Transfer Restrictions and Roleplayers

[ErikMynhier]

The only way an official rp server(s) would work is if the servers had actual rules in place to check trolls, housing horders, and the like. And then you are geting into thought/motive policing.

Otherwise you are just moving the problem from one server to the other. Some games do this but I'm honestly not sure if it has or has not worked there.

[Jetstream_Fox]

I really don't understand the crying over Balmung getting locked. Didn't the March census say it has roughly 26,000+ players? And Mateus around 4,500? Do some of you not see the HUGE difference in numbers there? Jenova had roughly 9,000. Even with the new servers Balmung has reached critical mass and none of the issues any of you experience there will ever be fixed. They're not closing it to hurt the server, they're closing it to ensure growth on other servers like Mateus and to make sure they give those of you there an optimal playing experience.

[OcieKo]

The only way an official rp server(s) would work is if the servers had actual rules in place to check trolls, housing horders, and the like. And then you are geting into thought/motive policing.

Otherwise you are just moving the problem from one server to the other. Some games do this but I'm honestly not sure if it has or has not worked there.

In EQ1 Firiona Vie had a single character on the server limitation, which for at least the housing issue, could bring it down quite a bit, without so much of the extra policing needed. Also limits max marketboard slots to 160 per account. Sucked for me tho being an altaholic and all tho.

[Nicodemus_Mercy]

I still do not believe that all RPers will take up an entirety of one server. But I'm curious. If you had to put a number on how many RPers there really are in this entire game (not just Balmung, but Gilgamesh, Mateus, et al), what would that number be?

Considering all of this, I am all for an RP-designated server/world. Have just one for now. But if it does become too crowded someday (though I doubt that it will), perhaps they can create another world.

I couldnt even begin to guess the number of RPr's suffice it to say, there's no way to make any server (even an rp designated one) exclusively populated by RPr's. Non rpr's will make characters on rp servers for a variety of reasons and there's no way to prevent that. Thus no one single server can be "the rp server" because it will inevitably get full and locked. Case in point: Balmung.

An official rp server designation does not prevent non-rpr's from making characters on said server, it only provides a few additional rules to follow (things like no stupid non-rp names). A designation won't make the server have infinite capacity. The devs could slap an RP designation on Balmung right now and it would still stay locked because its at capacity.

[reiichi]

While only a portion of the community, the Hydaelyn Roleplayers Coalition site has 11,518 members registered. Even generously assuming half of those accounts are bots, we'd still need to add in tumblr-only people and anyone else who RPs but doesn't network. ...there's a decent chance that RPers could fill up a server on their own without the help of anyone else. Especially if all RPers went to a single server, which is never going to happen.

[Marluxia]

Balmung is the only server to have a distinct split in demographics, being RPers and non-RPers. There's no way to predict that a designated RP-server will reach a population that's high enough to necessitate server locking. You can make the argument that it might reach cap eventually, but that point is basically meaningless.

Balmung was created as a result of a server merger. The argument that an RP-designated server will quickly fill to capacity isn't really relevant because this time, there's no pre-existing PVEr populace to add to the server.

Balmung is the RP hub because Besaid was the RP hub before it, and Besaid got merged with Fabul. Roleplayers have been asking for a designated RP server since 1.0 because this sort of thing was bound to happen.

[ErikMynhier]

You would have to drag me kicking and screaming. Like I said earlier in the thread, Bal is like the Big Apple, its got a lot of everything and plenty of wiggle room for me personally. And as far as I know most of my contacts and friends all say the same thing, "we are not going anywhere". So I'm not sure if the rest of the more hardcore rpers are thinking of jumping but most midcore rpers and content runners like me, at least the ones I know, are fine in a locked server and figure it'll open sooner or later.

[RubenSnizzle]

Poor thing you can't transfer to balmung..was to you to do it before the restriction, what limited you before? Nothing. Leviathan,cactuar,lamia are the other 3 highest pop server that i know.

Cause in all honesty, if you're a 'roleplayer' and you only heard about balmung being the RP server recently, just shows you had no interest in RP what so ever and if you just wanted to throw away 18$ to try a shot at RP, you can probably do it on your own server.


Using the restriction that the devs are putting so people immigrate to other server instead of over populating Balmung and Gilgamesh, you can make new friends, you can raid on other server, you can RP on other servers, they're some website dedicated to HELP you find RP community on other server, so don't come and complain about that.


Also, no one cares if you want to transfer to play with your 'friends'. You just had to do it before it.

[Mature]

I just want to be able to transfer with all my money. Everyone or most of us are rich by now having played the game for 3 years.

[ExKage]

I just want to be able to transfer with all my money. Everyone or most of us are rich by now having played the game for 3 years.

How much gil do you have? Do the new gil limits fit? If not, would you just prefer seeing a removal on gil limits all together? Is there anything else that would act as an incentive to move? There may not be guaranteed housing, would reimbursement be sufficient?