Transfer & creation : no logic ? (Omega)

[Keydah]

Correction, the cap is 999 million now.

Only when transferring from a congested to preferred server, or any server to a new server, and Omega is not considered a new server anymore. So...the cap is the one that applies to everyone else. 10m + 5m on retainers.

[Rinuko]

Correction, the cap is 999 million now.

Omega isnt a prefered server anymore. 10M cap applies.

[Yarukiba]

Just my opinion regarding the difference between creation of new character and transferring a character:

- Transferred characters could possibly affect the economy of the server which the player is transferring from and to.
- Transfer players tend to bring over their Gils (capped at 10m), and other valuable items such as Materias, and crafting materials which could worth a lot in the new server. This also means the server the player is transferring out of will lose a chunk of those items (if the player is loaded). Which will in turn affect the market prices.

- Creating a new character has nothing (a subligar maybe).

But that goes for all servers then. No matter the server you move to, the same issue happens. Thing is, Omega is as populated as our main servers (Moogle, Odin, Cerberus, Ragnarok & Phoenix). I highly doubt the economy is something you can still have an impact on when the server is that populated. Moreover, less populated servers like Zodiark, Louisoix & Lich are available for transfers ; their economy is far more easy to change if a bunch transfers, so if that was the problem, then they would lock transfers out. But they don't...

They stopped transfers to Omega because the server was filling up very quickly, almost to the point of being declared congested.
Several servers (not only Balmung) are officially congested, which means you cannot transfer to them, and you cannot create new characters there.

All servers can be temporarily closed for character creation if there are too many logged in there at once - this is done in a dynamic way and the status can change at any time. What used to be special about Balmung was that it was closed in this manner almost all the time.


The real interesting question is: Why have transfers to Omega not yet opened up again? It is no longer considered a new world and thus there is less incentive to transfer to it.
The answer is likely based on the active population, but since we do not have the actual numbers we can only guess.

I personnally never had any trouble to create characters on Omega. I actually saw my own servers way more often locked for character creation than Omega itself. If you just go on Omega, you'd be amazed by the number of sprouts runing around ; my server is almost empty of those !
There are number actually, for the active population, by luckybancho, from October 1st https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...a_101/dnru3kx/ // http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...destone-survey



So the new servers are actually completely overloaded with new players and Omega is still completely locked for existing characters, yet their lvl70 population is less important than the old servers. Why ? Why is it locked ? It's impossible to get a clear answer of why you can still create and not transfer.