On our relocation to Red Eye Mountain
Our fearless leader had this to say on last night’s decision to transfer the guild to Red Eye:
Good evening everyone,
Almost two months ago now the officers and some of our guild members spent two solid days researching our choice for server. The end result was the selection of Ulthuan as our server and I think through the first month of the game we can all agree it was a very solid server with a diverse range of guilds and play styles. We have all enjoyed being members of this community and it is with much sadness that today we are making decision to leave the server.
Mythic in their questionable wisdom has made Ulthuan a “source server” in their transfer program. The transfer program is made to move people from low population servers to medium population servers. There are two realities here that we must face:
1. The low population servers who are losing players will become have-not servers. The populations will become so depleted that in a game where it is essential to have large numbers to maximize enjoyment the server will cease to be fun as a place to play and as a community.
2. There is no future for these low population servers. It is impossible to see a world where Ulthuan exists in a year or dare I say even six months. These servers WILL. BE. SHUT. DOWN and merged with other servers. We might not be given the choice of the server we go to next time and we have to take control of our own destiny
So this evening the officers and some of our senior community members (thank you guys for letting us pull you in to officer chat in vent :P) had what is probably the hardest meeting we’ve ever had to pick our course of action.
The end result of this meeting is that we’ve selected the Red Eye Mountain server as our new home. We see several benefits in this new server:
1. The Ulthuan community has essentially picked it as their server of choice. We are not leaving Ulthuan because we don’t like the community (totally the opposite - we love the Ulthuan community) we are leaving it because the numbers just don’t add up for fun in an RvR game.
2. Red Eye Mountain has a solid balance of players and is solidly an upper medium server population server. We’ve learned two things about this game. To fully enjoy the game you need a solid population and you need a balanced population. Red Eye Mountain offers us both
3. Talking to some of the membership it seems we have quite a few friends over here. Most of them seem to be playing Destruction but its always fun to kill someone and then not let it go the next day at work
Thank you all for your consideration in this matter. I know this will put some people out and I know we might even lose some members because of this move. I think we are one of the best guilds in this game or even in any MMO. I hope all of you will join us on Red Eye Mountain and in games yet to be released in the future. I hope you find our little community of value and that you will continue to do so.
More information as well as our members responses can be found in the forum thread. We look forward to making new friends and forming even tighter bonds with those that have decided to move with us. We want to especially thank our members for their patience during this stressful time.
