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When will Vana’bout give me a full set of relic +3?

Bruhhhhh
The innuendos that would emerge from this

Cornelia's Pearl
Description: "A warm pearl left behind by the late Cornelia. Soft to the touch. Caressing it brings you gentle memories."

This event was made specifically for my mule who I haven't capped held merits on, so he could get the monthly out of the way for deeds, so I didn't have to spend five minutes on him.

Yeehaw!

No worse than the cringy cutscenes of you stealing Cornelia's skirt and not handing it back, including "cornelia's skirt" key item.

Arciela, but yeah

Since the discussion is about the limited trust, I don't think Enochroot was talking about the OG Cornelia, but rather Karst's daughter.

I skipped all the cutscenes and have no clue what I'm talking about. But tbh, I didn't expect the innuendos and am glad I didn't more explicitly specify Cornelia's Signal Pearl because that'd likely make it worse somehow.

Now to stop all this nonsense and go back to watching this CS for PUP AF, which is sure to be entirely innuendo-free.

To necro this, 6 months on, Phoenix is now back to hovering around 1k logged-in chars at a time - about what it was maxing out at when I posted the above. I don't think there have been significant impacts on play - no ambu waits, no big clashes in shared dyna, no insane market changes. It got busy for a while and died down - maybe it's just that qutrubs suck.

Anyway, I'd like them to re-open it so I can create some new characters, but it's not the end of the world if they don't. I do wonder what their criteria is for opening/closing servers - have they specified any or would that be divulging too much? Or is it more likely they're just going on vibes?

It's probably been said before, but they should waive transfer fees off locked servers. (But muh bizness model bruh.)

If they open it, it'll just get busy again. They closed it before it passed asura.

They've tied their own hands and shot themselves in the *** while doing it. They've resigned themselves to permanent closure or permanent whack-a-server.

Once all the "high pop" servers are roughly the same population there is no need nor reason to lock any servers anymore.

Locking servers was stupid to begin with.

There will never be equilibrium. That's just not how ***works.

I mean, maybe.

I don't have a good sense of what percent of folks moved here vs. started fresh. How many were coming here looking for community vs. looking for a market (as RMT). The RMT have definitely been louder during this period but I have no clue if/how that's actually translated into business for them. I don't think I've run into any in the field other than the galkabots that spam salvage 24/7 and they were here long before the influx of new folks. I probably don't have as much info as Eiryl on how these things all work, it just feels like there are too many variables to say anything conclusive about it.

Anyone got a graph of active users for each of the closed servers over the period when they've been closed? Anyone wanna throw an AI at that or something so we can at least derail the conversation?

There's always the option to open the server to new accounts and not transfers - or hell, vice versa (especially if you have to wait a 45-day period before transferring a new char).

I'm also curious how much they're banking from the transfers and race changes, maybe we can harp on it during the next survey.