Kinship Transfer Guide

[RJFerret]

Plentiful.

[Olgomil]

Over in the Housing thread, I am seeing that deluxe housing in the transfer servers is running out. How is the kin house availability situation so far?

My answer from the other thread:

Not sure in which server are you looking up, but in Landroval there are right now 1070 deluxe houses available.

Sergio :-)

[maartena]

How do you get that info, just go to the 4 neighborhoods and tap numbers on your calculator?

[Olgomil]

How do you get that info, just go to the 4 neighborhoods and tap numbers on your calculator?

Good point! Its ONLY the number of deluxe houses in Falathlorn, and YES, i make the total number with the calculator... (i know, im crazy, lol).

Sergio :-)

[Schia]

Hello, I have a question I haven't been able to find an answer for. My kinship is on Windfola, and we have decided to move to Crickhollow. When I click on the transfer button, the only world that shows on the transfer from list is Brandywine. I have never had a character on that world. So, how do I transfer my kin from Windfola? Is there some sort of delay because of your internal schedule? Thank you.

[Olgomil]

Hello, I have a question I haven't been able to find an answer for. My kinship is on Windfola, and we have decided to move to Crickhollow. When I click on the transfer button, the only world that shows on the transfer from list is Brandywine. I have never had a character on that world. So, how do I transfer my kin from Windfola? Is there some sort of delay because of your internal schedule? Thank you.

World transfers off of Windfola will be available October 20th.

https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthr...58#post7461058

Sergio :-)

[Isgalduin]

When will transfers from Imladris start? What are the two useless server names Palantir and Bullroarer all about?

[cdq1958]

When will transfers from Imladris start? What are the two useless server names Palantir and Bullroarer all about?

Imladris opens Tuesday the 17th. Bullroarer is the public testing server. Palantir is the private testing server.

[Felamid]

Hard to buy a kin house on arkenstone. No one wants the kin house on frothing, just check the areas. Can you add about 6 new homesite areas? Surely it doesn't take that much resources from the server.


Thanks in advance

[Celmet]

Same in Falathorn on Crick. On our former server we had an entire neighborhood, with "support" alt kinships in the other kinhouses and members galore. But now there are only a few random houses available all over, and very few deluxe. Looks like most available space was snapped up by players transferring from the servers on the list before Imladris.

I'd like to see an offer of new neighborhoods to transferring kinships, or at least open a raft of new ones so we can have a good, old-fashioned land grab.

[Silverking77]

I read through but didnt see this question..IF I send out a final kinmail and then transfer the kin, will un-transferred kinmates still have access to that kinmail or will it disappear? Do I need to send a personal mail?

[cdq1958]

I read through but didnt see this question..IF I send out a final kinmail and then transfer the kin, will un-transferred kinmates still have access to that kinmail or will it disappear? Do I need to send a personal mail?

You're talking about a mail before you move the kin leader, correct? If so, that mail will be on the original server and should be available to kin members that have not moved yet.

[NickStern]

Ok so I will be transferring off of Vilya Mt toons and personal Kin.
Vilya is listed in the transfer app as available to transfer from but no
destination servers are available.
Is there some hold up still on when we can transfer to surviving worlds?

[Stilgaard]

Ok so I will be transferring off of Vilya Mt toons and personal Kin.
Vilya is listed in the transfer app as available to transfer from but no
destination servers are available.
Is there some hold up still on when we can transfer to surviving worlds?

It is showing as available because they keep using the same TRANSFER functionality to COPY characters to the test servers, which only leads to confusion every time the test servers open.

Vylia is not due to be allowed to fully transfer off for weeks still.

[NickStern]

It is showing as available because they keep using the same TRANSFER functionality to COPY characters to the test servers, which only leads to confusion every time the test servers open.

Vylia is not due to be allowed to fully transfer off for weeks still.

Ok thanks that is confusing but makes a bit of sense anyway.
Is there a post that you know of that shows the date Vilya and other worlds will
be allowed to transfer I really want to get this done before I get fed up with Turbine
again and take another 1021 days break.

[Stilgaard]

They haven't put official dates, but they are opening each next-set of realms about once a week... they're down the list here somewhere around Darrowdelf/Vanyar...


https://www.lotro.com/en/game/articl...e-announcement

Taken from this thread:

https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthr...nsfers-Opening!

Timeline article:

https://www.lotro.com/en/game/articles/world-transfers

[Gandolf_TheOld]

Watch this thread for Vyv's announcements on servers opening for transfer. Last servers open for transfer were

Vanyar on 11/23/2015.

Dwarrowdelf on 11/24/2015.


Silverlode and Withywindle are the next servers to open up.


So Vilya may be open for transfer off of in two weeks. MAY BE the 8th of December.

[NickStern]

Thanks for the links and info Guys.

Does seem though the threads are lacking in hard info on dates that they should know and be able to provide to us.

[Curugor]

Due to a series of unpredictable circumstances: dead-computer of person (me) coordinating the Kinship Transfer, collateral damage by a city bus on same, and my being responsible for sending kinship leader an IM of the destination world decided upon, Kinship leader being unavoidably unavailable and leaving that in the hands of dead-computer member, etc

On January 1, 2016, 1000 members of XIII Division will lose their kinship and be scattered to the 10 worlds. We are likely to never reassemble, aided by the fact that I remember no warning broadcast by Turbine to hand copy or screen shot every member of kinship AND every listing on Friends list (which turned out to not have carried that info to the new world and I seem to be unable to remember over 1000 Middle-Earth inspired names). Turbine's coordinated world transfer plan has not only left me without the friends list assembled over a 4-5 yr period of play (not counting those who had to change their name in the new world they transferred to). Even now, knowing it happened, I would have no idea where to look for such a warning, assuming Turbine figured that out knowing that such data did not transfer between worlds, which I suspect most players did not. Only players who had played in more than one world probably would. In exchange for that, I got a gift box of useless/worthless #### and am still finishing up the remnants of cleaning up after them with my toons and belongings. Pretty messy job for something planned for so long, IMHO. Do you know what a "test server" or "Server Group" is. Most businesses that use computer extensively have one. They run tests of new software on it and see what disasters (there always are) turn up.

So, if you wonder where we went, the kinship went or the other kinspersons went....now you know....if you are lucky enough to search this forum and catch the title that includes the kinship name. I left a mail for Perkons in Riddermark but.....28 Days Later, as they say.....it will be dead...in fact it may, by now, have been returned to me....in Riddermark. Sorry, I am out of options. Perkons and I did not forget you all. Sometimes computers, and their files, just die, along with contact information in saved files. Kidneystone is the only (former) kin or friend I have left from Riddermark...and most of you will not even know what happened, your only hint being your empty SOCIAL List after you transfer(ed) worlds, for which Perkons and I are NOT responsible. All three of me apologize to my kinspersons.

Cugmacandcheese
Kugorin
Curugor
Intermittent Leader of XIII Division over the past year (2015) during Perkons' unavoidable absences.

[Kolde]

In response to: Curugor: World Transfer means the probably death of XIII Division Kinship

Sorry to hear you had technical difficulties. However, these forums have had ample information available for months. The game devs posted about their progress, and many players who participated in the tests (yes there was testing) posted their own experiences. As kin leader, I took my responsibility to get my kins moved very seriously. I began sending in-game mails months ago, telling them which server we were going to. It was not a last-minute decision, I made a hard decision that I thought would be good for our kinship, and I told them where we were going with in-game mail and MotD. We also have a GuildLaunch site where I posted our decision for anyone who checked in there, or will check in in the future. Our origin server had a couple of threads in our server sub-forum for kin leaders to announce destinations also, beginning months ago. I sent various in-game kinship mails to keep everyone up-to-date on the latest info from the forums, which included a suggestion for everyone to write down or take screenshots of their friends list, as it was mentioned on the forums a long time ago that friends lists would be wiped. All of the information has been here for a long time. As the servers started opening for transfers, those players, including kin leaders, who had gone through the process shared their experience with tips and advice on what to watch for. Thanks to the information from the devs and players who tested the process, our transfer went seamlessly. So far the worst thing to happen to us is one member had to change the spelling of their main character's name. Having been through server merges in other games over the years, I will say that this merge was the most successful, well-organized, and least painful of any merge I've ever seen.

I understand how frustrating it must have been to have computer issues hindering your plans. But, again, this was not a last minute surprise. You had months to make a decision and inform your kins on where to transfer to. All of the information has been here all along. I hope you can find a way to round up your friends and kins.

[Grka]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rlnmYdDA6o