is this trueFollow

a friend of mine supposedly says SE is letting legacy characters (which to me means 1.0 character that are max level) transfer to non legacy servers on day one... is that true? if so that kinda defeats the purpose of having legacy and non legacy servers

I think legacy players will have to stay bound to their servers to prevent us from messing with the entire game economy at the start of the game.I'm waiting to see what restrictions will be placed on cross server groups to stop RMT people from using it.

Great ty!

1.0 chars are limited to their own servers and at some point (they are thinking at least 6 months) they are thinking they'll look into allowing transfers depending on if the economies have caught up/balanced.

Eh.. I really don't think any players have brilliant evil schemes for unbalancing the server economies by paying real money to transfer. Anyone who transfers probably just wants to play with their friends who made a new account.

So much doom and gloom over this subject..

It doesn't have to be evil for a sudden influx of huge amounts of money to destabilize an economy. Ask the Russians before World War 1. They'll tell you.

I don't think that they will allow them changing to new servers, atleast not for a long time. Maybe after the first major update/exspansion when new servers have settled down they might if legacy servers are barren, but even then I doubt it.

I do however hope that they allow the duty finder to pull from legacy servers, and that they do not allow trading to cross servers.

Not sure if your wording is off, but just to clarify, a legacy player can make a character on a non-legacy server and is not confined to the legacy server, only his legacy/1.0 characters. And that answers your question... No. All 1.0 characters, legacy or not, are restricted to the legacy servers for now. This may change in the future, as the new servers start to gain more higher levels though.

Someone called me?

In all seriousness though, why wouldn't you just have a friend with a new account roll on a legacy server?

Ok so for my doom and gloom part of the post; I'm thinking SE will run into issues restricting legacy/1.0 players to servers. Not that I disagree with it, but I'm pretty sure we'll see the new player servers pulling in the majority of the ARR fresh launch crowd. Legacy servers will be filled with legacy players and a few of their friends they can con *cough* vince to join up. The economies will never 'even out' as people put it because the markets will be so different. The only way that it would even come close is if SE decided to let players trod through old content for ages until nobody wanted anything.

For all those who bash me for not making my criticism constructive, I'll just add that this is a problem that can be fixed in several ways. The first and easiest way is already out the window in the form of character resets. The second (and slightly less jilting) option would have been a soft reset. Instead of wiping character progress completely they could instead soft reset and lower everyone to the secondary job cap. The third and probably most appealing option would be to have some sort of bonus incentive for new players to join legacy servers. Sponsor-a-noob campaign could work well to at least soften the issue facing new players joining up.