Incentive to transfer must be increased

[Etisha]

So queues for packed servers are...insane.

Anti AFK abuse aside, Balmung is PACKED. We've seen server-wide messages to offer to transfer to another server for free! But why would you? This server has your friends, your house (if you're part of the 5% who has a house, lucky ducks), a busy economy, all with no downsides if you talk to a bell before you go to work for the day to skip the queue.

So why transfer? A shiny new mount? Gold for the house I don't have? All of Balmung has looked at these bonuses and gone "meh" and gone back to that bell.

My idea is, give everyone on servers open for free transfers a buff that will effect high/max level players. Perhaps a tomestone increase, discounts from shops/repairs, mount speed, a discount on houses, GAME TIME. Nothing that will make the game easier gameplay wise but also something that actually benefits existing characters enough to encourage people to transfer en-mass with all of their friends and guilds.

Thoughts? Ideas?

[Rhysati]

I don't know what the solution is, but they have to offer FAR more than they currently do if they want to see results. For someone like myself, I run a roleplaying FC on Balmung. We have a house, two linkpearls, connections throughout the community, and have no intentions of going off to a free transfer server to watch the RP community there wither over time. Biggest way they can solve the Balmung issue would be to open up an official RP server and allow transfers for free to it from Balmung. That will take a massive load off the server most likely.

[Mikhaill]

They needed to make Balmung the official RP server, and those who want off, could of moved.
You're asking people who pretty much set in the stone this server to RP. It would of been easier
for those who didn't care much for it to go off somewhere else, imo. It's just hard to get people
who have been there forever and established everything along time ago and tell them to pack up.

[Darus]

I agree with the increased incentives. I run an old 2.0 FC and can't leave due to my policy of keeping a home ready for our old FC members when they return from their years off. Anything to help the load is a great idea to me, but the RP community needs a designated point to move to in order to ease the load.

[LunaFaye]

How about we additionally mark all these players for the first raid cleared, and dropping the whole savage raid set into their inventories, while letting them purchase expansion 5.0 for 90% off etc.

You do have a choice, it's either transfer off the server (bonus initiatives have been implemented) or stop complaining. If you're still sitting there thinking that you deserve some kind of compensation or bonuses, because you chose to stay on that server, well then I don't think anybody can help you anymore.

[Etisha]

I agree with the increased incentives. I run an old 2.0 FC and can't leave due to my policy of keeping a home ready for our old FC members when they return from their years off. Anything to help the load is a great idea to me, but the RP community needs a designated point to move to in order to ease the load.

If they open up a new NA server designated for RP, Balmung would lose...most of its players? The new server would get packed asap, but likely not quite to Balmungs levels. I think it would be a smart move.

[Centershock]

How about we additionally mark all these players for the first raid cleared, and dropping the whole savage raid set into their inventories, while letting them purchase expansion 5.0 for 90% off etc.

You do have a choice, it's either transfer off the server (bonus initiatives have been implemented) or stop complaining. If you're still sitting there thinking that you deserve some kind of compensation or bonuses, because you chose to stay on that server, well then I don't think anybody can help you anymore.

Uh, yeah. Many of us have been here BEFORE Balmung became this bad. Before you go off on your high horse and ignore all the connections we've made and the time we've put into this, consider the fact that a lot of us have been here before it became a problem.

If SE really wants us to get off of Balmung, then they really need to do better. A lot of us are not sacrificing our connections for these measly incentives.

It could go either/or. Either SE can make a designated RP server and let us transfer to that server for free, or make Balmung a designated RP server and let those who want to transfer off of it for free.

[Amelia_Pond_Behemoth]

I know of a great incentive. Players who transfer off high populated worlds will be given shorter login queues.

[AxlStream]

It's not like transfering off of Balmung will aleviate all the issues Balmung is crying about. Oh wait...

[alimdia]

They needed to make Balmung the official RP server, and those who want off, could of moved.

You can't force non RPers to leave Balmung even if it was designated as RP server, the population problem would only get worse with an official RP designation.