Lately I've been nostalgic about the good old times of daoc. My account hasn't been active since 07/08 I think, but I used to have a 50 Warrior, a 50 Sorc and a 50 reaver on different realms each. Now I've came back to see how much has changed in the game and if it's worth to come back and give it a last shot. I checked in with the 14 days trial with my old daoc login, same game login and same e-mail, but I dont get any hint or tip about if it is possible to ever see any of my old characters again.

Any idea of what to do, or advice would be greatly appreaciated

if you remember your account info, you should have like 10 free days with the come back to camelot thing they have.

DL the patcher, get it up and running trying logging in, it will say account is closed, send you to the EA account management page, set up your account and they should still be there. check the box at the bottom left that says archived servers, and go into your old server. and once in do /freexfer and it will explain how to transfer to ywain~

 

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Thank you very much for you quick reply!

Can't describe the emotion I had when I saw my old chars again available! I hope to have many more hours of fun playing daoc!

btw, where do you recommend me to transfer my toons? There's like 10 Ywain's and some others that I didn't remember that still were active.

if you want to get a house at some point i would suggest ywain 9 or 10 .. ywain 1-3 or so are pretty much full.

 

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Any way to get back my old chars?


Yes.



Giving good hints or good instructions is not something that Mythic seems very good at. They put the instructions in a hidden spot and expect you to search for it or be psychic and "know" where and what.


As stated above, your toons should be on the archived servers but when you log in you need to already intuitively know that you need to check the box for the archived servers.


There are instructions on the Herald but it was only kind of easy to find on the old Herald. The new Herald also has the instructions but the link is buried/hidden/etc. . . Mythic does not really care or they would make the link easy to locate, its not as if putting a simple link in a clear location on the Herald is rocket science.


Ywain is a TOA server.


Server population was dieing and to help keep server population up Mythic was clustering servers together. As the player population continued to shrink, Mythic needed to continue clustering servers but they had a huge problem, the database of old characters was becoming so huge (on the existing clusters) the database was becoming unmanageable. Because the existing databases were so huge, Mythic could no longer combine the databases, which meant they could not form a new cluster (yet they needed to cluster the final servers together to keep the population up to keep RvR viable).


Their solution, create a new server that everyone, all active players, will transfer to (everyone transfers except Mordred and the Coop). There are 10 Ywain login servers that are just character holding areas. The 10 login servers allow players to transfer up to 100 old characters to the new server, but Ywain 1-10 is only one server.


The old servers will be maintained as character holding areas for returning players; so returning players can come back and transfer toons over to Ywain.


If you have level 50s on the old Classic server, there is a quest that gives free credit before you are allowed to transfer.


Mostly it does not matter which Ywain you use, as all Ywains are really just one server, but housing on Ywain 1 is very full so if you are thinking of getting a house I would use a different Ywain than #1.


The following are some links that will have some info that may help


http://vnboards.ign.com/daoc_general_board/b5176/114843412/r114844163/


http://vnboards.ign.com/daoc_general_board/b5176/115004996/p1/?3


http://forums.freddyshouse.com/game-advice-walkthroughs-19/244544-daoc-utilities.html

 

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