Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-26149161-20170523205516/@comment-32021966-20170524090347

Personally as someone who both owns a server and has been playing on LOTR server for almost 2 years now, I think this would be a very bad move. Both as said above by the esteemed mod maker (what? Got to come in useful some day ) and by experience this could turn sour quickly, the 3 main reasons I can think of are:

1. On this server the admins/staff have been tried and tested and the community (mostly) respects them, if a new set of staff were to be set up I can imagine the quality dropping, especially if the staff were server owners in which case some servers would receive more support and advice than others. There would also be a lot more complaints coming from the other server and I can imagine a lot of arguments crossing between the two, which goes onto point 2.

2. If you create two servers it is going to take quite a while before the other server is completely self sufficient, while that could eventually happen in the mean time there is going to be a lot of drain while staff are selected, the server is set up and people get used to only posting server related stuff on the other wiki.

3. There will also be the point that many of the servers are dead, all this is going to do is prove that no matter how many server show up only around 1/3 of them are active. Why not simply ask the people who own or created the servers if it’s still up, if it is they say, yes, if no then it’s not and close it down. Or if nothing has been done on it for the last month then close it down, that would get rid of almost 2/3 of the servers and result and enormous amount of time and energy being put to other things.

In short creating a new wiki will take up time, energy and the staffs efficiency to create something that will take months to be suitable, mind you this is my advice, if you disagree that is fine by you.