Current Plans for World Transfers

[Keku]

From what I'm seeing of their posts; it's going to be much smoother than it was the last time round.

People that don't go through the transfer process will all be stashed on the same server, this will open lots of room for people to pick where they want to go without having to spam refresh on the pages because every server is already listed as 'full'.

In my mind, the way I see it being done is:

At the start, every server has 0 people - people then apply to where they want to go and fill them up gradually. Those that don't use the transfer will all be put on 'Server_X' together so that they still have a place but didn't have to pick it.

In 1.0 it was more like - Every server is full until a few people moved to the open Ragnarok then say 5 slots would open up here and there before the server reached full capacity.

Anyone, please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but this is the gist I got from the dev posts^^;

Sorry, no this isn't correct. If you do absolutely nothing, you won't be placed in a random world. Everyone that was on that world, who also did not transfer, will be moved to the same place together.

However, just to reiterate, don't worry - we will announce the full details when they are all finalized. I know you're all anxious and we're keenly aware of it being a very important point for everyone!

What I am getting out of this is those that do nothing will remain in the same world grouping. So I am kinda guessing each server will stay "as is" but not since they will be new servers but the same people that there was on the old server they were all on together, people who move will be on the server of their choice. (excluding new player servers unless starting over)

I also could be wrong, but it's what it sounds like in that clarification, I don't think it will be all one server because it would be overflown with all those who do not move, I am guessing divided based on their previous server and people choosing a server would then add to these existing amounts.

[ArkhamNative]

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I was thinking that it would be that all Balmung characters will default to New Balmung, all Gungnir characters will default to New Gungnir, etc.

I don't think there will be problems with full worlds. SE is adding worlds this time, not consolidating them 2:1, and many people will be moving off of their old world to one in their region. Plus ARR worlds may be capable of holding many more characters than v1 worlds, just because v1 was kinda really broken that way.