Aussie Server

[Garet]

When ARR started there was already a EU data center . The physical server locations at that time was with the US data center, in Canada.
There was the knowledge that the EU data center would move physically to Europe.

So everyone knew where to go at start up. Some chose to start in US anyway because of various reasons but when the" physical switch" was thrown, no one had a excuse for ending up on the wrong side of the pond.
There were some who complaint of course .

This time it is different i would guess.

In my opinion they should inform us sooner than later what their plans are.
They should flag the servers as OCE servers and/ or make a 'virtual' data center with giving people an initial chance for the transfers . So things can start to get settled earlier .
After the physical data center move another free transfer would let undecided players make the plunge.

Agree with this suggestion. I have an FC mate who is planning to buy a personal house as well but is holding out for now in case he needs to transfer server. But said he wish he knew if tonberry if being moved to the new datacenter so he can go ahead and buy his house now haha

[LaylaTsarra]

Yeah that's where I am. Hopefully cross DC is easy, and doable.

I may be wrong but I suspect it's not going to be more than logging out and selecting the data center you want to travel too and log into it. Once there go ahead and select which server and log in. I suspect it'll be just like it is for those of us with alts on different data centers but instead you can simply pick where you want to go and not have to have a character on that server when you select it and use your regular character instead.

The real issue is going to be what the limitations are once you get there. They did seem to say there would be more restrictions then there are for World Transfer. I hope there will be a way to communicate so I would hope we'd be able to join cross world linkshells once there.

I wouldn't be surprised to see mb access not allowed.

[Sairys]

Agree with this suggestion. I have an FC mate who is planning to buy a personal house as well but is holding out for now in case he needs to transfer server. But said he wish he knew if tonberry if being moved to the new datacenter so he can go ahead and buy his house now haha

I think it kinda depends on what they're actually planning?

Like if they're shuffling some servers then tagging them earlier would make sense so people can pre-emptively migrate. But for new ones, we'd likely have to wait til they launch cause there wouldn't be servers to move to until they're live. Though, would be nice to be able to pre-register for a transfer so they can approve as much as possible ahead of time and let players complete the process at launch.

Pre-registers seem particularly relevant if they're 100% new data centers cause then they can get an idea on what the population would actually look like and they could build in incentives to get people to move across outside the normal new server transfer benefits.

[Shibi]

In my opinion they should inform us sooner than later what their plans are.
They should flag the servers as OCE servers and/ or make a 'virtual' data center with giving people an initial chance for the transfers . So things can start to get settled earlier .
After the physical data center move another free transfer would let undecided players make the plunge.

That idea makes a lot of sense. Totally behind that.

[FudoMyoo]

I wanna know where are the datacenters located and if it really reduces my ping to sub 50ms. Else I wouldn't bother changing. Getting 70-80ms in Tonberry is fine with me at the moment.

[XiXiQ]

I was on Odin when they announced they were shifting it to europe. Odin was bad enough with 250ms pings from AU, EU was close to 500ms. Knowing that would be impossible, I had to move. I had to start over there from almost nothing, lost the house, could only take 1 million gil. Too late they announced there would be considerations for those forced to move.


This time I hope they just move Tonberry and I can stay put, but at least I know not to move until I can take everything with me.