I'm wondering because they made the dungeon queue single shard....but if you can just act like an asshat for a week then transfer to another server weekly, what was the point?
Ima go out on a limb and say that they will put a cap on how often or many times you can server transfer.. Transfering you're character and items over dosn't stress the servers a lot, but imagine if you and a few thoudsan people you've gathered together keep doing it constantly and constantly the servers prolly wouldn't hang.. And i think Trion suspects something like this so im sure they won't make it to where you can server transfer within a few seconds/hours of doing it before.
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I felt it was pointless this early in the game. I never had a problem finding anyone to run instances with...
I played in their Beta (basically one big trial) and while I didn't hate the game I wasn't swayed to actually go out and buy the game. I wanted to wait and see where Trion and the player community went with the game.
When I found out they implimented a LFD style tool I was pretty put off. I know its only for your server for the moment, but really, how long till they do what WOW did and create cross server queue for dungeons? I really don't like what the LFD tool did in WOW and I'm sure its only a matter of time before it brings about the same issue in Rift.
Oh well, at least I didn't waste my $50 bucks when Rift hit the market.
I have about 30 friends on all different servers, because they wanted to play with real life friends. We're all going to be transfering to a single server so we can all hang out together. I think this is a good thing.
P.S. I heard somewhere you can only transfer once a week.
During all the discussions going on about the upcoming free transfers, people seem to forget that transfers will be limited to "select servers" only.
While you guys make plans to join your real life friends on their servers, i would bet on Trion will only allow transfers to the most dead servers no one is willing to transfer to. Free transfers do not replace the badly needed server merges, but is just another sham to delay them. Like the server-only LFG tool, it will do nothing to the core problem of the game which is lack of population/too many servers in first place.
Yes, Trion is busy with many things all around their game, but while many things looked good on paper and in advance, Trion managed to mess them up in execution. I wouldn't be surprised if the free transfers will be another badly implemented or disappointing (= heavily restricted) feature on their list.
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Well, that all depends on if they put a limit to how often a person can transfer or some other kind of limit.
It obviously is a a tool to assist players compalining about low pop servers. This isn't so you can freely exploit AHs or be an asshat, unimpeded.
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Ima go out on a limb and say that they will put a cap on how often or many times you can server transfer.. Transfering you're character and items over dosn't stress the servers a lot, but imagine if you and a few thoudsan people you've gathered together keep doing it constantly and constantly the servers prolly wouldn't hang.. And i think Trion suspects something like this so im sure they won't make it to where you can server transfer within a few seconds/hours of doing it before.
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I played in their Beta (basically one big trial) and while I didn't hate the game I wasn't swayed to actually go out and buy the game. I wanted to wait and see where Trion and the player community went with the game.
When I found out they implimented a LFD style tool I was pretty put off. I know its only for your server for the moment, but really, how long till they do what WOW did and create cross server queue for dungeons? I really don't like what the LFD tool did in WOW and I'm sure its only a matter of time before it brings about the same issue in Rift.
Oh well, at least I didn't waste my $50 bucks when Rift hit the market.
I have about 30 friends on all different servers, because they wanted to play with real life friends. We're all going to be transfering to a single server so we can all hang out together. I think this is a good thing.
P.S. I heard somewhere you can only transfer once a week.
They stated in the interview they plan on weekly free server transfers. Once weekly.
http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/05/23/rift-offering-free-character-transfers-with-patch-1-3/
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During all the discussions going on about the upcoming free transfers, people seem to forget that transfers will be limited to "select servers" only.
While you guys make plans to join your real life friends on their servers, i would bet on Trion will only allow transfers to the most dead servers no one is willing to transfer to. Free transfers do not replace the badly needed server merges, but is just another sham to delay them. Like the server-only LFG tool, it will do nothing to the core problem of the game which is lack of population/too many servers in first place.
Yes, Trion is busy with many things all around their game, but while many things looked good on paper and in advance, Trion managed to mess them up in execution. I wouldn't be surprised if the free transfers will be another badly implemented or disappointing (= heavily restricted) feature on their list.