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[Ama_Hamada]

Transfer prevents moving over 1m gil, but you can transfer all your items. I was "forced" to transfer my alt from a nice friendly low population server. Low MB volatility was pressuring me to become an omnicrafter if I wanted to stay. After moving to large server, my alt's net-worth increased by roughly 6x and I don't have to craft.I didn't do anything special -- just checked the destination MB before moving and converted non-transferable gil into items to resell. It's certainly far more tedious than transferring blindly, but it does mean that gil is one of the good things about moving.

The bad is what you absolutely can't take with you: friends, community, FC, etc.. There are a LOT of nice people all over in this game, but it's always a shame to leave some behind for game reasons.

Clearly you got no idea how much some people can have. You can have 8 chrs, buy crap on the markets and still find it hard to move all your gil, since ill be hard to find enough items that will transfer well.

I recall an interview... I can't find the link... where they implied that many of their design decisions were based around NA data center limitations. Even now, they're talking about increased inventories and such for SB, and they've pointed at the new datacenter as the enabling piece.

Yes I know, but I am wondering how much they thought about location, not just "we need updated servers"

[Kethic]

Clearly you got no idea how much some people can have. You can have 8 chrs, buy crap on the markets and still find it hard to move all your gil, since ill be hard to find enough items that will transfer well.

Yes I know, but I am wondering how much they thought about location, not just "we need updated servers"

It's a fair question, but I imagine they thought about it more than people in this thread are giving them credit for.

[SleepyBee]

This feels a bit ridiculous. I live on the west coast but have always played on an EU server. Sure, when the EU servers moved it was a bit of an adjustment and things weren't quite as snappy as before but I adjusted. I even raid as a ninja and it's FINE. Where ever the new servers end up being it's not going to affect people that badly at all, certainly not to the extreme of a west coaster playing on a EU server.

I also wasn't going to say anything about this but it's really cringe reading a couple comments about the inconvenience of a natural disaster on the game. I'd like to think people losing their lives in a quake would be a SMIDGE more of a problem.

[Belhi]

If your in America you will be able to play fine with the ping. I play on a server literally a 1/3rd of the world a way and I manage fine. I am extremely lucky to get under 200 ping. I have my doubts that JP or EU will be much better ping wise.

[Lokryn]

If your in America you will be able to play fine with the ping. I play on a server literally a 1/3rd of the world a way and I manage fine. I am extremely lucky to get under 200 ping. I have my doubts that JP or EU will be much better ping wise.

Pretty much, the game has a built in lag anyways so most, wont even notice it. Movement maybe a tiny bit but I doubt it's going to break the game.

[Sida]

Ping is Spell Speed and packet loss is (not enough) Accuracy. ^^ Doesn't matter how fast it is if it keeps missing

[Mature]

It seems that this might be happening in regards of free transfers as they opened Odin / Shiva and Cerberus (them 3 had been "full" for weeks)

- European data center
　○ Cerberus
　○ Lich
　○ Moogle
　○ Odin
　○ Phoenix
　○ Ragnarok
　○ Shiva
　○ Zodiark

[TaurusGilgamesh]

Well, my ping will go up from 120 to 170 so meeeh. But as they stated they are thinking to lift the gil restrictions for server tranfers I wait if they do that soon as I don't wanna convert my millions of gil into items or lose them entirely....
the IP seems to be right by the way. If you traceroute all Lobbies, only NA ones have changed IP and pingwise. So if I notice the change too much, I have to say goodbye to my NA friends which sucks...

[say0]

chaos is gonna have a lot of new blood at least. west coast ping is just not doable from EU unless you don't care about trying to push your gameplay at a high level

[Zojha]

chaos is gonna have a lot of new blood at least. west coast ping is just not doable from EU unless you don't care about trying to push your gameplay at a high level

I dunno. I'd personally be hesitant to move even "with" a free transfer, since all your housing, friends etc will be gone, if I have to pay extra for it that's just a lolnope. I'll just lube up and take those AoEs like a man >_>