Important Information Regarding Your EverQuest® Account
New Worlds of Adventure
(Updated: 1/20/09) - The Server Merge has been posted
On January 21, 2009, EQ will be consolidating "The Combine" server and "Druzzil Ro (Xev)" server into one server to be titled "Druzzil Ro (Xev, 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, you can visit EQplayers.com later in January to vote in a poll.
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. Characters moved from The Combine server and characters that receive a name change due to the merge will need to use the /eqplayer command to update their character on the website once the move takes place.
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.
In-game Mail
Characters on "The Combine" server will need to save their in-game e-mail using the Export button before the servers are merged. The mail will not transfer over with the characters.
~ Sony Online Entertainment
