I saw this on reddit
and yea, this makes sense
so stop blaming nost, this is going as planned
The Nost team HAD to know they would get another cease & desist, so they planned it out so that people would have at least two-weeks to a month to transfer characters and start up on Elysium, KNOWING that at some point that letter would come. At which point, they would HAVE to stop transfers and make a public announcement in good faith. Ask everyone to not play any longer and please, Elysium wink wink, stop using our database and code. And Elysium would respond, "ofcourse, we've already transitioned all your fixes to our own code, we will change the name of the servers. No problemo guys. We'll go ahead and keep the characters already transferred though." Lets Nost off the hook and if Elysium doesn't care about C&D, bam.
Elysium wouldn't have to change up anything (whose going to check on the code?), have a 30 minute downtime to rename servers, voila. Brilliant.