3.15.6: Server Merge and Vetran Rewards

[Quovatis]

Greetings Auraxians, we are pleased to announce the merger of the two North American Servers, Markov and Emerald, to form the Gemini Server. As players migrate from Markov or Emerald Servers to the Gemini Server they will each receive a Distinguished Veteran Merit which can be displayed with their existing merits.

Gemini Server Merge Merits

* Markov Distinguished Veteran
* Emerald Distinguished Veteran


PlanetSide would like to recognize the Veterans of the Auraxian War who have dedicated 5 years of service to their empire with the following tokens of gratitude.

5 Year Veterans will receive

* Five years of service Merit
* Free Reinforced ExoSuit (determined by character creation date)

All Soldiers will receive a free certification reset courtesy of your friends on the Auraxian Counsel.

[BizSAR]

Hmmm...not exactly what I was expecting for people that spent over $800 for a PC game (5 years).

Does anyone actually look at another's merits?

[Quovatis]

Personally I think 3 free cert points is overkill for a reward. That's just a free mosquito for AI MAX, which is not needed. A free AMS or rocklet rifle would have been a better choice.

[Secant]

Or even free cloaker suit... free rexo is literally like handing the vets 3 points.

[BizSAR]

I'd gladly trade in my 3 cert points for a discount on the monthly fee. It's the least they could have done to someone that poured so much money into their aging game.

[OpolE]

Well a good option would be able to let people choose what they want from the 3 cert points, but for most, rexo is certed anyway

[MasterCalaelen]

This is nonsense, granting 3 free certification points is rather unbalanced, no matter the amount of players that will get it. This just further promotes solo'ing in a game already dominated by it, as well as further increasing the problem of Air Cav/MAX/Special Assault.

Instead of granting a free Reinforced Exo-Suit, they should've given a free Ground Support (AMS). That way the player will have a free ride (slow, yes, but free nonetheless), a good way for fast XP/Merit whoring, a personal respawnn/supply station, as well as being able to help out the Empire.

This would've been especially helpful with the huge amount of Orbital Strikes that came with the merge.

Handing out something useful for 5 year Veterans was nice, but granting one of the most important and used certifications for free is plain dumb. Especially since half of the people that get it probably haven't played in years.

[Quovatis]

Great pop though. There were over 900 players on the server at one time yesterday and a 75 vs 75 fight in Annwn. Now that was some crazyness.

SOE still can't get the outfits merged over correctly. My outfit is still missing, and the character renaming rules were not followed.

[MasterCalaelen]

Originally Posted by Quovatis

Great pop though. There were over 900 players on the server at one time yesterday and a 75 vs 75 fight in Annwn. Now that was some crazyness.

SOE still can't get the outfits merged over correctly. My outfit is still missing, and the character renaming rules were not followed.

Yeah I noticed that, my NC Markov was renamed to MasterCalaelen-M and my Emerald VS to MastaC-E while they were the first to be created.

Was pretty fun scrolling through my Outfit's roster though and seeing that half of them had a -E attached to the end.

[Quovatis]

at least you have an outfit roster to scroll through.... :/

My outfit leader got a -M and there wasn't even another character by that name on Emerald. Another friend deleted the duplicate Emerald toon and was unable to rename his main without the -M.

[HanSime]

The pop is largely the result of the merger (as predicted) being the death sentence to Werner. =|

The incentive to play on Werner is reducing by the day.

[BizSAR]

Well, look at it this way: How long after release was there a European server (quite a while)? With the game being so long in the tooth and outdated at this point technically, it makes sense from a business standpoint to pool as many existing users as possible together. It makes the game much more fun for the participants and prolongs the inevitable just a little longer.

With today's hardware and the prevalence of broadband connections, just how bad of a ping do Europeans get to the US servers anyway? How much is it really affecting your gameplay?

[HanSime]

The ping is somewhere between 120-140 and 210 ms for most Europe players. Depending on their location. 180 was normal for me on Emerald, 210-240 to Markov.

Problem is it doesn't allow me to hide on Emerald. People are firing 50 meters behind me and still hit me. To Werner I personally have 15 ms ping. That's a huge gap IMO.

But why should I want to level a new toon if I'm a one empire one server player, who also enjoys leading? I would have to start as a Br0 or use one of my weapon test chars that are Br11-12, Cr0. I'm NOT going to do that. Period. If Werner dies, I'm gone. Simple.

[OpolE]

My account is inactive for a month, so when i come back i just hope they have done something about their merge "Rules"

[NeoPhoenixTE]

Originally Posted by HanSime

If Werner dies, I'm gone. Simple.

Probably the same sentiment as most Werner players.

It's a weird thing with Gemini, having to deal with poplocks again. CR5s are still trying to get used to the idea of calling secondary targets.

I also think there's been constant Cyssorside since the merge. There's always a large fight there it seems, and always with <100 positions available. (Isn't the cont empire pop limit 133? or is it 333? I forgot)

It's taking some getting used to by alot of players.

[HanSime]

Currently 133 an empire as far as I know.


Note that if Werner would be merged, you'd need THREE targets.

There's only two homeconts... That'd get problematic.