Transfer Restrictions and Roleplayers

[Darus]

As a non-RPer on Balmung, I'd love to see a new RP server get made, just so more non-RP players will join Balmung. We're so inflated it's hard to get more people into my non-RP FC and most of the sprouts around are RP-alts. I like having an RP presence on Balmung, and I doubt it'd go away completely, but if we were not so inflated, we could get new people. I think an official RP server would help new RPers know where to go and keep the whole "make an alt and pay for transfer" mentality to stick around there.

[ToppeHatte]

This "server is on total lockdown until some of you get up and move" is understandable given the massive overpopulation issue but I can already see the seeds of a PVE vs RP civil war starting to stem from this and I feel like there's not much Square can realistically do to incentivize an entire subset of players to leave without forcing them or treating them like absolute kings. I don't RP, my entire FC doesn't RP, and I have tons of friends who don't RP and I can guarantee you absolutely none of us are interested in transferring, even given the free transfers and additional incentives provided. I'm absolutely sure the same can be said of a lot of people in the other camp as well, leaving no one happy and a server permanently on ice.

[vigioX-Sun]

I play Besaid from there Balmung after 2.0 launch, I don't RP an never been interested on that.
Will I move? No
Will I stop playing? No
Do I care if RP move or stay? No

No need to point an "RP server", is just gonna divide the community more than it alrdy is.
Balmung is been overpopulated for many years , I do hope doors stay close for a long time to come.

[Grimmel]

I'm hoping SE will name Balmung as the official RP server as for the many reasons stated beforehand of the history of this server having always housed the main populace of RP'ers in this game. But to aid in stabilizing the server itself if this were to come to pass they'd need to have policies in place that would deter the non-rp'ers away from the server.

Such as naming restrictions: having lore friendly names. No names like: Ipee Freely, Shaz Bot, Donut Girl.

Enforcing their rules about what is an appropriate discussion in public chats and making certain topics and discussions reportable offenses.

SE is very well aware of their RPing player base as many of you have said they are not. The first sign of this was the implementation of the Company Profile and recruitment in which Role Play is an option you can select as what your FC focuses on. They also recently added a tag for Role Players to use to designate if they are In Character or not.

But I've been saying this a long time that something needed to be done about Balmung and the fact that its bursting at the seams. And I fear that even the free transfer and incentives need to be implemented NOW rather than in Stormblood.

As SE has it, one single character can now transfer 50 mil in gil if they have 8 retainers and upward to 400,000,000 gil if they have 8 characters on a server and all 8 have the max amount of retainers.

Whether all these changes will be incentive enough for people to move off these populated servers or not remains to be seen. As others have said these changes have come a little too late and I fear that not many will budge off the servers they have chosen unless certain steps are taken to ensure a healthy distribution to lesser populated servers.

[TheAngelneer]

I'm hoping SE will name Balmung as the official RP server as for the many reasons stated beforehand of the history of this server having always housed the main populace of RP'ers in this game. But to aid in stabilizing the server itself if this were to come to pass they'd need to have policies in place that would deter the non-rp'ers away from the server.

So you are basically suggesting the RP community gets aid from SE to do a hostile takeover of a server?

I really don't get why some people in the RP community think they own the server. Setting up a brand-new RP focused server and letting people transfer there is the most logical (and friendly) solution, not forcing people out of "your" server.

[Lexia]

Such as naming restrictions: having lore friendly names. No names like: Ipee Freely, Shaz Bot, Donut Girl.

Enforcing their rules about what is an appropriate discussion in public chats and making certain topics and discussions reportable offenses.

SE is very well aware of their RPing player base as many of you have said they are not. The first sign of this was the implementation of the Company Profile and recruitment in which Role Play is an option you can select as what your FC focuses on. They also recently added a tag for Role Players to use to designate if they are In Character or not

This would only work for a new server tagged as a rp server as can't force the rules on existing players or force them to transfer.

[ExKage]

But to aid in stabilizing the server itself if this were to come to pass they'd need to have policies in place that would deter the non-rp'ers away from the server.

Such as naming restrictions: having lore friendly names. No names like: Ipee Freely, Shaz Bot, Donut Girl.

That's an incredibly horrible idea to enforce on Balmung.

[Moonlite]

Thank god the server is locked. It should have been locked before 3.0 realistically. To the people who say its temp, haha. If it is locked due to population balance it isn't becoming unlocked. If it is locked for stability reasons I am sure 4.1 and on SE will want their transfer fees to bypass the lock. Some of the numbers on characters transferred into Balmung over the course of 3.0 are more then a certain server has population. If the scrapes are to be believed.

The answer is simple and I don't understands SE issue with implementing it. If A housing transfers are coming or B they wish to 100% refund a house. Create a new server locked only to transfer from Balmung and mark that bad boy rp. Allowing a whole sale move of the rpers off the legacy server. Once the transfer period is over allow all other servers a chance to transfer to the rp server if it is sub 10k. And maybe close that waste of space server and force them to merge. If they don't want to add an extra world.

[Iromi]

SE should designate a few servers for RP, yes I agree..this would help fix a lot of the issues and over crowding.

[Marluxia]

There's no reason not to have a designated RP server at this point, and to offer free transfers.

Actually, nevermind, there is a reason: milking money off of transfers. I'd argue one of the main reasons the problem got this bad to begin with is because of the revenue from RPers transferring to Balmung.