Server Mergers Starting Tuesday May 24, 2016
Next week we will be starting a process of merging the existing servers down to a more reasonable number. We selected the servers based on their usage over the past 7 days, and will be leaving the busier ones alone while merging together servers that did not have much activity during that period.

Before moving on to what will happen with the mergers, here is a list of servers that will not be merged. Nothing will be changed on them so it will be business as usual after the merge.

US East 1
US East 2
US East 3
US East 9
US West 8
EU Central 1
EU Central 2
EU Central 13

If you are playing on those 8 servers you will login after the “merge” is finished to no changes on your server as well as no new players (for better or worse).

If your server is not on that list, it will be merged with other servers. Merged servers will have their structures cleared out as well as their player name cache. When you log back into these servers you will need to go through player creation again. You will still have your character, levels, skills, and inventor. However, all structures will be wiped as we cannot effectively merge those. Starting with the 16.5.4 patch you can salvage resources from your existing structures. You will want to start salvaging your existing structures to get their resources back so you can deploy them after the merger. Be sure to empty out your crates and silos as those are structures and will be wiped out during the merger as well.

For the most part if you are playing on just 1 server you should be fine. However, if you do happen to have characters on multiple servers that are being merged please login to the one you want before the merge begins to make sure it is the most recent one. As you might know there can only be 1 player per server so we can only put 1 character on the merged server.

We decided to leave all 6 rulesets up for the time being so there is at least 1 server in each region with the ruleset.

Below is how/where the merger will happen. If you were playing on a server listed after the merge, be sure to login to the server listed. The server listed to the left will be the server everyone is merged to. Those to the right of the <- will be the servers that were merged onto the one on the left, and will no longer be available.

For example using the first bullet point US East 5-8 will be merged into US East 4. After the merge you will need to login to US East 4 if you were playing on US East 4-8. You will see US East 4 on the list, US East 5-8 will no longer be available as they were merged into 4.

US East 4 (Casual PVE) <- US East 5-8
US East 10 (Normal PVP) <- US East 11-16
US East 17 (Casual PVP) <- US East 18-20
US East 21 (Normal PVE)<- US East 22-24
US East 25 (Hardcore PVP) <- US East 26-28
US East 29 (Hardcore PVE) <- US East 30-32

US West 1 (Casual PVE) <- US West 2-3
US West 4 (Casual PVE) <- US West 5-7
US West 9 (Normal PVP) <- US West 10-16
US West 17 (Casual PVP) <- US West 18-20
US West 21 (Normal PVE) <- US West 22-24
US West 25 (Hardcore PVP) <- US West 26-28
US West 29 (Hardcore PVE) <- US West 30-32

EU Central 3 (Casual PVE) <- EU Central 4-8
EU Central 14 (Normal PVP) <- EU Central 15-16
EU Central 17 (Casual PVP) <- EU Central 18-20
EU Central 21 (Normal PVE) <- EU Central 22-24
EU Central 25 (Hardcore PVP) <- EU Central 26-28
EU Central 29 (Hardcore PVE) <- EU Central 30-32