Server Transfers - Do we want them?

[Ferien]

(change in worldshifter dialogue)

Didn't they give the XBox 360 players the chance to choose their world? Maybe they changed the dialogue for that instance and just left it that way.

I seriously doubt that's the case, considering the XBox 360 and PC patches are completely separate from eachother.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Hydra just a copy of the standard PS2/PC servers dedicated to those players beta-testing the 360 version? Presumably, those players may have also accessed the server using their PC, in which case they'd have had to update the .dat containing World Shifter's dialogue for the entire FFXI population and not just those who played on Hydra on 360. Mind you I'm talking about when they closed Hydra and made all the testers worldshift out.

[Epyslon]

One positive and in ways negative will be that at least NMs will be in NA time on and all NA server.

Good thing : Always campable
Bad Thing: Competing against 14 different shells for 3 hours a day 7 days a week

[Beckwin]

NA shells camp 24/7 as is, don't think that no JP competition would stop that.

[Tomiko]

I still think someone's proposal of a "sponsorship" system was genius. You have to get X number of people to accept your server transfer proposal, and once that number was reached, the next time you log on, you'll log onto whatever server you were going for.

That would be a good way to handle it. Or at least something similar so it shows you have at least some reason to go to said server.

NO! People getting what they want from an ls, or stealing it from their "Friends" and then worldshifting and forgetting all their problems. Maybe have the option to do it once and thats it, if you don't like your new server then you are SoL.

People already do that now while staying on the server. But instead of changing servers, they just do the name change thing.

Stop /telling me to join BG

Is bugging Rocl ok?


I'm in favor of it for a few different reasons, with one of the main ones being due to friends on another server.

[Keno]

Scum moving from server to server? No thanks.

Your avatar:

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Made me think of this:

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[Lordender]

thats not funny -.-;

[Xisin]

I think its a good idea for people that are in my case in which a friend you met another game started a character on this game, in my case Everquest to FFXI.

Poor communicatiion on our part since we didnt know til we logged back in on EQ about 4 months later with 50+ characters (was about 3 years ago)

Though i do think its bad to give the ability og gear whores to jump ships from server to server.

Anyway i voted yes

[Gere]

Controversy

Waaaaaaaaaayyyyyy too soon man.

[Keno]

Controversy

Waaaaaaaaaayyyyyy too soon man.

...What, I'm serious. -5% physical damage taken.

[BRP]

Controversy

Waaaaaaaaaayyyyyy too soon man.

...What, I'm serious. -5% physical damage taken.

Keno, why must you go out of your way to prove you are an idiot? There are few who don't already have that opinion of you.

[BRP]

I'd say Pot, meet kettle..

Go back to bed Rosie O'Donnel.

[The Blackrose]

She was from Shiva, moved with her LS to midgard. She still a LS leader?

Last I checked she was associated with PlusOne. Pretty much bought the last stage of Zildjian's Aegis. Not sure if she has a leadership role somewhere, wouldn't be surprised though.

And I'd pay myself for her to GTFO Midgard.

[Keno]

Controversy

Waaaaaaaaaayyyyyy too soon man.

...What, I'm serious. -5% physical damage taken.

Keno, why must you go out of your way to prove you are an idiot? There are few who don't already have that opinion of you.

It's funny to hear that coming from you, really. Have a sense of humor, the joke was funny. That damn ribbon looks like a black belt, come on.

[Ferien]

Controversy

Waaaaaaaaaayyyyyy too soon man.

...What, I'm serious. -5% physical damage taken.

Keno, why must you go out of your way to prove you are an idiot? There are few who don't already have that opinion of you.

It's funny to hear that coming from you, really. Have a sense of humor, the joke was funny. That damn ribbon looks like a black belt, come on.

Waaaaaaaaaayyyyyy too soon man.

[SephYuyX]

Nothing is ever too soon. Rule 34.5 if theres something to get people pissed about, it exsists.

[Eltia]

Based on the description given by SE about world shift, I voted 'Nay'.

The reason is that the world shift SE currently intends it to work will be a two edged sword. On one hand, it gives players flexibility to choose which environment they would like to play in. e.g. people who are more Dynamis centric could move on to a server with a Dynamis LS that has a schedule that works best for them (and hopefully more competent too). On the other hand, without a good survey of the server you are going to migrate to, it could easily backfires. e.g. RMT could easily infect a Dynamis centric server by controlling the currency market using the gil they collect from other servers.

If SE is to go ahead with this server shift anyways, what they could have done is to compile additional data in their annual world report that could help players to decide which world they could shift to that would give them the best chance to accomplish long term goals. e.g. Entering and exiting time data for Dynamis/Limbus/Savages, average turn over time for HNMs, currency flow from Dynamis/Limbus, etc. It's all things that are "doable" in a reasonable amount of time.

I found the most useless data SE could probably provide is server population. Well, it's good to know server X is most populated and I can understand why SE technician would like to have these data for load balance purpose. But I want to know which server would give me the best chance to find the people that play in my time zone to get things done, ok? The benefit of knowing when people play out weight how many people play on a server. This is why SE's world shift service in the past is mostly a failure, because they haven't paid enough attention to differences in time zone.