Question on global character slots

So, I posed this question in the Dev forum under the appropriate thread, but it's been over a month with nary a sniff of a reply, so I'll try here.

Past:
Old account which accrued enough time-in-sub for several bonus global unlocks.
Freedom launched, some of these unlocks are used.

Present:
Account is re-subscribed, accruing server transfers.

Future:
VIP is allowed to lapse.
No great attachment is had to current server, and might want to move somewhere more populated (obviously not Exalted).


Question: Do the global unlocks used apply to the SERVER, or to the CHARACTER IN THE SLOT?

If I move a character, do I end up with a character who can't be played because the unlocked global slot remains on the old server? Or does the global slot move with the character?

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I think the only appropriate place to post this is in the Questions forum. But I think the answer is that the unlock applies to the server. If you move the character, you'll be moving them into a locked slot. That will leave an empty unlocked slot behind on the old server. I haven't tried it myself, but I saw a thread complaining about the fact that it worked that way.

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Yeah i'ld presume you unlock that slot for that server you picked and not the character.

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From my experience, the old veteran character slots were used on a per server basis, and stay that way when you drop to premium.

At premium, all your characters are locked and need to be unlocked using the slots you have. By default, you have two global unlocks you can use, plus any ones you'd have redeemed earlier on any given server.

So, you could unlock the character using a server slot (it doesn't give you a choice between server/global if you have a server one), but when you transferred them, it would probably cost a global unlock (one of the two you get, unless you buy more) to play them on a server that didn't have any server slots.

Afterwards I'm assuming it would refund the server slot since the character was moved.

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