E'tadhara Rhel

That's your choice, but I don't know if it's a helpful contribution to this particular thread. It's important to remember that it was never intended by Square Enix as a "ban for roleplayers" - in fact, the restrictions apply to 5 other servers, as well. It is - as far as I can discern - an emergency measure designed to ease the login queues and server stability problems that tend to surround a new expansion release, such as the upcoming Stormblood release. Balmung's predicament is, essentially, a problem at least partially of the RP community's own making. And I think it's one we should - and can - work together to equally partially solve, by creating and/or encouraging the creation of a viable alternative for people who aren't on Balmung already. Going forward, if this alternative attains the value I think we should be hoping for from it, it will remain a valid option for new roleplayers, and a valid alternative for existing roleplayers - whatever their reasons for desiring one. I understood discussing the nature of that alternative as the point of this thread. I personally think that voting with my wallet is another good way to tackle the problem. If square doesn't wants my money from monthly subscription and server transfer, I simply give it to more RP friendly companies. If square has any grasp on the RP Community, they knew what they were doing and I think the best way to answer this would be to buy other products or try out some MMOs we left behind before. I think the best roleplayers could do to support newer roleplayers is to not support squares product anymore and recommed other, RP friendly MMOs to them. I will give World of Warcraft RP another try.

Personally, I think I will answer the Ban for new Roleplayers with the simpliest solution: Fuck you Square, I'm giving my money to Blizzard again. They are absolute unable to write a semi-engaging story, but at least they are able to assigne roleplay servers right from the beginning and don't take 18$ for a by now worthless servertransfer.

Thank you guys. I guess I will start a couple of characters, so that I have a variety of possible RP-Characters once I transfer to Balmung.

I see. How does Transfers work? Can I, for example, transfer characters from an european data center to Aether?

Hello, I'm new but I wanted to start on Balmung and I saw this Thread. Are there normally times where I can creat a character outside of maintenance? Is the server maintenance weekly? Because 18$ only to play the game on the Server I want sounds rather expensive.