Well, this is quite a step forward in Evony. After years of polite requests bordering on violent demands, Evony has finally caved and decided to merge Age2 servers. They have set up systems/programs that aim to solve issues that have been the focus of much debate on the forum and elsewhere in Evony. If I might, I'd like to weigh in. It would seem to me that the solutions to HHs and HCs are quite thorough and actually rather brilliant, not to mention greatly advantageous to players who they affect.

Analysis:

HHs: Good, or bad? What are people REALLY complaining about?
The HH deal is pretty damn good in my book. Yes, you lose these HHs that have been at lvl 150 for the past 2 years or there abouts. On the other hand however, you are being provided automatically with a new breed of hero that may actually be stronger than the hhs you're losing! Not to mention you are being given 5000 cents worth of On war for EVERY hero. For me this would mean around 50k cents worth of materials....... when has evony EVER given out that much in items, cents, or upkeep? Also, I'm not sure about others but what I started doing when the hc race as over was turning my hhs into attack hhs - almost regardless of their base ... I'd be willing to bet others do too. So why wouldn't you just do it again? this time it would be even easier - no holy water wasted. So what are these people complaining about? Why is losing hhs such a big deal? Well for me and those I've played with in the past it ain't ... if we lose them c'est la vie. ..... My guess would be that many really can't stand the idea of losing the hhs they paid GOOD MONEY for. Not by paying evony, but by breaking ToS as the majority of players on evony have and buying from another player. Typically the value of an account has been directly related to hhs and hcs held by the account. If it's not that they bought the hhs, then a friend "gave" it to them, or perhaps they even got it legitimately. In my opinion, if you don't think you can manage to get any one of them again, maybe you should not continue. The merged server is gonna be cut throat but it's what everyone - EVERYONE - has been waiting for for a LONG time.

HCs: Time to kill!

Evony seems to have actually done a great job with the inovation of how to deal with the problems merging age2 servers offers. The idea of these Amulets are great! I do have a one question, does this grant a player the ability to have an extra city at any point regardless of city count/title? If so this could be a very interesting game changer. The idea of a new classification of cities via these Amulets will be very powerful and shape age2 servers for awhile, I think. The conversion of HC to regular city I think is to be expected and has been a long-time offered fix if I'm not mistaken. Will those cities retain the same names? Will it be possible to change them?

Overall, I think evony has done a very good job with setting these mergers up for success, BUT they need to follow through on the back end. One of the biggest critiques recently has been Evony's inability to make promotions or events go off properly and then no compensations offered or anything. I would like to bring it to everyone's attention that this should be the biggest focus for Evony. They need to set up and test for any contingency and make sure that all those merging are able to do everything that they have promoted. You DON'T want this to be a bad experience. There may be some other things Evony should consider; perhaps free upkeep for 5-7days at the beginning would be adequate. A sort of thank you to those that stuck around and allow people to set up their multitude of alts to get res and troops settled :P

Constructive thoughts/critiques are welcome, let's get a real, professional discussion going about the validity of the systems and ideas that Evony has set out to enact.