You're right, Sig. However, if this were any other time I would be very much with you on the stance that this won't work. In this case, I am not.
They key difference? Transfers are free. This difference is near monumental. Whilst before I would agree that asking people to fork out $18 to transfer is too much and unlikely to foster a community, for free there is an unspeakable amount of freedom here. With an EU server we can have EU timed events, with proper ping, a more open housing market, gil xfer is near a non-issue - I can understand why people on Balmung may not want to transfer, but EU RPers that don't want to/can't play on Balmung? It's perfect.
With a fresh server, with a hefty gil limit (10m you, 5m retainers, that's minimum of 20m per character without any extra retainers? If they count. I'm not 100% sure), it's possible for entire FCs that are scattered across the EU Data-Center to finally converge without much/any personal loss and is also a place to flag for new players/RPers. They might even be able to upgrade FC or personal houses if they wanted to, thanks to the availability.
There is almost always more than one community on various MMOS, NA and EU. EU is nearly always the smallest and scattered as we are now, this is a wonderful chance to finally converge.
(( Also, as a note for housing. 60 per ward, twelve wards is 720. Four regions is 2,880 plots (provided Shirogane holds the same number). And 8,640 apartments. ))
Sorry if this came out a bit jumbled, I'm working on barely any sleep and I'm sick to boot xD
EDIT: SWANMAY SAID IT IS SO MUCH BETTER TERMS THAN I DID.
They key difference? Transfers are free. This difference is near monumental. Whilst before I would agree that asking people to fork out $18 to transfer is too much and unlikely to foster a community, for free there is an unspeakable amount of freedom here. With an EU server we can have EU timed events, with proper ping, a more open housing market, gil xfer is near a non-issue - I can understand why people on Balmung may not want to transfer, but EU RPers that don't want to/can't play on Balmung? It's perfect.
With a fresh server, with a hefty gil limit (10m you, 5m retainers, that's minimum of 20m per character without any extra retainers? If they count. I'm not 100% sure), it's possible for entire FCs that are scattered across the EU Data-Center to finally converge without much/any personal loss and is also a place to flag for new players/RPers. They might even be able to upgrade FC or personal houses if they wanted to, thanks to the availability.
There is almost always more than one community on various MMOS, NA and EU. EU is nearly always the smallest and scattered as we are now, this is a wonderful chance to finally converge.
(( Also, as a note for housing. 60 per ward, twelve wards is 720. Four regions is 2,880 plots (provided Shirogane holds the same number). And 8,640 apartments. ))
Sorry if this came out a bit jumbled, I'm working on barely any sleep and I'm sick to boot xD
EDIT: SWANMAY SAID IT IS SO MUCH BETTER TERMS THAN I DID.
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