After the announcement about the merging of the servers in the MMORPG RIFT, many questions remained unanswered in the community. The product team has now responded.
What is currently happening with RIFT? Gamigo recently announced that the European servers of the MMORPG Rift will be merged.
In the end, there will be only one cluster with the following worlds:
- Brutwacht (German) (PVE)
- Brisesol (French) (PVE)
- Typhiria (English) (PVE)
- Cahail (Hidden)
This announcement left many unanswered questions in the community and also caused discontent. Here are the answers, coming directly from the Product Team.
Gamigo addresses the players’ questions
What happens if players have more characters after the transfer than character slots allow?
Answer: The existing limit of 12 character slots per shard (13 for buyers of “Wilds Pack”) will not be increased. If 12 / 13 characters already exist, players will have to delete some characters before the transferred characters become visible.
What happens if there are conflicts regarding character and guild names?
Answer: The current solution is that the transferred characters must change their name for free before they can log into the new shard. This option may change. If this happens to a guild, the guild will receive a mark with an exclamation mark in the name, and the leader will have the option to change the name for free.
What happens to characters whose level is too low for a transfer?
Answer: There are no level restrictions with the server merge.
What happens to the players’ dimensions after the transfer?
Answer: The dimensions will be transferred along with the respective character to the new server.
Since Typhiria will host a majority of players, are there currently plans for more cross-shard features? For example, mail and the auction house.
Answer: Additional shard-crossing functions may be revisited in the future, but we currently have no concrete plans for that.
Will the frequency of zone events change with the server merge?
Answer: The frequency of events is based on the number of players per server. It will automatically adjust to the population size of the shards after the merge.
Will the frequency of artifact and material nodes change when there are fewer shards?
Answer: The super nodes should automatically adjust. There is a predefined minimum number of such nodes that can be active at the same time. If the number of active nodes falls below a certain percentage, new ones will appear immediately.
Will the transfer be fully automated, or will players need to transfer their characters themselves?
Answer: The transfer will take place automatically.
How can players prepare for the transfer?
Answer: No preparations are necessary. The RIFT team offers a free weekly transfer of characters to the new servers if players are concerned that their name may be taken.
Do players need to clear their shared bank slots before they are closed before the transfer?
Answer: No, every item in the bank slots will still be available on the new shard after the transfer. After the transfer to the new shard, players will only be able to store their items in the new bank slots.
The bank slots from the old shard will still be accessible as “overloaded” shared slots. Items can only be removed from these slots; new items cannot be added.
If a player has multiple “overloaded” bank slots, only one of them will be visible at first. The others will appear once the first one is emptied.
For example: If you have a character on a shard that is being transferred, you will see a shared bank slot for the new shard and an “overloaded” one for the old shard with your items in it.
Will players need to clear their mail, guild banks, and auction listings before the transfer?
Answer: No, that is not the case.
Are there plans to instantiate resources for each player?
No, there are not.
Players want to keep more than 12 heroes
This is how players react to the news: Initial reactions are mainly to the point that the character limit remains at 12 and players are expected to delete excess chars.
Here, players are calling for a change in the forum (via Rift-Forum).
