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Discussion: Free Character Server Transfers for the Holidays!

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By A K A,
Posted on: 2009-12-15 10:33 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion

 

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Wow - this is awesome and unexpected.

Thank you!

And even better, if the grass isnt greener, you can transfer back !

I don't suffer from altitis, I enjoy every minute of it.

Thank you Devs & Community people for a great game.

So sad to be ending ):

 

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Originally Posted by dj13 View Post
It looks like you will get a token if someone else holds that name, but if you are the owner of the name (through having an alt there already) you won't and the test server rule applies.
Not for me. I transferred a character to Justice this morning who had the same name as an existing character on the same account, and was prompted to change the transferred character's name (for free) as soon as I logged the character into the game. I also had a name change button for him on the character selection screen (though I didn't test it).

Not sure how to explain the difference between our experiences, but it definitely worked for me.

 

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I think NcSoft gift is just a lump of coal for me. Just what I need to see on an already bad week.

 

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Paragon Studios;

Thanks so much for the gift! So far I've transferred 3 characters who hadn't been played in hundreds of days. This has completely rejuvenated these characters and has made them fun to play again!

I'm sure this is taking up a lot of server processing and having them be free for such a long period has to eat into the profits a little bit, but I really appreciate the effort you all have put into this game.

 

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Is this a subtle hint to quit crowding up Virtue and Freedom and go spread ourselves around a bit more?

Actually, I might be able to make really good use of this. I hate to delete seldom-used alts, but my Virtue slots were getting full up, and Pinnacle was my unofficial "Villain" server anyway. Thanks a bunch!

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Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill View Post
(Me, I'm thinking about who I can move OFF of there.)
That is my thinking exactly! I needed space for alts because im too cheap to buy another slot, moving 50's





" I don't let me kids play on the Freedom Server" -Oya

 

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I'd like to suggest Liberty as a great place to relocate to! We have cookies, The Sisterhood, coffee, The Sisterhood, free snacky cakes and did I mention The Sisterhood?

Seriously, we have some really great people and a lot of long time veterans, as well as newer players, on Liberty and a bump in population is always welcome!

 

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Originally Posted by Monkey_King
Is this a subtle hint to quit crowding up Virtue and Freedom and go spread ourselves around a bit more?
If it was, then it was too subtle; I moved my played characters from Victory to those two servers.

 

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[Conspiracy] Going Rogue is going to come with a more flexible way to move between the servers to optimize the play experience and this is a test to datamine the effects and bugs alot of moving around will have on the servers. And ensure that they don't explode[/conspiracy]

Even if the above isn't true, awesome. Thanks CoH

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Originally Posted by Monkey_King View Post
Is this a subtle hint to quit crowding up Virtue and Freedom and go spread ourselves around a bit more?

Actually, I might be able to make really good use of this. I hate to delete seldom-used alts, but my Virtue slots were getting full up, and Pinnacle was my unofficial "Villain" server anyway. Thanks a bunch!
This is exactly my experience. I do think that the primary motivation was to free up character slots on servers for Going Rogue. Sure a lot of people may move characters to Freedom or Virtue, but a lot of old characters on Virtue and Freedom I think will be moved to lower populated servers.

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But my question is how is this acted upon? Do we just buy a server transfer token from the character selection screen and it's free or is there something I missed saying we have to do it using some new and obscure tool?

No really, did I miss something?

Robin

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...I have the patience of a coffee-fueled flea...

 

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I just did four of them.

Just hit the Character Transfer option. Select your character then the server you want to transfer to.

It will show you you have X number of tokens remaining.

Hit OK.

Character transfers. It's just that simple.

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Either you have a different game client than I do, or you're saying there is in fact something I'm missing because there is no "Characer Transfer" option anywhere I see. There's a "Buy Server Transfer" button and I'm not doing that unless somebody tells me that's the one we're talking about 'cuz $10 is $10 and it's not worth risking it.

Know what I mean?

Please keep in mind I've never done a character transfer before. Never felt the need to spend $10 to do something so trivial. For free, however, it's gonna get used and used again! Yee-haw, even.

I hope that didn't come off as snide. I certainly mean no disrespect and I appreciate your help. I just don't know if you're looking at what I'm seeing or you are very familiar with this process and just using some kind of shorthand or whatever. Thanks again for any help.

Robin

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...I have the patience of a coffee-fueled flea...

 

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Originally Posted by CoyoteShaman View Post
Either you have a different game client than I do, or you're saying there is in fact something I'm missing because there is no "Characer Transfer" option anywhere I see. There's a "Buy Server Transfer" button and I'm not doing that unless somebody tells me that's the one we're talking about 'cuz $10 is $10 and it's not worth risking it.

Know what I mean?

Please keep in mind I've never done a character transfer before. Never felt the need to spend $10 to do something so trivial. For free, however, it's gonna get used and used again! Yee-haw, even.

I hope that didn't come off as snide. I certainly mean no disrespect and I appreciate your help. I just don't know if you're looking at what I'm seeing or you are very familiar with this process and just using some kind of shorthand or whatever. Thanks again for any help.

Robin
Yes, that's the option, I understand your hesitation, but every one of those options (Server Transfer, Character Slots, Respecs, and Renames) have several back up points before any money is actually spent.

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Click "Buy Server Transfer", click OK, select the server you want to transfer to, use transfer token on bottom right.

It's that easy. Nothing to buy, 6 transfers to use until you get 6 more next week.


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Ah, answered. Yes, it's the Buy Server Transfer button. They way they've worked this is by giving everyone 6 free transfer tokens, which I assume they'll fill to 6 every 7 days.

--If we can have huge sig images, why can we have only five lines of text?
--...faceplanting like a Defender pulling an AV (Nalrok_AthZim)
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...I have the patience of a coffee-fueled flea...

 

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Hah! Faster typer then you suckahs =P

 

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Originally Posted by Jake_Summers View Post
[Conspiracy] Going Rogue is going to come with a more flexible way to move between the servers to optimize the play experience and this is a test to datamine the effects and bugs alot of moving around will have on the servers. And ensure that they don't explode[/conspiracy]
Like I said before - cross server PvP

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Originally Posted by Jake_Summers View Post
[Conspiracy] Going Rogue is going to come with a more flexible way to move between the servers to optimize the play experience and this is a test to datamine the effects and bugs alot of moving around will have on the servers. And ensure that they don't explode[/conspiracy]

Even if the above isn't true, awesome. Thanks CoH
That's exactly what I'm hoping for

 

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Like everyone, I just want to say thank you, Devs, for this fabulous treat.



And come to Pinnacle! We have open bars 24-7.

 

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The best thing they have done for the community in a long time. Castle must have not had anything to do with it.

"PvP Messiah"

 

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Originally Posted by Cold_X View Post
The best thing they have done for the community in a long time. Castle must have not had anything to do with it.
So you don't think it's a clever way of him finding out who the most committed PvPers are on each server when they transfer to Freedom, and then targeting them for further punishment in the future when they're all gathered in one place?

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