Realm transfer Thread

[Firecrest]

Shoulda known the Ex Brigade would be all over this one.

As for a server transfer, I think I’m okay with the idea. We just have to be careful. It’s not going to be some sort of instant cure-all. Some things to think about…

• We will lose some people in the transition. We can help financially, but we lost people when we left Nath and that transfer was fucking free.
  
• Just because there will be a lot of people on the server we transfer to, doesn’t even necessarily mean that recruiting will be a cakewalk. 30 highly progressed guilds on one server means more competition for good players. It also means more turnover because, if someone doesn’t like our guild, there are two dozen other similar options
  
• High pop could mean lag and server issues when 50 guilds all go in to raid on Tuesday (remember Immortal runs on Nath?).
  
• We were all amazed at how low prices for things were on the AH last night when we looked at Sargeras. That’s good for the buyer, but razor thin margins are not good for the seller. It means gold will be harder to get.
  
• High pop means a lot of competition. Farming mats and leveling at the beginning of a new expansion will be complete AIDS.
  
• A server with a 1:0.05 Ally:Horde ratio will make PvP “different”. On the plus side, you’ll probably never get ganked and we’ll constantly have TB. But if Blizzard ever decides to do something like Halaa (where you had to kill opposing players to get dust to buy things with), we’ll be fucked.

I would like to talk to some of the officers of progressed guilds on the server we attempt to go to and ask them questions about these kinds of things before we commit to anything. I also don't think that we should automatically be looking at the highest pop servers with the highest Ally ratio. We should spend some time researching servers on a more even keel as well.