Base Transfer

They once said they where going to make a way for us to transfer our basses between servers. I know they haven't done it yet but is there any word on it. I tried a search and couldn't find anything.

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AFAIK, at least in the last 4 years they haven't said any such thing.
In fact, I think they've gone out of their way to say "no" to it.

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Now they are able to make us pay for everything, this could be found for thousand PP in market ^^

I vaguely remember a mention about transferring bases to the VIP server just before

it went live, but nothing ever happened with it.

Probably a player asking for it.

Because bases are a shared resource.

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It was Positron that commented that they were "committed" to do base server transfers. But after close to an hour of looking my search fu has failed me. Perhaps it was in a since erased beta or other thread or perhaps someone else will have better luck finding the reference. Anyway, believe it or don't (both me and him)... it's up to you.

Supergroup Transfers (Including bases)
This is something we anticipated and are actively working on, but it likely won’t be ready for City of Heroes Freedom’s launch. We are committing to bringing you this service in the future and it won’t be just to the VIP server, it will be between any server. It will likely require the Supergroup’s Super Leader to actually execute the transfer.

This was taken from a post by Positron dated 6-23-11. I guess sometimes people don't blow things out of proportion. All the same, nothing ever came of it obviously.

Now that we have everyone on board with what was said...

There are two schools of thought of where we are at with this. I've heard it said that one year or more "in process" time isn't unheard of in MMO development (though I must say the competitive edge has to go to those who meet their stated commitments sooner). If you subscribe to this, then we are just waiting for the crank to turn for base server transfer results.

OTOH, when it comes to bases, there is an entire boneyard of dev stated goals and objectives that have not panned out. I'd prefer not to go into details but the disappointments go back quite some time. Due to primarily the nature of the base code (from what I've been told), the likelihood for success with new things for bases has a track record that is much lower than other aspects of the game.

So if it sounds like I'm "talking out of both sides of my mouth at the same time" on this happening, it's because I am. My point is your best bet is to expect little and celebrate the successes when they occur. As far as I know officially, the jury is still out on this one.

I'd love to see base transfers.

I have a base on Infinity that NEEDS to go to Virtue.

Especially if it involves the possibility of a rename - to take the base from my old defunct SG on Triumph & move it to more active server with a fresh name & theme for the SG would rock.

I guess time will tell.

Honestly, I thought they'd have more than enough money by now to better support the development of things base related no matter how "fragile a beast" it is.

I've been avoiding this kind of topic for a while, because... well... Let's just say I was not encouraged by my very brief conversation with a certain Dev at the Player Summit. I came away with a very distinct impression that there would not be much more than bare minimum investment in bases for the foreseeable future.