Sorry if i'm beating a dead horse but i was just curious if i could transfer my toons to ywain yet, and resub or is mordred players still collecting dust?


-Drak

 

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Your characters on Mordred are unable to be transferred to Ywain at the present time. Furthermore, characters on Ywain are currently unable to copy their characters to Mordred. The planned PvP Battleground (Molvik) on Gaheris and inter-server transfers between Gaheris and Mordred haven't been implemented either. There has been no further communication regarding Mythic's plans for Mordred since June 4th, 2009.

So, in the meantime your characters will still be limited to Mordred's current environment. I wish I had better news to report, but at least the server and your characters still exist.

 

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Move on, uninstall daoc, sell your accounts.

Much better then hanging on for a redemption.

 

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I just don't understand why a simple char copy process for Ywain-->Mordred hasn't been implemented yet. Kill of the server or let people xfer off. They are wasting money keeping this server up if there isn't anything ever going to be done with it.

 

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Because literally the only thing they do now is stuff that only involves tweaking a few numbers in a database:

- increase the quality on some drop in a low level dungeon from 89% to 96% and bump up the value of a stat on it from +1 to +7
- add an existing RA to a different class
- increase the casting time on a spell

 

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+1

please, server is dead, allow players to copy chars from ywain i would give it a try and more ppl too tho maybe the server resurrects with an acceptable population

The only way Mythic could allow dred xfer is by removing all the gear from toons that wish to xfer. Xrealm templates pose a problem for balance if they started getting into Ywain rvr. Alternatively Mythic could introduce all the xrealm loot to Ywain, but that would probably be more involved that stripping toons of everything except plat on xfer.

This is the basic conundrum we face when contemplating Mordred's future. The answer is not a simple "just transfer the remaining characters" due to inconsistencies between the two rulesets.

We are currently considering allowing direct copies of characters from Ywain to Mordred, however we are not going to make any decision that will negatively impact the health and play experience of Ywain.

 

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Wouldn't this actually help yawain though as opposed to hurting it?


I am sure for the first 2 weeks ywain will have a steep pop decline and mordred a huge population boost yet as we have seen, mordred isn't a stable server for most. People would go back to ywain more than likely and use mordred more as an escape than their main server.


Also, with some of the population declining off ywain this would further alleviate the lag/ghosting issues caused in part by the frontier zones being flooded with players.


This really wouldn't hurt ywain from what I can tell and it would significantly help mordred (although it will always be weak compared to ywain, just nothing you can do there). So is it that the pros will just never outweigh the con? It isn't worth the risk unless you are 99.999% positive it will work? Is it because mordred as a server ruleset would have to start getting balance and such via patches and you would rather spend those resources focusing on Ywain?


Just curious, especially since you guys have way more data and metrics in front of you than I ever will...so i probably dont know all of the issues and such Thanks for the heads up btw andy! cheers

 

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Mordred will never be a stable server with a good population. It used to be when there were thousands playing this game and a small percentage of that played Mordred. As populations dwindled, Mordred took a huge hit. PvP rulesets just generally don't work out well in games. Players can't handle the griefing. As opposed to relying on realm mates you can really only rely on guildmates.

I honestly think Mordred should be wiped and removed. I used to play it during the first 2 years of its release, but I knew it wouldn't last. Realm vs Realm is the closest you will get to PvP without people whining too much. EQ2's PvP server was similar. You had the 2 realms and eventually a 3rd. But completely open PvP like Mordred and old UO (before T2A and Felucca/Trammel) just never pans out.

Even UO's Siege Perilous server was ultimately a flop. They tried releasing a pure open PvP server to suit the masses, but they made it incredibly difficult to play on.

 

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