I said they wouldn't transfer players from servers like The Fatman. Try reading it again.

Think you've got it backwards. Dead servers will be origin servers, not destination servers. They won't be sending players from a high-pop server like Fatman down to low-pop servers. They're sending players from multiple "dead" origin servers onto a single destination server to create another busy server like The Fatman. Once that server is full they will start again and create yet another busy server. Rinse & repeat.

More versions of Huttball would be amazing. Some awesome ideas in here!

Sounds awesome!

Sooo..... what's wrong with it? I love it just the way it is. Obviously, it's not the game for you.

We'll see.

They will be taking multiple origin servers and sending them to a single destination server. They are going to make all of the destination servers as Heavy or Full as The Fatman. If they don't get enough transfers in this phase they will open up more origin servers until the destination servers are full. They won't stop filling at medium.

No worries. I'm in the same boat as you. Only 4 people on the fleet right now. Can't wait to transfer. Very soon this won't be an issue anymore.

Where do you get your information? None of that is true.

The question was: Without adding extra character slots how could you merge 2 servers that had 8 characters each filled on both servers? The answer: You can't This is why merges can't work. Transfers give you the opportunity to split up and move characters to different servers. Impossible to do with server merges.

True, but there's no rush really. I'm going to take about a week to transfer my guild over personally. Slowly, 1 character at a time, meeting fellow guildies on a new server, rebuilding the guild, making sure everything has transferred over properly. If anyone tries to rush this process they're only asking for something to break IMO.

That's very likely in some cases.

Again, bookmark Dev Tracker. It's what we all use.

You'll get all your guild bank tabs reinstated through Customer Service.

Dev Tracker presents all important updates to the game in an easy to find manner. I'd bookmark Dev Tracker instead of a random sticky. That's what I do anyways.

I'd expect a full FAQ and a list of initial Phase 1 origin and destination servers a few hours after the maintenance is over. With the first round of transfers beginning shortly after that.

I'd be ecstatic if they gave us 16 character slots, but I just can't see it. WoW is finally increasing their slots from 10 to 11 and only if you buy MoP....lol. Those crazy pandas.

They're working on it. But they won't give you 16 slots per server. Maybe 10, but not 16.

Did you read mine? If you have anywhere near 16 characters combined on an origin/destination server you'd have to delete 8 immediately with a server merge. With a transfer you can choose to move some to a different server later. Transfers give you choice, merges do not.

With a server transfer you can choose which characters to move over immediately and which ones you'd like to leave on the dead server for a possible transfer later. With a server merge you would immediately have to delete multiple toons since you can't have 16 characters on 1 server. Merges don't work.

Yes, "server-transfer-on-rails" is much better than a server merge because it's entirely optional. What would you do if you had 8 characters on 2 separate servers that ended up being merged together? You can't have 16 toons on 1 server. So... how would that work?

Merges won't work. Old servers will be shutdown eventually anyways. You won't be able to create new characters on dead servers at some point either. There's no reason to worry.

Luckily, after you transfer your characters the game will prompt you to create a new Legacy name when you login to your new server for the first time.

Thanks for the quote. Knew I saw that one somewhere before.

For the millionth time people you WILL be able to consolidate characters across multiple server types LATER, and most likely still for FREE. Just not right now. Be patient.