Question about server transfer restrictions

[Missbone]

Ok, so 50% of the population have 10000 gil and then transfers brings in 50% of a new population with 1M+ to the same server.

Prices rise because the ones with gil can afford it and you end up being in a bad spot cos you hardly have any gil to buy items now that prices have risen.

OR

You land on a server with 10000 gil to your name and everyone else that was already on there years before, ie in the case of XI let's say, has 1M+.
Prices are high due to the players having gil that can afford items and you are again in a bad spot.

Looks like the same to me.

Simple Solution, after Transfer your Money is balanced to that what most Players have, so on a non legacy you losing all of your millions and on a legacy Server you get a bit for the start if you has less than most Players.

[Velev]

Simple Solution, after Transfer your Money is balanced to that what most Players have, so on a non legacy you losing all of your millions and on a legacy Server you get a bit for the start if you has less than most Players.

sounds great to me!

if only they did that, the many people stuck on Legacy servers would be over joyed.

Of course you would get the ones that had millions complain they lost it but then again they probably wouldn't transfer and complain about it anyway.

Either way you're going to get people complaining, so you can't really win lol.

Which is why they should just let people transfer wherever they want and let things settle by themselves with of course GMs and devs monitoring the situation, ie taking care of RMTs ruining the economy or things like that.

Just a thought..

[ChickensEvil]

Either way you're going to get people complaining, so you can't really win lol.

Which right there is why they should just leave it as is. Because people are going to complain no matter what. Before early access even started, they said they were planning to do world transfers within a month, but that the legacy wouldn't be happening for at least 6 months. You should have made the decision then to either live with the Legacy servers for 6 months, or move on. The only people a feel bad for are those on Hyperion and Excalibur who are having trouble logging in. They do have very limited options to fix their situation. There are options though, and again, from talking with my friend on Sargatanis, he has no issues with population (too big or too small)

Beyond just money in the economy, the thing you have to keep in mind is that at one point XP gains were legitimately broken. To the point where you could take any class (even crafting) 1 to 50 in a couple hours. So what you will find is EVERYONE who is true legacy has every single class maxed out. This does some really funky things to prices on the marketplace. Never mind that everyone legacy has tons of money, so prices are inflated anyway, the demand for things is REALLY low, because they all can just make whatever they want themselves.

I am trying to meet up with my friends in their server. I was incredibly upset because at launch, I was unable to make a new character with them because it was closed and restricted.

Assuming you are not on a legacy server trying to go to non-legacy, and it is just locked out because of population. People have suggested that if you keep at it, you can eventually get it to go through. I would also try during non-peak times.

If this still fails, then, while it does suck to make 10 people move instead of 1, given that the transfers are free it would just be a minor inconvenience and no major impact on everyone's wallets. If they are really your friends, then they would understand your situation and try their best to help you out. It isn't SE's fault that certain servers inevitably get higher population than others, and there isn't really much else they can do to increase the populations from what I gather from reading their posts. There is some real and serious lag on zones when you get too many people in them and it just breaks the game.

The other option is to continue to wait it out until the population dies down some. I am willing to bet some people will be moving off those servers because they don't like that they are crowded and difficult to log in to. If you really want to go down that route, even if it end up costing you money, you should get that to work out eventually.

[Velev]

Which right there is why they should just leave it as is. Because people are going to complain no matter what. Before early access even started, they said they were planning to do world transfers within a month, but that the legacy wouldn't be happening for at least 6 months..

I never saw that anywhere nor did i look for it to be honest.

I've never done research on a game before playing it. Well sure i normally check what it is like on youtube and read comments here and there and normally check the main website of the game.

Then again when i did roll a character all servers were locked but 1 and that one was a legacy, which again i had no idea what legacy event meant. I didn't know how long to wait for until they unlocked the servers, that was like shooting in the dark... But anyhow that's all done with now.

Apart from that, i would have to agree with everything else you said.

p.s and for the record i concur, chicken is EVIL! ;p

[ChickensEvil]

I never saw that anywhere nor did i look for it to be honest.

So I went looking for a valid source to point it out to you (just so you didn't think I was making it up or something), and I am actually having a bit of trouble finding it. One of the main places it was at previously, was over on the Mog Station. But since they have now updated that page to actually handle the world transfers, it simply references the news article that explains how the transfers work... If I can find it I will.

Honestly, I only knew about it myself, since I actually started on Sargatanas (still have my level 19 sitting there), and we (my friend and I) had to make the very real decision to stay here or start over, since we had two different groups of people we were debating on playing with. Ultimately it came down to us rerolling and then we were just going to pay for our 3rd wheel (the guy who is still on Sargatanas, since he had a level 50... like... everything) to transfer over when they finally open it up. That was when I found that it would be restricted for like 6 months.

Again, I am sorry that you feel stranded, but there are some very great communities on those legacy servers. The LS that our friend is in over on Sargatanas was part of the group that downed the "unbeatable" stuff from way back in the FFXI days. Order of the Blue Garter is also on one of those servers (don't remember which) as well. And if you do have friends that you really want to play with (and they really want to play with you... I think that is the big key here) then they should be willing to move over. The only reason things happened the way it did for us, we were never expecting them to have "free transfers" or that might have factored into our original decision process.

[DimiDimi]

Dear community reps, can you please press for an answer as to WHEN we can transfer off legacy servers? Any reasoning for disallowing this is pretty moot at this point, and I'd really like to play with my friends. I get that they're set against it for now. All I'm asking for is a month & year. Please please please help us get an answer for this. I don't want to keep dumping more time & effort into my character on legacy server if it's going to be a year or more before I can go play with my friends.

[SeraphimZA]

I never saw that anywhere nor did i look for it to be honest.

I've never done research on a game before playing it. Well sure i normally check what it is like on youtube and read comments here and there and normally check the main website of the game.

Then again when i did roll a character all servers were locked but 1 and that one was a legacy, which again i had no idea what legacy event meant. I didn't know how long to wait for until they unlocked the servers, that was like shooting in the dark... But anyhow that's all done with now.

Apart from that, i would have to agree with everything else you said.

p.s and for the record i concur, chicken is EVIL! ;p

This is exactly what happened to me.

And you can't tell me that people who started at the same time as me can't transfer for economy or level reasons.

[DerpyCubone]

The thing that people need to understand is that character creation date is meaningless. I have a legacy character, if I could create a new character on that legacy server I could load that character up with gil and move to my current non-legacy server. Even if they put a harder gil cap on legacy servers you can still load up on goods and move your money that way.

[SeraphimZA]

I wouldn't mind it if all my gil and items were taken away and I was left only with the lvl 1 starter items for each of the classes I had unlocked if it meant I could transfer from a legacy server to a non-legacy server to play with my friends.
People would complain (they will always complain) but then at least people would be able to play with their friends.
And those friends would probably help out in recovering lost items and gil.

The thing that people need to understand is that character creation date is meaningless. I have a legacy character, if I could create a new character on that legacy server I could load that character up with gil and move to my current non-legacy server. Even if they put a harder gil cap on legacy servers you can still load up on goods and move your money that way.

I don't understand how this applies to players who created their first character on a legacy server after 2.0 was released.