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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"

[AxlStream]

If the rumors about California hosting the new data center is true, that is disappointing since I expected them to go more towards the middle of the United States. I just hope I won't have to meld more skill speed to make my rotations work in the future.

[savageink]

If the EU Server Where always there I would ne with all the people who say "fuck EUs".
But EU Servers Where announced way After release of Housing. And by transfering Servers you loose that House. So yeah. Until they allow You to Transfer with your House Transfering is no option.

they would have to switch to an instanced housing model. somebody already owns your plot on the other servers in most cases.

[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.

[Mithron]

It really needs to be in central.

[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.

[Vespar]

Servers aren't even up yet. Before everyone cries foul, we should at least wait and see how it works.

[Duelle]

You shouldn't expect them to know any better. A lotttt of foreigners think traveling from california to texas is like pulling into a walmart, but it really isn't. Heck driving from San Diego, CA to Sacramento is still a hell of a drive probably 12ish hours.

Wouldn't they have stuff like consultants to explain that to them?

[Lukha]

I'm just gonna wait it out and hope the people tracing the servers are getting it wrong, because if they seriously moved the servers into a far corner of the country rather than somewhere relatively central I'm going to lose my last shred of faith in SE's decision making abilities.

[RylaiShendelzare]

Wouldn't they have stuff like consultants to explain that to them?

Yoshi has travel agents explaining how good the beaches in California are