SE please raise the gil amount that we can bring over with the free server transfer

[ShinFF]

I see your point but if somebody is moving tens of millions its surely not going to be in only a few items. No matter how you slice it is going to impact the economy.

I can tell you from experience that I moved servers a year ago from a small server to a legacy and the difference in the economy was minimal. If I would have been able to move gil the effect I had on the economy would have been the same.

Edit: Also I'm not advocating the amount be moved to 50M but the current 1.2M limit was set nearly 2 years ago when this game was new and the economy was yet to be established. I think if SE took the time audit and adjust the limit based on what we have currently it would be a nice compromise.

Yes I know 50M might be a bit too much but one can only hope =)

I wouldn't mind losing up to 50% of my existing gil... but with only 1mil allowed I'm looking at a loss of 90+%

[PandaPause]

True, but this is not one person we are talking about right now. Between all of my friends who wants to transfer, there's already multiple persons with 50+mils. I haven't checked the market board but I don't think it's possible to but out even a portion of what you own given how many people are looking to transfer.

Best advice I can give is set an alt on the destination server and check the MB for comparable prices or items you can make a profit on. Start buying up what you can based on the info gathered. Best case scenario you make a profit and worse case you have items on the MB for a while or get undercut and take a small loss.

[F_Maximillian]

Well the problem is that despite there being a fair number of Europeans on the Chaos datacenter, there's plenty of people from NA as well who are essentially being forcefully transfered to a server with higher ping than what they currently have. Sure, free transfers are a great gesture but that's like if someone uprooted your apartment complex and chucked it into another country. They would let you go back for free but they would only let you bring a portion of your things and a small percentage of your savings. So you're stuck deciding between staying in this new place or going back to where you were without a good chunk of your stuff. I think for the people that got transferred like this there should be a special exception and have the gil limit removed or at least raised as they're essentially going to be uprooted against their will (even if they did have prior knowledge of it the transfer caps issue is still a thing).

[ShinFF]

Best advice I can give is set an alt on the destination server and check the MB for comparable prices or items you can make a profit on. Start buying up what you can based on the info gathered. Best case scenario you make a profit and worse case you have items on the MB for a while or get undercut and take a small loss.

Ya that's most likely what I'm going to do while crossing finger for SE to do something about it.

Or I'll just burn all my money to craft a few sets of 170HQ to gear up all my crafting class and start over on the new server

[Felis]

And if you bring in so many of those goods, you'll affect its value if you decide to sell them quickly. That'll have an impact, but only on those items you bring over and temporarily. Now do the same with gil have people bring in possibly billions, how much gil sinks are in this game again? Right, close to none that affect those with more than 100,000 gil (almost everybody), you'll permanently affect the amount of gil on the server leading to inflation. The low value of one item is a better risk to take than the inflation of gil altogether and SE knows that, why else do you think they've set the limit? If it's to combat RMT, then there's no hope of them raising it.

Now, allowing people to keep all their gil during the free transfer can be a healthy temporary gil sink fo the chaos server group ^^

[BreathlessTao]

In general, raising the gil limit should have been done ages ago. (I'd even say outright abolished, but that's a different subject.) But for this, especially.