Server Migration

Been playing since NA release, there where 2 server migrations.
 
They do them if a server gets overloaded from time to time.

Note It is not as easy as you would think to just move your char from server to server. First each server has all you data. They woul dneed a dedicated server just to handle moving charecters back and forth. UO does this but you have to pay and they spend a long time setting it up before it was done. Plus there can't have doules of names. Plus a risk of data being lost or corrupted if you allow players to just shift servers whenver they want.
 
Aerdrie said:
They do them if a server gets overloaded from time to time.

Note It is not as easy as you would think to just move your char from server to server. First each server has all you data. They woul dneed a dedicated server just to handle moving charecters back and forth. UO does this but you have to pay and they spend a long time setting it up before it was done. Plus there can't have doules of names. Plus a risk of data being lost or corrupted if you allow players to just shift servers whenver they want.
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Think of servers has a giant cup. As players fill up the cup, there is less room for other new players. So once it fills up, and can't contain any more players, they create a new server harmlessly. Well, creating new servers like, and that allow pre-existing players to move there, is like trying to pour a cup of water into another cup from a foot apart. You are gonna lose some of the water. And player's profiles and characters could possibly be corrupted, or contored because of the memory being latched between 2 servers. It's very hard to create servers like this, and alone, takes almost a year to create, because of the complex systems you have to program. So all in all, it's alot harder than it seems.
 
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