The "Meteor mark": anyone else come upon this issue?

[Miste]

While I don't remember 100%, I think it was the exact opposite. Legacy servers were full and they would have wanted to spread out servers as much as possible. If anything they encouraged legacy players to move to newer servers and didn't allow new players to make characters on legacy servers.

No, this is incorrect on all accounts.

New players could choose to make a character on a legacy world if they wanted to there was no restriction except if the world was maxed out. (I had friends of mine join my legacy server as new players)

Legacy characters could only transfer to Legacy worlds at the beginning (for example my world from 1.0 was Ridill and it became a Japanese legacy server and I am NA so, like all legacy players, I was given one free transfer to another world, but my choices were ONLY other legacy servers at that time. New worlds were forbidden to me unless I started a fresh character on them.)

SE didn't want legacy characters on new servers due to server economy issues since legacy characters got to keep a portion of their gil from 1.0 which depending on the character could be in the millions of gil. Also having all or simply multiple jobs/crafts at 50 would make the legacy characters have a monopoly on the market board until the new players caught up.

The new servers were fresh start servers that new players could start on in order to have the experience of everyone starting fresh and not having maxed out level 50 legacy players with a lot of gil and resources running around.

[Zumi]

A legacy tattoo only on a character that was made in 1.0 even if you make new characters now on a legacy account they won't have it.

Its a brand that you got when Louisoix teleported you forward in time at the time of the calamity and thus anyone that wasn't there in 1.0 can't get one now.

[Schwarzwind]

I had the very same problem but in all honesty it was my own fault for not checking my mails and starting on a new character because I wanted a fresh start. So all my new characters do not have the legacy mark and I deletet my legacy chars after some time because I did not plan to play them anyway. Today I regret doing so but oh well. My actions, my fault. I can not blame SE for it. To cheer you up I can only tell you that you are not missing out on much. Having a tattoo you can barely see is not something I am very attached to. Learn out of yor mistakes as myself and keep an eye on your accounts be it game accounts or other things.

@ legacy topic: The legacy chocobo is account wide as far as I know but the tattoo is not since it is linked to the calamity. To get legacy status, the chocobo and the sub discount for ARR you had to sub for a certain time before the servers of 1.0 shut down. Sadly I quit after few month after the 1.0 launch and did not qualify for legacy either. ;_; Again... my fault.

[Pixiehawk]

In 1.xx I had to stop for financial reasons, and wasn't able to come back until ARR had started - I wasn't able to be there when the world blew up and thought my 1.0 character was lost. When I found out it was still there, just on a Japanese Server I "rescued" her and am using her as an alt. Her highest job is 30 or so, and my Main is in the 60s. I couldn't give up all the stuff I'd done on my main (Yokai Watch/glowey car, I'm looking at you >< ) but it is fun to tool around on her when I'm in the mood for more low-key stuff.

[Kogasan]

I also played during 1.0 but during beta I fantased or however you spell it the character and therefore ended up some how losing my tatoo. I wonder if in that case how you would get it back.