moving more than 8 char to new server?

Just because this isn't a problem for you doesn't really mean you are justified in being a breathtakingly obnoxious douchebag. People get attached to their characters. This is not a surprise. They don't want to leave characters they play behind on a dead server because of how rigid the transfer process is (I have more than eight characters I wouldn't mind keeping myself. I am obviously fine with them not all being on the same server, but I can't, say, move a couple of them to Jedi Covenant and the rest to Ebon Hawk, which is a bummer). The OP wasn't whining, and whether YOU approve or not is irrelevant. It IS a problem, and one BioWare should address.

I'm annoyed enough that my destination server has none of my names available, having to as good as delete some of them doesn't exactly cheer me up. I rather suspect BioWare would prefer people are happy about the server merges (excuse me, "transfers") than decide "Hey, you know what? I'm not as attached as I thought now." Having to lose your names AND some of your characters definitely sullies the entire thing.

QFT!!!

You can't expect everyone to be smart. Remember, it takes all kinds to make up the world

The game gives you 8 advanced classes per side. I realize that several are mirror images of others, however some of us are on RP servers because of roleplay purposes (imagine that). So, when BioWare gives us 8 slots per server initially and tells, 'have at it', I did. How was I to know that this game would tank so bad that I would have to transfer all my characters from the only two servers I have characters on, to the very same server.

I guess I'm just stupid for thinking that it wasn't the fault of the players that were still sticking around and not BioWare. Why should BioWare have to make any more of a sacrifice. Truly I, the customer should be the one that has to sacrifice by deleting 4 or so characters that I've already invested time on. What was I thinking?!

We all have different play styles and one person's is not automatically better than the other.

I have 2 legacies - one Republic and one Empire. Legacy names appropriate for them both. However, one of my servers is being merged into the other.

Choosing to delete half my characters and losing one of my legacy names - and all the legacy points that went with it - is not a pleasant option.

I just want to keep my two legacies and I want to keep them separate. I hope BW finds a way for us to do this.

I have no more than 4 characters on any server. I saved room so I could make a new character in case new species, classes, or other options for character creation were introduced. I also play on 3 different server types.

I don't see them giving us more slots, unless it's attached to a fee. Even that possibility, I see as unlikely. When new playable species are introduced, people are going to be calling for more slots again because they filled them all up with alts already.

so your point is all us who bought into the "make alts" thrust of the game are dumber than dirt, if we didn't do it your way?

or

your post really has no point.

Like many others, I have the problem of the two servers I play on being a origin / destination for each other (Shien and Ebon Hawk).

When I and the guild I'm in starting playing in early access, we decided to do all Empire on one server, all republic on another. (I would have done this anyway.) If I want to move now, I have to delete characters, which is something I do not see as a solution. The Guildmaster is already looking at doing just that because he's overreacting and thinking that Shien will be shut down soon. So he going to delete 8 characters to move 8.

And to stop the "OMG, 16 peeps, get a life!" , I don't have tons of time to play usually. It took me since early access to build up a 50, a 30+, and a bunch of 20's. That alone is part of the reason I don't want to delete any character, the time I would have to invest to rebuild on another server. Also, we still don't know the overall plan for the origin servers,. What if I reroll on one of them, only to have it shut down in a few months?

Of course then there are the people who will say that there are only eight AC's and that the republic ones play the same as the Empire ones. Why I'm doing every AC for on each side for is for the changes of gameplay and (the big one) the changes of the story. The race, sex, and light/dark sides choices I have made for each AC is different, which gives me a different experience when playing. Have to love when a house full of guildies looks at you in horror when you say that your Jedi put back relations with the Twi'lek decades because of your choices on Tython. Or when you tell them that your human smuggler was treated better in conversations by Skavik then how he treated your Twi'lek because she is an alien.

A solution that Bioware could have done is to have a block of destination servers (two or three) for a group of origin servers. That may not help everyone, but it would help quite a few people.

Also, for the naming problem that people are having, they could have gone to a format like the one Cryptic uses. The names are attached to an account alias that is unique. So then you could have ten BubbaFat 's running around with no problem.

Even if they gave *each* account 32 slots (to fully accomodate 8 slots from 4 servers), chances are that there would still be a few people complaining about not having enough character slots available...

True, it doesn't help in that they are only currently transferring characters between similar servers (ie RP-PvE to RP PvE, PvE to PvE), because if you re-rolled on a similar server, chances are you went for the same type.

Would 16 *overall* character slots be enough though? Or would people be wanting more slots overall to play with (I know some people are altoholics).

I do *personally* feel that no matter how many slots they gave out, unless it *seriously* outnumbered the number of servers being moved into one, chances are that a few people would still complain (although if they had 32 characters i would worry about them )

because it's your time and characters and not theirs.

Another option for Bioware to do , especially if server shutdowns are in the future, is to let us transfer to any server type we would want during this period of transfers. Of course, it would be to the list of destination servers they currently have, but it may alleviate some of the problems for those of us unable to transfer without deleting characters.

The reason I suggest this is that for the east coast RP servers, it looks like they are getting ready to shutdown all but one of them. If we were allowed to transfer to the PVE servers (or PVP / PVP-RP for those who wanted to) on the destination list of east coast servers (or any in the U.S. for that matter) it would hopefully solve most of the problems that we 'altaholics' are running into.

I'm going to hazard a guess that they are more concerned about getting people off dead servers and onto servers that they can enjoy the game on. I would think that they will address the issue of people having more than 8 characters going to the same server at a a later date. Transfer your favorite ones for now and wait to see if Bioware will come up with a viable solution in the future. After all the servers have been transferred either to or from, they will come back and address stranded characters (hopefully).