
Now that I’ve run the Crom praying joke into the ground, I’m going to have to come up with a new introduction for Age of Conan articles. Starting today and continuing tomorrow, Funcom plans to merge the Age of Conan servers for American and European players. On the United States side, Tyranny and Cimmeria will merge into one PvP server. On the European side Crom, Hyrkania, and Ishtar are joining to one PvE server. Also on the European side are Fury, Aquilonia, and Stygia are merging into one PvE server.
The whole process should take about a day for each respective service, North America to start today and Europe to start tomorrow. Character names are being kept on a basis of activity, age, and last login date, meaning two characters with the same name who joined on the same day on the same month will have their name decided by who logged in most recently. If your friends have to change their name, they will automatically update in your friends list. Guild names will be changed to reflect the server they came from if their names conflict.
After the server merge, players will be given one free transfer to move to a server of their choice, so if your server is a little too crowded you can always move somewhere else.
You can read the whole FAQ here.