The Fate of Nighthaven & future servers

[Brynjulf 0]

I joined Elysium back in its first year of creation and was happier than a little boy on Christmas morning! I have since taken a break since all the drama and looking to come back now that things are looking more stable and the dust has settled.

My question / concern is this, it seems like servers have come and gone rather rapidly throughout 2017 and I have already lost a character progress during the initial storm of swords (yes, A Song of Ice and Fire reference) and would like to know what steps have been taken to ensure players time and energy is not lost.

I see a lot of character revival threads out there and side note, do not expect to get my last character back. However, looking forward, if something unfortunate happened to Nighthaven and a new server was created and pushed to the forefront, would my current character(s) be moved or more to the point, how can I ensure my time is not wasted but instead put to good use down the road and for the future of Elysium?

I really appreciate any help or explanations as I have yet to find a straight forward and clear answer to my question within the threads and videos out there. I am super exited to return to the fantastic and often toxic ;) community I have missed tremendously. Thanks again for all your hard work and efforts!! 

[Fulzamoth 5]

Apart from the team split in October the Elysium Project has been stable for over a year now. Your characters from the old realms are stored away on Stratholme.That realm is offline though, so they remain unplayable for the time being. Our intention is to make them available for the Burning Crusade realm when it comes out.

The project updates on the homepage give a history of how we got to where we are today, with our focus on Nighthaven and Stratholme offline. The original plan to create Nighthaven stemmed from players asking for a fresh realm. After the fresh realm was created, the old realms were merged and brought online as Stratholme. What was not expected was that interest in playing on Nighthaven would be so great that it left Stratholme with roughly 300 players peak times. Nighthaven was peaking at 5,500 within the first month. With so few players online Stratholme simply wasn't viable, and the team made the decision to take the realm offline rather than let it languish.

In effect, it was players voting by where they logged in that led us to having only one realm. This is positive in that it means the team can focus on delivering a solid and stable progression experience over the next year while preparing for a new Burning Crusade realm to come afterwards. We plan to let players copy characters to the Burning Crusade so you can continue in your Vanilla play and carry on with the same characters on the new realm.

The question often asked is why we haven't allowed transfers of old characters to Nighthaven? The easy answer is that on a fresh realm players generally don't want advanced level characters flooding into. The real reason is that besides being a policy decision the work to do transfers would be significant. The old realms were much further along in their content progression, so each transfer would require a review of the character quest chains, professions (for skills that shouldn't be in the current content), and items. Most high-level characters would be stripped of much of their gear and items, leading to players still being dissatisfied.

The Elysium Project appreciates that players put time and effort into playing here. Our goal is to provide the best blizz-like Vanilla World of Warcraft experience possible during the time you spend playing. Thanks for choosing Nighthaven.

 

[timk 0]

I haven't played for a good month or so, due to being busy with other things, plus the drama here that had things down for a while.

My dwarf hunter was up to level 18, and I don't want to keep re-running characters from level 1 every time someone here decides to reset everything.

Plus, with Blizzard bringing out Vanilla servers, even though they will probably futz around for another year getting them ready before they begin, what's the sense of running a character here at all when I will probably never come back once the real realms are online?

Edited January 14, 2018 by timk

[Fulzamoth 5]

3 hours ago, timk said:

Plus, with Blizzard bringing out Vanilla servers, even though they will probably futz around for another year getting them ready before they begin, what's the sense of running a character here at all when I will probably never come back once the real realms are online?

That is a question best asked in the mirror, as only you can justify where you spend your game time.