Free Transfer?

[JumperX]

It would be one time per RAF account. The point is, it's hard to recruit friends when they either have to cough up an extra $18 or they can't play with you.

if the possibility to have more friends coming to the game is there, may be you should think to transfer to another server.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

It would be one time per RAF account. The point is, it's hard to recruit friends when they either have to cough up an extra $18 or they can't play with you.

It sucks, but if they did allow for this most people who are recruited would opt for the larger sizes. Why pick somewhere tiny where meeting people might be difficult when you can hop into Gilgamesh or Balmung who have nearly 40,000 between them? One way to look at it is you get a month free when buying the game. So that essentially pays for the transfer.

[Kaethra]

A decent fix would be to allow RAF the ability to bypass restriction if and only if sent from the server in question. Friends ought to play with friends. Its how communities and free companies get started.

[Kewitt]

Paid transfer works to locked servers.

Balmung is locked damn near 100% of the time but it's got low populations just very active players. It's not as easy as high populations servers.

I do agree RAF should bypass it. But if they are already playing out of luck.

I do think they should off free transfers from Locked servers to a select set of servers with populations issues or people not logging in enough.

[Stormbad]

This is what I had to do for my son. He started on a low pop server and I paid for the transfer to Gilgamesh where I play. Now if I didn't care about playing with the people I do already, I would have just made a new job on the other server to "start" with him at his pace.

[sarehptar]

Wait until just a few minutes before a maintenance. The mass exodus of players logging out ahead of the maintenance almost always opens locked worlds for just a few short minutes. Make sure your friend has his character data saved and ready to go, then just jump straight into the character creation like 5 minutes before maintenance and keep using the refresh button to check whether Gilgamesh is open, then pounce the second it opens. Maintenances almost never start on time, so you'll usually get ~10 minutes before you're logged out. That's enough time to get through the opening cutscene and take your first steps into your starting city, and that's all you need to get your character on the world officially.

[Niqote]

Updates on Character Creation Restrictions can be found here.
During periods of high congestion, we may institute a temporary restriction on the creation of new characters.
This information will be updated at the following times:
1:00 / 6:00 / 11:00 / 15:00 / 20:00 (GMT)
2:00 / 7:00 / 12:00 / 16:00 / 21:00 (BST)

○：Character Creation Possible ×：Character Creation Restricted

× Gilgamesh

When you open the client, you can see this information on the left, it was updated 25/04/2017 01:00 AM


Personally, I recommend you get the character made, data saved and a name picked out. Wait till just before maintenance, or just as servers come back up form a maintenance and then try to make the character.