Free Transfers Available to Orien and Sarlona February 8th-28th

[Cordovan]

In recent months we have been working to investigate and resolve issues surrounding character transfers to several game worlds, and we are happy to say that we have resolved these issues! We want to give players who have been waiting to transfer to Orien and Sarlona the opportunity to do so in the coming weeks.

Starting after our weekly maintenance on Wednesday, February 8th, character transfers to Orien and Sarlona ONLY will be free through February 28th. Free transfers to Orien and Sarlona will remain available until we bring the game worlds down for weekly maintenance on March 1st.

To learn more about world transfers, read our article on DDO.com:https://www.ddo.com/guides/ddo-transfer-guide

Of Important Note:

• Please note that the following things do NOT transfer with you to your destination world:
  
  • Your Friends list
  • Your /Ignore list
  • Your Guild name, level, airship, amenities, membership ranks, or other guild-related benefits. You will appear in the new world guildless.
  • Items in your Reincarnation Cache
  • Items bid on or posted to the Auction Houses
  • In-game mail
  • Shared Account Bank and Crafting Storage items
  • Your Astral Shard balance
  • Your Creature Companion Stable
  • Your Mount Stable
  
  
  
• You cannot be the Leader of a Guild and transfer your character from one world to another. If necessary, please promote a successor or other guild member to Leader, or disband your guild, prior to undergoing a character transfer from one live game world to another. Guild leaders will not display in the Character Transfer UI.
• You cannot be logged into the game world while undergoing a character transfer. If you are, you will be kicked from the game world and receive an erroneous “ban” message. You aren’t banned.
• It is possible to transfer back to your original game world after transferring to a different world, but your original guild, airship, True Reincarnation cache, and in-game mail is not preserved.
• If your name is being used on the world you are transferring to, your name will be appended with a -1 and you will be granted a one-time free rename credit. While logged into the character you wish to change the name of, type /changename (new name) into the chat panel to change your name.

Thank you!

[Dandonk]

Will be interesting to see how much is left of my server after this.

[Ronkaura]

Armament of Shadows on Orien will gladly take anyone who wants to run r10's and higher reaper raids End-Game Guild, come one come all. Might aswell make the most of the opportunity to do a bit of recruiting :P PM Ronko or Rontank in-game or through mailbox if not available.

[Zotze]

Armament of Shadows on Orien will gladly take anyone who wants to run r10's and higher reaper raids End-Game Guild, come one come all. Might aswell make the most of the opportunity to do a bit of recruiting :P PM Ronko or Rontank in-game or through mailbox if not available.

there will be maaaany players from all the other servers move to orien imo.

me and a friend wanted to move to argo this month, but not orien will it be, free and with many chars. So Orien will get a real push with high reaper longtime players i think.
i will just wait the first days of the free transfers and watch how the playernumbers will change, before i leave cannith

would like to know how many endgame highend players will move too ....

[ShifterThePirate]

So whats the new mega server going to be? Orien or Sarlona?

[mikarddo]

Cordovan,

So absolute zero reply to the concerns raised over this?

Players on Orion and Sarlona are getting a massive advantage from this as they can move goodies from all the other servers freely to their own server.

Guilds on Orion and Sarlona are getting a massive advantage from this as they can recruit people from other servers for free. We have already seen the first recruitment post in this thread and more will surely follow. I wonder why...

This is bloody insanity! Do you have no regard for the players and guilds on the other servers?

[Madja]

The rest I can understand, but you don't get to keep your mounts, pets and astral shards?!

[Crell_1]

In recent months we have been working to investigate and resolve issues surrounding character transfers to several game worlds, and we are happy to say that we have resolved these issues! We want to give players who have been waiting to transfer to Orien and Sarlona the opportunity to do so in the coming weeks.

Several game worlds were impacted but only Orien and Sarlona are getting free transfers as destination worlds? Will you be rotating through others in the near future? Notably Argo where I and many of my friends had issues transferring to at the end of last hardcore season.

[mikarddo]

The rest I can understand, but you don't get to keep your mounts, pets and astral shards?!

No, those are server specific. Some mounts and pets you likely have on all servers though if you got them from buying an xpac.

[druidsfireddo]

The rest I can understand, but you don't get to keep your mounts, pets and astral shards?!

That's the way it's always been on any transfer. It would be nice if they had the resources to update the transfer tech to allow for it (and also keeping your guild/airship, etc.)

And, to remark on other comments in the thread, all I will say is that it will be nice to move my old HCL chars home to Orien finally, tho I do understand the concerns about suddenly losing players on their own servers. I'll personally be surprised if there's a mass exodus from any other server to Orien or Sarlona *because* of how much we lose when we transfer servers. I suppose if there's a big endgame guild with more money than sense decides to wholesale jump ship, but the loss of all guild stuff (airship, amenities, perks, etc.) would be a big detriment to the notion.

Way too early to, as the kobold gem says, "Panic!"

[Cordovan]

Several game worlds were impacted but only Orien and Sarlona are getting free transfers as destination worlds? Will you be rotating through others in the near future? Notably Argo where I and many of my friends had issues transferring to at the end of last hardcore season.

There were several other worlds briefly impacted, but by that point it was widely understood that transfers were not functioning, and we had not committed to a free transfer period to those other worlds. Orien and Sarlona had extended issues that prompted us to make this plan in November as a workaround, and that is what we are doing here, now that transfer issues have been resolved.

[Sirea]

That's the way it's always been on any transfer. It would be nice if they had the resources to update the transfer tech to allow for it (and also keeping your guild/airship, etc.)

And, to remark on other comments in the thread, all I will say is that it will be nice to move my old HCL chars home to Orien finally, tho I do understand the concerns about suddenly losing players on their own servers. I'll personally be surprised if there's a mass exodus from any other server to Orien or Sarlona *because* of how much we lose when we transfer servers. I suppose if there's a big endgame guild with more money than sense decides to wholesale jump ship, but the loss of all guild stuff (airship, amenities, perks, etc.) would be a big detriment to the notion.

Way too early to, as the kobold gem says, "Panic!"

Leveling up a guild ship doesn’t even take that long. Death Smile gets to like level 150 every hardcore season, even the short seasons. And everyone pooling shards together, getting the big airship isn’t unobtainable.

A lot of end game players on Ghallanda are considering moving. Just where to is the question.

[mikarddo]

That's the way it's always been on any transfer. It would be nice if they had the resources to update the transfer tech to allow for it (and also keeping your guild/airship, etc.)

And, to remark on other comments in the thread, all I will say is that it will be nice to move my old HCL chars home to Orien finally, tho I do understand the concerns about suddenly losing players on their own servers. I'll personally be surprised if there's a mass exodus from any other server to Orien or Sarlona *because* of how much we lose when we transfer servers. I suppose if there's a big endgame guild with more money than sense decides to wholesale jump ship, but the loss of all guild stuff (airship, amenities, perks, etc.) would be a big detriment to the notion.

Way too early to, as the kobold gem says, "Panic!"

I certainly understand why it will be nice to get the HCL characters home, finally.

As for losing stuff on xfer. Pets and Mounts may matter to some but many are from xpacs you get on any server and most others are easy enough to get again - if those even matter for you. For me they dont but I am not xferring. Note the guild recruitment post above - if you move servers to join a new guild there is no loss of airship. That leaves only the loss of shards but for most people with many shards that is likely more than offset by getting 50+ free xp pots by xferring goodies from all servers.

So, for those without a happy guild on the current server - is there really a loss? I think you are overstating the loss and understating the gains by a good margin

[mikarddo]

There were several other worlds briefly impacted, but by that point it was widely understood that transfers were not functioning, and we had not committed to a free transfer period to those other worlds. Orien and Sarlona had extended issues that prompted us to make this plan in November as a workaround, and that is what we are doing here, now that transfer issues have been resolved.

That is very understandable and obviously those HCL characters need to be able to transfer.

But why entirely ignore the other concerns being raised that are caused by this free tranfer window? Atleast acknowledge the issues at hand.

[Dandonk]

A lot of end game players on Ghallanda are considering moving. Just where to is the question.

Heard from one more guild today that will probably be moving. It's gonna suck...

[superevbully]

In recent months we have been working to investigate and resolve issues surrounding character transfers to several game worlds, and we are happy to say that we have resolved these issues! We want to give players who have been waiting to transfer to Orien and Sarlona the opportunity to do so in the coming weeks.

Starting after our weekly maintenance on Wednesday, February 8th, character transfers to Orien and Sarlona ONLY will be free through February 28th. Free transfers to Orien and Sarlona will remain available until we bring the game worlds down for weekly maintenance on March 1st.

To learn more about world transfers, read our article on DDO.com:https://www.ddo.com/guides/ddo-transfer-guide

Of Important Note:

• Please note that the following things do NOT transfer with you to your destination world:
  
  • Your Friends list
  • Your /Ignore list
  • Your Guild name, level, airship, amenities, membership ranks, or other guild-related benefits. You will appear in the new world guildless.
  • Items in your Reincarnation Cache
  • Items bid on or posted to the Auction Houses
  • In-game mail
  • Shared Account Bank and Crafting Storage items
  • Your Astral Shard balance
  • Your Creature Companion Stable
  • Your Mount Stable
  
  
  
• You cannot be the Leader of a Guild and transfer your character from one world to another. If necessary, please promote a successor or other guild member to Leader, or disband your guild, prior to undergoing a character transfer from one live game world to another. Guild leaders will not display in the Character Transfer UI.
• You cannot be logged into the game world while undergoing a character transfer. If you are, you will be kicked from the game world and receive an erroneous “ban” message. You aren’t banned.
• It is possible to transfer back to your original game world after transferring to a different world, but your original guild, airship, True Reincarnation cache, and in-game mail is not preserved.
• If your name is being used on the world you are transferring to, your name will be appended with a -1 and you will be granted a one-time free rename credit. While logged into the character you wish to change the name of, type /changename (new name) into the chat panel to change your name.

Thank you!

BRAVO......ty .......just hope isnt too late to convince my son and his 3 mates to finally transfer their toons ..........just thought on the other servers affected but are disqualified to transfer that isnt fair i know tons o player who never have or even know theres a fourm site

[druidsfireddo]

BRAVO......ty .......just hope isnt too late to convince my son and his 3 mates to finally transfer their toons ..........just thought on the other servers affected but are disqualified to transfer that isnt fair i know tons o player who never have or even know theres a fourm site

Oh, c'mon, video games have had official sites and forums for decades.

[plant_power]

Cordovan,

So absolute zero reply to the concerns raised over this?

Players on Orion and Sarlona are getting a massive advantage from this as they can move goodies from all the other servers freely to their own server.

Guilds on Orion and Sarlona are getting a massive advantage from this as they can recruit people from other servers for free. We have already seen the first recruitment post in this thread and more will surely follow. I wonder why...

This is bloody insanity! Do you have no regard for the players and guilds on the other servers?

Perhaps you should join us in moving to Sarlona. Bring over your mains along with your characters that have the freebies and you too can unite them. Bring your guildies with you and then you can also make or join a new guild and recruit the other people transferring.

[superevbully]

Oh, c'mon, video games have had official sites and forums for decades.

u know how many memebers of my guild are a decade older than i and im in my late 40s ..........let alone never having played other games ...come man lol

[Khimberlhyte]

Cordovan,

So absolute zero reply to the concerns raised over this?

Players on Orion and Sarlona are getting a massive advantage from this as they can move goodies from all the other servers freely to their own server.

Guilds on Orion and Sarlona are getting a massive advantage from this as they can recruit people from other servers for free. We have already seen the first recruitment post in this thread and more will surely follow. I wonder why...

This is bloody insanity! Do you have no regard for the players and guilds on the other servers?

1) It's spelled Orien. And our players were promised that we would be able to get our hardcore characters over. It is not our problem that SSG has no way to limit transfers to just HC6 and 7 characters.

2) If you need a paywall to keep players trapped on your server, and fear that people will leave for greener pastures the moment they can do so for free, then you might want to think about what makes it worthwhile to play on your server. What type of atmosphere does the server have, and what is the player community like? What you wrote and the way you wrote it would make me question the wisdom of picking Ghallanda.

3) Orien currently has no guilds with the reputation of something like Lava Divers on Khyber. We lost a lot of end-game players to Khyber and Argo over the past few years. The grass isn't necessarily greener on either Orien or Sarlona.

(edit to remove typo)