On PS3 Release: New servers for new characters only.

[_C-a-e-r-i-t-h_]

I appreciate the serious response, but my response would be roughly the same: give it a month or two, and we're back where we started. I don't necessarily know where PS3 friends might end up.

But I'll take my argument partially back. What if we did a middle ground, and allowed server transfers - *after* a couple months? The PS3 users got their chance to "start fresh" to the point where anybody new starting fresh is significantly behind, just like any other server, and the economy is all sorts of goofy - just like any other server.

My only complaint with OP's idea is that nobody should be allowed to transfer ever, on the grounds that *he* admitted he voluntarily quit and *he* wanted an even playing field on an MMO he quit. Can you imagine if I went to Blizzard and said, "Hey, make a new server after Cata just for me so I can start fresh and not be behind, because I didn't like WoW originally and voluntarily quit."

I'm going to make this statement with the assumption that S-E will fix the economy to the point where new players won't have max gil after only a few months. Let us assume that to be true.

Under a reasonable economy, no player should ever reach the levels of wealth that current players have now. At any time, whether on launch day or six months later, someone comes in with that much of an advantage it will cause serious damage to the server economy. For this reason, I'd have to say that the "new character only" servers should be completely blocked from server transfer except in the following cases:

• Someone on a "new only" server can leave.
• Someone can join a "new only" server but only from another "new only" server.
• After a set amount of time (6 months? 1 year?), someone from a beta server (aka, all the servers out now) can transfer to a "new only" server but with a limit to how much wealth they can bring. This limit will be enough that they'll still be really rich, but not enough that they can destroy the economy.
• No limitations on transferring to beta servers.

The problem really is that the game is broken, and that means the current servers are broken and everyone on them is broken. When the game launches on PS3, assuming what I did in the beginning that the game will have been fixed by then, it hopefully won't be broken.

I want separate servers not for QQ but for Quarantine.

(I loved your nuked thread by the way. I guess it'll all be moot when we're both blackbagged by the mods and our $80-for-notebook accounts banned, eh? )