Cant wait to get off that Keller's void dump!
Seriously hope were a destination server tho, don't want to rename all my characters i've had since early access
I seriously hope they ban your account.
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I seriously hope they ban your account.
kyo_daikun
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Someone is missing me something fierce
1 more night shift and im all yours for 4 days Mr Butthurt
Someone is missing me something fierce
1 more night shift and im all yours for 4 days Mr Butthurt
Getting on Mumble tonight? Have a few things to discuss!
Yaska
Member
Well the site and servers are down, so we should be expecting transfer infos soon I thinks. Another question is how badly they can manage the transfers.
My pessimistic guess is that they're trying to comb people with transfers to few almost empty servers and hope that communities will born this way. In reality everyone will stick with their refugee alts on Fatman and won't leave for empty server except for few :/.
My optimistic guess is that they've actually thought this through, and allow people from dead servers to transfer into fatman and other high population servers while raising the population gap on aforementioned servers.
Gotta keep thumbs up.
My pessimistic guess is that they're trying to comb people with transfers to few almost empty servers and hope that communities will born this way. In reality everyone will stick with their refugee alts on Fatman and won't leave for empty server except for few :/.
My optimistic guess is that they've actually thought this through, and allow people from dead servers to transfer into fatman and other high population servers while raising the population gap on aforementioned servers.
Gotta keep thumbs up.
MaddenNFL64
Member
Wonder how everythings gonna pan out today. Can't wait though!
StudioTan
Hold on, friend! I'd love to share with you some swell news about the Windows 8 Metro UI! Wait, where are you going?
They will be going to high pop servers but not Fatman, I can practically guarantee that. It makes no sense, that server has no problem with population and you'd end up with queues while other servers still need people. Most likely they'll be funneling people to "normal" servers so that they end up heavy.
Yaska
Member
question is if there even are "normal" servers anymore. In the end those who fled to Fatman are mostly gonna stay there, so the amount of people transferring to these other servers won't be much, so in the end it won't most likely fix the server problem. I do hope I am wrong with my view in regard of this matter, I really do.
StudioTan
Hold on, friend! I'd love to share with you some swell news about the Windows 8 Metro UI! Wait, where are you going?
I haven't looked at the server list in a while to see what is listed as normal/light etc but my server, Sith Wyrm, is currently 21st in terms of population according to torstatus.net and we still get over 50 people on the fleet on the republic side some nights. Generally we have between 25-50 people (although it's been hovering on the lower end the past couple of weeks) whereas Imp side usually has about double that. It's not great but better than what I've seen from a lot of the lower pop servers. PVP still pops every few mins from around 4pm to midnight as it is so if transfers were able to double our population I'd consider that pretty healthy.
I suppose we'll find out tomorrow. I'm also expecting a small spike with 1.3.
BattleMonkey
Member
Aren't they only going to start doing some transfers today, and not all servers? I thought thats what it sounded like. The way they talked about it sounded like it's going to be done in a rolling out fashion because of the rush they will have to transfer
They're up right now, though only a handful of servers are available for transfer so far. Keller's Void is among them though, headed to Jedi Covenant. I'm assuming you guys are going?
http://www.swtor.com/transfer
http://www.swtor.com/transfer
BattleMonkey
Member
Yup they are rolling it out a little at a time, and people are freaking out as usual lol
BattleMonkey
Member
But they did state how it was going to be done. As it's being noted, they stated how they would roll out the transfers in such a manner in multiple places.
You really think they are going to have the entire game pop transfer at the exact same time? Spells disaster.
Yaska
Member
True they did state that, but they have been working on character transfers for around 3 months now and they still started with just 10 servers, and there's no notion if the tool is even ready yet. While I understand that transferring hundreds of characters takes time, especially if they're still doing it by hand, it's still disappointing. This whole situation regarding server populations was their own doing from the start. Of course people are getting mad that they won't fix their own mistakes in time, or atleast have safeguards in place.
While I really hope I could side with them, their performance so far has been pretty bad. I just hope they will finally start to improve in regards of community management.
Edit: also to clarify that I expected roughly 20 servers worldwide to be eligible for first wave of transfers.
While I really hope I could side with them, their performance so far has been pretty bad. I just hope they will finally start to improve in regards of community management.
Edit: also to clarify that I expected roughly 20 servers worldwide to be eligible for first wave of transfers.
BattleMonkey
Member
Have to wait and see how quick they add and do more servers before people judge. They are likely being cautious since even with working on it for some time, no way to test the transfering of thousands of players to new servers at once without actually doing it. Other MMOs that have done similar transfers have done it the same way.
If these initial transfers go well hopefully, they will possibly expand the amount of servers they do at once, but they got over 200 servers to work with right now. Be interesting to see how quick they add more servers to the list.
The proper way to do it would be to open the transfers and see how full they can make a server, and if possible transfer more to destination server till it fills to capacity, then move on to another set of destinations and keep transfering till those fill up, and so on till you make a bunch of full servers. If they just open the flood gates and set destination servers ahead of time, your going to get random populations
Yaska
Member
Yeah agree with you on the waiting part. I just hope I'm really negative again and proven wrong in my view. Just got so many bad experiences of MMO-devs using Valve Time (tm) definition of "soon".
BattleMonkey
Member
That sounds nice. How does it work? You do it from in game or something?
Azwethinkweiz
Member
I know they're doing this in waves or whatever, but you'd think they'd start with the servers in most need. I'm on Kinrath Spider and I haven't seen more than 5 people on the fleet at one time in the past month.
I'm guessing it's going to be done all this week, so I wouldn't worry
Sooooo... We were going to do nightmare pilgrim tonight, should we do that before transferring? I imagine JC will be a tad more crowded and have a bit of competition for it potentially.
EDIT: Remember to clear your mailbox and anything on the GTN, they won't transfer with you, as they are server specific.
One other quick question, they had said the higher legacy would get to keep a name, but the transfer faq doesn't mention this. Did it change? Are we screwed on our names?
EDIT: Remember to clear your mailbox and anything on the GTN, they won't transfer with you, as they are server specific.
One other quick question, they had said the higher legacy would get to keep a name, but the transfer faq doesn't mention this. Did it change? Are we screwed on our names?
Only some are announced. They're doing it in waves.
Yaska
Member
Login to your account and in the my account section select Character transfer to see the current list.
What about Trevin?
He hasn't gotten the transfer treatment yet, I thought you said to leave him for Pilgrim tonight. And for the record, Liebermeister was unscathed. The name I was least attached to. Nae'blis has become Nae'bliss, which makes me sad. I was so happy to snatch that name up day 1. And all my republic characters good Forsaken based names are gone. They are just really obscure references now. My character theme has been destroyed! I guess I really don't care if Trevin changes, I got it from a randomly generated list of names anyway.
StudioTan
Hold on, friend! I'd love to share with you some swell news about the Windows 8 Metro UI! Wait, where are you going?
Yeah, I was completely wrong. I don't know why they'd do that, it was already a Very Heavy server.
Derp, I am fucking tired atm.