I'm missing 16 Extra Character Slots?

For some reason it seems overtime that more and more servers were shutdown. When I had Bought AO and it's expansions it was intended to have access to 3 servers with a total of 24 slots. Now I only have 8?

I'm sorry I just came back from a almost 2 year vacation, I wanted to get a few new Characters up and running and mainly because I like to relaunch my Anarchy Online let's play series I had before. It seem to be a pretty big hit and I would like to see if I can attract more new and old players back into the game including myself and my friend who has also resubscribed.

From what I can tell as there seems to be no actual website news just via forums is a major merge has happen from rk2 to rk1 and it's created a an insane loss of character slots.

Thanks again for your time,
Kane

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