August Newsletter (Merge, TBC and more)

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Greetings fellow old players of the Elysium Project,

 

One year ago, a certain individual caused the shutdown of our former realms Elysium PvP, Darrowshire (Nostalrius PvE) and Anathema (Nostalrius PvP). He and his accomplices worked hard to destroy all related data. Fortunately, this event lies in the past and we were able to reconstruct most of the data from various backups.

You weren’t meant to have any choice. Until now. We give you a choice where you want to play with your characters and ensure the long-term storage of your achievements. We give you the possibility to experience Progressive Expansions on the very same characters, all of your current progress of Nighthaven will be available on TBC.

Nighthaven has been founded shortly after these events, it is a blizzlike fast-progressive realm, currently being on patch 1.9. Nighthaven has a stable population which is eager to experience the best expansions. You can check out the population statistics HERE. It might be worth to mention that Nighthaven had no negative incidents since the opening, there has been no database leaks or any leak of user data, no corrupt GMs and no major downtime.

 

Merged Characters! 

We are receiving daily questions such as “Can I restore my old characters?” or “Why I can’t login with my old account after taking a break?”. Hence we explained each individual the situation and where they could find their characters. Now that patch progression is matching, we decided to merge Elysium PvP and Darrowshire on the 19th August into Nighthaven.

You can access your characters by logging in with your old account, you can access characters which exceed the total character limit by changing the realm in the character selection. This way you can access all characters from all realms in a single account.

 

Now you might ask yourself “Why should I come back?”, a fair question.

 

Since the very beginning of humanity, we do make mistakes. What matters is that we learn from these mistakes to improve ourselves, which is only possible if we keep moving forward.

We have shown with Nighthaven that it is possible to run a private server without any drama, without any major technical issues and a friendly, non-toxic community.

We have proven that it is possible to decrease gold sales so much that the majority of sellers gave up and stopped their sales. This is done by using the manpower of our GM team, they spend daily hours reading the related logs. We banned around 500 accounts this week for botting/selling/hack usage.

We have shown our technical expertise by doing this very merge from corrupted / damaged data. It might be worth to mention that the entire process took only 3 hours, not days. Why? Because we spent days on the related scripts which are able to add a realm “on top” of another without any GUID conflicts.

 

About the server merge:

Spoiler

 

Characters before 760,000
characters after the merge 2,021,000
Total Characters Merged 1,261,000

Totaal quests before 27,097,000
Total quests after the merge 146,600,000
Total quests transfered over 119,503,000

Items before 17,265,000
Items After the merge 56,000,000
Total Items transfered 38,735,000

How many charterers from each race restored

1 Human: 300,906
2 Orc: 243,496
3 Dwarf: 75,150
4 Night Elf: 143,672
5 Undead: 207,245
6 Tauren: 111,610
7 Gnome: 74,389
8 Troll: 104,350

How many of them male and female:
Male: 815,715
Female: 445,103

How many characters of Each class was restored
1 Warrior: 284,566
2 Paladin: 82,196
3 Hunter: 151,566
4 Rogue: 159,743
5 Priest: 115,744
7 Shaman: 77,471
8 Mage: 170,991
9 Warlock : 128,265 
11 Druid: 90,276

Total Restored characters of each faction
Horde: 606,701
Alliance: 654,117

Total restored gold: ~17,093,970 Gold 40 Silver 91 Copper

Total number of players logged in the first 24hrs: 12,676

Please note that Anathema hasn’t been merged yet due to the patch progression difference. Anathema was running on 1.11, a lot of players had Naxxramas gear. We will merge Anathema once Nighthaven has met a similar progression level.

Open a GM ticket or create a thread in the “Help & Support” section if you had characters on Darrowshire or Elysium PvP but don’t see them on your account yet.

 

Burning Crusade Expansion

Last but not least, it is important to mention that Elysium will remain online even after the release of Classic. Your achievements won’t be lost, on the contrary, you will be able to take those with you on our upcoming TBC realm.

We have currently faith that we can launch TBC in Q1 2019 as announced last year. The realm will be progressive and will cover all important patches, this means it will be the first “real” progressive TBC server in the history of private servers.

Also, a lot of content is scripted which you haven’t seen properly scripted on any TBC server so far. This is possible because we are not using any public stock core, nor the original Elysium core or any public available pserver core such as the HG core.

We are currently running the last stable revision from July on a public test realm, so you can take a peak and see yourself that we are on a good way to set new standards for TBC servers.