Also it's complete fucking bullshit that companies, not only turbine, refuse to merge servers when needed. Why the fuck ddo can't have one mega server? It's not like this is an open world game with housing and guild halls placed on the map. It is 100% instanced. It's not even an mmo, more like co-op multiplayer.

Viktor Vaughn wrote on Feb 24^th, 2015 at 9:38am:

Bro, this is really hard for me to believe.

I live in Greece, a country one would think its denizens wouldn't know what d&d is too, but even in the smallest of greece's towns there are tons of kids and adults playing that. Also we have shops that sell d&d pretty much in every city. I think that ppl dont know what d&d is only in some war torn middle eastern countries..

Sasha wrote on Feb 24^th, 2015 at 9:49am:


that would require someone in there to have half a working braincell

Sasha wrote on Feb 24^th, 2015 at 9:49am:

Yes, it was ddo that had that.
When they switched to new forums, that was gone.
You would get 10% of the tp that your referral bought iirc.

Angry wrote on Feb 24^th, 2015 at 7:32am:


Grumpy Thaz = best Thaz

Skrilla wrote on Feb 24^th, 2015 at 6:14am:

thats becose  u idiot to play on wayfinder, thelanis easy 400+500 meybe more

Maybe it is time for mergers and so on, it might save them some money and so on. money they could invest in fixing broken stuff or better yet write new content that isn't squirrels chasing cars for the sake of some sick perversions.

My guess is to why, is simply because they fired any one with the skills to make this (merger) happen successfully with out any fuck ups.

Scrybe wrote on Feb 24^th, 2015 at 8:10am:

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Viktor Vaughn wrote on Feb 24^th, 2015 at 9:28am:


It did not used to be this way. I ran many raids and dungeons with folks  from other countries. It was commonplace to have an Aussie or Kiwi, a European or an Asian in the group. sometimes all of the above at once.

So many left or waned off ddo with motu...

When the time comes for a merge of some kind, they'll just open the free transfer floodgate and wait a few weeks to see where people settle...
Then they'll just cull the servers that are left empty.

At least it's the reasonable thing to do But since we are talking of Turbine...

Now 65 is not that low... Europe managed to hold with 12/18 players ( peak time ) on a server for a good while before shutdown...

Angry wrote on Feb 25^th, 2015 at 3:07am:


They have said a merge is not on the table, but never explained why and there could be several valid reasons
Duplicates in my opinion are not one of those reasons.
Creating a unique identifier for each character would be a simple script.  Combine two existing fields that creates a unique combination.
For eg. Where a name is shared, the toon gets renamed Tarzan-Thelanis and gets a free rename token in the mail.
If the outrage is unbearable, make the unique ID a combination of firstnam-surname, with surname defaulting to server name if you don't have the latter.

Hell if you wanted to get sexy with the scripting, give priority to recent or active toons over many year dormant ones.
You're not taking away dormant account's names, you're just letting your existing clients have first access to the toon name without surname.

Hell, allow more characters in names such as numerics and symbols.

I just can't believe they would let something this simple get in the way (because it is just a mask to say "too hard/expensive").