Transfer Restrictions and Roleplayers

[ErikMynhier]

The solution is not another unofficial RP server that will collapse or devolve into little more than 10-50 person clique spread out over 2-3 FCs.

There are two solutions to this issue:

(1) RP is consolidated on one hub - Balmung; OR

(2) RP is consolidated on one hub - Official RP server.

It doesn't matter which alternative happens; what matters is that RP is consolidated on one server. SE should take the exceedingly simple, cheap, and effective step of designating a new RP server and make transferring to that server for RPers seamless. This benefits everyone. RPers are able to have the community they need and value. PVEers can avoid RPers if they desire.

The OP's proposal is what needs to happen.

Yeah that's an issue I thought about but didn't want to bring up. You do this mass move and it will gel around a few leaders in a few FCs then the drama will happen. Not to mention you will be an island of RPers with no PVE,PVP, Raid or Crafter/Gatherer support. Only RPers, pissed off OG Mateus players, gold sellers, and nothing else. Balmung has its rep sure, but it has it all and you wanna start over? 4 years into the game? That's insane. Balmung is the #1 server because we have it all. Yes you can cross server.... but you can order crap off Amazon and have it shipped to BF Egypt, North Dakota. Its not the same as living in New York City though.


And that's what all this is. A bunch of people have lived in the City and want to move to the country because literally housing and population. They will get out there and be good for a week. Then the cults of personality will take root. Drama will happen, and the same thing that happens in real life will happen to the people moving to the "small town". They will hate it.

And a last note.... there are people in the RP community I don't like. There are people in the RP community that don't like me. Different outlooks on life will do that. But Balmung is big enough for us. I'm not the only one who dislikes and is disliked, but how do you handle that when there are 3-5 mega guilds?

If this closure was forever, then that would be different. No new blood would kill us. But the message is pretty clear from on high that once the dust settles in a few months it'll be ok, maybe even sooner. Maybe this is one of those times where the community could not whip itself into a frenzy that ends up hurting itself?