Quote Originally Posted by Johannes_Mondego View Post
I'm talking about legacy though, not new characters

edit: that is to say, simply by virtue of logging in with my main class, my nation (part of the identity of the character) was switched on me.
Stop trying to treat the nation you're first dumped into as "your nation" and a part of your characters identity. Aside from a chain of quests that terminate at level 15 and the order in which you're introduced to some NPCs there should be zero long term ramifications from which nation you're first dumped into. You do not pick your nationality as it would relate to your identity until you pledge allegiance to a specific Grand Company.

This is how the system works. Whichever class is set as your main when you first log in, be it as a new character or a legacy character, determines which nation you get dumped into by merit of providing ease of access to that guild for new players. They aren't going to set up a whole new system just to address the initial surge of legacy players when the existing system works for everyone else that will ever play the game from that point onward.