Migration Period

[DrunkenPimp]

Originally posted by Xordan
I heard that you would be able to migrate from mb to cb, so during the migration period, players will slowly populate cb. So you\'ll be able to continue playing straight away.

Ah thanks thats wat i was asking................ Muah im a cool noob now...all that hard work of posting 10 posts paid off

[Krahan]

it says that it will last 2 weeks then we can create new chars......so i think that means we can play on our old chars and fight and all tht, but until after the 2 weeks we can\'t make any new races....

[Seytra]

Originally posted by Androgos
The game servers will be offline, yes.

This means that during this time, nobody will be able to play.

Originally posted by Androgos
The database servers will be online, and the script is a PHP script ran on the WWW server

This means that you need to transfer your character to the new database manually, by using the webpage that is the interface to the php script. The link to this page will most likely be posted on the news page.

There are two reasons to move your chars to the new database:
1) You wish to reserve your name so that you can keep it for CB
2) You wish to transfer your crystals, if they are transferrable at all, which still doesn\'t seem to be decided, but I didn\'t yet look at the script.

[Xordan]

Originally posted by Androgos
The game servers will be offline, yes.

Talad told me that the cb server would be online, and that mb players would be able to start playing during this period. (I think)

[Seytra]

Originally posted by Xordan

Originally posted by Androgos
The game servers will be offline, yes.

Talad told me that the cb server would be online, and that mb players would be able to start playing during this period. (I think)

So just the character creation will be locked for that time?

[Zeraph]

Originally posted by Seytra

Originally posted by Xordan

Originally posted by Androgos
The game servers will be offline, yes.

Talad told me that the cb server would be online, and that mb players would be able to start playing during this period. (I think)

So just the character creation will be locked for that time?

Now I\'m sort of more confused?
were does your character data go if there is no new character created on the CB database?
How can it exist without existing?

[Seytra]

I acknowledge that this sounds somewhat esoterical.

However, it\'s very mundane:
What I think is going to happen is that
- the MB game server will be shut down
- the MB database server will be running
- the CB game server will be running
- the CB database server will be running
- the migration script will be on the website
- the character creation part of the CB server will be disabled
This is the confusing part, I guess, but the difference of game server and database server is the key. While normally (in both MB and CB) the char creation works like this
client->game server->database server
it\'ll now be this
browser->migration script->database server

The normal way will be disabled in the CB server, therefore the CB database cannot be modified through the CB client, i.e., no new characters can be created (also not on the MB database (using the MB client), since the MB game server is offline, probably the MB database is set to read-only as well).
However, existing MB characters can be created through the migration script that bypasses the CB game server and directly accesses both databases.

This way, it is ensured that MB players have sufficient opportunity to transfer their characters without having to deal with CB accounts being created before that, i.e., to prevent name stealing / conflicts.

At least this is what I guess from the (partially contradicting) posts.

Edit: added fancy colors.

[Desnonroth]

Still...
Will we need to transfer our chars manually by ourselves?









I have never seen that much confusion in one topic.

[Ghostslayer]

Originally posted by Desnonroth
Still...
Will we need to transfer our chars manually by ourselves?

Yes. You will only transfer your character if you want to keep your character name.  The other 200 000 or so accounts will be deleted and those names will be free once more.

[Desnonroth]

Finally... Thanks for a reply.

[DrunkenPimp]

heh leave it to me to start this confusing thread.... so in other words make sure u have a mb account so u can (mayb) play before the 2 weeks is up lol.

[Androgos]

But PLEASE!

When you reserv the name, it will be stored in a seperate DB with your email, and nobody will be able to create an char with that name except you. You still have to create a new char.

So if we are going to disable char creation, you won\'t be able to do anything anyway

And your mail is associated with the account if anyone wonders

[Adeli]

Here\'s my drama, I would like my name \'Tyralus\' reserved for me... I would like my crystals, though there are few...
I do not however want the current \'Tyralus\' as in MB...
He\'s an Ylian, I want an Enki...
Is this possible? Or will I need to create a whole new char, with no crystal transfer, and a chance to lose my name?

Edit: I hadn\'t noticed, I became a routinier!

[Seytra]

It currently is my impression (and Androgos has confirmed it by his above post) that the only thing that\'ll surely be stored is the name and the email, Additionally, chances are that the crystals might be stored as well (as jorrit has indicated on another thread), but that\'s about it.

Therefore, you can happily reserve your name and probably keep the crystals, but once account creation for CB is enabled, you\'ll go through it just as anyone else, including race selection. The only difference is that you will be the only one allowed to choose the name you reserved earlier, and that probably the crystals will be placed in the finished char\'s inventory.

Edit: maybe your MB selections might be used as defaults for the CB creation (at least the ones that can be converted), but I\'d expect to be able to change everything.

[Adeli]

That\'s what I was hoping for... I hope you are right in this Seytra. Thankyou.