Rich Fireskull
Notorious Pirate
Hey guys! Some of you may or may not have heard the news that Turbine will be consolidating some servers to address smaller population issues. This is a great idea, and before you bash it, remember that servers (they purchased new hardware) and moving to a newer data center costs a large amount of money. They wouldn't be pouring money into the game if they were going to close it. Also, with the new servers they purchased, the remaining worlds will be able to handle a higher load..
Here were some answers from Vyv from the LOTRO forums about some questions people asked.
Vyvyanne is the executive producer for Turbine.
"Ok so catching up on the thread since I headed out last night. Here are some additional clarifications:
1. Are we keeping the most active servers? In some cases, yes. The intention is to move the least amount of players while maintaining some of the more specialized environments.
2. Does the Kinship disband when the Kinleader moves? Yes, it does. This means all messaging to players should be through in-game mail and forums before leaving the world. We can set mail to last longer on the closing worlds (6 months) so that those who log in after the kinleader moves, but before the worlds become unavailable can receive mail on destination target.
3. What happens to a bound item in a Kinhouse from a character that has been deleted or already transferred? Items in this case will be deleted as the owner of the item no longer exists so there is no location to assign that item. If the Kinleader moves before the owner of the bound item moves and the owner has not been deleted, then the item will be placed in the owner's housing escrow account.
4. Transfer of Reaver (or other Monster characters): You can have multiples of one type in cases of transfer of monster characters. In this case you should find a small drop down arrow next to that monster type that will give you a selection of Reavers (or other types) to choose from.
5. Can I transfer to multiple worlds while in the free transfer period? Yes. There is no limitation to the number of transfers you can do. Once the transfers between the remaining 10 are no longer free, however, you will have to pay to move between them.
6. Can you grant more character slots? We are now looking into adding 2 free character slots to all Premium and VIP accounts. We will also have a sale on character slots.
7. Why not do names purely on seniority? A few posters have explained the complication of this already. We had to come up with a solution that would work for Transfers going forward. Going off a seniority based system would result in active players always risking that their name could be changed at any point, not just when they transferred. No solution was perfect. We went with an option that will help free up a number of names for players transferring in, while not disturbing the players who are already there and actively playing the game.
-Vyv"
This is interesting information and if you have any more questions, I suggest you check out this great page that Frelorn created for us. If any mods have an issue with an outside link to the LOTRO website, just let me know
https://www.lotro.com/en/game/articles/world-transfers
Tomorrow (August 3rd, 2015) Turbine will release a list of remaining servers.
Here were some answers from Vyv from the LOTRO forums about some questions people asked.
Vyvyanne is the executive producer for Turbine.
"Ok so catching up on the thread since I headed out last night. Here are some additional clarifications:
1. Are we keeping the most active servers? In some cases, yes. The intention is to move the least amount of players while maintaining some of the more specialized environments.
2. Does the Kinship disband when the Kinleader moves? Yes, it does. This means all messaging to players should be through in-game mail and forums before leaving the world. We can set mail to last longer on the closing worlds (6 months) so that those who log in after the kinleader moves, but before the worlds become unavailable can receive mail on destination target.
3. What happens to a bound item in a Kinhouse from a character that has been deleted or already transferred? Items in this case will be deleted as the owner of the item no longer exists so there is no location to assign that item. If the Kinleader moves before the owner of the bound item moves and the owner has not been deleted, then the item will be placed in the owner's housing escrow account.
4. Transfer of Reaver (or other Monster characters): You can have multiples of one type in cases of transfer of monster characters. In this case you should find a small drop down arrow next to that monster type that will give you a selection of Reavers (or other types) to choose from.
5. Can I transfer to multiple worlds while in the free transfer period? Yes. There is no limitation to the number of transfers you can do. Once the transfers between the remaining 10 are no longer free, however, you will have to pay to move between them.
6. Can you grant more character slots? We are now looking into adding 2 free character slots to all Premium and VIP accounts. We will also have a sale on character slots.
7. Why not do names purely on seniority? A few posters have explained the complication of this already. We had to come up with a solution that would work for Transfers going forward. Going off a seniority based system would result in active players always risking that their name could be changed at any point, not just when they transferred. No solution was perfect. We went with an option that will help free up a number of names for players transferring in, while not disturbing the players who are already there and actively playing the game.
-Vyv"
This is interesting information and if you have any more questions, I suggest you check out this great page that Frelorn created for us. If any mods have an issue with an outside link to the LOTRO website, just let me know
https://www.lotro.com/en/game/articles/world-transfers
Tomorrow (August 3rd, 2015) Turbine will release a list of remaining servers.