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(12-28-2016, 09:56 PM)Rosehip Wrote: I played back in 1.0, and returned very briefly for ARR, and I do actually remember something about Balmung being called a Legacy server. I remember someone told me you could only create a character there if you had played in 1.0, but tbh, I think that probably wasn't true.
It's a rediculous notion in any regard, but I DO remember hearing about it back then.
Balmung is a legacy server, which means that it contained characters from 1.x, and you couldn't server transfer from a legacy server to a non-legacy one (a restriction that has long since been removed). Non-legacy servers only allowed new characters to be created or transfers from other non-legacy servers.
As Faye points out, there was a kerfuffle back during the ARR launch about that, which is why Gilgamesh and to a lesser extent Behemoth ended up as the non-legacy RP servers. Ultimately, the concerns about the legacy players forming an impenetrable clique, clearing all content first, controlling the market, and dominating the RP scene turned out to be largely non-issues, mostly because there were simply so few legacy players, ARR was a lot different from 1.x, and they had to go through the MSQ just like everyone else.
All that aside, the point that Balmung is a giant community is very true. I've been playing since Beta 3, RPing the same character, and there's a wide variety of people on just the RPC alone that I've never actually run into in game, much less RPed with. Not since Virtue in CoH has there been a large game with such a large concentration of RPers on one server. If one corner of the community's not working out, by all means, try another one! Try randomly walking the wiki and making connections there, role-playing in different places, etc.
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