thanks for you concise and intelligent feedback george. you are a plethera of knowledge.

on a non tolling note, it a good thing that they are doing this, though i'm hoping they offer toon transfers along with this. It was a hot topic on the forums for a very long time. Usually server merges this early in the games life is a really really bad PR move, and im not surprised that FC didnt want to do it until the vocal members of the community beat the topic to death. The game is not that bad, i love it, its evolving nicely with the new director. Ill say again what ive stated before. i think the big issue here is that they opened too many servers at launch, maybe feeding into their own hype a bit, but judging from abriael comment WAR did the same thing. What alot of people dont understand is that this is a business, and there are reasons for the devs not spilling thier guts to the community on a daily basis. take it with a grain of salt and enjoy the game that suits your needs.