Idea For Legacy Characters to Move to Non-Legacy Servers

[MasamuneBranford]

I would venture to guess that majority of players who never played 1.0, are going to want to start on fresh servers (a lot of my friends who never played feel this way). I want to play with these friends but I also don't want to completely give up my 1.0 character.

SE should allow a legacy player to switch to a non-legacy server and lose all of its class/job levels, all of it's gil, majority of its items, etc. However, the catch would be that this player maintains all of its unique items (goobue, dalamud horn, deity ring, raven's earrings), maintains the journal of all previous quests and missions that were completed and for story-line purposes is considered a survivor of meteor. If SE was compelled to, they could remove the stats from the dalamud horn, deity ring and raven's earrings and there would be absolutely nothing throwing off the balance between a 1.0 player a a new player.

I think there are many 1.0 players who are reluctant to start fresh because they don't want to lose these certain traits that make their characters unique. Let us keep these traits if we switch servers. Possibly let us keep our GC rank as well.

[JillyBean]

OMG really?

No.

[MasamuneBranford]

OMG really?

No.

Not sure why this is suck a big deal to you. It would be an option that you could gladly ignore and go on with your day.

[Zenaku]

I would venture to guess that majority of players who never played 1.0, are going to want to start on fresh servers (a lot of my friends who never played feel this way). I want to play with these friends but I also don't want to completely give up my 1.0 character.

SE should allow a legacy player to switch to a non-legacy server and lose all of its class/job levels, all of it's gil, majority of its items, etc. However, the catch would be that this player maintains all of its unique items (goobue, dalamud horn, deity ring, raven's earrings), maintains the journal of all previous quests and missions that were completed and for story-line purposes is considered a survivor of meteor. If SE was compelled to, they could remove the stats from the dalamud horn, deity ring and raven's earrings and there would be absolutely nothing throwing off the balance between a 1.0 player a a new player.

I think there are many 1.0 players who are reluctant to start fresh because they don't want to lose these certain traits that make their characters unique. Let us keep these traits if we switch servers. Possibly let us keep our GC rank as well.

Legacy get 8 char per world for a max of 40. Make a new char keep the old once they open that world up to everyone. Pay the fee to switch your char with all the unique items and play with that and just get all your gil/item from your other char to that one. There you go done no need for SE to do all this complicated stuff that they will end up fucking up and people going to lose more then just there normal items.

[Molly_Millions]

Why don't you just have your friends start on your server?

[MasamuneBranford]

Why don't you just have your friends start on your server?

I have a good 10 friends (not RL) or so that I casually play MMORPGS with. All of us started FFXIV and within a month I was the only person left. I'm a casual player to the extreme (I'm a married corporate tax attorney in RL with very little time to play). I managed to get a goobue mount, level BLM to 50 and complete the "Once in a Liftetime" storyline. I've been a Final Fantasy fan my entire life. Thus for completist purposes, I'd like to maintain my "Once in a Lifetime" storyline completion.

I think it would be hard to deny that a large chunk of the legacy server population have all jobs leveled and potentially greatly abused the gil system. My 10 or so MMORPG fans (and likely countless others) do not want to start on a server where everybody is max level and has piles of gil. If they have to play catch-up; they will surely miss out on endgame activities if the legacy population grows tired of certain endgame activities once the non-legacy players catch-up.

That's my dilemma. But as Jillybean and others have said, I'm probably the minority. I just felt that wanting to keep your achievements and play on a non-legacy server might be a much more common dilemma. I guess I was wrong.

[Alhanelem]

Because I have the freedom to with the new subscription model I may make new characters to play around with the different races and starting locations and such, but my old characater will remain my main one.

[Alhanelem]

Or they could just allow server transfers for all characters after 6 months or a year, at which point the economy on those servers should be established to the point where the legacy player's influence will be minimized.

[BiggieSmallz]

Or they could just allow server transfers for all characters after 6 months or a year, at which point the economy on those servers should be established to the point where the legacy player's influence will be minimized.

Agree with this Dude. But I can really careless. ^^

[Pwnagraphic]

Or they could just allow server transfers for all characters after 6 months or a year, at which point the economy on those servers should be established to the point where the legacy player's influence will be minimized.

Yeah but who's going to wait 6 months just to do that?

I like how they're going about it now. My friends all plan to join my server during release. It doesn't need to be more complicated than what it is.