Datacenters: A Plea For Community Building, Not Fracturing

[Nalien]

Even if you own a house, you can store your furniture in retainers, get a full refund plus 3mil, and because of the upheaval there's bound to be empty plots coming up on your destination server.

One Retainer can hold 175 items. You have two without paying extra, so that's 350 inventory slots. Lets just assume you're not using that inventory space for anything else for... No well explained reason... When they announced this I figured I'd go count my furniture, just in case, turns out I've got well over 700 pieces to shift if I do want to move... It's a smart ploy by SE to not only inconvenience us (don't even get me started on re-placing all the furniture after just getting things how I liked...), but potentially have us shell out extra for more Retainers...

I'm just praying that SE is smart enough to lock Housing down for the two week period... Particularly with EU where we're getting new servers and thus entirely new Housing Wards... If there's a mad dash to snap up new plots, then this will be very ugly IMO... If they disable the ability to purchase plots for a while... People can spread out more efficiently, at least with regards to getting a plot... I mean they need to do that just for Free Companies alone... Anyone moving server as a Free Company will be reset to Rank 1 and need to grind up to Rank 6 just to purchase a plot, in which time all the plots will be purchased by individuals...

The fracturing is up to the people who I guess don't care enough about their friends to join them. It's not that deep.

I have friends who want to move, and friends who don't. Please tell me more about how I don't care enough about one set of friends to join them...

It's a lose-lose situation for some of us, stop pretending like it isn't please.