One time character transfer?

[Cars]

I don't know if this has ever been asked, or if it is even possible but in the name of increasing the population of the red server, would character transfer's from Blue ever be an option?

[Dullah]

I suggested transfers/copies a while back hoping they'd at least allow naked character copies with levels capped at 50. Its really the only way to be fair. Couldn't allow 50+ levels or kunark gear at this point. Even classic gear obtained on a blue server would be unfair to move over to red, as the server and economy were different, the timeline was longer, and the difficulty to acquire was lessened.

No response ever heard on that, so I assume its either not plausible or no ones been around to actually respond.

[Rushmore]

would be a great idea being that many blue's have several alts.

[Cars]

I suggested transfers/copies a while back hoping they'd at least allow naked character copies with levels capped at 50. Its really the only way to be fair. Couldn't allow 50+ levels or kunark gear at this point. Even classic gear obtained on a blue server would be unfair to move over to red, as the server and economy were different, the timeline was longer, and the difficulty to acquire was lessened.

No response ever heard on that, so I assume its either not plausible or no ones been around to actually respond.

well balls, lets see how high I can get a char before kunark launches.

[Dullah]

You should be good man. Theres a bunch of new people playing in the last few weeks, and I have a feeling we're only seeing the tip of the new population iceberg with kunark at hand. Holler at Vae Victus.

I'd say in a week and a half of moderate play you could easily get through the first 20 levels. Then you'll have two week of +50% on top of the current bonus.

Looking at the population right now, within 2 hours of kunark being announced, the population at this time of day has already doubled.

The time to thrive has arrived.

[Ambrotos]

I personally would leap to red on my toon if it was copied 1 day before Kunark went live on blue. As to any substance to it, none that I know of from the staff. Just a player wanting more options.

[Cars]

I would be discarding TONS of high end raid gear and a decent amount of xp over 50 to do it, and i would do it

[Dullah]

I personally would leap to red on my toon if it was copied 1 day before Kunark went live on blue. As to any substance to it, none that I know of from the staff. Just a player wanting more options.

You should champion this idea Ambrotos. Be a pal.

[Tr0llb0rn]

Should not be that hard to get 50 with the big xp bonus floating around kunark release, plenty of groups too.

[Rushmore]

You should champion this idea Ambrotos. Be a pal.

[Vile]

This would be cool.. wonder how many bluebies would take the plunge.

[Tradesonred]

I suggested transfers/copies a while back hoping they'd at least allow naked character copies with levels capped at 50. Its really the only way to be fair. Couldn't allow 50+ levels or kunark gear at this point. Even classic gear obtained on a blue server would be unfair to move over to red, as the server and economy were different, the timeline was longer, and the difficulty to acquire was lessened.

No response ever heard on that, so I assume its either not plausible or no ones been around to actually respond.

I think this is actually a good idea and would help pop numbers. If devs think its too easy, make em start at 35 or 40.

Would have said no early in the box but what do we have to lose now

[Akim]

Please god(admins) let us have a thousand cleric and port bots.

[heartbrand]

just enable 2 boxing plz god

[Rushmore]

Vile has that Jesus Fever!

http://pitchfork.com/tv/dont-look-down/1591-kurt-vile/2513-jesus-fever/

[Rushmore]

just enable 2 boxing plz god

wait don't you play on LoZ?

[Swampfeet]

This is a dumb idea, not fair at all.

Leveling on red is more difficult even with the exp bonus.

[Rikimeru]

only if the transferring toons are naked. cant have people transferring here with gear that isn't even released on this server yet.

[Dullah]

Theres hundreds of inactive 50s on this server. At this point, not an issue.

[Rushmore]

Theres hundreds of inactive 50s on this server. At this point, not an issue.

Anything more can not hurt. Don't be so confident just because the numbers have started to raise. Get more people if you can.

[biscuits2455]

Do it up. More nakeds to kill.

[Cars]

Now that the servers are at the same timeline pretty much, this should be even easier. Any GM feel like responding on character transfers as a possibility?

[hijinks]

I mentioned this in a previous thread. I think this should be allowed as a one time service irreversible, and it should be added to a queue on a thread on the forums so people from blue don't think they're the only ones that are going to transfer, they can list everyone who wants to transfer and do it on a specific date. I would be totally suprised if at least one raiding guild didn't try this. IT would solve 2 issues, pop on red, and the bottleknock that exists on higher end raid content on blue.

[diplo]

my blue guy is epic and vp'ed out...you don't want to meet him =/

[hijinks]

could care less, would just an extra cast to kill people VP/epic out, big deal :P

[diplo]

not when fluffy is melting you =) he's kind of a game changer for mages.

[mostbitter]

Might as well start handing out level 50 toons to anyone who wants one

[CrystalBlue]

Might as well start handing out level 50 toons to anyone who wants one

Make it level 60 toons, with epics.


Honestly this is a dumb idea. And if its to tranfser naked toons over, why bother? just start newly created toons here at level 50 (or 60,whatever people are pushing for) and save us the hassle of digging through our friends stables of dozens of toons trying to decide which to copy over.

If it comes to this (and im sure it wont, this thread is a waste of space), i'd not play on the server anyways. If I wanted pre-made characters w/ pvp i'd play guildwars 1.

[Dullah]

Make it level 60 toons, with epics.


Honestly this is a dumb idea. And if its to tranfser naked toons over, why bother? just start newly created toons here at level 50 (or 60,whatever people are pushing for) and save us the hassle of digging through our friends stables of dozens of toons trying to decide which to copy over.

If it comes to this (and im sure it wont, this thread is a waste of space), i'd not play on the server anyways. If I wanted pre-made characters w/ pvp i'd play guildwars 1.

Hmm, dumb idea to recruit potentially hundreds of people from project 1999 blue that already have tons of time invested here, and would likely never normally play r99 due to it having 1/6th the population? It would be a sort of reward to those players faithful to this community... very different from just giving free 50s to just anyone.

But you already knew that, marked by your use of hyperbole and ridiculous comparisons.

[Cwall 8.0]

blue players tried this server out already

why do you think the population went from ~700 on day one to like 250 by day 3

[Dullah]

Blue players tried the server when it was in a pretty sad state.

If they added some of the much spoken of features, with a fix to resists, and allowed them to have naked char copies it would be a whole different ball game. Especially now that epics have been out there for almost a year, as opposed to being released nearly simultaneously with red launch.

[Nirgon]

blue players tried this server out already

why do you think the population went from ~700 on day one to like 250 by day 3

Town ganking, getting raped by earth pets with magic resist buffs/gear?

[Cars]

Make it level 60 toons, with epics.


Honestly this is a dumb idea. And if its to tranfser naked toons over, why bother? just start newly created toons here at level 50 (or 60,whatever people are pushing for) and save us the hassle of digging through our friends stables of dozens of toons trying to decide which to copy over.

If it comes to this (and im sure it wont, this thread is a waste of space), i'd not play on the server anyways. If I wanted pre-made characters w/ pvp i'd play guildwars 1.

Giving people characters, and allowing people to transfer characters they have already put the effort in leveling are significantly different. You can say it's easier leveling on blue because people are not ganking you but the 50% exp bonus, which has been in effect the entire time YOU have been playing on red more then makes up for it.

That said, it's still a non issue because for some of us who have been a part of this community for a long time playing on red wasn't an option, it didn't exist. We were forced to invest our time into blue if we wanted to play classic EQ at all and when red came out do you think it would have been fair to transfer then? Obviously not but a lot of us had already invested a ton of time into characters and just discarding those characters and starting fresh would be our only option. But not all of us have that kind of time to invest into a game, especially to repeat the content you had just beat to death for almost 2 years.

Now that the servers are at the same spot in the timeline, this would be the ONLY time it would ever make sense to transfer characters over without it granting huge advantages to those that do it. But hey, you seem smart, if a flood of new blood onto the server doesn't sound appealing to you (because for some reason you feel that you leveling a toon on red took more effort then leveling one on blue) then so be it, sounds like you got it figured out...

[Autotune]

I'd transfer to red, kill everyone with my necro and then stop playing again.

[CrystalBlue]

I'd transfer to red, kill everyone with my necro and then stop playing again.

This is what happened when they allowed transfers to Zek (after all those years).

Forums lit up with activity, but all the activity on the zek forum was "please let me transfer back to my blue server" lol.

People who want to play on red are playing, transfers would just mean they log on for a hour, run around, and ever log in again.

What it would do though is cheapen the server as all of us have our buddies character stables coppied over with every class in the game and thus never have to level "be in the world" again.

EQ had a server like this, think called Trakanon, that I think died faster then any other server EQ has EVER launched. Was a total joke server with the last dozen player begging to be merged so soon after the server launched it was shocking.

People want to invest in their characters, without that they have no attachment to their toons or the community and stop playing.

This game is about the journy, without it, its not even a game.

[SamwiseBanned]

I would be more in favor of /testbuff than character transfers

[jdklaw]

Town ganking, getting raped by earth pets with magic resist buffs/gear?

those r the things that made me love the server, plus ~200 people

[mostbitter]

Any cause championed by Dulluh is obviously as lost as his "kunark will bring back 100's of people" arguement. Also it is telling that he was so against exp because it would make insta level 50's out of everyone but now he is all for character copies? Think about that for a moment and tell me who you suspect will benefit from this most.

[jdklaw]

ya him and his friends have a bunch of 55+ mages and other classes on blue server

[SamwiseBanned]

Destin (Dullah) is ofc for char transfers because there is something in it for him. Why do you think he poopsocked to 60 on his rogue then said we should get rid of xp bonus? Lol this guy is a complete duchebag. We are dealing with Rallos Zek D team right here.

Joined Uprising to avoid pvp while leveling at all costs.
Quickly jumped to Nihilum when they started raiding.
Remained unseen in any major battle. Not many people were even aware he was active.
PvPs when his conflag wands are fully charged and he is raid buffed with 10 other Nilly.
Runs out of conflag wands, rolls a rogue, then all of a sudden MR/Roots become an issue.
Spends 2 weeks getting to 60, probably up to /100 days played at this point between his 2 chars. hasnt showered in days.
Decides xp bonus was too much and suggests it goes away. meanwhile gets decimated in pvp with geared rogue. crys more about root.
talks about the good ol days of rallos zek but all he mentions is pve and root.

see a trend?

[jdklaw]

Hmm, you want my vp geared, full resist 60 necro running around?

this is Freez right?

if ur skills as Freez are any indication of ur skills as a 60 vp geared necro, i dont think it really matters lol

i mean, im sure ur good at dotting raid mobs but y'know, pumicing and using old versions of tash during pvp as an enchanter says something

[SamwiseBanned]

Freez is swimmin in plat brew. cant phase em.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lifw9az7dn1qz8azfo1_500.png

may he twink my blue alt the day pixels cloud my judgement.