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Wednesday, May 2nd 2012, 5:23pm

Transfer ALTs Between Servers

Wouldn't you love to be able to transfer your ALTs/Toons between servers?
WoW does it. Other multi-server games allow it. Why not RoM?

It could be a PROFIT-CENTER for Frogster! Charge 399 or 1000 Diamonds each time.
This would prevent people from taking advantage and deluging support with requests.

Build your toon to level-70 on a PvE server then transfer to a PvP server ;)
and be a titan there without getting ganked 9999 times on the way up.

What should be transferred with you?

. Your current Gold, Diamonds and Rubies
. Your pets including your partner bag
. Your backpack, item shop backpack
. Your bank vault, chests and housekeepers?
. the entire contents of your house
. What about your closet if other ALTs on same account not transferring
. or nothing except the clothes (armor) on your back

What do you think?

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Wednesday, May 2nd 2012, 6:03pm

Quoted from "Nykk;528349"

Wouldn't you love to be able to transfer your ALTs/Toons between servers?
WoW does it. Other multi-server games allow it. Why not RoM?

It could be a PROFIT-CENTER for Frogster! Charge 399 or 1000 Diamonds each time.
This would prevent people from taking advantage and deluging support with requests.

Build your toon to level-70 on a PvE server then transfer to a PvP server ;)
and be a titan there without getting ganked 9999 times on the way up.

What should be transferred with you?

. Your current Gold, Diamonds and Rubies
. Your pets including your partner bag
. Your backpack, item shop backpack
. Your bank vault, chests and housekeepers?
. the entire contents of your house
. What about your closet if other ALTs on same account not transferring
. or nothing except the clothes (armor) on your back

What do you think?


Been stated by their representatives before that they are incapable of doing so. Whether its due to laziness or how there servers are handled is beyond me. I believe it is laziness ;)
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Wednesday, May 2nd 2012, 6:32pm

couple people will agree with it, couple will disagree with it, and statements such as it will be a profit for frogster are just filtered out by whoever from their team reads these threads, they can make more money by making rune disc to be capable of being colored and poof charge more $ and people will buy instead of making characters be able to transfer and make money offa that!
conclusion, too much work for the $ gained! + transfers may make problems such as gold or dia loss, and all that becomes tickets to support, i dont think they would want that so there is no reason to continue this thread following what the thread was about, lets change subject right away and stop wasting time...

what is your main pet atm?

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Wednesday, May 2nd 2012, 8:15pm

I would love to be able to do that. If for no other reason than being bored on my current server. The population on Palenque has dwindled and our guild really needs more people, but there are none to be had. So, most of the time we are sitting around twidling our thumbs waiting for people to log on or I should say hoping people will log on so we can run somthing. If we had an option of sending a toon to another server then maybe our guild would move to a more populated server and the game would again become interesting. A lot of people are now doing beta for others games and I fear they won't be back. This makes it even harder for us and people will leave :(. If we could switch servers or even if they merge servers it would allow the players to have more options because there would be more people.

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Wednesday, May 2nd 2012, 8:51pm

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I would love to be able to do that. If for no other reason than being bored on my current server. The population on Palenque has dwindled and our guild really needs more people, but there are none to be had. So, most of the time we are sitting around twidling our thumbs waiting for people to log on or I should say hoping people will log on so we can run somthing. If we had an option of sending a toon to another server then maybe our guild would move to a more populated server and the game would again become interesting. A lot of people are now doing beta for others games and I fear they won't be back. This makes it even harder for us and people will leave :(. If we could switch servers or even if they merge servers it would allow the players to have more options because there would be more people.


i understand, i would love for you to do that too. im not wanting to switch from Artemis, its good, well populated server, with stable economy, but i would like more other people to go TO it from other servers, to make it even more populated. although id say no equipment can be taken with you, only bound item shop items, and pets. to reduce imbalanced trade from other servers to get contraband-ed to here.

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Wednesday, May 2nd 2012, 9:01pm

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i understand, i would love for you to do that too. im not wanting to switch from Artemis, its good, well populated server, with stable economy, but i would like more other people to go TO it from other servers, to make it even more populated. although id say no equipment can be taken with you, only bound item shop items, and pets. to reduce imbalanced trade from other servers to get contraband-ed to here.


So you're saying you'd like people to come to your server, but have them come over penniless, weakened, and more or less start out a second class citizen among the endgame community?

Sorry, I dont see people lining up at midnight for that offer ;)

It has been stated that server transfers are not going to be offered. I doubt we'll get Runewaker convinced to engineer an entirely new feature to the game to suit the roughly once per month request for such a feature.

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Wednesday, May 2nd 2012, 9:29pm

Frogster has said in the past they ahve no plans to allow transfering of characters between servers. I know other MMO's that allow this, but as far as here not sure if it will ever be implemented.

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Wednesday, May 2nd 2012, 9:30pm

That's funny xploid!! You want us to come over without our gear that we busted our butts off getting. The game is the same, with the same rules the same instances the same everything basically for all servers. I really do not see your point in saying what you did.

I just want to enjoy this game again and with so few people playing these days, the suggestion to be able to transfer servers or merge servers seemed like a viable option! I mean I really like this game but it has become so damn boring these days :(

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Wednesday, May 2nd 2012, 10:04pm

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...You want us to come over without our gear that we busted our butts off getting...

How about something simpler, with fewer support issues and potentially even GREATER PROFIT for Frogster?

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Allow mail to be sent between servers!


You could send Gold, Armor, mats, potions and all manner of non-bound resources between
servers. A strong player on one server could easily and quickly level-up on another.

Implementation: like World Shouts, buy a bunch for 99-diamonds in the Item Shop.
OR even simpler, one diamond per inter-server mail. Thus the PROFIT for Frogster.
Add a new server-name-field or server-mail-tab to the current mail interface.

Does this have any greater chance for reality? What do you think?

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Wednesday, May 2nd 2012, 11:15pm

Other games have had great luck with this idea. Allows them to start moving the character base to thin out populations on less used servers to then in the future be able to close those down to save resources/money. Making it cost a fee prevents abuse of the system and prevents those who would use it just for a profit. Of course there would be limits, PVE servers shouldnt be able to transfer to PVP, while PVP servers should be able to transfer either to another PVP server and PVE servers. These are the same rules in place in other games, which works out well. The cost of said transfer... that would have to be investigated, others do like 10-20 dollars per char and some give a flat higher fee for all on an account. As long as these are put in place it is a good idea. Only ones that wouldnt like it are those that think that if there are more endgamers on a server they wouldnt hold a monopoly on selling such items. Everyone would benefit except for those price fixing end game gear to profit the small group of elitists.

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Wednesday, May 2nd 2012, 11:46pm

Quoted from "flyingltj;528374"

So you're saying you'd like people to come to your server, but have them come over penniless, weakened, and more or less start out a second class citizen among the endgame community?

Sorry, I dont see people lining up at midnight for that offer ;)

It has been stated that server transfers are not going to be offered. I doubt we'll get Runewaker convinced to engineer an entirely new feature to the game to suit the roughly once per month request for such a feature.


Yes, i love weak people on my server :D muahahahaha!!!


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That's funny xploid!! You want us to come over without our gear that we busted our butts off getting. The game is the same, with the same rules the same instances the same everything basically for all servers. I really do not see your point in saying what you did.

I just want to enjoy this game again and with so few people playing these days, the suggestion to be able to transfer servers or merge servers seemed like a viable option! I mean I really like this game but it has become so damn boring these days :(


nope, its not same, item prices differ server to server



as a president of Artemis, :D shutup and listen, i choose to use the authority given to me by law to put quotas on any trade of resources passing through the server borders :D

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Thursday, May 3rd 2012, 1:29am

+1 on server transfers

...although one con would be that a player could bring gear from Instance X to another server that has not cleared instance X yet. This is a minor issue.

On the bright side, I bet half the players playing RoM would wish they could transfer one or more of their characters to another server without starting out brand new.

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Thursday, May 3rd 2012, 7:10am

Quoted from "Yambag4life;528353"

Been stated by their representatives before that they are incapable of doing so. Whether its due to laziness or how there servers are handled is beyond me. I believe it is laziness ;)


Frogster doesn't wanna do it that's why they say it's not possible. Non-Frogster versions of this game can do it but not Frogster's version of RoM psh. Look up Tahadi & how they move characters across servers, they're one of the ones that run this game in parts of the world that Frogster doesn't run it, Tahadi can move characters between servers, no idea why Frogster says they can't when the core of this game is developed by the same company Runewaker. If Frogster doesn't know HOW to move characters...lol seriously Frogster should consider firing their staff & hire some of Tahadi's people lol.

There were some restrictions on what they could move tho, like they couldn't move ur mail msgs (for those of you that use mailbox as additional storage space) or AH listings & u probably had to change ur character name, stuff like that.

seriously this could've been added onto http://forum.us.runesofmagic.com/showthread.php?t=70387 lol
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Thursday, May 3rd 2012, 7:22am

If I remember correctly there has only been ONE person who has ever been granted a server transfer. Whether or not is was true but having known people on the inside back in the day they never denied it.

Server Transfers would be great to an extent. You get someone with deep enough pockets they could server hop to pick up deals, make large diamond sales at higher prices etc.. If it were me I would put a time limit between transfers. Say a month or so.
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Thursday, May 3rd 2012, 7:26am

It would be interesting to have server transfers... however that would ruin some servers and overcrowd others. I am up for server merges though. Some servers are a little light and could be combined with another in order to increase the population and instance runs/gameplay.
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Thursday, May 3rd 2012, 7:27am

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Frogster doesn't wanna do it that's why they say it's not possible. Non-Frogster versions of this game can do it but not Frogster's version of RoM psh. Look up Tahadi & how they move characters across servers, they're one of the ones that run this game in parts of the world that Frogster doesn't run it, Tahadi can move characters between servers, no idea why Frogster says they can't when the core of this game is developed by the same company Runewaker. If Frogster doesn't know HOW to move characters...lol seriously Frogster should consider firing their staff & hire some of Tahadi's people lol.

There were some restrictions on what they could move tho, like they couldn't move ur mail msgs (for those of you that use mailbox as additional storage space) or AH listings & u probably had to change ur character name, stuff like that.

seriously this could've been added onto http://forum.us.runesofmagic.com/showthread.php?t=70387 lol

Having dealt with servers and Databases in my line of business it does take a lot of work and risk to transfer that amount of data across servers. Could you imagine the up-roar there would be if peoples data was corrupted or lost in the transfer process? Then again that is why servers, data centers & Databases have backup software/systems. Not knowing exactly which version of code Frogster received to install on their US servers, implementing server transfer capability may entail a few lines of code, or re-writing entire game files.
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Thursday, May 3rd 2012, 10:44am

Australia

Australia was populated by criminals and other unsavory types who "volenteered" rather then face prison or death sentences. Something similar could be done with less popular servers like Govinda or Grimdal.

How about Frogster offer botters, siege-hackers & other evildoers that are about to be banned for 30-days, 90-days or forever the chance to emmigtate to the RoM version of Australia in order to avoid the ban entirely?

In a related thought, I have my own list of people that I'd like to move to another server (he he). How about if I get 20 players (not-ALTs) to sign a petition then that toon gets banished to "Australia "?

Like Australia, it might become the most fascinating, dynamic server of all :) People would would want to emigrate there without being forced. I could make a movie about it staring Hugh Jackman & Nicole Kidman. Now, if only I could figure out how to add platypuses & kangaroos, it would just be perfect ;)

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Thursday, May 3rd 2012, 1:11pm

i would transfer to an eu server ..........
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Thursday, May 3rd 2012, 7:17pm

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with less popular servers like Govinda...


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Friday, May 4th 2012, 12:38am

merge them all then maybe there will be more than a handful of skilled endgamers to run with