World Transfer Help/Advice?

[BlackValse]

After quite some significant time playing, I'd like to transfer my character to another server for personal reasons. However, I've noted that the service appears to be more punishing to more long term users.

The 1 million gil limit is understandable regarding in-game economy, yet I have a lot more than 1 million gil - nearly double that. Should I purchase items of high value in order to make use of my gil rather than waste it? If anyone knows of an item I can resell to regain my lost gil, that would be incredibly helpful.

I'd also like some help regarding server population on the Chaos data centre - I've had my eye on Phoenix and Cerberus. If anyone can provide a rough population estimate, I'd be very grateful as I'd rather transfer my character to a less crowded server.

Then again, I'm currently in Zodiark so I'm sure wherever I go it'll be crowded. (Laughs) Thanks for the help in advance!

[AkashiXI]

Best advice I can give is to make an alt on that server and see which items sell most consistently, buy those items and bring them over. Some players will buy rare minions, but imo that's more of a gamble.

[Valkyrie-Amber]

yep make an alt on the server your interested in going and review your worlds market and that worlds and naturally by cheap items current world that sell far more one the world you want to move to.

So your closer to the servers in Germany? chaos data center?

Depending on location I would sample the ping and pick any world located on lowest ping server. I'm a aussie for example so had to pick a JP world.

[BlackValse]

Thanks for the quick replies. I'm on an entry level subscription account as I'm happy focusing on my one and only main character. Your advice is great and I would have taken it up, except I'm unable to make additional characters as a result of my subscription. I could change it but due to work and other commitments, I'm loathe to pay extra when I can't always guarantee I'll have the time to play.

I'm British so the Chaos centre seems the best place for me to be, I never really thought about trying other centres. Do you not have trouble finding English speakers on the JP server, Valkyrie?

I guess I need someone from Phoenix or Cerberus to find the best selling items. I hope someone from there pops into this thread!

Minions sound like a good idea though I'm unsure which ones would make the best profits. It's certainly looking like I'll have to cut my losses but again due to personal reasons I'd rather get away from the server I'm currently in. Thanks for your help so far!

[ExKage]

Try posting in their subforums asking? http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/f...Group-NA-EU%29 or change the title seeking help from those servers?

[Stormrider]

You could also consider buying allagan pieces and clear demimateria as they have a solid set value if you can stockpile enough. Not to mention the items being sold on the board for below vendor cost.

[ExKage]

OH, if you have only 2mil? You can place up to 500k 100k on your two retainers.

[Reinha]

Take a look here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...y_730k_active/

It shows some interesting results to do with raiding, for example. Ragnarok, Odin and Moogle have the best/biggest raiding populations.

If I'm interpreting the big Excel-sheet correctly, the game had 733k active players at the time of the report. EU worlds in order of active population are as follows: Phoenix (21k), Cerberus (20k), Lich (16k), Zodiark, Ragnarok, Shiva, Odin, Moogle (13k). Phoenix and Cerberus populations are very close to that of the giants Balmung and Gilgamesh, so housing could be an issue there. Oddly the best servers for raiding have the smallest amount of active players. I would have expected otherwise. This report was submitted 8 months ago so I'm not sure how accurate it is at this point.

The fc I'm in on Odin has a constant stream of new players joining and I see sprouts everywhere. At the moment (2 hours before prime time) there are 16 listings on PF including fates, thordan ex and coil. On the other hand, not many people pug savage.

World forums could give you an idea about the community, languages used and potential fc's to join. Good luck!

Edit: here's a more recent one. Check out the "60+ demographics" link. https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...cs_turkey_day/

Seems that Ragnarok and Cerberus have the most level 60 players in Chaos.

[worldofneil]

OH, if you have only 2mil? You can place up to 500k on your two retainers.

Unfortunately it's only 100k per retainer now. They reduced it a while back

[ExKage]

Oh. I'm sorry for the misinformation OP!