Answering some questions

[Fantasia]

(Here comes the speculation! Disclaimer: It is just my opinion, and not stated as fact!) We are not over-analyzing the SCH thing. That pic IS OF SCH AF. If that image is from a legitimate source, I will be surprised if SCH at launch/first patch is not confirmed very soon. I'm not going to speculate what class it comes from, though.

I like you, you make sense xD

[JillyBean]

I'm extremely interested in knowing how and when we will be picking servers. Could you show us an example of this process? A large number of my friends and I are really confused as to how we should go about our planning at the moment and we don't want all the information to come out with only a few days to organise ourselves.

- Will we be able to test multiple server regions before making our decision?
- Will we be able to transfer our characters in the future, if we feel we made the wrong choice?
- Will we be able to play with our friends from other worlds in instanced content (ie, can we specifically pick who we want to play with if we are all on at the same time)?
- Will there be any servers specifically labelled as 'international' for those of us from 1.0 servers to congregate on and avoid being split up?
- How are you planning to encourage people to play during the inevitable 'quiet hours' on regional servers?

All my questions are kind of based around that. I trust you guys to make a great game, I just want to play it with the friends I have made in 1.0 (from multiple regions of the world) and the rest of my friends from my site (who are also from around the world).

In addition to my dear friend's excellent questions regarding the future of server selection in relation to our 1.0/Legacy characters:

• Is there a chance that servers will become "full" and we could be locked out of a server previously agreed upon among our friends, allowing well organized friends and linkshells to actually get separated, despite all planning efforts? What measures will be put in place to make sure that this will not happen?
  
  
• Will server selection take place in advance of launch (with an "application process") as is hinted in this thread? http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...orld-Transfers
  
  
• Will 1.0 or Legacy characters have a first server choice or some type of priority to select from the worlds/servers that are reserved for existing/imported characters (not "new character servers")?
  

Will the marriage quest be implement at launch, and if not at launch, how soon?

My two questions are important (well the first one is; the second is purely selfish lol) and I sure hope they start answering them... I notice Radacci didn't try to tackle them.

I've posted them every time! They've never even come close to discussing these two issues. :/ I'm very obsessed with the server issue.

[Radacci]

My two questions are important (well the first one is; the second is purely selfish lol) and I sure hope they start answering them... I notice Radacci didn't try to tackle them.

I've posted them every time! They've never even come close to discussing these two issues. :/ I'm very obsessed with the server issue.

I think you'll get the info before OB it's still a bit away.
They would stab themselves in the foot, if they didn't give people time to organize their LS, and plan what servers to go to etc.

They have mentioned that you'll be able to change server during first 6 month or such; as to how many times, i dont know.

there will just be regional servers, but i'm sure (as it tends to be in other games) that US servers will be international servers, where N/S US, EU etc gather. You can ofc pick whichever server you want, except the new ones, unless you want to make new chars there.

Well...i think they mentioned that duty finder is cross-server...not sure. If so there wont be quiet-times.
Even though in WoW you can party, and even chat with people, cross server...i'm unsure if that will be possible, at least at launch. Something to suggest otherwise.

I don't think SE can or will do anything specific to combat full servers, like that.
maybe they will keep a limit on how many chars can be made on any one server, to begin with, as to spread out people equally, and over time raise nr of people on a server.
So i guess, if such a thing happens, you might need to wait for them to increase the limit.
Or maybe support could help you out.
But well, you got all of phase 4 to sort it out

Hmm, well it depends on if we need to pick final server again after phase 4, or not.
If not, legacy wont get first, cause i assume phase 4 starts at same time for all.
Otherwise legacy get early access (possibly^^) and can pick whichever server, first.
And they aren't reserved to legacy/1.0. new people can join *old* servers too, but you cant import 1.0 chars to *new* servers.

I think it's good questions, that need answer.
But they always talk about housing instead ^^
But yah, i think all this will be clarified before phase 4.
From the link about transfer, i'm reading that as: you can server-swap freely, for a time, so that you'll end up where you want to.