Discussion: Free Character Transfers extended until February 28th!
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Posted on: 2010-01-29 17:52 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
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I don't anticipate it being a concern, namely 'cos the Devs have, effectively, said "We'll merge the servers when Jack has a good idea."|
Originally Posted by Gaia
Yes you guessed it SG membership and as a result bases don't transfer. There isn't really any easy was to manage this as you can only have members on the same server. I suppose it could be transferred when the last member transfers but I don't anticipate this being a particularly high priority.
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Not an actual quote. But a pretty close aproximation to 'It won't happen'
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.
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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon
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The post is badly worded. You don't lose any POSSESSIONS in the sense that we think about them: all your enhancements, salvage, inspirations, recipes, influence, badges, market inventory, and items in your storage vault move with you. The "possessions" you "lose" are:|
Originally Posted by Tiglion
Although I'm not sure I'll be utilizing this feature, I went to check what doesn't transfer, and I keep getting a response that "Permission is Denied", and "This answer is no longer available" when I click on the link for the Knowledge Base article. Anyone else having this problem? I would just like to have access to the info, in case I decide to move someone before the end of February. Thanks.
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- SG membership. The SG stays in the original server.
- Whatever you had in the SG storage, at least until you transfer back. The items STAY in the base, you just don't have access to the base from another server.
- SG rank, SG prestige. Again, the prestige STAYS on the SG, but because you "quit" the supergroup, your personal count resets.
- Server friends list.
- If the name of your character is already used in the new server, you "lose" the name; that is, you are given a free rename and need to pick a new name on the new server. If you don't "reserve" the name in your original server, and it's a very popular name, someone might take it while you're "away". Best thing to do if you plan to return: move the character, and immediately create a level 1 character with the same name on the original server. That way, nobody can make a character with the same name, and the name is "safe" until you come back (at which point you move the character back to your server, delete the placeholder level 1 character, and rename the moved character back to its original name).
- Due to what is explained above, you can use a server transfer as a free rename.
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OR... because the devs don't plan on upping the server cap anytime soon, they have decided to give us an opportunity to shuffle characters to other servers, so that we might have more room on our personal preferred server to make new toons for GR. |
Originally Posted by Starrbolt
When City of Heroes announced, a month ago, free character transfer between servers, I thought, "Wow, that's a lot work! Why would they do that?" Potentially, it could be a logistical nightmare, requiring a great deal of staff time and effort to process all of the requests. So, why would a company do it?
The stated reasons were, it's a special holiday treat so you can play with your friends no matter what server they are on. (A holiday treat that lasts the entire month of January?) Allowing free character server transfers for an entire month is very exceptional, very unusual. Now, it's extended for a second consecutive month? By popular demand? Why would an MMO game company commit resources to this business action, lasting 1/6 of the new year? Do they hope that free character transfers across servers will help hold onto existing subscribers, make former players want to renew, and attract new players? Or, do they hope that players consolidate themselves on some populous servers? Leaving them with no choice but to shut down less populated servers? Is this really a way of getting out in front of an unpopular decision -- to consolidate players on a fewer number of servers and shut down some servers? In the latest issue of Beckett's Massive Online Gamer magazine, their "2009 in Review" article traces industry highlights and trends during the past year, including: Are the current free character server transfers in CoX a prelude to NCSoft and Paragon Studios following this industry trend? I would not be surprised to see some CoX servers shut down before the release of Going Rogue. |
If your doom post had any credibility, the devs would at least be telling you which servers will be shut down in advance. Sure, the first time they announced it they wanted to see which servers became highly populated, but they'd have the info they needed to choose by the second announcement.
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I don't see why they just don't make free server transfers permanent. This would kill any speculation that the game were dying if people could transfer servers on a whim and it would make the CoH community even stronger by allowing anyone on any server to participate in any given servers community event. |
Originally Posted by Rylas
OR... because the devs don't plan on upping the server cap anytime soon, they have decided to give us an opportunity to shuffle characters to other servers, so that we might have more room on our personal preferred server to make new toons for GR.
If your doom post had any credibility, the devs would at least be telling you which servers will be shut down in advance. Sure, the first time they announced it they wanted to see which servers became highly populated, but they'd have the info they needed to choose by the second announcement. |
The games mechanics and content aren't what keeps subscriptions its the developer relations and community that keeps most of us subscribed to this game.
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Loss of revenue. Pretty much. |
Originally Posted by Tokyo
I don't see why they just don't make free server transfers permanent. This would kill any speculation that the game were dying if people could transfer servers on a whim and it would make the CoH community even stronger by allowing anyone on any server to participate in any given servers community event.
The games mechanics and content aren't what keeps subscriptions its the developer relations and community that keeps most of us subscribed to this game. |
*shrug*
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.
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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon
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I doubt the revenue from server transfers is that significant. Although free server transfers would be an invisible asset I still believe it would be more of an asset then the revenue taken in from paid transfers. Unfortunately, numbers talk.
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Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
Loss of revenue. Pretty much.
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you misunderstood my post,I am the first,last and only member of my SG/VG,did it all on my own.,if i were to lose that due to a server merger, i would be not happy.
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Originally Posted by MadHobbit
you misunderstood my post,I am the first,last and only member of my SG/VG,did it all on my own.,if i were to lose that due to a server merger, i would be not happy.
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The servers Are Not Merging. You Will Not Lose your supergroup.
ok?
Don't borrow trouble. Worry about the whole SG issue in five or ten years, when they actually consider merging or closing servers. Not now.
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Originally Posted by Cende
Ok, here:
The servers Are Not Merging. You Will Not Lose your supergroup. ok? Don't borrow trouble. Worry about the whole SG issue in five or ten years, when they actually consider merging or closing servers. Not now. |
Always good to have these statements from authoritative sources.
In my case the server transfers made them money. I bought new slots just to move 5 toons to Justice.
On another note, does anyone think these free transfers will reduce the number of "I cant get into Freedom for Double XP weekend, the devs are evil!!!!!111!" posts?
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You need to get into the character selection screen in order to move the character, so probably not.
| On another note, does anyone think these free transfers will reduce the number of "I cant get into Freedom for Double XP weekend, the devs are evil!!!!!111!" posts? |
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When it's so much easier to make up doom when there isn't any?
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Originally Posted by Another_Fan
Always good to have these statements from authoritative sources.
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No better or worse than making up unicorns and rainbows
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Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
When it's so much easier to make up doom when there isn't any?
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But unicorns aren't real. |
Originally Posted by Another_Fan
No better or worse than making up unicorns and rainbows
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Since a lot of Super Groups and Villain Groups switch servers and have to start all over again I think they should do another SG/VG prestige bump for every member in a group.
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Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
But unicorns aren't real.
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LOL I am not on the doom bandwagon but I am real curious about that big wooden horse sitting outside the gates.
I'll also say this the devs gave us the holiday transfers for a reason and they were extended for a reason. From my way of looking at things the reasons for extending the transfer could be
1. Transfers weren't accomplishing what was desired fast enough so more time was allocated to allow things to happen.
2. Something unexpected was happening from the transfers and they liked it and decided they wanted more.
3. Somebody in the developer side had an agenda
Either way all we got for the initial reason was fluff, and we have had not much at all for the extension.
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Originally Posted by Another_Fan
LOL
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It is a curious thing, but for my part I will blindly hope that it's only what they said it was.Quote:
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Originally Posted by Big_Soto
Since a lot of Super Groups and Villain Groups switch servers and have to start all over again I think they should do another SG/VG prestige bump for every member in a group.
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Originally Posted by Big_Soto
Since a lot of Super Groups and Villain Groups switch servers and have to start all over again I think they should do another SG/VG prestige bump for every member in a group.
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I think that is a great idea... I hate not having a teleporter, generator or even a med bay in my SG that relocated to a new server. I hope this goes through.
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Unicorns don't believe you are real either...
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Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
But unicorns aren't real.
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Unicorns don't believe you are real either...
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When you view the server screen the servers are listed heaviest load (last) to lightest load (*first). I think server load essentially equates to the number of folks logged in. Virtue is almost always 2nd or 3rd from last on the list.
*However the very top server listed is always the last server you logged in to and has nothing to do with load.
Moved all my characters off of Triumph, Protector, Victory over to Virtue due to lack of population problems on them.
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Charrrrrliiieeeee...
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Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
I DON'T NEED THE APPROVAL OF UNICORNS TO EXIST!!!
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.
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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon
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Since so many people are (allegedly) going to move all their characters to Freedom in search of easier teaming it'll be even worse next 2XP weekend, since there will be even more people trying to log in than there are now.|
Originally Posted by Mr_Zek
On another note, does anyone think these free transfers will reduce the number of "I cant get into Freedom for Double XP weekend, the devs are evil!!!!!111!" posts?
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This of course proves that extending the free transfers is all part of an evil dev plan to blow up the Freedom server.
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I'm telling you Free server transfer is a conspiracy to consolidate all the PvPers and farmers onto one server. Then they are going to shutdown that server, yank it from their server farm, drive 100 miles out of town, smash it to bits with a sledge hammer and chuck it into a canal.
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Originally Posted by NightshadeLegree
Since so many people are (allegedly) going to move all their characters to Freedom in search of easier teaming it'll be even worse next 2XP weekend, since there will be even more people trying to log in than there are now.
This of course proves that extending the free transfers is all part of an evil dev plan to blow up the Freedom server. |
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