Discussion: What would get you to transfer servers?

[TheTen]

1. Consolidation of the Preferred Worlds
The fact that we have too many worlds for the number of NA center players was the culprit for the congestion in the first place. No one wants to be on an empty server and therefor everyone flocks to the same servers as the 'safe choice'. We need a guarantee that there are no empty servers.

2. Cross-Server Moving
I will not rebuild both my private house and our FC house from scratch. My friends and I spent a ton of work and gil on making our homes what they are. (Certainly more gil than they currently offer, too.)

3. Cross-Server Linkshells and Friendlists
Are coming, luckily, at some point, and are vital to maintaining communities.

4. FC Moving?
I don't know how it currently works actually, but even my tiny FC has put time and effort into getting where we are, and I will not lose any of it.

[Cyclingsofa]

The promise that the new server can hold more than a few thousand people at a time. Game will feel dead a month from now, only new Mor Dhonashire (Rhalgr's Reach) and Kugane will have people in them. I'd like for more server community than datacenter spread over multiple servers. People are forced on so many different servers it's barely an MMO and more like choosing a small server in Counter Strike.

I know I'm wishing for the impossible which is why I'll probably never end up switching servers. Phoenix is garbage but at least it's home I guess.

[NanaWiloh]

The promise that the new server can hold more than a few thousand people at a time. Game will feel dead a month from now, only new Mor Dhonashire (Rhalgr's Reach) and Kugane will have people in them. I'd like for more server community than datacenter spread over multiple servers. People are forced on so many different servers it's barely an MMO and more like choosing a small server in Counter Strike.

I know I'm wishing for the impossible which is why I'll probably never end up switching servers. Phoenix is garbage but at least it's home I guess.

Lamia has like 5k-6k players and its mid population putting the cap around 12k-15k. How many more people do you want servers too hold 50k?

[Skivvy]

I would want a fully merged Market Board between all servers. I'm feeling like a broken record here, but having an active MB is quite a plus.

[Dzian]

To be honest I wouldn't move servers even if they offered a free sub for life. unless virtually all my friends moved.

this game is enjoyable but its not great, as a result of that it's not so much the game that keeps me playing. but the people I play with that keep me playing...
many of those people are people I played XI with for almost a decade and when picking up 1.0 our xi ls had decided we would reside on saronia as it was so named back then. others I met way back in 1.0 before we merged with lindbulm and gave birth to sargatanas..

the result of that is I've got roots and connections all over the place. and its those friends that keep me playing. so there's no way i'd ever change a server without them...

I'm also thankful we picked saronia way back then. cos man if we were on balmung...... that would suck

[Random0]

The thing that stopped me and mine from moving from Balmung was losing our FC and house that we waited a long time to secure. We also have a fully outfitted airship fleet and a nearly complete sector map that serves as a not-insigifigant income source for our company. SE has offered zero compensation for this if we move, so we'd have to resort to ToS-questionable dealings to see any returns.

Even if we did manage to recover our significant time and gil investment there aren't any comparable plots left on any available Aether data center world for us to relocate to, so a move would effectively make us homeless. We could wait for Shirogane's opening to see if anything agreeable opens up, but that means leaving things up to whims of other players and the mercy of the login queue on move day. Plus we'd have to level a new FC to estate-purchasing rank, and then unlock the sector map all over again.

If SE wants us to give up what we have to alleviate the problem of their own making (I've been on Besaid since day one...) then we need to be offered something AT LEAST of equal value to even get us to the table.

1) Transfer of FC as-is or creation of new FC at equivalent rank with the same amount of FC credits.
2) Transfer of estate as-is to same plot on new world or guaranteed pick of equivalent-class or better plot in housing district of choice.

2a) If an as-is transfer is impossible, then adequate monetary compensation comparable to personal houses/apartments must be made for the loss of FC estate/personal rooms to allow the company and its members to re-establish on their guaranteed pick of new plot.

3) Company Workshop status (unlocked blueprints, unlocked sector map) must be preserved.

If/When SE offers this, then they'll start seeing people leave the server in droves. FCs will do right by their people and move to better opportunities. I for one will not make my people take a loss because SE kept the side door open too long after this server hit max capacity.

[DreadRabbit]

Plus we'd have to level a new FC to estate-purchasing rank, and then unlock the sector map all over again.

This, to me, looks like the biggest issue. With the gil limits removed for transfer the money wouldn't be an issue for most FC's considering a new home, as everyone transferring could pitch in and get themselves all set. However raising FC rank takes a lot of time. And with the current queues and other server issues across data centers, it is not guaranteed a freshly transferred FC could grind the required rank to purchase a new house by the time Shirogane opens.

Now what SE could do is give a "rank certificate" or something to characters designated as FC leaders. They can then redeem that certificate for the appropriate rank the FC had on the previous server. After that it's on them to purchase the house.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

This, to me, looks like the biggest issue. With the gil limits removed for transfer the money wouldn't be an issue for most FC's considering a new home, as everyone transferring could pitch in and get themselves all set. However raising FC rank takes a lot of time. And with the current queues and other server issues across data centers, it is not guaranteed a freshly transferred FC could grind the required rank to purchase a new house by the time Shirogane opens.

Now what SE could do is give a "rank certificate" or something to characters designated as FC leaders. They can then redeem that certificate for the appropriate rank the FC had on the previous server. After that it's on them to purchase the house.

It took us 2 days to go from rank 1 to rank 8. Its not time consuming at all, and that was with like, 8 people. Brought the airship parts, since those were the hard part, can rank them up again, not a huge deal. 11 days ago the FC was established, we have over 600k FC seals atm.

[Dement]

It took us 2 days to go from rank 1 to rank 8. Its not time consuming at all, and that was with like, 8 people. Brought the airship parts, since those were the hard part, can rank them up again, not a huge deal. 11 days ago the FC was established, we have over 600k FC seals atm.

Can confirm that we also raised to rank 8 in a brand new FC over the course of 2 days. 14 people total in the FC with about 8-10 who are very active and the remaining ones logging on once or twice in the past week or so.