Couple of questions on this second shard.

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Kile Morgan
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Couple of questions on this second shard.

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A couple of questions on this second shard.
Will it allow any pvp area or would it all be pvp or would it be the same as the first shard? Someone's gonna ask, might as well be someone who isn't pushing for that one way or the other.
I take it you mean transit for a character between shards, now could someone make a second char for the second shard and then play on one or the other without waiting 24 hrs? I think that a time wait would be better then a fee unless you want to do it the same as the hartwood(think that's right).
I take it that staff not enforcing isn't the same as no staff if a real problem comes up?
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Re: Couple of questions on this second shard.

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The PVP rules will be the same primary shard. Same PvP dungeon, that will be it. I was thinking that over time there could be somesort of a vote to determine whether to make felucca of the 2nd shard PvPable, though I had been warned several times, in the past and also just now, that PvP and PvM shards don't mix, and i think it's very unlikely that it would happen.

As for having one character for each shard, I actually haven't thought of that yet, but now that i think of it, it would pretty much nullify the waiting period. It would probably be made so that if you have one character at the other shard, and you would login to the other character, you would probably simply find yourself on that other shard.

There's another issue that a player mentioned to me in a PM.
The number of players shown on uogateway/listuo will be the sum of both shards. As for dividing the number of helpers around, well I'm hoping that the helpers will stay on the primary shard :)

The main thing it will differ about is the language. Want to talk about adult situations, using swearwords? If you're on the 2nd shard, sure. If you're on the primary shard, you will be properly dealt with. There will be a huge confirmation gump explaining what you can and what you can't do once you are on the other side, which will hopefully prevent situations such as "oh but i didnt know i was on the primary shard".

The page system, as well as the private message system, would be connected. So bugs and things that require staff assistance will all be equally supported.
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