IT'S TIME! Character Transfers (Paid & Non-Paid) ETA & Info Pls

Support + 1

As Shaedy stated above, many of us late night/early morning US players deliberately joined a high Oceanic population server, The Harbinger, for the express purpose of being able to play with our aussie/oceanic friends.

Frankly to be told that new servers are being opened for the purpose we orginally intended but only for oceanic players feels like a slap in the face. SWTOR is a great game and having 6 chars spanning a dual republic/empire guild with 400+ members and watching all of them but the few US players get a free ticket to a new server while we get left behind is very disheartening. I can see The Harbinger server turning into a ghost town after March 1st.

So at the very least I say to the powers that be, give all 3 primarily oceanic servers,
(Jekk'Jekk Taar, The Harbinger and Swiftsure I believe?) server-wide regardless of real-world location, the ability to server transfer for free to the new oceanic servers..

Barring that.. just switch all 3 of above said servers to BECOME aussie servers, thereby removing the need for anyone to even need a server transfer.

Honestly,

Its time for Bioware to realize that server transfer needs to be put in place. I totally understand that some servers, with the oceanic transfer, are going to lose players and become far less functional. Just let us all transfer servers so we can get off dead servers or just go play with our friends without having to re-roll a new toon. In the very lest Bioware could let us know that maybe this is a test to see if server transfer is a viable option, but the lack of real feedback in reprehensible on their part. Don't see why they are not dedicating more time to this one would think that the amount of people playing a mmo would be of vital importance to the fiscal solvency of the game, oh well....

I support server transfers. The quick addition of this feature will be a determining factor as to whether or not I cancel after 1.2.

I also like to get Server Transfer asap. I am wondering though what would happen to your level in LEGACY if we move toons to other servers (if you move 4 out of 6 characters by example)? Do we lose the pts?
And please make sure we also keep ALL our inventory linked to our toons/characters!

There still hasnt been any official word on the specifics of the transfers. I would assume they are still creating the process to allow this to occur.

I would assume at this stage that Legacy points may not transfer, although I am sure I am the same as all players in saying they should.

This could be rather simple to implement, but would be based on your first character transferred to the AU server.

So for example, if you had characters across multiple servers with different legacy levels and names, you would choose your legacy name you have the most experience with to be the first transfer. This would establish your legacy name and points on the new AU server. Any characters transferred after this would then inherit the name and points from your main character. It would just need to be clearly explained but would be easier from a technical standpoint as well.

If your Legacy name happened to already be taken by another, then you could keep your points but allowed a once off rename. Same that should occur if your character name transferred is already taken on the new server.

Legacy not transferring would be a massive down point - and would limit those moving. It takes a long time to get that level up.

Being that we do not know if our friends can come with us when we transfer is really my main concern though. We really need a response from Bioware on this ASAP ... when will EU/US players be able to transfer????

Please Bioware, this is not the only thread on this topic and there is A LOT of interest in getting this info.

Thanks all for your support.

please... server transfers... and soon...

i'm sick and gosh darn tired of getting stuck in groups with people that don't speak english because BW's dumb as piss guild placement system stuck a bunch of french speaking guilds from quebec on a north american server instead of a french language server. you try to tell them what the plan is for an encounter and "no spek inglis" is what we get when we ask these morons why they broke cc. it's ******** and needs to be adressed.

Game's been out 2 months.

Reroll.

In the long-term, this is nothing seriously invested.

dont forget faction change

"Then I can totally skip that whole stupid "story" thing!"

@RazielHex - Yes, this might be the best option for many, but in my opinion a few 100s hrs invested into a character IS a serious investment. Not just the fact of doing the story, side quests, run in FP & OPs, Crafting-RE to get your gear but for me there is some emotional investment into my character too (sounds corny I know!! ). Its the same for those who are wanting to move elsewhere (not just the AU servers) but really dont want to start again. They just want to play with their friends or transfer where people are also playing at the time they play (it is a MMO after all).

At the end of the day for our group, sure we could ask our EU friends to reroll, and in long term probabily no huge issue, but in the mean time we are prevented from doing groups together in HM FPs & OPS with our established group to wait weeks or possibly months for them to catchup to where they are at now.

Some people may be able to level very quickly but we dont all have the time to do it all again (for me I am probabily slowby hardcore standards as it took 2 weeks holidays to level my char @ 12-16hrs a day - to do this now and put this time in would be very long indeed). Some players are already through hard modes, conquered everything but we are still working though this, and want to keep working through this together..but hopefully move to AU in the process.

If we could get Bioware to give some definitive info on transfers then these concerns may no longer be relevant.