(05-21-2017, 02:32 PM)IvikBlack Wrote: Secondly, the $18 transfer fee is essentially an additional cost imposed beyond the basic buy in on those new players. That is quite clearly not in their favor, nor is it a one-time fee if a person wishes to play multiple characters.
You can actually transfer up to 8 characters with a single $18 transfer fee, as long as all characters you want to transfer start on the same server and then end on the same server. So assuming that say, a server is agreed upon to be the "Balmung waiting room" and you make 8 characters on it, you could theoretically transfer all 8 to Balmung (or any other server for that matter) for one $18 payment. It's part of what contributed to Balmung getting even fuller.
Personally, I don't expect Balmung to open a month or two after 4.0 drops. If anything, this is the point in the game where most populations should be at their lowest. There's no new content coming out. The existing content has been out for months. People are bored. I expect Balmung's active players/connections to spike up higher than now when 4.0 comes out, which will cause further stability issues for the server on whole.
