Suggested servers

As it happens in other games, isn't it nice to have the "suggested" flag on some server when you create a new character and need to choose your world? (or "low", "high", "new", "rp" tags, whatever)

Suggestions doesn't "force" no one go there, people still can choose, and SE's ones are just hints.

When I play the game for my very first time, and I see there is a selection of worlds, I'll explore that and to me all worlds are equal, unless I see those tags, that may help me decide where to go.

It may be extended to datacenters as well, especially if the players isn't "exactly" in the supported regions. Choosing datacenter, the client may "ping" them and flag to you the ones that seems to be the best choices (other than the text telling you which region they cover).

Thing is if se decide to put that suggest in to the server, they will be held responsibility regarding how that server will change in the future. I'm pretty sure se doesn't want to take more responsibility that they have now.

They already pick a server for you on character creation to which you can deny and select your own. Unless I don't remember that update correctly.

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Originally Posted by Canadane

They already pick a server for you on character creation to which you can deny and select your own. Unless I don't remember that update correctly.

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Yes they do. What the criteria is used for the pick, I can think of lowest populated but dunno if confirmed. It will be funny to create a new character and then see Balmung as picked up server.

"populated" and "active character" may be quite different, 'tho, I think created characters but never or played 5 min per month, does needs not enter the computation.

Datacenter ping may be nice for who plays "borderline" between datacenters.

I just want Gil restrictions removed. There's no much of a point having it as Every world got their own crafters with 999.999.999 already. Transfering with 80 million or 1 won't make any difference

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Originally Posted by Mature

I just want Gil restrictions removed. There's no much of a point having it as Every world got their own crafters with 999.999.999 already. Transfering with 80 million or 1 won't make any difference

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It is now 5 million

Buy up 999mil worth of allagan gold/tin and such? :S

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Originally Posted by Felis

It is now 5 million

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Sorry miscalculated

1 character 10mill
1 retainer 5 mill each

So maximum that you can take to another server is 50million (if u have 8 retainers)

Some of us has crossed the half billion plus mark and cause of the server move I cannot "just" transfer due to the amount of money i got saved.

SE team are worried that for people like us , we are gonna ruin the economy of others servers when in reality each server by now got their own billionaires. So making a transfer with all my Gil won't make any difference. Hence why I ask for no Gil restriction.

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Originally Posted by Mature

I just want Gil restrictions removed. There's no much of a point having it as Every world got their own crafters with 999.999.999 already. Transfering with 80 million or 1 won't make any difference

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"If players are able to transfer characters without problems after these changes, we will consider removing the gil limit on character transfers."

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Hopefully everything goes smoothly after the changes.

In every game, the "suggested" server is simply which server the game got the lowest number when it gave it a quick ping. Considering how wildly a ping can fluctuate due to any number of a myriad of factors, these systems are almost completely worthless. I've personally seen games recommend me to use EU servers before, even though they have NA servers located about 100 miles from me. The current system where it just simply tells you what region each of the servers is for, is objectively the better system.

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Originally Posted by Nerisu

"If players are able to transfer characters without problems after these changes, we will consider removing the gil limit on character transfers."

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Hopefully everything goes smoothly after the changes.

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Thanks. I really hope this gets green light as atm I'm stuck in my server and I would like to move to another but the Gil restriction is not allowing me.

I always thought the gil transfer limit as to prevent one to go to a server to buy an item at a really low price and get back to his server to sell it higher. Like a "legal" way to use real money to make gil XD

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Originally Posted by Mature

Thanks. I really hope this gets green light as atm I'm stuck in my server and I would like to move to another but the Gil restriction is not allowing me.

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If you have a standard account (not the basic), you could always create extra characters as needed and level them up enough to hire retainers (about 2-3 hours at most per character, most of it is just running around).

You'd need help of a 3rd party or company chest at each end to distribute/consolidate the money amongst your characters (and their retainers), but technically someone with 8 characters, each with 8 retainers, could now transfer 400 million in one go (8 characters with 10 million each and 64 retainers with 5 million each).

The transfer fee covers up to 8 characters on the same server so if you have the basic 2 retainers, 8 characters (and their 2 retainers each) would still be able to transfer a total of 160 million.

Just mentioning in case this is any help for you and you don't want to wait to see if they remove restrictions.

U saying that I don't have to pay again for another 8 retainers?

So my main and only character shares all retainers? So if I create other characters with retainers it won't affect the other character's retainers?

Cheers

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Originally Posted by Mature

U saying that I don't have to pay again for another 8 retainers?

So my main and only character shares all retainers? So if I create other characters with retainers it won't affect the other character's retainers?

Cheers

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Only bad part is that you need to do the first 3 dungeons to unlock retainer if i'm not mistaken, but still a good way to transfer money.

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Originally Posted by Mature

U saying that I don't have to pay again for another 8 retainers?

So my main and only character shares all retainers? So if I create other characters with retainers it won't affect the other character's retainers?

Cheers

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When I got my retainers for my alts, it said I had up to the total retainers I already had available on my main which I purchased, so to my amazement, if you have 8 retainers on your main, your alts will too. This means with 8 characters and 8 retainers each, you get 64 retainers. 8 X 10 million is 80 million. 64 X 5 million is 320 million. 80 million + 320 million is 400 million.

Thank you very! I'll look into it!

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Originally Posted by Mature

U saying that I don't have to pay again for another 8 retainers?

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Yes, the mogstation upgrade for more retainer is per account, not per character.

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Originally Posted by Mature

So my main and only character shares all retainers?

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No they don't share at all, they each have their own retainers and unfortunately since you can't friend yourself you can't easily send yourself money/items except with the help of a 3rd party or a company chest.

But for a one time thing like transferring, the inconvenience could be worth it!