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We'll be posting more information here as the week goes on, but it is official!
The server merge will include all of our Renewal servers, Ymir Yggdrassil and Valkrie and will be merging them together into a single Renewal server.
This is a massive undertaking, which is one of the reasons why it's taken longer to set up than we had originally projected. Issues about storage and character overflow are significant, and were the major focus of the development that HQ was working on for the last few months.
Some details:
The merger will occur beginning on December 19th, and will take around 10 hours to be completed for the new Chaos Renewal server to be opened. The maintenance will be gin at 3pm PST after which we will be saving all the server's data and going to work on it. The servers will come back up for a bit, though anything happening on the servers will not be saved, so we are planning on having some fun with the community when that happens!
After the merger, There will be a new second and third storage for yggdrassil and valkyrie stored items. Players will be able to remove items from these but will not be able to place items back in, and the extra storages will eventually disappear.
From the current max of nine characters, the limit will increase to 27 to accommodate the additional characters. If the characters are deleted or if the player does not have full character rosters, they will still only be able to create up to nine characters (if VIP).
All mail will need to be picked up before the merger, otherwise it may likely be lost during the transition.
Name conflicts should not be an issue, we have been working with the devs to have something in place and will have more information on this soon. The intention is to have it so when there is a conflict, it will change both of them to something like "yourname_YGG" and "yourname_VLK" and flag you needing to change the name when you log in next. So in that case, the person who is on the ball would get the name.
Name Sniping will not be tolerated. If we find people sniping names of guild leaders, community notables, forum folks there will be suspensions. We're not going to mind if you accidentally happen to grab xxCloudStrife420xx or something very common before someone else, but deliberately creating a new character to hold onto someone else's name as a troll is no good.
New server name will be Chaos Renewal, WoE times are TBD. We will have a poll up for the community to choose between Ymir and Valk WoE times.
