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Bangasandmash
02.28.2012 , 10:36 PM | #81
I just had a look at my account to make sure that I had registered my country as Australia and discovered that under Essential Information that my country code had defaulted to United States even though my Contact Information lists Australia as my country when I registered my personal address details.

I guess the question now is, which country code will qualify to be able to get the server transfer. Will you get a server transfer if your Contact Information has Australian address details (and proves you live there) or will I have to get into a slinging match with Bioware because Basic Information set the country code to United States by default?

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Bladedakoda
02.28.2012 , 10:37 PM | #82
Quote: Originally Posted by jasoneth View Post
No statement has ever been made regarding what happens to one's legacy name and associated points during a character transfer; I'm guessing that dealing with this complication is partially why character transfers in general have been delayed.

Should character transfer be on a per-toon basis (as it is in all other games), or should an additional option be offered for a mass-transfer of all characters on a given account from one server to another? That'd be the easy case for the legacy system.

But many will only want to move a subset of their characters. By far the easiest solution would be for your legacy points total at the point of transfer to be copied across from your current server, but only on the first time you transfer to a given server. After that, the legacy points are earned independently if you continue to do stuff with toons on the old and new server.

If you transfer a toon off the new server, back to the original server, any points they earned while on the new server stay there. Once they're back on the original server, anything you do subsequently would contribute back to the legacy total on that server.

But yeah, it's complicated, and it'll be interesting to see what they decide to do!

You know, the best possible solution would be to make legacy points (if not legacy names) account-wide.
I am guessing you will only be able to move your whole account across not just one toon. I don't see any other way they could do it.
Legacy points are account bound. Thats why when you roll another toon it has the same legacy points as your main.

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jasoneth
02.28.2012 , 10:44 PM | #83
Quote: Originally Posted by Bladedakoda View Post
I am guessing you will only be able to move your whole account across not just one toon. I don't see any other way they could do it.
I just described one way you could do it, by "seeding" the legacy point total on the new server with whatever you've accumulated on your old.

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Legacy points are account bound. Thats why when you roll another toon it has the same legacy points as your main.
Your legacy point total is server-wide, NOT account-wide. All toons on a given server (regardless of faction) share the same legacy name and legacy points.

However, your toons on other servers do not. That's why there's a problem.
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Aussiedroid
02.28.2012 , 10:44 PM | #84
I thought Legacy Level is server based not account based??

Does anyone know?
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deags
02.28.2012 , 10:44 PM | #85
I'm Just wondering what is going to happen with character names, when i go to get my characters transferred and my name is already taken is there just going to be quick option to choose a name or will i have to get CS help just to get it done...
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obek_kwae
02.28.2012 , 10:47 PM | #86
Quote: Originally Posted by Bladedakoda View Post
I am guessing you will only be able to move your whole account across not just one toon. I don't see any other way they could do it.
Legacy points are account bound. Thats why when you roll another toon it has the same legacy points as your main.
Actually i'd be more inclined to believe that they're server bound. Hence not having a character on server x contribute to legacy on server y. I also would be willing to bet that legacy levels will not transfer and that after a transfer's completed and you log in, one of your first tasks setting up on your new home will be grabbing your legacy name.

I'd love to be proven wrong but if it works on the back end how i am surmising, i can kiss my 22 levels of legacy progress goodbye on my new home. That's mildly irritating but to me the pro's of local servers far outweigh that con.

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jasoneth
02.28.2012 , 10:47 PM | #87
Quote: Originally Posted by deags View Post
I'm Just wondering what is going to happen with character names, when i go to get my characters transferred and my name is already taken is there just going to be quick option to choose a name or will i have to get CS help just to get it done...
It's definitely server-wide. Right now, I'm legacy level 30 on the server on which I mainly play; I just logged into a placeholder toon on another server, and it doesn't have the legacy system unlocked (no toon on that server has completed chapter 1).
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Bladedakoda
02.28.2012 , 10:50 PM | #88
Quote: Originally Posted by jasoneth View Post
I just described one way you could do it, by "seeding" the legacy point total on the new server with whatever you've accumulated on your old.


Your legacy point total is server-wide, NOT account-wide. All toons on a given server (regardless of faction) share the same legacy name and legacy points.

However, your toons on other servers do not. That's why there's a problem.
There is no way they are going to let people just move one toon. It will be the whole account or nothing at all. I am fine with that, i am happy to just have a server in Australia.

Edit: The one thing that does worry me, is if someone had the same legacy name as someone else. What would happen then?

Also @ obek_kwae. If you lose all legacy for moving, then i guess i will be staying where i am. I don't feel like grinding out 25 levels again.

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jasoneth
02.28.2012 , 11:01 PM | #89
Quote: Originally Posted by Bladedakoda View Post
There is no way they are going to let people just move one toon. It will be the whole account or nothing at all. I am fine with that, i am happy to just have a server in Australia.
Eventually character transfers (presumably paid) will be open to all, and an "all or nothing" system seems extremely unlikely; it's a problem they have to solve eventually.

Whether they do so for the free transfer to the new Oceanic servers is another question. It can't be the whole account; what if a player has toons on multiple servers already? So a given server would have to be nominated if a mass-transfer was being offered, which it probably will be.

But long-term, it seems to me that they are going to have to come up with a per-toon transfer, given it's the norm in all other MMOs that offer character transfers.
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jasoneth
02.28.2012 , 11:03 PM | #90
Quote: Originally Posted by Bladedakoda View Post
Edit: The one thing that does worry me, is if someone had the same legacy name as someone else. What would happen then?
You'd be forced to choose a new legacy name on the destination server, exactly as happens now in other games if you transfer a character onto a server where the name is taken.

I'd guess that if the name was in use, it'd be cleared, and you'd be presented with the dialog to choose your legacy name when you logged into your characters after the transfer.
Teo, co-host and producer of OotiniCast
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