We thought about that, but it has a good chance to cause problems for people who play on multiple servers. If your society on Bonny is moving to Blackbeard, where you already have a character of another nation, you shouldn't have to choose between your character on Blackbeard or staying with your society. So we are letting every character transfer ONCE so that you can get out of your own way.


Joe

You will be able to continue playing on Bonny for the next month. At that point we will be locking the server, which means you will no longer be able to log in to Bonny. You can transfer your character to one of the four remaining servers after tonight's maintenance and will continue to be able to do that even after the server is locked a month from now.

French, German, and Spanish translations of the announcement are on their way.


Joe

You keep your missions too.


Joe

For various boring technical reasons we can't do cross-nation transfers. It would wreak havoc with mission lists and other parts of the mission system. Unfortunately this isn't going to happen any time soon (if ever.)

What the character transfers SHOULD do is push all nations populations up over the minimum number for viability on the four remaining servers. That will make the desires to switch nations a lot less pronounced I think.


Joe

These are absolutely brilliant.

Best,
Aether

Hey all!

We want to make sure to capture everyone's feedback on this exciting news article so please make sure to post in the announcement thread rather than creating many threads across the forums.

Thanks for your understanding!
Danicia

We intend to keep the old clusters up to allow transfers off of them for a good long time. If they come back they will find that they can transfer their old character off to one of the remaining servers and begin playing right where they left off.


Joe

Yeah, me too. That's actually the server where I play (or did until I transferred my character a few days ago.) Still, it will be worth it to get the populations up to a higher level.


Joe

If a server is starting to fill up you will get a warning that it's almost full when you start to set up a transfer. If you are seeing that warning and are worried about getting your society across before the door closes, file a support ticket and we'll make sure you get your society transferred. We have no desire to split up societies and will make sure that doesn't happen against your will.

If an entire server wants to go to the same destination they had better go all at once. We aren't making any special effort to keep everyone from a server together and people who show up late might find that they have to pick a different target server.


Joe

You will be given the option to rename your character when you transfer.

You do. If a transfer would push you over the lot limit it won't be allowed. Remove some structures from characters on the source or destination server until you are within the limits.

Though in your case you might be better off just transferring those characters to one of the OTHER remaining servers. It's entirely up to you though. This is your chance to consolidate if you want to.


Joe