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[Fendred]

They could also promote the free transfers by sweetening the deal with virtual swag. Like if your entire Free Company moves, they get a huge discount on buying a plot plus various XP goodies, consumables, etc.

Edit: Best promo ever: Give transferring players a free level boost to 50 on whatever class they want provided they have completed the 2.0 main story. By virtue of that, they should already have a lvl 50 character, so no big deal.

[Fortified]

They could also promote the free transfers by sweetening the deal with virtual swag. Like if your entire Free Company moves, they get a huge discount on buying a plot plus various XP goodies, consumables, etc.

The problem is people wouldn't want to recreate their entire fc, especially with thing like airships.

[Fendred]

The problem is people wouldn't want to recreate their entire fc, especially with thing like airships.

I never got to see the company airships before I left. Maybe give them a free airship?

[Fortified]

I never got to see the company airships before I left. Maybe give them a free airship?

They're not bought, they're crafted.

[worldofneil]

They could also promote the free transfers by sweetening the deal with virtual swag. Like if your entire Free Company moves, they get a huge discount on buying a plot plus various XP goodies, consumables, etc.

A lot of the servers don't even have empty housing plots available And unless they can actually keep their FC rank they'd have to recreate it and level it back up to 6 just to be able to buy a house again. Not to mention any members of the FC that have their own houses and have invested in the furniture/items that can't be removed once placed. Also the entire FC might not even want to move, they might be part of other linkshells/communities/raid groups that they wouldn't want to leave.

Combined with the gil limitation for moving server, and having to fire/rehire and re-level up all your retainers that you currently own, unfortunately I don't think many people would actually take advantage of a free transfer. Unless you're a fairly new character you just lose so many things by changing worlds.

Heck a lot of people won't even be able to keep the same name if they moved as well as their retainers when rehired would possibly also need to be renamed.