Free transfers weekly, REALLY?

[Lyonheart]

I like this idea, now boxers can group together on a server with other boxers without releveling. Woot!

this!!

Also you can level on a PvE server and transfer to a PvP server later.. and back and forth as you wish ( not sure if this is a good thing long term ) But will be a nice option!

[Smedbox]

I don't see why this is so radical or different from free server transfers in other games, including WoW? It's limited to select destination servers (and possibly faction too), so the server rebalancing is moderated by Trion. The short time limit is interesting but doesn't change much, I think. I don't think any significant number of people are going to be hopping around every week. But we'll see, it's an experiment on Trion's part and the transfer rules can change at any time.

I think that this is much better than brute-force server merges. However, I'm not sure that it'll be a final solution for the LFG tool. The amount of people that needs to be in the LFG queue for the system to be saturated may too much for a single shard to handle - you'll just have login queue times instead of LFG queue times. I think cross-shard LFG is the only way to go there.

[Ualaa]

Free moves are good, sort of.

If you're on server A, most people will stay there even if it were free to move to server B.
So, while the service is free... it won't be that big of a benefit for most of us.

I can see it being nice, if you're in a progression guild and want to transfer servers.
There were transfers in Everquest, when a guild was looking for a specific toon to fill their raid roster.
Or if you have friends on another server.
Or even if you want to try PvP or move to PvE so you're not ganked.

It won't be a useless/dead service.
But even if transfers were free in Warcraft, I wouldn't leave my server.

[Smedbox]

Isn't transfers to select servers free in WoW as well? I seem to remember it being so... Just that with a paid transfer you can transfer to any server you want, which it seems that Rift won't support.

Instead of server transfers, I think it would be really cool to be able to group with friends on other servers and hop into dungeons or warfronts with them. I have lots of friends on other servers but I don't want to transfer to their server. Especially since they may be playing on a server with different rule set (PvP / PvE / PvP-RP / PvE-RP).

[MiRai]

Isn't transfers to select servers free in WoW as well?

Yes.

[cichard]

Isn't transfers to select servers free in WoW as well? I seem to remember it being so... Just that with a paid transfer you can transfer to any server you want, which it seems that Rift won't support.

Instead of server transfers, I think it would be really cool to be able to group with friends on other servers and hop into dungeons or warfronts with them. I have lots of friends on other servers but I don't want to transfer to their server. Especially since they may be playing on a server with different rule set (PvP / PvE / PvP-RP / PvE-RP).

what they mean by select servers they mean teh servers that already have Long long ques they most likely will not allow transfers to that server. i know wow even for hte paid transfer sometimes will not allow you to transfer to a locked server.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

what they mean by select servers they mean teh servers that already have Long long ques they most likely will not allow transfers to that server.

From what I've read, I concur. They state in the FAQ that maintaining balanced servers takes precedence over unrestricted transfers. NO ZERGING YOU NOOBS!

[Smedbox]

Additional clarifications from Trion (Elrar posted):

"It's also important to note that while one shard might be open for Guardians to transfer to, it may not have any room for Defiants. So what a "select shard" means can also depend on which faction you play."

One thing I've noticed is that they haven't said anything about restricting the source shard & faction. So at this point it seems that everyone will be able to transfer, no matter what faction & shard you're currently on (as long as the destination shard & faction is on the list).

[Lyonheart]

although i do not prefer PvP servers.. I do enjoy PvP when with a group of players who play well together. My best times in BGs are when im with a group of friends just owning the other side. I mean you can level like crazy in BGs if you win most your matches. I just hate playing them with pugs though 8(

With the above being said.. it would be fun to go to a server where ques are decent and some of us can "plan" to run WFs together and just own! Not talking about boxing though..but yea. boxing could be fun as well ( with other boxers )