OOC anticipation on the Avlis-servers being moved...

Khaelindra · Post by **Khaelindra** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 9:29 am

...or: how to give the OOC move an IC-flavour.

An idea i'd like to put forward to anticipate the coming of a,lot of characters from Avlis to Hala for a few weeks while the Avlis servers are being moved...

As is anticipated now, during the time that the Avlis servers are being moved to their new location, a lot of players will have their characters continue on adjecent worlds to stafe off cold turkey abstinence effects. This will mean an influx in Hala, Tairis'nadur and Rockhome (the portal to Deglos is open again as i understood).

Would it be a nice idea, and feasible, to coordinate some IG event that would provide an IC reason for those characters to come over? I can imagine Avlis creating some cosmic superstorm that would drive all characters to escape to other worlds and that's it, but maybe some specific quest/search/task can be worked out to actually give the visit to the other worlds some content. Some ingredients/items that need to be collected to quench the storm raging on Avlis, with such items being available all over the linked worlds for instance.

This might also be a nice opportunity to perhaps have some world-transgressing links built up.

Is this feasible? Is this already being worked out?

Cheers,

Mickey.

Post by **Orleron** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 11:32 am

Though I don't particularly gel with "cosmic superstorm" ideas (go ahead ask me why), it is certainly fine if individual PC's wish to find a reason to get to another world ICly.

However, if all goes well, it won't be necessary. *crosses fingers* The way we have it planned, the downtime will be hours, not days.

Khaelindra · Post by **Khaelindra** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 12:38 pm

Orleron wrote: Though I don't particularly gel with "cosmic superstorm" ideas (go ahead ask me why)

Why?

Orleron wrote: However, if all goes well, it won't be necessary. *crosses fingers* The way we have it planned, the downtime will be hours, not days.

Ow, that would be great!

I mentioned it because the last info available is still talking about days/weeks. If this is not the case, all the better of course...

Arcsylver · Post by **Arcsylver** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 3:10 pm

What you mean we aren't going to fall back on the old Avlis staple of "Chaos Storms" for this one ?

Sindol · Post by **Sindol** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 4:24 am

You mean you haven't got alts to play on all CoPaP worlds like me?

Khaelindra · Post by **Khaelindra** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 5:08 am

Sindol wrote:You mean you haven't got alts to play on all CoPaP worlds like me?

I do, but i prefer to play my main there instead...

Sindol · Post by **Sindol** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 5:39 pm

This weekend is when it's going down. Starting somewhere fridaynight local server time (east coast USA). I think I'll either go for Tairis or spent my time offline developing Avlis content for future servers.

Serpentax · Post by **Serpentax** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 5:45 pm

personally i find IC explinations for OCC things is a bad idea..

if the servers need to go down to move.. then it all stops running..
when its moved and back up the characters are back in...
no one noticed a thing...

and for the duration portals just stop working.. things like that do happen in the multiverse

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Khaelindra · Post by **Khaelindra** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 1:21 am

Serpentax wrote:personally i find IC explinations for OCC things is a bad idea..

if the servers need to go down to move.. then it all stops running..
when its moved and back up the characters are back in...
no one noticed a thing...

This goes for the 95% of the characters that do nothing in the meantime, yes. But for the few dozen character that 'suddenly' all together get the urge to planetravel even though they never even considered it before, it's another story. Because the planetravel -DID- happen when the Avlis servers are back up again.

*shrugs* it was not a request; my own characters are already travellers as i wish to explore the CoPaP environment to the fullest. It was just a suggestion, which has already become obsolete/irrelevant by the changed estimated downtime dropping from a possible few weeks to a few hours.