What are the set of problems cross server sage might bring? (apart from lag, probably)

On the contrary, I was there since the beginning ;P I remember the problem being a lack of confidence in the system due to the recent cross arena that was implemented. However, that was I believe aptly addressed on the seemingly not-so-well-known second post of the page. Perhaps you can refresh my memory on other problems brought up in your own words?

That probably took you some effort to type out, so I'll try to reply to everything x_x
The main reason why people postponed lving up their characters was because of the split sage in more populous servers, namely S1. In almost all other servers, there probably isn't such an occurrence happening (apart from the obvious alternate accounts that many people seem to have) as there is no such benefit from doing so. Hence, it would be safe to assume that such things happening would be rare.

As you mentioned, taking both player's lvs and bp into consideration at the same time - I don't quite understand how that works. Let's say power was mainly used. It is undeniable that the older servers would have a natural advantage in terms of that. In order to match the players from older servers in terms of initiative / power, players from newer servers would have to most likely pay more. I doubt that is how oasis would want to treat the paying players - this would essentially remove the advantage of paying players in newer servers. The current system would allow paying players to more likely dominate the tables which is more likely a possible intent.

You mentioned that this was unavoidable, but bear in mind this vote happened before the whole Aris issue. Players didn't know that this was undeniable when the majority voted. The post about how the matching works was added much later, and I believe many of the votes that went in was before they saw the post. Even towards the end when the thread died down, some players that said they voted no seemed to be unaware of said 2nd post. I don't think that this would be a good gauge of how the players feel.

The amount of advanced refines given out - This essentially only benefits the higher levels on the server. Judging this based on server merged sage - the closest thing to what the possible new system features (i.e populated sage) the mid-power players have no chance of getting the advanced refine runes and seal scrolls anyway. They would have a higher chance of finishing top 3 in the cross server sage, which is fairer for players who joined the server late. (Also worth noting that the game in it's current state is not very newbie-friendly, and many players have to join the new servers in order to truly play. This takes one step towards addressing this issue)

Lag - I mentioned that this is something that is likely to occur, nothing to say. Queueing time - the wonderful thing about sage world is that there is no queue time. Once you're in the battlefield, you're pretty much ready to go. The servers would also have the 10 minutes of registration time to arrange the players in their system, most likely. Bugs - All features have bugs. Heck, even the Ninja Bond system still has bugs. However, given enough time these bugs will be fixed - especially if they're game breaking. So pretty negligible.

This... Took alot longer than I thought. Hooray for distractions.

I'm sorry if you took my post the wrong way. I had absolutely zero intent on making a dig at your post. You made a decently long post and I took it with utmost respect and took the time to reply to every detail mentioned in the post. Hence, I even replied to the negligible issues you mentioned to prove my point that these issues are subjective or not so important. Your post was pretty polished as well, I couldn't tell you didn't speak english as your native language at all. (which was what you seemed to hint at) English isn't my native language as well so we're equal. :)

The current system essentially does that, but perhaps your system does it better. What was missed is that there is a limit to the number of players that there are in a cluster. The players might end up in a half-filled or barely filled sage that they will be thrown in the next field. (which is this system pretty much)

I can't speak for all the servers. That I can't deny. I'm basing this off the forums which I lurk and my experience only. I believe this is the same for most players too.

Well, I knew that cross sage was a feature that would have been added sooner or later, but what I didn't know was that they were ALREADY ready to implement it and the vote was originally meant to be a false sense of choice that the players affected their decisions on developing a function more quickly.

Don't worry about it. ^^ Sorry if I stressed you ahaha :x

I knew you had a different opinion, which was why I asked what you believe was wrong about the system. I didn't want a reply that just links me to the thread, which was why I asked for a written reply instead. You gave your reply and all I intended was to defend my stand, whilst you defend yours till one of us is convinced the other right, or there is a stalemate due to differing views. That is what makes this fun in a sense.