Community Q&A – April 27th 2012 Blog Discussion

The annoncment about new species made my day, I just hope its a good number of species and they are not limited to only a handful of classes (although guess they will still unlock through legacy like the others) wil just need to start getting some credits if I have th buy them in game. To warn the dev team I will probably be asking what species and when every QA till they tell me

If the free transfers work like, transfers from server a, b and c can only go to server z then I think that is fine. Doing that way is pretty much a merger anyway.

Hi everyone.

Great, so the LFG and server transfers are coming around the next patch. Everyone has their issue that they want fixed with the game, but making the servers busy and having a LFG tool for questing and instances whilst levelling will really really help the game.

Let's look forward to the patch (and stop with the negativity for a second!) which I'd imagine will be live by June - and remember that Coruscant wasn't built in a day (as the saying doesn't go!).

A lot of people will be leaving this game if they are stuck on a low pop server for much longer. Need this implemented asap, the aussies already transferred off, you must be able to do this already...

And please, no big patches, keep them lean. It's frustrating waiting weeks and months with no fixes or updates.

Thanks for the Q&A was great.

I got a question about the Server Transfer service you are going to implenemt, will that make so the realm I'm playing most on get less players as they will move to somewhere else or will you have a kind of "lock" so you can't leave too under populated areas, it seems that Imperial is larger in % then Republic on the server I'm playing as and It's no fun playing PvP with Imperial vs Imperial so frequently, besides we need some balance.

Would you add all this into consideration when making the Server Transfer service?
The best thing you could do is to remove some servers and move those people for free to others, I think you where a little bit to generous with servers on release when people where complaining about it, and now it's alot of low populated ones.

Thanks again and good luck in the future

Targeted free transfers usually mean that the server transfers are targetting to transfer people to certain, and usually low populated servers, if I'm wrong, I'm happy to be wrong, but truth is that this is how many MMOs have started with. I merely read between the lines and assumed that instead of just doing server merges, they would try something called "bubblegum fix.
Most likely their focus is not currently on raising server playercaps due to fact that they want to create "closer communities" which is originally why the servers were "small" to begin with. I don't doubt bigger servers are an impossibility, but that would ruin their "communities" pretty well. The thing is that the transfer to f.ex. Kinrath Spider, which is practically dead, will most likely be free, whereas transfer to The Fatman will cost the players to transfer to. This is my issue with the "to transfer to anywhere you want you have to pay" type of sentences.

Also I post extremely rarely, so don't call me hysterical yet. If you were right when the transferring comes, please hit me with a pm where you call me hysterical, because then I've earned it.

what would interest me i detail will there be also restrictions like in the asia transfer deal or can we finally chose where we are going ? your information should be more detailed on such important issues

You realize that this might delay transfers additional months to accomplish?

You should follow the situation more closely. It's known that the Asia-Pacific transfers were a test of their system, and that it needs to be expanded to handle the capacity required for general use.

While you make some good points, faction balance is a really poor basis on which to base source/destination server designations.