What it takes to get players to transfer from congested servers

[HyperSMB]

I kind of feel, everyone is thinking about this ENTIRELY the wrong way.

SE is not looking to get highly invested people to move and never has been. This is why you will not get the incentives you think you would need, it is high investment low reward.

Right now SE is aiming at the low hanging front, the thousands of players, with no homes and minimal attachment to their FC's or server. You get them off first and THEN you consider what is needed if there is still a problem.

Based on what SE has done so far, you guys are absolutely off your rockers if you think you will get guaranteed housing in the same place (It is almost assuredly taken on the server you would move to) and every piece of furnishing transfered (They didn't do it for personal what makes you assume they have the infrastructure to do it with FC?)

What is more likely is that some part of either expanded wards OR Shirogane is reserved on preferred worlds for FC transfers on a first come first serve basis.

[Galgarion]

I transferred because someone on Balmung compared its server congestion woes to the Flint, Michigan water crisis, and I could no longer live in a world where our two characters were on the same server. So I guess...mind numbing conceit?

[Smexynerdy]

What i never see in this kind of discussions is my reason why i will always stay on an at least "high" population server.
The MMO feeling. I enjoy the game infinitely more when i zone into a hub full to the brink with players. Or seeing hundreds of players fly in to a boss fate from all corners of the zone. This has no gameplay value but more a immersion and cinematic value. I feel this will be lost on a low pop server, and i hate nothing more than seeing no other players around. Even if i don't interact with them.

[Jeykama]

I kind of feel, everyone is thinking about this ENTIRELY the wrong way.

SE is not looking to get highly invested people to move and never has been. This is why you will not get the incentives you think you would need, it is high investment low reward.

Now that the queues have somewhat stabilized and minimalized on Balmung thanks to the purges, no one has an incentive to leave despite it being congested. What they dangled isn't a good enough carrot to balance Aether population across its servers, especially since the xp bonuses etc. only last as long as that world stays "preferred."

[Talec]

A garantued and unlimited right to transfer back for free once the new Server starts beeing empty.

[Rakiria]

A garantued and unlimited right to transfer back for free once the new Server starts beeing empty.

Except having everyone leave again asap is the opposite of what this is supposed to achieve. If you don't want the server to be empty, you, along with others, will have to actually stay there.

[Edewen]

Step 1: Data Center Wide Market boards to fix disparity in economy.
Step 2: Cross server grouping. Join a group, and be in the group leaders version of ruby sea for example
Step 3: With that grouping, cross server friend lists and linkshells


Alternate Step 1: Make an overhaul plan, implement mega server to be datacenter wide. *they already have sharding, would only need to address hunts to keep them from being exploited