So I've been reading a lot of the complaints on forums regarding server merges and I must admit, at first I was like "Why are you complaining? You can do events again etc", but now, after undergoing a merge, I completely know were they are coming from. Firstly, the two servers that merged with my server NEVER needed the merge to begin with. I personally checked both servers and they both had 3-4 groups each with total BP well over 1 million and they both have 5-6 big spending players, their only issue is, they had no competition. Now, at first I was really happy with the merge as it meant meeting new players, events being more exciting etc, but wow was I wrong. In one day of the merge there are only 30 players from my server who actually stayed but 5 who are quiting, then we move onto other servers who are struggling badly, so badly that they can't even do events since they never happen and they are STILL waiting now. Little do they know that once their server does eventually merge, they're going to be up against players with BP 30k+ higher than theirs and so they quit.

My server is basically the Hidden Rain village, we were fine on our own, a little quite but still got on with daily activities, but then, the two neighbouring villages wanted more, they wanted more people to fight so they decide to face each other and guess what? Our Hidden Rain village is stuck right in the middle, constantly falling prey to these big villages because none of us have the power to fight back and so...my village, my server and it's players, are dead.

This is a WARNING to all new servers and new players, both mildly P2P and F2P, try and keep your server ALIVE, don't get to the point were you need a merge to be able to do events because I guarantee that the merge will kill your server off.