moving more than 8 char to new server?

I'm holding out for "phase 2" of this transfer process myself. Going to stay on my old server and when paid transfers come out (likely they will) I will move to a different server where I currently don't have any characters already. If they go the pay route, I think they will open up more choices of where we can go, as long as it is one of the "super servers."

The problem is this:

Day 1 of the transfer person gets an email to transfer their characters from server A to Server B. The person transfers all 6 characters over to the destination server.

Day 6 of the transfer, same person receives an email to transfer their characters from server C to server B, the person has 8 and wasn't expecting them all to go to the same server.

Now the options are to either only pick 2 to move or actually have to delete previously moved characters to move over other ones.

Seriously, i am stressing over this as I like to play both sides of the tree on all the classes and selected 2 servers pre-launch, one for my imps and one for my pubs and made all of my characters to save the names I wanted. While I could select my favorite 8 if I needed too, when I moved over my first 6 I hadn't thought that it was a possibility that the other server I was on could be sent to the same one. I hope it doesn't happen, but if it does I wasn't given the decision to select my best 8....

Honestly because the server my imperials are on is still pretty populated, much more so than my republic server was, I thought the chance was that it would be a destination server. Now I am hearing that perhaps there will be just 5 PVE servers and likely that all the servers on my coast will be merged into one (this is just speculation and not something I have heard from bioware) and if true, I wish that bioware would have said something to us so we could make decisions based on the facts as they know beforehand and not end up in a situation due to learning about what is going on just minutes before it actually happens.

I am crossing my fingers that I don't get stuck in this situation and feel for anyone who is already there.

I have an open slot but I'm not able to transfer another.

That's a known bug/problem with an easy fix if you look at other posts in the forum. Just make a new character on the server you are trying to go to, then delete it. Now you should be able to transfer to the last spot.

you have 40 slots (8 on 5 servers) available not 32

The total character limit, including the test server, is 50, not 40.

That being said, I do have friends in this situation, and it is a problem. The servers I play on still have not been announced (!), so I don't know yet whether the same will happen to me.

Yeah it is 50 as i remember thinking was a strange amount as you would have 6 servers with 8 and 2 characters on a 7th server which is odd.

Oh and i decided to transfer 4 to TEH and keep 3 on Sanctum and 4 on Rubat , all I could do really oh and i'm going to make a new character so i have 4 on each of my 3 servers. hopefully one day I can gather the remaining 8 characters together , no skin off my nose if not though , i like the busy city server and my 2 village servers ( in population context ).

cheers,

Badorb.

I'm feeling a similar amount of frustration at the moment, I transferred a few characters over to The Ebon Hawk server but I already have a few on there, so I've still got 6 on Sanctum who are stuck there. It is incredibly frustrating that I can't just have them all on one server!

Because of answers like this from Bioware, the 'non-hiatus for the summer' members of the guild I am in decided to take the only option that is currently available to us. We deleted our Empire characters on Ebon Hawk to move our more played Republic characters that were on Shien. Months of getting what time I could to play with my 12+ hour work day schedule went down the drain with me going along with this choice. It was that, or stay on a server that was topping off in the mid 20's for people online on after the transfers started.

As for rebuilding the Empire side, or even doing missions on Republic side; the lag is insane in many areas. I've been seeing up to 5-6 second response times for hitting an ability to having it actual go off. Using my bank on the fleet is next to impossible, took over a minute for it to even open up, and forget about moving/grabbing stuff from it in a timely manner. And trying to do missions with over 100 people all in the same area means you have to be cutthroat and steal mobs from people, as that's what you have to do now in order to make any kills in many areas. This is especially true on the starting planets.

Also, despite the larger numbers on the servers, I tried to get groups for the dailies and flashpoints with very little luck (with 40+ people in Black Hole, it took over 1 hour to get a group for the heroic) . Can't wait for the group finder to be in, maybe that will help.

You have a quote on this? Never heard that.