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[Ama_Hamada]

Transfer prevents moving over 1m gil, but you can transfer all your items. I was "forced" to transfer my alt from a nice friendly low population server. Low MB volatility was pressuring me to become an omnicrafter if I wanted to stay. After moving to large server, my alt's net-worth increased by roughly 6x and I don't have to craft.I didn't do anything special -- just checked the destination MB before moving and converted non-transferable gil into items to resell. It's certainly far more tedious than transferring blindly, but it does mean that gil is one of the good things about moving.

The bad is what you absolutely can't take with you: friends, community, FC, etc.. There are a LOT of nice people all over in this game, but it's always a shame to leave some behind for game reasons.

Clearly you got no idea how much some people can have. You can have 8 chrs, buy crap on the markets and still find it hard to move all your gil, since ill be hard to find enough items that will transfer well.

I recall an interview... I can't find the link... where they implied that many of their design decisions were based around NA data center limitations. Even now, they're talking about increased inventories and such for SB, and they've pointed at the new datacenter as the enabling piece.

Yes I know, but I am wondering how much they thought about location, not just "we need updated servers"