Incentive to leave on high pop servers?

[Thegreatmonkey]

In ff14, they try to get people to leave high pop servers with a free transfer. Is something like that here or plans going to happen for it?

[Kitty_Cat]

Offering a free transfer would only make it even more appealing to the players who often transfer alts to resell in-demand items on the lesser populated worlds from Asura.

My world has one particular player who does this for certain items and equipment, reselling them for massive profit.

I think what they have already in place is good enough, locking Asura was a smart move too, if you want to move then you should pay.

[Uroah]

Punishing everyone for the devs incompetence is not "good enough"

They failed to account for economic incentives and allowed it to become a problem. It's their fault not ours.

Charging to escape a server that they failed to monitor correctly is the pinnacle of greed.

[Catmato]

Having little to no queue times or competition for camps is a pretty good incentive.

[Voidstorm]

Should just auto-lockdown any server with an active population over twice the lowest population server, and simultaneously open up Free Transfer to any server with <75% the lockdown'd server's population.
That way all servers have a somewhat manageable populations. Nothing too dead or too crowded.
Set it to only do the active population (paying) once every conquest tally or once every update so it isn't freaking out locking and unlocking servers every few seconds or minutes.

[Alhanelem]

I said this back when the lockouts first happened, if you want people to transfer you need to give them a reason to do so, that, at a minimum means offering free transfers off of the applicable servers. Further incentives would also help such as removing any limitations on what you can take with you, offering temporary bonuses for XP/CP/EP, etc.

[Svens]

Stuff that would actually incentivize me to transfer:
Free transfer off locked server
Mog Bonanza Weapon Kupon
??? JSE +2 earring from Sortie of my choice

Stuff that SE thinks will incentivize me to transfer:
Reduced price transfer
1 Alabaster/Murky Matter
Old Case +1
Impish Box
Sortie KI
Moogle Amplifier

[Catmato]

Free transfer away from locked servers seems like a no-brainer. I wonder if their system just currently has no way of handling that.

[Uroah]

Why would they ever even consider giving it away when they can charge $20 for it.

[Catmato]

Because just locking the servers isn't solving any problems.