Discussion: Character Transfer & Character Rename
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black_barrier,
Posted on: 2007-07-17 10:07 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
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I dont know which one I'm more excited about.. being able to move my lvl 50's to a new server.. thus allowing me to make room on Guardian or creating a new home else where. or the possible server-less open enviroment that's coming out "soon"
LvL 50's Inv/Em Tank, Katana/Regen Scrapper, Merc/Traps MM, Ninja/Dark MM, Crab
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Finally something good to have but the $9.99 fee is a bit much dont you think? How will I explain to the wife how $200 just disappeared? I was thinking this was going to be something more reasonable like $1.00 per use. If anything hardly anyone is going to use it at that $9.99 price.
Edit: Just saw the part about the server-less option. How will they look at limits on character numbers, I remember it was like 12 per server so if there is only one server how many will we get? This would definately be awsome as it would lead to awsome possibilities for coalitions and super groups. Hopefully they get rid of the 75 member restriction and do it by accounts.
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Big news, and totally unexpected. But the thing I think I'm most excited about is the "server-less game configuration." I realize you say that something like that won't happen anytime soon, but I had no idea that it was even an idea to be considered.
finally!
can we get free ones instead of freespecs every issue too please?
can i transfer across accounts? i had this old old account i'm about to get rid off..
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*is too busy fainting to even notice that this happend!*
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If by "soon" you mean "not this year", then yeah me too. But they were very clear it didn't mean that it would even happen at all and no time soon. But as a sufferer of altitis I give thumbs up on either count. 
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Also, for the DOOMSDAY people that are going to come because of server mergers: This is probably just a contingency plan if the population takes a dive, and they're letting you know in advance. After all, if the population is cut in half across all servers, merging them all into one server wouldn't be a bad thing at all, heh.
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Finally something good to have but the $9.99 fee is a bit much dont you think? How will I explain to the wife how $200 just disappeared? I was thinking this was going to be something more reasonable like $1.00 per use. If anything hardly anyone is going to use it at that $9.99 price.
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I'd be willing to bet that character transfers aren't something that they've figured out how to do without a human being actually making the transfer. I mean, sure, we have the character copy tool to the Test Server, but that thing is so unreliable it's not funny. With that fee (which isn't all that much, really, but it's a little higher than I figured it would be), I don't see it being an automated process.
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Finally something good to have but the $9.99 fee is a bit much dont you think? How will I explain to the wife how $200 just disappeared? I was thinking this was going to be something more reasonable like $1.00 per use. If anything hardly anyone is going to use it at that $9.99 price.
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I do agree that the fee seems high. I do understand the reason they don't want it used "too much" or "abused" is the proper wording.
$9.99 to move 5 lvl 50's on Pinnacle to another server to make room on Pinnacle will hurt.
The wife will have a cow seeing that she already HATES this game with a passion.
Thank god she has not found a good lawyer or this game could of ended in divorce LOL.
Since all the expansions are still free......We cannot complain about the fee. I say great idea.
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/Wonders how many people will transfer to Freedom......
/Wonders how often Freedom will crash with the added load.......
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I dont know which one I'm more excited about.. being able to move my lvl 50's to a new server.. thus allowing me to make room on Guardian or creating a new home else where. or the possible server-less open enviroment that's coming out "soon"
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I see the server-less enviroment being something that is just being sorta kicked around the office as a pie-in-the-sky dream idea, not something we're liable to really ever see (as awesome as it could potentially be. Take THAT Server consolidation!)
Being able to Transfer and Re-Name toons though, that has me really excited. It will let me change my old Ice/Ice mains name and then bring across my Ice/SS to use the name. Mind you, I wont need to do that if Castle would be a love and do the fixes suggested in the Fixing Ice Melee 2.0 thread. See linky in sig for thread...
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Finally something good to have but the $9.99 fee is a bit much dont you think? How will I explain to the wife how $200 just disappeared? I was thinking this was going to be something more reasonable like $1.00 per use. If anything hardly anyone is going to use it at that $9.99 price.
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Ah, another example of people having gotten used to how much Cryptic spoils us with some things. $9.99 is cheap compared to what other MMOs charge for a similar service....
What I'm curious about is whether or not they'll be freeing up old unused names again to coincide with the Rename functionality.
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I see the server-less enviroment being something that is just being sorta kicked around the office as a pie-in-the-sky dream idea, not something we're liable to really ever see (as awesome as it could potentially be. Take THAT Server consolidation!)
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If there's anything slightly more than "what if we could" floating around devHQ, holy <bleeping> <bleep>!
Please use this thread to discuss the following announcement:
Starting on Tuesday, July 17th, the Training Room Test Server will have two new game features enabled for testing: Character Transfer and Character Rename.
<ul type="square">[*] Character Transfer will allow customers to move characters from one server to another. [*] Character Rename will allow customers to rename a selected character. [/list]Both of these features are not part of Issue 10: Invasion. Although we are beginning to test them now, we anticipate that they will not be enabled on the live service until after the launch of Issue 10.
We estimate that both features, Character Transfer and Character Rename, will carry a transaction fee of $9.99 each per use (there will be no fee for transfers to or renames on the Training Room). Should a Character Transfer have a name conflict on the destination server, a free Character Rename will be made available to resolve the conflict and rename the moving character.
These new features exemplify our commitment to improve the quality of the City of Heroes experience. We feel the price of these features is enough to prevent potential abuse, but also reasonable enough to not be prohibitive for those who want to improve their gaming experience by moving servers or changing a character name.
IMPORTANT! Customers who are interested in taking advantage of the Character Transfer service should know that it is possible in the future that we may make changes to the game that would remove the need to Transfer servers. One example of such a change would be a server-less game configuration where all players can group with anyone, without the restriction of which server they play on. We are not committing to this server-less configuration, and in fact there are no plans to implement a server-less environment this calendar year, but because we are charging a fee for these services, it is important that our players understand that the possibility exists. We want to be very clear in this regard so that those who do decide to make use of a Server Transfer, when it becomes available, understand that they may not need it in the future.
For those interested in assisting with the testing efforts of Character Transfer and Character Rename, keep your eye on the Official City of Heroes Announcement Forum for further details. Thank you for your continued support!
The City of Heroes Development Team
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