Deleting Dwilight is a terrible idea. It's got the highest retention rate. Are we seriously considering sacking an extremely popular continent on the off chance that it will revive boring stagnant ones? What reason do we have to believe forcing Dwilight's characters into the various dull continents will even work. Think about it, the players on Dwilight only have one character there, ergo they're free to make characters on other continents. I for one am at my full limit. Why aren't these other characters infusing the same excitement of Dwilight into the other continents? Think about it, same player same ability to write a good character.
Chances are if we delete Dwilight the players immigrating will have the same experience as if they'd created a brand new character. They'll get bored and drop to a bare minimum of activity. I imagine they'd then leave the game entirely because there will be no interesting continent to hold them.
The idea that the continent is irrelevant and all the culture and fun of Dwilight can be transported is complete and utter bull!@#$. Culture is a product of its environment and this holds true in Battlemaster as well. It's been pointed out that the geography of Dwilight has created cultures that can't exist anywhere else. It's true that the geography of other game worlds also impacts the realms there, the difference is it evidently leaves them boring and stagnant.
Why don't we just turn up the monster spawns and drought rates on one or more continents and leave it at that. We're already talking about doing so as part of the deletion of the continent. Why don't we just stop short of destroying the whole thing? This way even EC is a candidate after all what better way to add to the history of the game's original continent. This is probably the only choice that has a good chance of reviving the continent because it will make that continent more like Dwilight, a realm with many empty regions and a frontier to be conquered.
Actually, I think Dwilight's character base is probably most well equiped to cope with the loss of the island, that is to say, to adapt and incorporate the changes into existing lore. It's not the map that makes it fun. Stuff like SA and the lore of the DU can be transferred quite easily, after all most of it exists attached to the characters and written up in the wiki. And I say this with total love for Dwilight and what's been going on there. I think this whole thing could actually be really fun.
According to roleplay the blood star constellation is only visible from Dwilight. So no you can't just pick it up and move it elsewhere.
