Changing Dimensions ?

[____________Ashblead]

Maybe the Shadowlands could be an unique playfield for both RK1 and RK2. So players could shift easily from one to another by traveling through the shadowlands.
As RK3 is not physically located in the same place as the others dimensions, it should not possible.

Just a thought

[Intenseheat]

It has been stated many times that this will never, ever be done. The demand (which is negligible) far exceeds the work involved (500+ man hours, plus 1000+ hours testing)

It would also ruin both dimension's economies.

[_____________Abunari]

1) All the servers are located in the same physical space in the USA.

2) Dimension travel is still being looked at, but there are problems technically with automating the process.

I'm not even going to bother digging up the threads where 1 and 2 are stated by Funcom employees. Maybe the time it takes you to search for them will keep you from posting more clueless statements.

[Moghedion]

How would that ever be possible...I mean there are characters on RK1 and RK2 that have the same names....they will never be allowed in the same world...

Just my thought..lemme know if you know a way around this..?

[_______________Vydas]

I don't see why this should be a major issue. It should be entirely possible to implement an auto renaming scheme, no? Even one as simple as having a letter or number appended to a name.

Announce it, give people an opportunity to rename their characters themselves by X date, and the ones that don't, just do it for them.

[____________Ashblead]

In shadowbane, when a charcter switch from server he is renamed as : XXXX from YYYY server.
Could be a way to have 2 characters with the same name.

[____________Intrepid]

I think they should make it so you can only move up the ladder, For exampole from RK3 to RK2 to RK1 not the other way around. Reason for that is the different economies. A player moving from RK1 to RK3 would totally demolish the economy on RK3. A player moving the other way though would not have an effect.

[______________Redman]

they could just make it so that it is only the char it self that moves,,, not money items ect... or maybe let ppl keep what they can wear them selfs

[The Cheshire Cat Silke]

naahh, it wouldnt "ruin" economy...it would mix it and throw it around some...but...it would stabilize again..and all servers economy would sync and become the same in the end....thats not much of a problem heh...

[Kuro]

Originally posted by Abunari
1) All the servers are located in the same physical space in the USA.

2) Dimension travel is still being looked at, but there are problems technically with automating the process.

I'm not even going to bother digging up the threads where 1 and 2 are stated by Funcom employees. Maybe the time it takes you to search for them will keep you from posting more clueless statements.

Here...Gaute said it during the UP.com dev chat:

[UnknownPlayer] [Teiji] Question: There was a pic on IGN of some concept art named dimensional gate or something to that end. Should we be expecting a way to get across the servers in the booster? In Shadowlands?
[gaute] There are, sadly, many technical problems with server-travel that we are working on.
[gaute] We wont be able to get that with these game-play improvements. Again this is a server only upgrade, and when (if ) it comes, it will be a patch. I can’t tell you any details about it, I’m sorry.
[gaute] this (meaning server travel)

[KaMiK]

Originally posted by Intrepid
I think they should make it so you can only move up the ladder, For exampole from RK3 to RK2 to RK1 not the other way around. Reason for that is the different economies. A player moving from RK1 to RK3 would totally demolish the economy on RK3. A player moving the other way though would not have an effect.

and dont you think its a LOT easier to get unique on rk1?

WOuldnt a small guild campin all unique on rk3, would **** up our economy??

WTS SHADES OF LUB.
WTF EXPENSIVE VEST
WTS Shirt of Zibudawa
WTS HEAVY PADDED COAT


Think now, sometime less people mean you get what you want, when you want.

no camping involved.

[Susanooh]

In a way people should be able to have the same name...

from a db point of view.. you would use an incremental integer as a unique identifier...

but of course there are problems. for example if you had the contacts

bob
bob

which bob is which.. but their could be ways around problems like this.. such as a date as to when they became a "buddy" and/or numbers

bob1
bob2

but both their names are actually bob

[locomdenom]

Originally posted by The Cheshire Cat Silke
naahh, it wouldnt "ruin" economy...it would mix it and throw it around some...but...it would stabilize again..and all servers economy would sync and become the same in the end....thats not much of a problem heh...

No problem for the people on RK1 who would now be rich relative to the median economy.

Medium problem for the middle-class citizens of RK2 who would now be able to afford standard items like NCU and armor, but way outclassed on uniques and rares.

Huge problem for the poor bastards of RK3.

Yes, it would be a problem, just not for Silkex, seeing as he comes from RK1.

[solitaire]

I think allowing transfers between dimenzions is a bad idea.

the only way i can see this even remotely working would be to make you have to cross nekid no items and no cash.

having been on both dimenzions i can tell you that i dont want to see the economy on Rk-2 become as bloated as Rk-1

[Mercatura]

Ask rolller (now rolled) all about changing his name, its a funny/sad story. He still gets the tells from a bunch of different characters on his main I think.

Slag said something about FC giving him a char he can get those old tells from too.

Apparently they don't manage names well. Hell, I see guilds with the same exact name down to every last letter on the website from time to time...

[______________Othgar]

Perhaps this will clear it up for you....

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On copying characters from Rubi-Ka 1 or 2 to Test-Live
Yes, this is currently technically possible, but it has to be done manually in each case. This means it takes a lot of time, hence we do not offer it to players at all. If we did, only a tiny minority would get to have their characters copied (due to lack of time), which is unfair.

We choose to rather focus on completing a tool for players to be able to copy their character from the live dimensions to the test dimension. This is part of the process of allowing dimension travel.

On transfering characters between accounts
Yes, this is also technically possible, but due to several questionable possibilities we choose not to offer this to players. It could allow for selling characters, using several accounts for powerleveling and then collecting the characters and closing (or selling) the other accounts, and similar account / character transfers.

Some cases will always be of the kind where we might ought to allow for a transfer, but checking into all cases we would get if we opened for such transfers would take too much time.

On whether Illuvatar will be moved back
The character has already been moved back. At this moment the People of Rubi-Ka pages has not been updated, so you can probably still see him on both dimensions. I checked the character database myself to make sure I didn't give you wrong information. As soon as the page updates properly, you can check it yourselves.

Lack of update on the People of Rubi-Ka pages
The script doing this sometimes (quite often, I think ) reports errors when running (and thus does not complete), and has to be rerun manually later during the day. The guy handling this has been ill for a few days, and such we've had only one update of the pages for the last 3-4 days or so.

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Got any more questions I ought to cover about this case? Let me know, and I'll see what I can do.

Cz