EverQuest 10th Anniversary Server

Sony Online Entertainment sent out an email to some their customers yesterday to inform them of an upcoming server merge between progression server "The Combine" and "Druzzil Ro (Tarew Marr)" that will take place on January 21st, 2009. This is great news for players on both servers! The email also mentioned that players will be able to vote in January on a new server type for the 10th Anniversary server that will launch in March of 2009. The server types that will be voted on have not been announced yet but I expect more information to surface at C.E.S. (Consumer Electronics Show) that will take place in early January.

There is important information that players on the merging servers need to know. For your convenience we've included the email that was sent out and it can be found after the jump.

Important Information Regarding Your EverQuest Account

New Worlds of Adventure

On January 21, 2009, EQ will be consolidating "The Combine" server and "Druzzil Ro (Tarew Marr)" server into one server to be titled "Druzzil Ro (Tarew Marr, Combine)." The merge will begin at 3 a.m. PST and will last approximately five hours.

In addition, in conjunction with the upcoming EQ 10th Anniversary celebration, SOE is expecting to add a new EQ server in March 2009 and players will be able to vote on a new server type. To provide your input on the type of server you'd like, visit EQplayers.com in January.

We hope that these changes will provide players with an even more enjoyable EQ experience.

Character Names

Priority for character names will be based on the date the character was first created. Subsequent players with the same name will have an "x" appended to their name until a unique name can be determined. The same process will be applied to guild names. Players who wish to change their names can type "/changename" into their chat windows. Guilds that wish to change their names will need to use the "/petition" command.

Inactive Characters

Accounts with characters below level 10 that have been inactive for six months or more will be purged from the EQ system.

Accounts with More Than Eight Characters

Accounts with characters on the merging servers will have their character names alphabetized, and only the first eight listed will be accessible until characters are deleted to make room. Any characters past the first 8 are not deleted, they are simply inaccessible until one of the first 8 is deleted to make room.

Shared Banks

If a player's account has characters on both servers, the most recently updated bank will have priority unless it is empty. Players must empty out the shared bank they don't want to keep before the merge. If players wind up with the wrong shared bank (they didn't empty out the other one in time, etc.) they can use "/petition" to have the other shared bank copied over.

UI and Character Settings

All character UI and character settings will need to be reset.

Corpses

All corpses will be sent to Shadowrest.

EQ players

Player information will be updated to reflect new names/guilds/servers.

Artifacts

New servers will allow two of the same artifacts.

Server Transfers

Free server transfers from the surviving server (Druzzil Ro) will not be available in connection with this server merge.

~ Sony Online Entertainment

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# Jan 21 2009 at 6:56 PM Rating: Decent
too bad the merge was postponed : P
new server!!
# Jan 15 2009 at 1:03 PM Rating: Decent
a server of EQ/SoV/SoV would be great imo!
? which server
# Dec 22 2008 at 3:01 PM Rating: Decent
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So is it Druzzil Ro or is it Drinal/Tarew Marr that is merging with Combine?
? which server
# Dec 22 2008 at 9:28 PM Rating: Decent
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Was a typo in the email. It is Druzzil Ro (Xev)
? which server
# Dec 23 2008 at 7:42 AM Rating: Decent
A typo in the email?? I hope that's not a sign of things to come when they get down to the actual code of the merger

Edited, Dec 23rd 2008 10:44am by arishkogol
Server Merge
# Dec 22 2008 at 12:36 PM Rating: Decent
Had a few words with an early crossover, but this affects me a lot. I will loose 2 chars on Druzzil ro and 1 on Combine, ahh my traders are going to cease to exist. My Combine enchanter has already been invited to join my Druzzil ro guild, i guess my traders will be having going out of business sales. Still it's a good thing i feel.
name?
# Dec 22 2008 at 6:34 AM Rating: Decent
what about Drinal (Tarew Marr) ??? Did they mean Drinal and not Druzzil Ro?
why a server merge EQ!
# Dec 22 2008 at 2:30 AM Rating: Decent
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THAT SUCKS LOL atleast say we dont have enough players on thos servers they alwasy need to make a BS story more enjoying EQ time c'mon SONY
#REDACTED, Posted: Dec 21 2008 at 1:50 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Ever the lame effort of the Progressive servers has run their course. Maybe one could microtransact a life From EQ now.
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