Rushster
05-04-2006, 12:21 AM
It's all go this week*as far as servers and moving is concerned with updates from both the EU and North American teams this afternoon. North American players should take note of the following:</p><blockquote dir="ltr" style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"><p>The next step in our ongoing efforts to increase game performance is to migrate a set of realms to the new site this Wednesday, April 5, beginning at 12:01 AM PST. The migration could take up to 24 hours to complete, so we will be crediting players with active accounts who had characters on these realms as of 12:01 PM Monday, April 3. The realms that will be affected are listed below. </p><p>The goal with this realm migration is to further balance our player population between multiple World of Warcraft sites. Our estimates about the noticeable impact of this individual procedure are conservative, but it is nevertheless a necessary step that will then allow us to move forward with the subsequent portions of our overall plan. </p><p>Following the migration, we plan to next week offer character transfers from existing realms to fresh realms located at the new World of Warcraft site. These transfers will allow additional players on realms that had been experiencing intermittent performance issues to continue their character progress on the new hardware. This will in effect help us further disperse our population and continue improving performance on our most severely affected realms. </p></blockquote><p dir="ltr">This is a lengthy post with details of realms that will be affected by this so it's <a href="http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-general&t=7767399&p=1&tmp=1#post7767399">worth checking</a></p><p dir="ltr">In other server news the EU team have posted an update on their migration plans for this month although these may change depending on circumstances.</p><blockquote dir="ltr" style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"><p dir="ltr"><strong>April 17th - 21st<br /></strong>Shattered Hand and Ragnaros --> Frostmane (new realm) <br />Bladefist and Daggerspine --> Outland (new realm) </p><p dir="ltr"><strong>April 24th - 28th</strong> <br />Warsong and Skullcrusher --> Stonemaul (new realm) <br />Burning Legion and Stormscale --> Grim Batol (new realm) </p><p dir="ltr">The below migration does not have destination realms set, as they will go to the above realms if there's still good space, and to new fresh realms if there's not. </p><p dir="ltr"><strong>May 1st - 5th</strong> <br />Dragonmaw and Spinebreaker --> (to be decided) <br />Burning Blade and Stormreaver --> (to be decided) </p><p dir="ltr"><strong>May 8th - 12th</strong> <br />Zenedar and Ravencrest --> (to be decided) <br />Dunemaul and Deathwing --> (to be decided) </p></blockquote>