I see something posted about character transfers via the launcher. Does that mean they are going to be free now?

So it lets you select all...

Is it 2495 TPs per character, or per transfer? EG can I move all 30 characters at once?

Sadly, the inability to move airships will be a serious problem I paid for a very nice airship for my 1-man guild and can't imagine giving it up. I'd be fine restarting the guild, but that airship! All those AS-bought ameneties!

WonderfulFoppyBint wrote on Dec 20^th, 2016 at 7:00pm:


Its actually a pretty reasonable price, around ~$15-$20 depending on how you're buying turbine points. Wow used to charge $25.

While we can certainly argue that it doesn't "cost" turbine anything if the transfers work perfectly %100 of the time, the real goal in putting a tax on the process to keep transfers low. If they were free, you'd have them happening constantly - and you can bet your ass someone would find a way to abuse the process. Worse still, you'd have things going with the eb and flow of public opinion, server populations leaping around at random... it wouldn't be good for the community, essentially.

Meursault wrote on Dec 20^th, 2016 at 8:07pm:


I think you'd stll end up seeing the occasional mass exodus even at the once-per-six-month rate. Keep in mind that for 1 character, 1 time, 2496 TP is pretty trivial, if you REALLY just wanted to move to a more populated server. Server populations should not fluctuate enough that you have to move every six months.


What gets stupid is when you start needing to relocate your full team. My main, crafter, farming alts, mules, conservatively i'd be looking at 10-20,000 TPs. Not cool.

Technomage wrote on Dec 20^th, 2016 at 6:24pm:


I guess the idea of making money in volume off of microtransactions is still lost on DDO even with a new company in charge.

Metal-Beast wrote on Dec 20^th, 2016 at 9:52pm:


Here:

https://www.ddo.com/en/world-character-transfer-guide
Quote:

Cairnoir wrote on Dec 21^st, 2016 at 3:15am:


This.

WonderfulFoppyBint wrote on Dec 20^th, 2016 at 7:00pm:


I can't imagine paying that to transfer, and you would have to transfer most of your stable just for the inventory/items/collectables/ etc... alone.

notajedi wrote on Dec 21^st, 2016 at 8:14am:

Maybe it's a good trade, but maybe not. Lag isn't too bad right now, at least in the limited times I'm playing, but I think that's largely because populations have dropped to the levels the servers can support. If people moved to a populous server and it approached the previous level of activity, would it also approach the previous levels of lag?

I started playing on Wayfinder because for a while it was the only one that didn't have levels of lag I found annoying enough to induce me to switch games. If we went back to that, I don't care how many LFMs are up, I'll log out and go elsewhere.

It would be a sad cycle - people cluster on a server, it lags, people quit and the population drops to a new stable low. Now it's too empty, so people cluster to a new server ...

There are some people I would pay that price to get rid of from Khyber.   

Reading into the statements of an idiot takes an idiot

E.X., No more class "passes"

Vaultaccount wrote on Dec 21^st, 2016 at 12:06pm:


When EverQuest was first released, the server hardware(top of the line for it's day) could only support about 250 players at a time.

The purpose of having different "worlds" or "servers" is because, until relatively recently, the technology to support massive game populations on a single server didn't exist. More recently, the technology has existed, but was VERY expensive, requiring something called a "cluster" to run.

Today, cluster technology is a hell of a lot cheaper, but 10 years ago when DDO was made? The whole reason we *have* a heavily-instanced game like we do(public instances, private) is because its way cheaper to build and maintain.

There's also a question of game availability - having multiple servers means if one goes down for some reason, gamers can play on another. Granted, most times its all or none with DDO's servers, but the idea is still there.



Now, they COULD do something like that god awful side-scrolling MMO who's name escapes me, wherin your character is stored on a single log-in server and transferred to the game world of your choice every time you log in(changing DDO over to this model would be damn near impossible, but its an option for any new games).

But that's a brief overview of why MMOs have multiple servers.

Aaaaaaaaand character transfers are off.