World Transfer Applications Begin (03/01/2012)

Time to sleep.
I fully expect this thread to be at least 50 pages longer by the time I wake up.
If not I will be let down and have nothing to read through my day.

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Originally Posted by SirOleas

Time to sleep.
I fully expect this thread to be at least 50 pages longer by the time I wake up.
If not I will be let down and have nothing to read through my day.

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This^ lol and so many poor souls got beaten up in that one thread for wanting option 4 <.<

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Account Selection said: "There are no characters on this Final Fantasy XIV service account. Use of the Lodestone requires an account with at least one character active."

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Are you serious SE? I can't even log onto my 5 other accounts to move my 11 mules from the free trial period off world so that people can be let in Aegis?!

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Originally Posted by Kittra

Are you serious Community? I can't even log onto my 5 other accounts to move my 11 mules from the free trial period off world so that people can be let in Aegis?!

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ftfy. Not SE's fault this is 100% the community's choice.

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Originally Posted by Kittra

Are you serious SE? I can't even log onto my 5 other accounts to move my 11 mules from the free trial period off world so that people can be let in Aegis?!

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i see now why SE build up the retainer system. because there seem to be people like you who create 10 mules which take space up from a world but dont play activly. it all makes sense now.

Speaking of Retainers. Words of wisdom to everyone.
When the merge happens and the servers open up do what you can to get on and put a Retainer up quickly. You'll understand why about a week or 2 after the merge happens.

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Originally Posted by ReD_LiiNe

Im so frustrated ... I just got home from work to do the server transfer application and ive been stuck on besaid with no australian activity whatsoever and now i get the opportunity to join masamune .... its already full ?! anyone know if Ridill will have any australian activity ?? this game gets boring soloing ... ?

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Hi Red Line. I know a couple of Aussies who would like to meet you on Balmung if you're still staying^^

Balmung forever!!!!!!

Ok.... I log on and check around 20 min after the application open and most world is full... And keep checking later on.

I think they messed up on the calculation.
Ex: When 1 person from server Aegis (who in the 2 servers that become Aegis after merge) transfer to server Ridill then server Aegis would have a slot open up. Like: Aegis - 1 and Ridill +1
However, the servers all filled up so fast instead of have some space between all make me believe they forgot to take out that open slot. Like: Aegis - 0 and Ridill +1.

Idk why I typed all that but ok.. the bottom line is this sux... so. I hope they have a solution soon.

p.s. If they didn't messed up on the math then this whole transfer thing is more fail than I thought. Just wanted to point out how fail this is unless someone already (probably) did.

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Originally Posted by Xianghua

Speaking of Retainers. Words of wisdom to everyone.
When the merge happens and the servers open up do what you can to get on and put a Retainer up quickly. You'll understand why about a day after the merge happens.

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fixed it,

And i am going straight to the crystals ward =D amma /log there

I get the whole balancing of each server I really do BUT if I can't get all my linkshell members across to another server there is absolutely not point for world transfer for most people....I wounder if they are accounting for the people who have applied for a server transfer on each server. Hopefully they will update it daily.

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Originally Posted by ShadowDragon

Ok.... I log on and check around 20 min after the application open and most world is full... And keep checking later on.

I think they messed up on the calculation.
Ex: When 1 person from server Aegis (who in the 2 servers that become Aegis after merge) transfer to server Ridill then server Aegis would have a slot open up. Like: Aegis - 1 and Ridill +1
However, the servers all filled up so fast instead of have some space between all make me believe they forgot to take out that open slot. Like: Aegis - 0 and Ridill +1.

Idk why I typed all that but ok.. the bottom line is this sux... so. I hope they have a solution soon.

p.s. If they didn't messed up on the math then this whole transfer thing is more fail than I thought. Just wanted to point out how fail this is unless someone already (probably) did.

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To put it nicely. SE had a solution and picked it. The community went into a compete rage over it making SE change their decision to the decision which people wanted but didn't fully understand.

Why most people and SE messed up on the math. Is they assumed most of the EU would go to Ragnarok. which so far isn't the case. so with them + all the in-actives staying on the other 9 servers causing them to fill up. Only reason Ridill isn't filled is because we didn't merge with anyone there for have close to (or lower) our normal population.

I sure hope there's more for me to read when I wake up

http://i43.tinypic.com/9t1lyo.png

Alright all you EU players, get your asses over to Ragnarok so everyone else can actually carry out their transfer plans. :D

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Originally Posted by Intense

Alright all you EU players, get your asses over to Ragnorok so everyone else can actually carry out their transfer plans. :D

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Me and my LS have done our part. I would say I blame the inactive players, but actually it's not their fault, but those vocal community who complained about what would become of them with the initial merge plan. If only this would serve as a lesson...

So does anyone else think it seems improbable that all but two servers are filled to max within 12 hours and the system is accounting for something off perhaps?

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Originally Posted by Aku

Me and my LS have done our part. I would say I blame the inactive players, but actually it's not their fault, but those vocal community who complained about what would become of them with the initial merge plan. If only this would serve as a lesson...

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I agree, I voted for the other option but as you can see I post very little.

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Originally Posted by Intense

Alright all you FR/DE players, get your asses over to Ragnorok so everyone else can actually carry out their transfer plans. :D

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FTFY
/10char

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Originally Posted by Intense

Alright all you EU players, get your asses over to Ragnarok so everyone else can actually carry out their transfer plans. :D

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It's not that EU peoples don't move on Ragnarok server but it's not like EU players are a big part à FFXIV players.

French should be around 400-600 people and 20-40% of them are on Ridill and will not move, a very large part of the others french are moving on ragnarok. German people are a smaller number of players and a large part of them are on one server and don't plan to move too. for the others communities i don't really know but i know some spanish will move on ragnarok too.

in fact, ragnarok will have more EU people than the others servers but it would be between 700-1000 EU players in the best case and i think it won't be the case, so probably more between 500-700 EU players. Most of them will move with the time flow but don't expect a massive free slots...As soon a slot will be free, someone will take it right after....

Ragnarok has a lot of slot for international players and people can move with their LS, i'm sure that,the time flows, this server will have a pretty decent population ;)

Hopefully we can add in the people that have work shifts which make it easier to do things in an EU timezone. A lot more than just FR/DE ppl need to go there... The only bright side right now is that our server is full from being overrun with RPers. :O

I voted for option 2
After the transfer on March 27, when i log in, everybody that I have been playing with for 2 years will be there. Every linkshell and everything. Oh and the two guys that come back for deployment, they will be there too.
Option 4 we would have lost all of that.
I don't know anyone on our server that wanted to leave, except the dicks, (they know who they are)

To try to help i deleted my Alts.
Not sure if it helps.

I think you will see a post soon that states its not working correctly, the method of moving, they said would be a +1, -1, +1 new server, -1 old server.

This way it is impossible for them to be all filled up, think of it like scales? Makes no sense. The only explanation would be "staying put" uses up a free slot for some dumb reason.

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Originally Posted by viion

I think you will see a post soon that states its not working correctly, the method of moving, they said would be a +1, -1, +1 new server, -1 old server.

This way it is impossible for them to be all filled up, think of it like scales? Makes no sense. The only explanation would be "staying put" uses up a free slot for some dumb reason.

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Maybe there's been a massive influx on new players.

Yeah, I don't think so either.

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Originally Posted by lerunes_second

I voted for option 2
After the transfer on March 27, when i log in, everybody that I have been playing with for 2 years will be there. Every linkshell and everything. Oh and the two guys that come back for deployment, they will be there too.
Option 4 we would have lost all of that.
I don't know anyone on our server that wanted to leave, except the dicks, (they know who they are)

To try to help i deleted my Alts.
Not sure if it helps.

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Yeah, well your server didn't get chosen as the RP destination of choice. I like being able to meet and play with new players instead of always seeing the same groups doing the same things. When I moved on FFXI during the creation of Remora, it was by far the best decision I made.

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Originally Posted by viion

I think you will see a post soon that states its not working correctly, the method of moving, they said would be a +1, -1, +1 new server, -1 old server.

This way it is impossible for them to be all filled up, think of it like scales? Makes no sense. The only explanation would be "staying put" uses up a free slot for some dumb reason.

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There must be an issue, every server except ragnarok is full and yet no other space opened up. That makes no sense.

Fck yeah , i have now to choose a fulljp oceanic server with people that doesnt play on the same time as me or a death european server. Yeah keep killing the game yoshi , grats.

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Originally Posted by Intense

There must be an issue, every server except ragnarok is full and yet no other space opened up. That makes no sense.

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Maybe they set the limit lower than server A + B combined. In other words, they were already full before it even started - Except for Ragnarok and Ridill.

If that's the case, we'll just have to wait for the EUs to move to Ragnarok and free up some slots on the other servers. If that doesn't happen, maybe they'll increase the cap little by little.

"X" on all servers could mean that the balance that SE wants is already reached now and they just want to get more players on Ragnarok now.

Congratulations Ridil, you finished the race.

Naturally when you go for balance you have to take from the big and give to the small. so the max number per server has to be in the middle somewhere. SE even stated that some servers will be full soon after. so with servers being over the cap by more then other were under the cap. the +1,-1 doesn't work as planned.

Example: lets say 4 servers were over the cap from the get go by a total of 2000.and 5 servers were under the cap by a total of 700ish. (not real numbers)
As part of that 2000 go to the other servers. The 5 servers free spots decrease but the other 4 servers spots don't open up due to being over the cap. That leaves 1300 left for Ragnarok. which didn't work like SE planned

so the +1,-1 can't work as long as servers are over the cap. But if you increase the cap, some servers will have much more then other servers causing the same problem as before the merge.
SE expects us to do this community does the opposite and it causes problems. Nothing new really.

I just think it's funny that option 2 ended up as not having any option whatsoever unless you were either in the right timezone or felt like staying up until 4am my time. Ragnorak will end up getting scrapped or changed in my opinion, wince it seems there is a lack of people wanting to go. We really would have been better off with the original plan. RPers should just all go there as well since they don't do much anyway. Might help things along..

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Originally Posted by Phe

"X" on all servers could mean that the balance that SE wants is already reached now and they just want to get more players on Ragnarok now.

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I highly doubt that, since all of the servers were already full when I first checked it shortly after it was enabled. There's no way that many people have been camping the site, which means there must still be a pretty big difference in the size of population between the servers.

Either way, some of the people here have to stop whining already. (I'm looking at youuuu, Zottan!)
There's bound to be a dev post about it soon, so just wait and see.

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Originally Posted by Intense

Ragnorak will end up getting scrapped or changed in my opinion, wince it seems there is a lack of people wanting to go.

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And you can tell that a few hours after the transfer page was made available?

Most GMTs should be at work/school right now, and even more of them probably won't make their choice at day one. Give it some time.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l=1#post571159

Google translate leads me to believe everything is "working as intended".

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Originally Posted by Efrye

And you can tell that a few hours after the transfer page was made available?

Most GMTs should be at work/school right now, and even more of them probably won't make their choice at day one. Give it some time.

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With everyone waiting to see what's going to happen, nothing will change.

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Originally Posted by Koryu

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l=1#post571159

Google translate leads me to believe everything is "working as intended".

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It most likely is working as intended. The goal was to get the servers as close as the can to having the same population. Its pretty much been hit. Just need to wait and see what the EU is doing.

The problem is people once again not understanding the choice they picked. So claim its broken.

I don't understand why they are filling up so quick, why do inactive players count to the new world caps?

Can SE not do anything right? I wake up at a normal North American Time Zone time (9:00am) and all NORTH AMERICAN servers are full. This game was starting to get good, but how could I keep playing when the only server that is open is a European Server? Thanks for making my waste of time feel like a complete waste of time SE! Thanks a lot.

This really just gets better and better. Seriously people do you even read anything?

This is what you guys asked for. SE gave you guys what you want and now you are angry at them?

Quick question: I'm on Mysidia, so if I do nothing will I automatically be assigned to Gungnir? Or do I need to apply?