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Anyway, I have asked this on twitter as well but I am curious if anyone knows if they plan to allow some free server transfers from some of the full servers to the newer, lower pop ones. I for one (and I am sure others have this issue) ran into the problem of making a character on one of the "Unofficial Oceanic Servers" and have over an hour que last night. I am not QQing, I have launched many MMO's and ques are to be expected. My concern isnt ques right now, but post launch. I think it would be a great thing to allow these transfers from full servers to low/standard pop to allow less ques and more evenly distributed players.
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I have been playing since launch and as time goes on the server populations is dying. Even the guildies that were gun-ho on playing SWTOR are now looking for other games to play. We need a solution soon on the server population situation because I personally do not know how long I am willing to wait for Bioware to address this issue.

 

I suggest, releasing statistics of server populations on a time graph. Noting the number of players per server (each faction) and the players within level ranges. I am sure Bioware has simple scripts to grab this data, then allow this data to be on the server transfer webpage allow the player to move their character to that server. Since this is a problem in Kinrath Spider I suggest allowing servers with low populations to transfer all characters for free.

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I have been playing since launch and as time goes on the server populations is dying. Even the guildies that were gun-ho on playing SWTOR are now looking for other games to play. We need a solution soon on the server population situation because I personally do not know how long I am willing to wait for Bioware to address this issue.

 

I suggest, releasing statistics of server populations on a time graph. Noting the number of players per server (each faction) and the players within level ranges. I am sure Bioware has simple scripts to grab this data, then allow this data to be on the server transfer webpage allow the player to move their character to that server. Since this is a problem in Kinrath Spider I suggest allowing servers with low populations to transfer all characters for free.

 

I don't know of any MMO that releases this kind of Data.

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I have been playing since launch and as time goes on the server populations is dying. Even the guildies that were gun-ho on playing SWTOR are now looking for other games to play. We need a solution soon on the server population situation because I personally do not know how long I am willing to wait for Bioware to address this issue.

 

I suggest, releasing statistics of server populations on a time graph. Noting the number of players per server (each faction) and the players within level ranges. I am sure Bioware has simple scripts to grab this data, then allow this data to be on the server transfer webpage allow the player to move their character to that server. Since this is a problem in Kinrath Spider I suggest allowing servers with low populations to transfer all characters for free.

 

they know it , but they dont want to change it science subs still near 1.7mil.

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Legacy is going to be an issue. they will need to address that before anything happens but eventually I would say yeas free xfers at some point. Rift has free xfers that take literally 10 seconds and can be done once a week. No one complains about it, hasn't negatively effected the game. In pvp actually its a good thing, it encourages competitve guilds guild to move to the same server and have at it! Don't know if game engine is capable of that but another game handles it that way.
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If they acknowledge that a server has a population problem they should merge, what is the point of having a server so quiet it needs transfers then leaving it open for new players or the ones left behind in a dead server.

 

Show some leadership and get 4 quiet servers, shove them into a healthy population.

Transfers smacks of "its too hard for BW to do" "we are scared of what people will say"

 

Transfer, theres no legacy problems, no legacy on the new server... make a new one, start at legacy lvl 1.

transfer, Already unlocked a legacy? join it put your three lvl 50's into a lvl 5 legacy

Transfer, someone got your name? pick a new one.

 

All nice and easy for BW but I want a company that will go the extra bit, do some extra work to make things better.

 

I dont have all the answers, I know my server is desperately quiet and I dont want to log in one day and see half them transferred out to unknown servers.

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In European Servers you see a whole bunch of them light, a couple standard (and standard means having 40-80 on the fleet), 15-30 in ilum and a bunch scattered around other planets and FP/OPs. At least in my server, where in the beginning was always heavy (NIMAN). Then you see Freedon Nadd very heavy.

Reason? everyone changing..the ones that do not change leave the game.

there are a lot of questions and a lot of expectations, and Devs responses are far and few.

This is not a free game, therefore expectations need to be met in the shortest time possible. It is called client servicing, something that we do not see here very often

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Yeah there seems to be an active movement to reroll from scratch on more populated servers. I did that, primarily because I first created my characters on a server that was in the wrong area because I wanted to follow a friend, but turns out that was not worth the fact that the server population was on the wrong time zone, nor was the server the most populated US server by a long shot - I was playing in a ghost town, and solo.

 

Now, even on the server I chose (which was top 10 in Europe at least) there are lots of people actively rerolling characters on The Red Eclipse or The Tomb of Freedon Nadd, just to get access to a bustling server that's trending towards full at peak hours.

 

The game suffers from "single-player-itis" as it is, it's just too much fun and too easy to solo the game. Finding scratch teams for heroics and fp's is hard even with big server populations, with medium to small it gets even worse.

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Hi guys...i play in european servers (Ula Vii and The Kumumgah)...when i started i chose this servers 'cause the others were quite full and i wanted a quiet one...At the beginning it was great...but now...is quite empty here :( ...to find some imperial scum i need a date :D ...and complete the highter heroic quests is quite impossible...people is leaving the game from this server cause of this...so i heard that will be a free transfert soon (really hope so)...is it true?

 

forgive my despicabble english :rolleyes:

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Server Population is not near as bad as people think seriously check this out. This site allows you to see any servers population for a duration of chosen time.

http://www.torstatus.net/the-harbinger/history/7d#!/the-swiftsure/history/7d

I found this site and it's pretty accurate but your not seeing the whole population due to people logging on and off. Not everyone is on at the exact same time. Although as my previous post I still agree with having server transfers due to discovering friends on other servers and such.

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Server Population is not near as bad as people think seriously check this out. This site allows you to see any servers population for a duration of chosen time.

http://www.torstatus.net/the-harbinger/history/7d#!/the-swiftsure/history/7d

I found this site and it's pretty accurate but your not seeing the whole population due to people logging on and off. Not everyone is on at the exact same time. Although as my previous post I still agree with having server transfers due to discovering friends on other servers and such.

 

I hate torstatus, but since YOU brought it up...

 

filter population and goto pages 6 and 7......see the 15 servers that are listed under 1.0? Most are 0.97, 0.96 or lower.....those are all the servers that are DEAD. Those are all the servers that are GHOSTOWNS. Those are all the servers that have 10-20 on the fleet PEAK 9PM AT NIGHT.

 

Saying server population is not near as bad as people think is foolish...because the people on those 15 servers have a POOR playing experience MMO wise....

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Server Population is not near as bad as people think seriously check this out. This site allows you to see any servers population for a duration of chosen time.

http://www.torstatus.net/the-harbinger/history/7d#!/the-swiftsure/history/7d

I found this site and it's pretty accurate but your not seeing the whole population due to people logging on and off. Not everyone is on at the exact same time. Although as my previous post I still agree with having server transfers due to discovering friends on other servers and such.

 

It is true that not everyone is playing at the same time still, I think population is an issue.

On my server (Ludo kressh) we have like 30-40 ppl on the fleet in the evenings at around 8-10 CET and after that it starts declining. I wouldn't call this a healthy population.

 

The AH is dead as well. However, it seems that there is always a new wave of ppl coing to this server because you can see fresh lvl50s but for some reason they disappear quite quickly. When you have a nice group for HMs or ops thats only for a week or two and then most of the squad wont log in anymore.

 

An MMO should be about socialising with other players but you usually end up seeing the same faces in all the WZs and on Ilum and on the Fleet and that gets boring pretty fast. Its liek living in a small village. Everybody knows everyone. That shouldnt be the case in an MMO.

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Transfer, theres no legacy problems, no legacy on the new server... make a new one, start at legacy lvl 1.

And watch the forums lite up with the "I don't want to start my legacy over!"

transfer, Already unlocked a legacy? join it put your three lvl 50's into a lvl 5 legacy

again posts of "I already have my legacy at 35"

Transfer, someone got your name? pick a new one.

again posts of "Why do I have to change my name? I started in early access to get this name!!!!"

 

 

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I don't even care if they cost some token amount. My first character was on Iron Citadel, but I got sick of the post launch queues in a hurry and rolled a character on Krath. That server is now a ghost town on the Republic side, with seemingly half the population in one guild, so after clearing EV once, I went back to Iron Citadel. The population difference was so great that I didn't think my being on the west coast would matter, but now it does. I can stay there and pug when I want, or I can reroll again, this time on a high pop west coast server, assuming one exists. My preference would be to consolidate my characters on such a server (same, unusual legacy name) and be done with this, even if it costs a few bucks. Abandoning 50s in T2+ gear sucks.
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If there is not server transfer's very soon. i am quitting for good. i am sick of playing on a dead server because bioware refuses to address this issue. sick of hearing about this 1.7mil subscriber bs. we can see that most server's are dead by actually playing the game.
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Server Population is not near as bad as people think seriously check this out. This site allows you to see any servers population for a duration of chosen time.

http://www.torstatus.net/the-harbinger/history/7d#!/the-swiftsure/history/7d

I found this site and it's pretty accurate but your not seeing the whole population due to people logging on and off. Not everyone is on at the exact same time. Although as my previous post I still agree with having server transfers due to discovering friends on other servers and such.

 

 

We are talking about servers that are most affected by the low populations which if you bothered to look deeper at the site there are a number of them. These are the servers that players are having problems with.

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they will be very targeted to only allow u to transfer to a specific server likely, you wont be able to go to a high pop server of your choosing. cause there arent many anymore, imo all should be on high for best player interaction.
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We are talking about servers that are most affected by the low populations which if you bothered to look deeper at the site there are a number of them. These are the servers that players are having problems with.

 

This....firkraan crystal is a **** server for republic. 20 ppl tops on fleet on friday and Saturday nights. I pvp with the same ppl (who SUCK) over and over again because only like 10 republic are pvping. If ur NOT gonna do server xfers soon them at least implement ur cross server queues...

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they will be very targeted to only allow u to transfer to a specific server likely, you wont be able to go to a high pop server of your choosing. cause there arent many anymore, imo all should be on high for best player interaction.
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Nothing new to say, I just wanted to add my post to the pile. Hope they will address this soon. I mean, how hard can it be, really? I'm sick of playing on the ghost town that is Eidolon Security. Some people will say to just re-roll, but to those of us who don't play this game 15+ hours a week, that's a pretty big deal.
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If they would release graphs we would be BLOWN AWAY by how the server are populated way too many servers and not enough people. NEVER i have ever seen the republic fllet population over 150 on Bondar Crystal, people are quitting and unsubbing like flies, so they really need to handle this problem, cause it looks like them thinking having all these server is the answer when its not cause you pick a server invest time and then at end game realize WTH this blows, no population= nothing to do=people quitting
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/support

 

I posted this same reply in another thread as well. Sorry for the repeat but just want to emphasize the need for transfers as much as possible.

 

I have a level 50 BH on the Lord Ieldis server, I have had since release. This server has dropped in population drastically. There have been times I have noticed the pop on a planet is myself and one or two other people. Even fleet is only at 10 people sometimes it gets up to 30 or so... But this still is not enough to provide the community needed to enjoy the game content. Because of this I have stopped trying to do any Heroics, FP's, or warzones just due to the fact that the wait times are insane! I would really like to transfer this character to another server where I have another higher level character I have been working on. I'm not so worried about transferring the guild with him but that would be nice as well since I did have to pay 5000 credits to establish the guild and credits don't come easy.

 

I think Server transfers are a Huge deal that desperately need to be addressed by Bioware and not just tucked away with a suggestion to re-roll on another server. Starting over with a re-roll is not an option for me as I would lose all my affection with my companions, all my Crafting and Gathering, not to mention all my other progress on my Character. I also have a guild I started about 2 months ago and can't even get people to join because the pop is so low.

 

Another issue with transfers are the other Characters I have on this same server. They are lower levels and I am reluctant to play any of them as I don't want to run into the same issues I have on my main. These I would be willing to re-roll on the other server but am just looking for some definitive response to transfers.

 

Bioware... you have a great thing going here! I haven't enjoyed an MMO like this in a long time. Please don't let something like transfers and Server Populations ruin such a great game!

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