(10-04-2016, 08:20 AM)Gegenji Wrote: Six has the right of it, though. Pound for pound, you're going to see the most open-world RP and events on Balmung, which is stuffed to such capacity that new characters cannot be easily created on it. He mentioned the server full of characters because the transfer cost is a one-time $18 fee to move as many characters from one server to another, and it's usually recommended that for those who might want to play multiple characters (for RP reasons, usually) to make them all on one server and move them all over at once.
... It might not be something you would be interested in as an observer, though, since you can be every class and profession on one character. However, it might still be worth creating a character or two to carry along with should you ever feel the itch to RP. Or just to make that transfer fee feel a little more worthwhile.
I was going to ask, yes. I'm not familiar with how FF14 handles multiple classes and alts (I only played a month of FF11 way back in the day, and only got up to level 10 or something), so I wasn't sure whether it's considered valid to create a whole bunch of characters. I mean, I did it for CoH and SWTOR (much, much more for CoH), but this is an entirely different game.
I mean, most of the beginner's guides I've read tell me that alts are pointless, but checking random discussions on other forums about FF14, I see several people mention a variety of alts (usually three or four).
I'll probably just start with the one character to transfer, though. I won't really know how I'll feel about FF14 (much less its RP scene) until I've really gotten farther into the game than the free trial lets me (level 20, one character per server). US$18 is a bit steep, but the lure of free open-world RP is strong.
Also, I have trouble keeping track of more than three different characters' personalities for long-term RP purposes, so that's another limit. After three, they kind of bleed into each other by accident.
EDIT: Completely off-topic additional questions, inspired by minor events when playing: firstly, is there any way to passively indicate to other players that I am on a free trial, and thus cannot reply to /tells inviting me to FCs? I feel kind of bad when I come back from a brief AFK only to see a nicely-worded /tell in my chat log, and no way of replying.
Secondly, is there any sort of in-game user-editable profile that other players can check out? I'm not sure how to describe it; CoH had something like that where players can write backstories, descriptions, bad jokes etc, but I've not seen any other MMO do anything remotely similar.
