Suggestion [UI] NEW IDEA: Server Changes

Hey! Artcode from GA2 here. When I first started playing in 2009, DO was super active on like almost all the servers and I liked it and such. Took a break for a couple years after I played for a few years and fast forward to 2016 (now almost 2017).

From what I see, GA2 is super empty and I now have a desire to change servers without having to start over. YES making people start over in a new server would give DO and BP more money, but what about us people who spent years on an account and a server?

This is why I want to bring up a suggestion: Paying URI or "Payment" method to allow players who really wish to save all their progress and bring it over to a new server without having to start all over again. Of course, I propose that DO only release this kind of thing maybe like every year, every other year, or during SUPER special events (as special as like the 10th year anniversary we are currently experiencing or something) that way people don't abuse this concept of just constantly switching servers, but allowing enough time for them to really think over if they really want to switch over to a new server or not.

What do you guys think? Players? DO Team? BigPoint?

 

This has already been suggested hundreds of times by hundreds of other plays, the only answer you will get is that they are only in the process of just even thinking about how and why they would merge servers, what servers would be due for a merge, and how much resources and time would it take to merge a server.

They have answered it on their livestreams before, go onto Youtube and you'll see it eventually.

Basically how it would go is they would merge a server with another, it would be active for 6 or 7 months, then server activity would die down because of the dominant clan and UFE players driving even more weaker players out of the game, and eventually the two merged servers would be just as dead as before they merged it.

Not only the above problem would arise, but what would happen to accounts that have multiple ships on multiple servers that are bound on one Username and password? Would they delete them? Or would suppoer take thousands of those ships and seperate them into different accounts by hand?

For now we have refraction zones, and to be honest I really like it, and it does solve the whole server merge question for now.

While server merging is inevitable, because a game does not simply go on forever, it would most likely occur when you're not playing this game anymore, where nearly all of the players have gone their ways. Server merging seems like a last-ditch effort for this game when it eventually dies down completely.