I am going to also strongly suggest everyone who was a part of the Gridania Surveyors that remains on Balmung and active submit a ticket to Square-Enix as soon as they possibly can, explaining the situation and giving Gilbert La'pine's full character name in the ticket - even if he changed his character's name in the server move, they'll still be able to find him with their logging system, since that's all tracked even on the Lodestone.
Yoshi-P has been a huge supporter of fair play and playing nice, and I get the feeling that Squeenix is not going to let someone get away with this sort of bullocks. They'll be able to compare the logged member list of Surveyors against the current roster for Salvagers, and I'm sure when they match up, they'll give back at least some of what was taken, likely all of it less what Gilbert originally put in there himself.
However, note that this kind of restoration takes a lot of time, even though all of these transactions are likely logged even back before they made them visible to us in game with 2.1's changes. I used to work for SOE as a GM for EQ1, and while we could see all kinds of transactions, going through those records could take days, depending upon how "smart" someone got with moving things around; even basic situations, where someone just straight up took everything out of a bank and moved it to another bank, could take time because we usually had to trace things to their original source - so if they do decide to give back everything but what Gilbert himself originally put in...even that is a long bit of log reading. It's also not just as easy as moving him back over and moving those items back - likely, they're probably going to have to remake all those items on Balmung without moving him back over, then delete everything over on Hyperion...which also will take a bit of time.
So don't get too frustrated if they say they're going to refund stuff, and then it takes a few days to actually do it! It's a process, it really is, in any MMO. I personally had one character restoration that took me six or seven work days to complete because the hacker was a total wanker and dropped the items all over the ground with the hacked character on one computer, and picked them up with another hacked character on another computer...then did it three more times with three more sets of characters, all but one of which were also hacked accounts. You have no idea how much I love MMOs that don't allow for dropping items on the ground. X.x
Yoshi-P has been a huge supporter of fair play and playing nice, and I get the feeling that Squeenix is not going to let someone get away with this sort of bullocks. They'll be able to compare the logged member list of Surveyors against the current roster for Salvagers, and I'm sure when they match up, they'll give back at least some of what was taken, likely all of it less what Gilbert originally put in there himself.
However, note that this kind of restoration takes a lot of time, even though all of these transactions are likely logged even back before they made them visible to us in game with 2.1's changes. I used to work for SOE as a GM for EQ1, and while we could see all kinds of transactions, going through those records could take days, depending upon how "smart" someone got with moving things around; even basic situations, where someone just straight up took everything out of a bank and moved it to another bank, could take time because we usually had to trace things to their original source - so if they do decide to give back everything but what Gilbert himself originally put in...even that is a long bit of log reading. It's also not just as easy as moving him back over and moving those items back - likely, they're probably going to have to remake all those items on Balmung without moving him back over, then delete everything over on Hyperion...which also will take a bit of time.
So don't get too frustrated if they say they're going to refund stuff, and then it takes a few days to actually do it! It's a process, it really is, in any MMO. I personally had one character restoration that took me six or seven work days to complete because the hacker was a total wanker and dropped the items all over the ground with the hacked character on one computer, and picked them up with another hacked character on another computer...then did it three more times with three more sets of characters, all but one of which were also hacked accounts. You have no idea how much I love MMOs that don't allow for dropping items on the ground. X.x
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