I would like that too, dont wanna leave my main behind.
It's been suggested many times. The general consensus is that such a feature would very rapidly result in the death of the EU servers.
So sorry, but
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It's been suggested many times. The general consensus is that such a feature would very rapidly result in the death of the EU servers.
So sorry, but
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I would use this if it becomes available. I would love to play on crowded servers without losing all my veteran benefits or losing some of the nice people I met here. My preference would be though to merge the US and EU server list.
I understand however that that would be a bit hard to do as the US and the EU versions of this game are slightly different. GR has said that this option is not yet considered by NCSoft.
Then there's the part where US and EU accounts are seperate financial entities.
Although it could be that with the merger into NCwest the legal issues might be easier to overcome?
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Can we stop this before we end up with yet another "Merge the Servers" thread?
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Hmm. This specific idea has been raised many times? (link me please). Before posting this, I did a search through suggestions with the words "transfer" among other similar words only to find very little. I also read heavily upon the merge threads. I thought this would be an alternative to the debated idea without the flaw of the character names conflict. I have kept myself informed from the developer's posts on the status of such ideas. Please don't cast my idea aside too soon.
From where I stand, so far the benifits I see are players getting to play on the servers they want with the people they want, thus improving their gaming experience while the developers can earn deserved money from the users in buying such transfers, maybe further supporting their efforts and improving the service as time rolls on to rule out some of the unfair benifits to players that I will mention below, if the populations differ too much from the transfer service.
I can see some flaws with this, yes. Definately.
The one you immidiately raise is a good one. That being the potential loss of players on UK servers. I can see the damage there which may in the very long run force everyone to use this transfer feature (and buy the US version of the game) in order to be with other players which would be unfair.
Perhaps there would be technical difficulties and conflicts such as the ones they had with the the US to UK servers transfers. (That was for the early UK customers of CoH to get on their own region I believe) That earned the passport badge. My current thoughts are that the developers would leave out any transfer ideas like this for a very long time before even considering something like this, but support in the idea can help bring it to life. Maybe they will come up with an even better idea worked off of something like this.
I do still stand by my suggestion here with a firm belief it can improve the MMO experience for loyal players such as myself whom are in a similar situation. I know I am not alone in this.
Another personal note is that I have a trial account with the US servers under the same master account. I experience it as easy to play on either as long as you have bought the game for both regions and have both region's updaters.
I could play on US servers by buying the game starting a subscription on the servers. That part I would happily partake in. The problem is that the loss of 33 month veterancy and the characters I invested so much time and compassion into would be left behind. This is where this Regional Character Transfer would really work for me and I know it could for many keen players for perhaps years to come. I have the desire to continue playing this great game for a long time and I know this would greatly influence me to do so.
Please if anyone else can raise some interesting aspects for OR against this idea, keep them rolling. I am reading, cheers.
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Speaking personally I'm very happy on the UK servers. I find it's pretty easy to find a team and it suits me.
I would not like to play outside of my time zone but I do appreciate that it's difficult for the OP (tho I suspect he won't have too much trouble being online next summer during the English day time 
) but I also feel that a region transfer would denude the server of players and harm the EU community.*
*not because there's anything intrinsically better about the US servers but human nature tends to go "Oooh shiny, let's check it out"
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Link? There is no need.
Simply go up to the top of suggestions and clicky on the 'Frequent Suggestions' post. US/EU server merges/transfers are listed up there, and are offlimit (afaik) unless a redname says otherwise.
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It's been suggested many times. The general consensus is that such a feature would very rapidly result in the death of the EU servers.
So sorry, but
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I don't usually bother on US/EU threads, but with that, I'll bite.
If as you say, an arbitrary restriction is all that's keeping the EU servers up, they deserve to die.
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It's been suggested many times. The general consensus is that such a feature would very rapidly result in the death of the EU servers.
So sorry, but
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I don't usually bother on US/EU threads, but with that, I'll bite.
If as you say, an arbitrary restriction is all that's keeping the EU servers up, they deserve to die.
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Thanks for that.
I can't afford to transfer my characters to another server (even if I wanted), by allowing a cross region server transfer it may or may not result in the EU servers dying, it would however lead to a drastic cut in player numbers and as such people who can't or won't move would be penalised.
If the two server lists were to be merged I would support such a move. This though would only benefit a small number of people and greatly detract from many others.
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I don't know if such a feature could be implemented but I simply must put it out there.
It would be really useful if we could pay/buy regional character transfers, so that players can move characters to and from US/UK servers.(E.g Freedom<-->Defiant). Perhaps once a character is transferred, they cannot be transferred again for a few months to prevent overuse/abuse of the feature. An additional benifit to this would be that characters could carry over their veterancy badges/status as well.
If the character transfers are impossible:
Perhaps just a feature to "buy" the ability to carry over your veteran status to the another region account. An example being a 30 month UK veteran could make a new char on a US server and carry over the 30 month veteran status.
Personally, I live in Australia and the US time zones would suit me much better to be on at the same time as others. Back when I bought CoH from a store shelf, I had no idea about different regions in MMOs and became a member of the UK servers. I would have to be up at unglodly times to join the peak hours of the UK servers.
I want to join my friends on the US servers and yet I don't want to leave my beloved characters behind and if I must...can I at least bring my veterancy?
What do you guys think? Can anyone else relate to this?