Architect Archive

Well, it seems that character transfer is soon to becomea reality. I would imagine that it will let folks move characters, but no items, cash, deeds..... If there is a large number of people moving around will this impact us in a positive light or negative light?

On one hand folks will need to be totally re-outfitted once they get to their new home. On the other hand, will we see tons and tons of fire sales and used equipment hitting the market as people try and get cash for cash swaps across servers?

I don't know many people looking forward to this, so the actual impact could be too small to notice.

Goliath
Master Shipwright, Master Architect, Master Artisan
-=V=- Shipworks 3 Locations Theed, Coronet and
Tatooine by Krayt Graveyard 5909, 4373

3 vendors at GF6 11/11 - Shipwright, Architect, Resources

I'm guessing that not a lot of people will do it.

I don't see any big reasons to cause people to jump to other servers. There will be some people who will want to join friends or leave a server they dislike but I think its probably a small minority.

Pawlin Construction of Kettemoor.
Harvesters and Crafting stations - Triad Coronet Mall just outside Coronet (-177 -5490)
Architect, House, Furniture, Harvester FAQ
Oprolan the Wookiee of Sunrunner. Cheap resources W. Daeric Talus (-639 -3058)
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My guess is that it won't be that big to worry about. We don't know any details yet, right, so some of this is still speculative.

At some level, if A has a successful character on server #1, what would be their motivation to move them to server #2? I'm not saying that there isn't motivation - I'm just saying you need to look at it to figure out how big a deal this is.

Using myself as an example, I started out the game on Chilastra with an existing group of friends. We built a PA and a city and grew and attracted new people. I like playing my Master Ranger there. I wanted to try crafting and didn't want to tear down my Chilastra character, so I started on Wanderhome - and it turned out I loved Architect also. I built a thriving business from scratch and made new friends there.

There are days when I wish that my Architect was on Chilastra so I could play with my original friends there. But I still like the Ranger, so zapping her to transfer in my Architect isn't an option. It might be feasible for me to buy a 2nd account and transfer the architect in on that, but I've resisted that idea thus far. And that would mean starting an architect business from scratch again and would certainly change the nature of that business.

I don't see that a huge percentage will transfer but I could be wrong.

Chilastra: Mikka R'zrPoint, Spy (Master Ranger/Master Pistoleer)
Chilastra: Zalle RazorPoint, Trader:Engineer (Master Architect, Master DE, Master Shipwright) - vendors just north of Theed at -3858 6181
Test Center: Rikka R'zrPoint, Master Artisan, Master Architect - showroom just south of Theed at -5370, 3139