Eureka, here's how to solve the name issue (one of the biggest issues when merging realms): every time a nickname is used by 2 people, put up an English auction a-la BMAH, for real currency (EUR, USD, etc). Highest winner wins, rest gets a free name change. Ca-shing! $ {◕ ◡ ◕} $
Btw SWTOR first did free character transfer to big realm. And then they just moved all the old characters from the dead realm anyway. So first I was like OK well interesting what about these old chars. Then, like that. Now I have 7/6 chars on one realm (I mean server, don't say realm in SWTOR.. "this isn't WoW
") but cause of free member I have 7/2 slots. Can't even make a new char to level. Wah.
The pathetic thing ofc that in SWTOR if you got name with 1 letter difference, it wasn't allowed. So my buddy had a name which was almost like Blow but 1 letter difference. Curseword. LOL and he used that word for 6+ months as name before, and it was nothing LIKE a curseword. Myself I had to change my name cause Lucy is apparently a variation of Luck. Whatever man. Then one prick decided to pre take the brilliant nickname I had. Well that sucked, but it happens.
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Ehm my gripe with CRZ aside from first hand experience on low pop realm boils down to PvP, PvP gear grind, low level vs high level. Nothing we discuss here really. We managed to stay away from PvP debate. I like that.
Sunsong = Pandaria = no resource issue like CRZ and x-realm.
They didn't say they were working on it. They confirmed the bug, they said it wasn't easy to fix.
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It is either NEW or ASSIGNED or RESOLVED / WONTFIX. Let me explain the context.
NEW: denotes they did confirm the bug, but haven't decided who to assign it to yet.
ASSIGNED: denotes a develop is assigned to deal with the bug.
RESOLVED / WONTFIX: denotes the bug is, in this case, not going to be solved any time soon. It can be reopened later. Like for example, during development of next expansion.
None of this denotes any time frame whatsoever. There's no ETA.
Its still a regression. It is still something which worked perfectly fine, actually pretty much a premium feature (given the rarity of these mounts) and yet it doesn't work anymore basically anywhere you'd use it. I mean where do you use 2 person seat mount? CRZ.