One time character transfer?

[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]

Originally Posted by Cwall 8.0 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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]

Originally Posted by CrystalBlue [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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]

Originally Posted by Autotune [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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]

Originally Posted by Nirgon [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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?