I am a veteran Eve Online player who stopped playing that game and sold my two accounts after the game went poo to get into something different - THIS - I love SWG and have few gripes with it - but ALL of my gripes are to do with the fact that I not on a suitable server.
Unfortunately for me, I am in the UK, and one night when I was having a sleepless night last December, I downloaded and installed SWG, then registered on the server that was at the top of the list - Tarquinas (recommended) I didn't even notice the Europe-Chimera server on the list, in fact I recently created a second character purely as a test, again at 4.30am GMT, and yes, the Euro servers were at the bottom of the list and were deemed to be population = scarce!
I feel like a bit of a noob now, because I enjoyed playing alone for the 4 months it took me to wind my way up to being a lvl 90 commando, and never really interacted with anyone around me and consequently didn't notice a problem. It was only when I became lvl 90 and I started needing to play with other users (mainly in Restuss battles) I realised I was one of the few UK players on the server. I have been in three guilds up to now, the first two I left because there was never anyone on when I was on, the one I am in now has about 10 members but when I get to 11pm GMT (my time), the other guys are usually just getting in from work/school and I have problems playing with them.
I have searched high and low on Tarquinas server for a Euro guild, to no avail. I have used the web forums that are out there and even set up an advertising macro recently in Mos Eisley asking anyone in a UK/Euro guild to mail me so I could join up - no one replied despite the macro running for 6 hours.
I sent an email to the admin explaining that I had mistakenly started my character up on the wrong server, to be told that I would have to pay $50 (?25GBP) to transfer my character (that's one character at a time for $50 btw) which I feel a little bitter about. Mainly because they can see from my account information that I am in the UK and that I am on a server populated mostly by people in the US.
I stopped playing Eve Online after I spent two years building up a 2 billion isk fortune all on my own, to lose it all in the blink of an eye when I foolishly tried to move my assets (4 x 500 mil isk BPOs) through 0.0 space and was blown up. I always swore that if anything like that ever happened it would not have been worth continuing to play, and I did indeed stop playing. One of the problems with Eve Online is that the game became so ridiculously unfair. You spent what seemed like a lifetime trying to make your mark in the universe, and then CCP went and introduced Interdictors and warp disruptor probes into the game making it a doddle for other players to take everything from you with no comeback. Eve is a stressful and unenjoyable experience to play seriously, whether you played solo or in a group. So, I stopped giving CCP my $30 a month because they made the game crap, and took it elsewhere. I like SWG because it's relatively risk free in relation to assets and credits, but it still takes a lot of time to work your way up and earn credits if you are a serious player. (entertainers aside)
But that said , if I am seriously expected by the admin to put $50 into their already fat real life wallet so they can inconvenience themselves by pushing a button to have my character and his Crusader armour transferred to Chimaera, just because I pushed the WRONG button when I set up a monthly direct debit to them, well, that's not right in my view. If I had upset a lot of people on Tarquinas or had a bad reputation due to mischief and wanted to move servers to get away from them I wouldn't feel so aggrieved.
I will not spend another four months (or probably more now since chap 6) grinding another character on Chimaera - it is not worth it, and I may leave soon. I started playing WarRock a couple of weeks ago - full of hackers but still fun, and hopefully Star Trek Online may be released sometime before 2010!
DOES ANYONE ELSE THINK $50 IS A RIP OFF OR SHOULD I SHUT UP AND GO AND PLAY SOMETHING ELSE IF I DON'T LIKE HOW THINGS ARE? Please let me know
Also if anyone knows of a Euro corp/guild on Tarquinas I'd be grateful for the info :)
Rankin
Edited, May 27th 2007 6:49am by rankinchrinic
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Lol - well, maybe I can spur your anger even a bit more - you have to pay 50 USD for the character alone - if you want the equipment and cash to make the server-travel as well, I think you have to pay something in addition....
Basically, the idea behind the costs for a server transfer are not too bad - if you had servers running at close-to-full capacity, it would be stupid if people were changing around like wild, so you limit it by requiring additional payment for a transfer. As of now, no server is filled to the brim, most of them are pretty empty most of the time - therefore you will find several pleas of players to merge servers and give out a character transfer for free - say, you leave eight servers active - 5 that handle the world, 2 to handle Europe and 1 to handle whoever is playing from outer space ( aka as Down Under :))) ) and give players an official thread in the forums to list where they will go to at a set point in time - this would strengthen the community and make the combat changes of Chap 6 a lot more consumable.
But this is the general problem - the basic idea of changing things is really good but it seems to be like something that is never evaluated in regard to consequences for the actual and real community - in theory, we would find an almost perfect MMORPG of the first generation - in reality we find something of a mosaique of ideas and good will - distorted beyond recognition.
So yeah, we want one character transfer for free (with all its equipment) and a limit to the number of total servers available!
Basically, the idea behind the costs for a server transfer are not too bad - if you had servers running at close-to-full capacity, it would be stupid if people were changing around like wild, so you limit it by requiring additional payment for a transfer. As of now, no server is filled to the brim, most of them are pretty empty most of the time - therefore you will find several pleas of players to merge servers and give out a character transfer for free - say, you leave eight servers active - 5 that handle the world, 2 to handle Europe and 1 to handle whoever is playing from outer space ( aka as Down Under :))) ) and give players an official thread in the forums to list where they will go to at a set point in time - this would strengthen the community and make the combat changes of Chap 6 a lot more consumable.
But this is the general problem - the basic idea of changing things is really good but it seems to be like something that is never evaluated in regard to consequences for the actual and real community - in theory, we would find an almost perfect MMORPG of the first generation - in reality we find something of a mosaique of ideas and good will - distorted beyond recognition.
So yeah, we want one character transfer for free (with all its equipment) and a limit to the number of total servers available!
save your $50, a dev recently posted a reply on station.com hinting that there will be a free transfer of some sorts soon..
ALL YRR BASES R BELONG 2 DOSH
rumours of a transfer, well, i'll keep my fingers crossed, though i think i should point out that the char only transfer is 30 dollars, and the char+items is 50 dollars. as for the tarquinas server, well, its one of the ones i use (i also play on bria).
on tarq my currently active char's are;
cloudancer - 81 commando - too lazy to grind!
Talea - 90 Trader - too busy to grind!!
Miagami - 90 Entertainer - too cute to grind :D
currently making incubators with Talea, but as soon as i finish making the next 50 or so, plan to go back to making droids again :D
on tarq my currently active char's are;
cloudancer - 81 commando - too lazy to grind!
Talea - 90 Trader - too busy to grind!!
Miagami - 90 Entertainer - too cute to grind :D
currently making incubators with Talea, but as soon as i finish making the next 50 or so, plan to go back to making droids again :D
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