In the event of
duplicate character names as a result of this server merge, priority
will be given to the character who has logged in to the game within the
past sixty (60) days; if both characters have logged in within the past
sixty (60) days, then the character which has accrued the most gameplay
time overall will retain its name. Other characters will have an "x"
added to their names until a unique name has been determined.
Players with a character
whose name has been affected by the server merge can type "/rename" in
their in-game chat window and receive a one-time complimentary name
change.
Guilds
Guilds with leaders will
be transferred intact; however, guilds without leaders will not be
transferred and will be deleted as part of this event. If you belong to
a guild on Venekor which currently does not have a leader and you wish
to have the guild transferred as part of this scheduled server merge,
please submit an in-game petition (/petition) in order to resolve this
situation prior to the scheduled date of this server merge.
Priority for guild names
will be given to the guild with the earliest guild creation date, with
such guild keeping its name and the other guild having an "x" added to
its name.
Guilds whose names have
been affected by the server merge that wish to change their guild's
name will need to use the in-game "/petition" command.
In Your Home
All items in characters'
homes will be inherited by the home's owner during the merge. If you
have alts that own any items, have designated any trustees to your
character's home or if you are a trustee in another character's home,
please arrange for the appropriate owner to retrieve its items before
the server merge begins.
After the merge any
vendor items in your transferred character's house will need to be
re-placed in your character's new home.
You can use the house
vault of the character which is being transferred for storage. The
items in your transferred character's house vault will remain
associated with that character during the server merge.
Vendors
As noted above, your
transferred character's house items, including any vendor crates
containing such character's broker inventory, will need to be re-placed
in that character's new home.
Vendor Events (i.e. the
logs of what was sold, to whom, when, etc.) will not transfer as part
of the server merge.
Until your transferred
character concludes a sale on the newly merged server, that character's
Total Coin Gain will display 0. After that character makes a sale, it
will display the sum of the total amount of coin that such character
has gained on both servers.
Please keep this information in
mind as you prepare for the upcoming merge.
THIS
IS A CUSTOMER SERVICE NOTIFICATION.
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