Free Realm Transfer details
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forums.wildstar-online.comPosted Jun 3, 2014, 4:23 AM UTC
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forums.wildstar-online.comCatch y'all on Rowsdower.
Who would have thought, that - in the end - salvation would come in the form of a lowly Rowsdower. Poetic, Carbine. Truly Poetic.
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K, made me lol :)
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Please reconsider... now Rowsdower will be fucked. MY friends and I (around 40-50 payers) move from Pergo because of the queues.
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I wouldn't worry about that honestly. They open free transfers from the highest population servers to the lowest to balance it. A vast majority will stay on their high population servers hoping enough transfer off to lower queue times, while the dead servers will gain some much needed extra players. They know what they're doing here, that's why the free transfers are specific and going from only one server to another. I'm sure they'll be monitoring it as well and if the balance starts shifting too much they'll just cut off the flow. You have nothing to worry about.
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I really hope you are right.
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Broken nameplates don't make me lol.
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Pergo to Rowsdower
Pago to Rowsdower
Widow to Rowsdower
Take the 3 most popular servers and open free realm transfers off them all onto the same server? That seems like a recipe for more queues to me
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Yes but it's more queues some where ELSE.
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As someone who joined jist as rowd server came out and is playing on there....please, no.
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I get the feeling that where they want it to be is with all 4 servers being full with maybe 10-15 min queues at peak time so that once the initial rush is over all of them are still busy
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A note on Rowsdower - In the event that Rowsdower becomes overloaded, we are prepared to open new PvP Realms that Rowsdower players would be able to transfer to.
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Rowsdower to Pergo
Rowsdower to Pago
Rowsdower to Widow
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It's like a ponzi scheme but with servers =D
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copy & paste for those at work:
Hey everyone, as you can imagine we’ve been seeing calls for Free RealmTransfers on the forums, reddit on the live-stream. We’ve been working hard to make sure we take a measured approach to this delicate process. So in an effort to bring relief to some of our most populated Realms, we are offering free Realm Transfers off of these Realms and onto some of the lesser populated Realms. Once the server maintenance is complete on June 3rd, 12:00AM PDT, you will have the option to transfer your characters from the following Realms:
NA
Pergo to Rowsdower
Pago to Rowsdower
Widow to Rowsdower
Stormtalon to Mikros
Caretaker to Orias
EU
Hazak to Contagion
Hazak to Gaius
Hazak to Deadstar
Progenitor to Deadstar
Treespeaker to Gaius
Ascendancy to Archon
Please be aware, there will likely be a rush for Realm transfers when we first open up the service. The transfer process can take time. In some cases it may take up to 24 hours depending on the volume of transactions.
Additional Information: Upon the event that we need to remove one of the destination Realms from the free transfer service, we will give the community 48 hour notice before removing a destination Realm from the list of Free Transfers. When new Realms open post launch, we will message if this Realm is a transfer target or not. If the new Realm is not, then the “race to 50” will be preserved on that Realm for at least 2-4 weeks, and transfers will be prevented for that time.
The Realm transfer can only be enacted from the character select screen, so you will have to wait in a queue to enact the transfer if there is one on the source Realm.
You can move any number of characters you want as many times as you want, but each character can only be moved once every 22 hours.
You cannot have pending mail, auctions, commodity orders, or CREDD orders
You cannot be a member of a circle, Arena Team, Warparty, or a Guild
You cannot be in a circle, Arena Team, Warparty, or Guild leader
A note on Rowsdower - In the event that Rowsdower becomes overloaded, we are prepared to open new PvP Realms that Rowsdower players would be able to transfer to.
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You are a saint, thanks for this.
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I am afraid of the Rowsdower situation. My friendas and I (around 40 players) migrated from Pergo on Sunday since the queues sucked ass. But now perhaps everyone will try to move to Rowsdower and will fuck us up?
They say they will open a server for people who wants to move from Rowsdower... like WTF? seriously? Why not just open a server and let people have a choice to move to.
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Hey everyone, as you can imagine we’ve been seeing calls for Free RealmTransfers on the forums, reddit on the live-stream. We’ve been working hard to make sure we take a measured approach to this delicate process. So in an effort to bring relief to some of our most populated Realms, we are offering free Realm Transfers off of these Realms and onto some of the lesser populated Realms. Once the server maintenance is complete on June 3rd, 12:00AM PDT, you will have the option to transfer your characters from the following Realms:
NA
Pergo to RowsdowerPago to RowsdowerWidow to RowsdowerStormtalon to MikrosCaretaker to Orias
EU
Hazak to ContagionHazak to GaiusHazak to DeadstarProgenitor to DeadstarTreespeaker to Gaius
Ascendancy to Archon
Please be aware, there will likely be a rush for Realm transfers when we first open up the service. The transfer process can take time. In some cases it may take up to 24 hours depending on the volume of transactions.
Additional Information:
Upon the event that we need to remove one of the destination Realms from the free transfer service, we will give the community 48 hour notice before removing a destination Realm from the list of Free Transfers.
When new Realms open post launch, we will message if this Realm is a transfer target or not. If the new Realm is not, then the “race to 50” will be preserved on that Realm for at least 2-4 weeks, and transfers will be prevented for that time.
The Realm transfer can only be enacted from the character select screen, so you will have to wait in a queue to enact the transfer if there is one on the source Realm.
You can move any number of characters you want as many times as you want, but each character can only be moved once every 22 hours.You cannot have pending mail, auctions, commodity orders, or CREDD ordersYou cannot be a member of a circle, Arena Team, Warparty, or a GuildYou cannot be in a circle, Arena Team, Warparty, or Guild leader
A note on Rowsdower - In the event that Rowsdower becomes overloaded, we are prepared to open new PvP Realms that Rowsdower players would be able to transfer to.
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See you all in Rowsdower!
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I'd assume the character transferring in would be required to change their name as the existing player has rights to the name on that server.
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It should just be by default for a name change. If you want to keep your name, you keep it. If you want to change it, you can change it. But if you have to change it, you must change it.
Makes it easier that way.
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If you reserved your name, no one else won't have it (yet).
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I don't think that is the case, I remember reading on the forums that once you use your name on 1 server it gets unlocked for everyone else on other servers.
For example I've managed to pick up names on my server that I wasn't able to reserve as someone else had reserved them first, although that could have been an issue with the name reservations.
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As far as I'm aware the names are global so that won't be an issue as your name is unique regardless of server/region.
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They're only global if you reserved I believe
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Ohh, that's kinda cool.
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Hazak to Zhur, please?
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So are you guys going to move to Rowsdower or stay? Not sure if the big guilds are going to go.
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A lot of people are, ton of people in my guild and they are all going. Lot of chat in pergo said people where leaving.
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Less competition. There are only like 2 main guilds per side as of right now. I am leveling and its practically a ghost town at 16.
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I'm gonna guess the rp'ers and oceanic folks will stick to widow. But presumably a fair amount of the rest will move. It's a slight inconvenience but really, the only loss is guild progress
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Can someone copy and paste, link won't work for me.
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Hold on a minute, will edit
Edit: Someone else got it before me
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I wonder how badly the official launch will flood the existing servers. I'm comfy on Mikros right now, but if a bunch of Stormtalon + launch players flood it it seems like it could wind up hitting Full pretty quick.
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Well considering anybody that preordered (which I'm fairly certain includes those people who have bought up until another hour or two) got early access, I doubt there will be that many more players trying to get in post "official" launch. And guests are going to be moved to the back of the queues, so those won't be a problem.
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The game is going to officially be released. Why wouldn't the game be flooded with more people. Maybe I am missing something but the game is going to be open to the general public; it's going to be on the shelf of retailers etc. IMO the q times are going to get worst until the initial surge.
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The game already IS open to the general public. You could buy it now and play it now, if you wanted to.
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My thoughts exactly. Mikros is great as it isn't too crowded but it isn't empty. Now it will probably be crowded :/
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Mikros was at High like all the rest of them last night. And now we have to take in Stormtalon overflow? Great.
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Yeah, exactly. Like, make a new server then do it, not to one that is med-high all the time.
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So if I still want to play the rest of the night I should just wait and do the realm transfer when I'm not going to play ?
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Relevant question, I don't want to wait until eternity to play again!
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And just another time Carbine makes up for their mistake super fast. Guys, You are just awesome, keep up the great work
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Great 3 servers to one new one? Might as well stay on widow as it looks like Rowsdower will be worse off then widow currently.
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So has anyone transferred yet ? and how long did it take roughly?
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So this means there will be maintenance done in a couple hours, after which transfers will be available. Any word on how long the maintenance will be?
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around 2 hours
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Random question but are dungeons and adventures and bgs all cross realm ques?
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Yes they are
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For adventures and dungeons you can choose a queue that's for your realm only.
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I think I recall being able to search for server only battlegrounds. Could have made that up though.
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Transfers away from Caretaker?
The server feels like a ghost town for me :3
When visiting Illium I usually see ~10 people. Then random encounters out while questing but otherwise it feels quite empty.
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we are on different Caretakers then haha I got queues 2 times there already and always see a good amount of people \o
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Yeah I have got in queue too but it just does not reflect into the actual game. Practically the only people I see around are from The Hammer Squad.
Then again, as slow as I have leveled (in my taste), I think I ma quite ahead of the curve by being level 35.
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I get a queue every time I try to login to Caretaker, hehe. Everywhere I go I see a crowd!
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This is honeslty amazing they managed to do this so fast.
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Glad we could deliver this to ya'll so quickly!
It's truly impressive that you folks did so! Seriously, while I'm happy with my home on Stormtalon, it's heartwarming you're all listening.
Thanks for coming through!
How about Hazak to Zhur? Zhur to Contagion/Gaius/Deadstar?
The reason I started on Zhur was because I couldn't get into Hazak. A friend of mine did and have been playing there. Was hoping the transfer would solve this would help it but it seems not. I'm guessing a lot of people are in the same place as my friend and I am.
This please. Our guild got 2/3 of its players onto Hazak, some are now in the 30-40 range. In order to get other people online we designated Zhur as our backup server, hoping when transfers came we could get everyone back together. The people on Zhur elected to not join the Hazak queue singularity, but now seem unable to rejoin their friends without starting over?
A one time 're-amalgamation' to allow those on other server to end up on the target servers would be handy, if handled correctly to stop mass movement.
Pleas add Zhur to low pop servers... Us that restarted on another server still can't play with our friends from Hazak.
What about Stormtalon? I was sad to not see us on the list to transfer
it's there now
YAY!
To you and Cougar - this is EXACTLY how free transfers should be handled and structured. Kudos to you guys.
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It doesnt really make sense that i have to wait in the queue to get to my character and THEN to transfer it instead of instantly so i can play without queue..
We have some stragglers spread around by the diaspora. Are there going to be other transfers available in the future?
I personally don't need to transfer but i thank you for listening to the community
How about just giving us freedom of movement to low / medium servers (restrict full or High pop) permanently?
These massive queues are a bullshit situation of your own making.
The idea of Carbine profiting with 'Paid transfers' from the total planning and logistics cluster fuck that has been this launch... leaves a very bad taste in my mouth.
u/CRB_Raijinn thank you for adding these transfers. But I still cannot play with my friend who couldn't make a character on my server (Widow) for headstart. We still have a ton of friends on Widow so we don't want to leave. Well I don't want to leave, he wants to come here will there be a way to play with him without having to re-roll his level~20 or free to transfer where we want like GW2 had for 5 months after launch.
I wish you guys would do free weekly transfers a la Rift. It just makes life easier when dealing with uncertain faction swings and/or getting friends with minimal barriers.
Free weekly transfers would be a lot of resources and not worth it. We should be glad they are doing it for free right now
I don't get the "lots of resources" or "not worth it" but I am happy they are helping the community with getting off the servers. You can relatively easily automate the process once you have it in place. Maybe not worth developmental resources now, but I still think it would be a great gesture to the community in the future.
FIX
THE
NAME
PLATES
PLEASE
FFS.
THANK
YOU!
Here is your fix... http://www.curse.com/ws-addons/wildstar/220006-bijiplates
No, biji has a memory leak atm, will cause ctd's.
I did hear this but I have been using it since headstart (currently lvl25), a bit in open beta, and have not had any problems.
Wrong. Bijiplates doesn't fix the issue. It's carbines engine. On top of that bijiplates has a massive memory leak.
Edit: enough of trying to fix a problem with an addon. This was a 10 month+ issue in closed beta that never got fixed and released at launch like this.
I guess I have never seen or just haven't noticed the issue then. What exactly happens? I have never had nameplates just disappear... also haven't had a problem with Biji at all and have been using it in extended play sessions since headstart.
If you don't want a memory leak, try Dotplates! It took me a bit to get used to, but I feel it conveys the info I need better than Bijiplates. That is, it shows me more accurately how close the enemy is to dying than having to figure out shields into the equation.
For all the people mentioning the memory leak, there is a fix in the comments section of this link. It involves going into the source code, but if you are comfortable doing that then it is a relatively minor change.
This so much.
This pls. The health bars disappearing is so annoying.