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Vyvyanne made a number of posts:

World Transfer Status Update 10-14-2015

We are now nearly halfway through turning on all the transfers for closing worlds onto the remaining worlds. Elendilmir, Estel, Riddermark, Gilrain, Firefoot, Eldar, Nimrodel, and Anduin are all now available for off world transfers. Morthond will be available on Monday October 19th (around 11am EST) and Windfola on Tuesday October 20th about the same time. Additionally Brandywine and Evernight (our two largest worlds) are now available for transfers OFF ONLY to the other remaining worlds.

The rest of the closing worlds will have their transfers turned on in the coming weeks to be announced as we evaluate stability and determine we are ready for the next set. This is occurring every 1 to 2 weeks. For the order in which we are turning worlds on see the following list https://www.lotro.com/en/game/articl...e-announcement

How about the new server hardware and datacenter that all these consolidations are for? The new hardware is coming along great. We have all the equipment in place and built out and are now onto the arduous task of moving all of the software and data from the old hardware to new, making sure connections are correct, running QA tests etc. We should be a load test on the new Bullroarer Beta world in the next week or two and will make announcements about it as soon as we have a date locked down. The aim is to have everything completed and live before the US Thanksgiving holiday. In the meantime we are monitoring the Evernight population closely, have added some additional hardware resources to it to increase capacity and if we start seeing issues we might have to slow down transfers, but we hope it will not come to that as I know everyone on the closing worlds is looking forward to their opportunity to transfer.

Free Remaining World Transfers post consolidation

Originally we announced that we would provide a one month time frame in which players could re-shuffle among remaining worlds should they decide they did not care for the world the originally chose. After some testing and initial trials we have discovered this method of open transfers would not work. Instead we have decided to go with granting every account 3 Character transfer tokens, which will be granted in line with moving to the new hardware, and Free Transfer Events, which will be periods of time in which characters on a remaining world have opportunity to move to one of the other remaining worlds for free.

We will hold an event lasting 1 month for each of the 10 remaining worlds that will cycle 2 at a time (1 EU & 1 US) and will allow players on the worlds that week to go to any of the other remaining worlds in their region for free (does not require use of a token). For example on Arkenstone’s month a player can choose to move one or all of their characters on Arkenstone one way to Brandywine, Crickhollow, Landroval, or Gladden for free. We will post a schedule closer to the conclusion of the consolidation of the closing worlds and the turning on of the new datacenter. The schedule will be posted on website, forums, weekly emails and the current Worlds of the month in the Launcher news feed. The 3 character transfer tokens you will be granted will allow you to make a move for your primary characters outside of one of these windows for free if you choose not to wait. Paid character transfer moves cost 1 token per character. Shared Account item moves are always free.

RP and RE World Naming policies

As part of the server merges, we are aware that there are many people who are entering Laurelin and Belegaer without a full understanding of the rules for a roleplay server. These servers have enforced roleplay names. This means that any name that falls outside of those rules is subject to change. This can come as a shock to those who have played for years with a name they are attached to but which falls outside of these rules.

Until December 31st, we will attempt to practice a relaxed version of the naming rules as though the servers were just like the ones who do not enforce roleplay names. I would encourage those who plan to call these roleplay enforced servers their home to contact In-Game Support to request a rename token as part of a proactive approach to avoid a naming violation. After the final free server transfers, the naming policy will revert to the original roleplay enforced version and your name will be subject to those rules.

Morthond is now available for transfer.

Tomorrow we will open transfers off of Windfola.

After those two are open, we will be pausing in opening any more closing servers for transfer until we are on the new hardware which will be able to handle the increased populations. We are already seeing great increases in load on the remaining servers and do not wish to put further strain on them and the players on them. This should only be a matter of a few weeks at this point though, so we appreciate your patience.

Vyvyanne says:

Brandywine is now available as a transfer destination for the closing worlds that have been opened for transfer.

Maiar will open for transfers on Monday November 16th.

Imladris will open for transfers on Tuesday November 17th.

Vanyar and Dwarrowdelf Dates for Transfer

We will be opening Vanyar for transfers to remaining worlds on 11/23/2015.

Dwarrowdelf will open for transfers on 11/24/2015.

Vyvyanne says:

Withywindle and Silverlode

Withywindle is now open for transfers (11/30/2015)

Silverlode will be available for transfers tomorrow 12/1/2015
 


Last edited by Jancis on Mon Nov 30, 2015 11:23 pm; edited 1 time in total

Oh joy! Oh delight! At long last, our TP kin has made the transfer from Withywindle to Evernight. Please feel free to transfer your characters when convenient if you have participated in this activity in the past.

Or if you want to join the SB Evernight kin, look for Jancis on Evernight. 

I'm checking out the kinhouse options since the one we had on Withy at 5 Long St, Arrowfold, Bree is occupied by "The Stripling Warrors" on Evernight. Another item of business is to get our kin renamed from "Appetizers" to "Second Breakfast of Crickhollow." And then we need a Road Trip event - the obvious activity would be a tp run on Evernight.

Quite a few oldtimer lapsed members of SB will likely not make the transfer. Sad. I enjoyed seeing their names on the kin list.

-Jancis

We have 4 Myrtle Court, Thatchacre, Shire on Evernight. I added this information and the Sirannon kinhouse information to Rosalie's spreadsheet.

I have requested the name change to "Second Breakfast of Crickhollow" for Evernight.

Oh! And if anyone is a houseaholic, there are several adorable cottages for sale and tucked in beside our new kinhouse.

 

The latest from Vyvyanne:

More Closing worlds opening for transfer and New Free remaining world transfers

On Monday December 7th we will open transfers off of Vilya.

At this time we will also be closing free transfers off of Brandywine and Evernight and switching to Arkenstone and Gwaihir.

Tuesday Dec 8th we will be opening transfers off of Meneldor completing the US closing worlds.

We are holding off on opening Snowbourn for a week or two as we add hardware capacity to our larger EU worlds to handle the load. It is possible this world may not be opened for transfers until we are in the new data center.

Work is coming to a close on this project and we hope to have a launch date for you soon once we have worked though the final testing of the environment.

Thank you for your continued patience!
Athena "Vyvyanne" Peters

And the final sunset server is open for transfers. Vyvyanne said:

Snowbourn available for transfers December 14th!

Title says it all, the last of our closing worlds to begin migration will be Snowbourn on Dec 14th!
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