Character Server Switch

better idea

allow gold transfer between servers once per account, sell off all your stuff, and move

would have to figure out some way to transfer pets though, as once you have bought a leg pet it is yours and cant be sold


this would keep newer servers from being flooded with high level characters, which defeats the fun of joining a new server

just a thought, flame me if you willb:laugh

heres what goes thru the pwe dev's minds

Amount of Profit --> Cost of change

maybe in the end u can stick a tiny bit of public opinion.

While ur suggestion does have potential profit. It would

1. Completedly destroy any hopes of any more new servers (ppl wouldnt roll somehwere where 10x can just move themselves to) and we all noe servers rakes in cash like nothing else.

2. The cost to enforce this patch would be TREMENDOUS. any software developer can bak me up on this.

3. PPl will QQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQ

there are ur reasons

There would definately have to be some sort of balance system. Who wouldn't want to move their 90+ char to a new server? That would not be fair to those on said new server working their way up. Some people on pk servers may not welcome new high level chars who have leveled in the relatively safe environment of a carebear server.
As for the names, I was under the impression the system only allows one unique name for the entire game. I'd appreciate any educated input on this.
I know for a fact there are server swap methods on other games so I'm sure there's an acceptable way to accomplish it.
Perhaps a server swap stone in the boutique for an outrageous amount of gold in order to prevent it from being abused by "swap happies"?

http://pwi-forum.perfectworld.com/showpost.php?p=5256612&postcount=2

I'm so sick of seeing "server transfer" topics. And even more sick of people who flat out refuse to search before posting. There is no excuse for it.

im a cop irl and i should put all criminals behind bars.

however reality is that i cannot put all criminals behind bars.

There is a reason I wrote this, take a minute to digest.

_Bloody_Fox_ - Sanctuary wrote: »

I see. But as i recall, i said they should make it happen

But they won't... so no point in even suggesting it. Ever.

i rly dont noe what part of the words cannot and impossible dont u get.

ill provide some translations just in case ur foreign

japanese - deki nai

chinese - bu ke neng

spanish - no puede

french - ne peut pas

The truth of the matter is that if the game developers have stated that they do not have plans to implement this then that is the final word. Server transfers could defidently be implemented but if the game devs do not want to do this then nothing can be done. It is the choice of the devs if this gets implemented. And enough with the flaming, it is not mature.

Here's some points for everybody to consider.

1) GM: "We have no plans to ever bring Chienkun Stones to PWI."

Look what happened. Tada! We have Chienkun Stones!

So while they say they do not intend to implement a feature, that does not mean they never will. When it comes to "never implementing a feature" I hate to say I don't trust a GM as far as I could spit them, right now. They say this, they say that and you are left to assume other things, and in the end it turns out completely different anyway.

2) Here's why, even with point one in consideration, server transfers should never happen.

- PWI already make money out of server transfers, and not by letting people take their 10x character to a different server. In fact if they implemented such a system they would lose money, and being the money whoring company that they are, they aren't about to implement a system willingly and let themselves lose hundreds of dollars. That's right. Hundreds. For every person who wants to pay to change servers on their 9x character, there's two people willing to start afresh and pay the same amount of money to make that character epic and uber, forgetting about the already epic and uber cash shopped character on another server.

- There's no real way to balance this fairly. It's already been said that games that do have the ability to allow server transfers more often than not don't allow PvE → PvP transfers, and this means that the majority of people who want to change servers on PWI? They wouldn't get to do what they wanted anyway if the same system was implemented and PWE did not allow PvE → PvP transfers. What a waste of a feature.

On the same note as balance, the chances are that if this was implemented there would have to be not only an extortionate fee [remember, PWE is only in it for the money] but a limit to the amount of times you could change servers. Personally, I'd like to see this limit at one, even if it was only for a certain period of time. Like, say, two months before you could change server again.

If no balancing factors were implemented, PWE really would lose a great deal of it's customers due to the unfairness that would come about from having every major CSer in the entire game switching from one server to the next to the next to the next with the other major CSers and owning all the land across all the servers (which three or four of these people probably already do anyway) and suchlike.

Hopefully you're starting to see why this is a really bad idea, nevermind why it probably isn't ever going to be implemented.

In the end it's a huge loss of money. For the company, loss of money is bad. Therefore, for the company, allowing server transfers is bad. Therefore, it never happens.

People that transfer servers are garbage. Nuff said.