Require More Clarification for Data Center Expansion From Dev Group

During the live letter, the data center expansion is listed in 4.5 features. My questions for dev group are:

• When exactly will the data center expansion happen? Is it at the same date of patch 4.5 part 1? Or is it during part 1 and part 2? Or is it at part 2?
• The live letter showed the reimbursement for personal house and apartment. How will FC house work in the process?
• We will get free of transfer during two weeks. Will there be unlimited free transfer during these two weeks, or is there one time free transfer that we can use during the two weeks? Answered

Thank you in advance. This data center expansion is a huge deal for us, since our social network and statics are highly affected by this decision. We require more clarification to plan things ahead.

Edit: Question 3 has been answered.

—The server shuffling will happen around the time of Part 2, so March-ish.

—I don’t think Free Company estates qualify for the reimbursements, but I would have to double check. But since they technically belong to the Free Company as a whole, I don’t know if the leader would get any reimbursements for demolition if they decided to move.

—I’m assuming it will be a one-time transfer for any character you have: so if you have 3 characters, all 3 are allowed to transfer, but only once. But don’t quote me on that.

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Originally Posted by HyoMinPark

—The server shuffling will happen around the time of Part 2, so March-ish.

—I don’t think Free Company estates qualify for the reimbursements, but I would have to double check. But since they technically belong to the Free Company as a whole, I don’t know if the leader would get any reimbursements for demolition if they decided to move.

—I’m assuming it will be a one-time transfer for any character you have: so if you have 3 characters, all 3 are allowed to transfer, but only once. But don’t quote me on that.

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I thought they mentioned something about not being locked to the transfer in the live letter, but dont hold me to that.

They didn't state a limit on how many times you could transfer but you have to wait 3 days between transfers.

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Originally Posted by HyoMinPark

—The server shuffling will happen around the time of Part 2, so March-ish.

—I don’t think Free Company estates qualify for the reimbursements, but I would have to double check. But since they technically belong to the Free Company as a whole, I don’t know if the leader would get any reimbursements for demolition if they decided to move.

—I’m assuming it will be a one-time transfer for any character you have: so if you have 3 characters, all 3 are allowed to transfer, but only once. But don’t quote me on that.

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I watched the live letter again. They did not state the date for this thing to happen, and they also said that the transfer is unlimited within 2 weeks but a 3 days lock is applied between each transfer.
So my question 1 and 2 are still needed to by answered by Dev group.

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Originally Posted by Whanext

I watched the live letter again. They did not state the date for this thing to happen, and they also said that the transfer is unlimited within 2 weeks but a 3 days lock is applied between each transfer.
So my question 1 and 2 are still needed to by answered by Dev group.

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I’m fairly certain that the server shuffling is happening at the same time world visiting is going live, which I believe they stated was around when Part 2 would be released. All other sources I have read are citing Part 2 as being when this is all going live. I’m fairly certain that it is not happening during Part 1 of 4.5.

Honestly, if they had something in mind for FC houses, they would have said so; they were fairly detailed with what they would be offering for transfers. But your best bet for additional details would be the next live letter in december.

This was the general heads up, this is coming. If they hold true to form, there will be another notice a few weeks before this actually starts and possibly a special website with all the information on it similar to what happened with the last housing update.

Yeah, that will be nice.

We are also requesting information if free company’s will be able to move to a new data center, as this was not spoken about during the live letter.

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Originally Posted by SugarBunz

We are also requesting information if free company’s will be able to move to a new data center, as this was not spoken about during the live letter.

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Most likely not, considering FCs are based on the home server, and doesn't really interact with the data center, I'd see no need for FCs to move. If the leader wants to move, then that's their choice, but an FC as a whole would be unaffected in the context of being an FC

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Originally Posted by Lambdafish

Most likely not, considering FCs are based on the home server, and doesn't really interact with the data center, I'd see no need for FCs to move. If the leader wants to move, then that's their choice, but an FC as a whole would be unaffected in the context of being an FC

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For our case, the whole FC want to move together, and we'd like compensation for the FC house.

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Originally Posted by Whanext

The live letter showed the reimbursement for personal house and apartment. How will FC house work in the process?

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This is what I'm concerned about. Ideally they would have figured out a way to have the FC attached to the leader when he transfers as an option. In the chance the FC name is already taken at the destination, it would prompt for a name change, similar to character transfers. But I have doubts they will put in this much effort. I would love to be proven wrong though. It's something that could be developed and maybe charged as an extra transfer service. I wouldn't mind paying more if we get to keep our progress.

That being said I could at least settle for reimbursement of the FC State. But it seems that's not in the cards or they would have mentioned something about it. This is turning into quite a headache, as I've began making preparations for the worst case scenario and I would recommend those affected do so as well, the sooner the better. Don't get caught off guard, they've already warned us.

More Info please!

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Originally Posted by Lambdafish

Most likely not, considering FCs are based on the home server, and doesn't really interact with the data center, I'd see no need for FCs to move. If the leader wants to move, then that's their choice, but an FC as a whole would be unaffected in the context of being an FC

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So for our case we are on Bryn and it looks like our entire fc wants to remain on primal. We understand that relocation of the FC house is probably a no go. However we would like the keep our fc credits and remain rank 8.

There is no mechanism to move TV's from one world to another, that's also the kind of big feature they would have announced with the rest of the informatiom. There's always the possibility they'll make it before the split but I doubt it. Your best bet is to create alts on the destination world and power level a ne FC; it shouldn't take more than a week or two. Then have everyone move and buy a house during the free transfer window.

On the list of conditions to be eligible for a world transfer:

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Your character cannot be enlisted in a free company, holding a free company petition, signed to a free company petition, or applying to join a free company..

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You have to leave your FC to be able to transfer

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Originally Posted by Whanext

[*]The live letter showed the reimbursement for personal house and apartment. How will FC house work in the process?[*]We will get free of transfer during two weeks. Will there be unlimited free transfer during these two weeks, or is there one time free transfer that we can use during the two weeks? Answered[/LIST]

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I dont believe FC estates would be reimbursed as they're more tied to the server than a personal estate which is tied to your character data.
As far as free transfers work. for a 2 week period you can transfer as much as you want for free of charge but, there is however a 3 day cooldown period in between transfers. basically you have 4 jumps that you can use before it becomes a paid service again.

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Originally Posted by MerleSirlos

On the list of conditions to be eligible for a world transfer:


You have to leave your FC to be able to transfer

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Oof. Yep, that makes sense. That's really unfortunate, because this would be a good opportunity for entire FCs to transfer off of high pop servers, but being forced to not only (temp) disband your FC, but also lose your house with no compensation is a huge issue.

I can under leaving the fc to transfer however the fc should be able to remain with the owner and we can regroup once on the new server.

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Originally Posted by SugarBunz

I can under leaving the fc to transfer however the fc should be able to remain with the owner and we can regroup once on the new server.

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But what is the point to leave the FC when there is no one in it anymore.