World Transfers

[maartena]

Yeah, but if you're going to test something, shouldn't that be something for a *testing* world?

If you do it on live, and it's buggy as all hades...

They had several rounds of testing on Bullroarer in recent weeks. But again, it would require people to download the full 20 GB bullroarer client. Now, I have an internet connection that can do that in 20-30 minutes, but not everyone is as lucky as me.... some people it may take all day or two days to do. Other people have metered connections, or simply don't have the diskspace to dedicate to testing. So although there was plenty of testing going on, my guess that only around 100-200 people participated in the Bullroarer testing, and only about 50-ish of those posted results in the Bullroarer forum.

There comes a time where you have to take it to a larger scale, and opening up transfers between the remaining worlds seemed the next logical step. Since they do not HAVE to move, it is all voluntarily.... the amount of transfers are going to be WAY MORE than Bullroarer, but also WAY LESS than when closing worlds will be allowed to transfer. This is a great testing phase, and I have no problems with them shutting it down again on Friday, so if there are any problems they don't have to scramble on the weekend.

My guess: there will be another patch next week on Monday to fix anything they have found during these 48 hours of testing, and soon after they will open it up for all 10 remaining worlds, 5 US and 5 EU.... and leave it up until they are ready for the next stage, which is the closing servers with the least amount of population.

I think this is a good, sound strategy.

[Minstracar]

Frelorn, thanks for the update -- let's hope the testing goes well!

As for me, I've been able to transfer chars of 2 accounts off Brandywine and distribute to Crick, Gladden and Landroval just fine.

Unfortunately one other account gets the blank world screen :-(

The accounts/characters that I did transfer all went perfectly! So hope this is a very specific and simple fix for those accounts unable to transfer yet.

Minstracar

[Vyvyanne]

We believe we have a fix for the blank world select screen for those with character on the remaining US worlds who were seeing this today. The transfer service will go away for a few minutes, but once it is back up, those of you who were having this issue, should be seeing your worlds/ characters.

[aranen]

I was able to transfer a guy just fine BUT I am not able to see Riddermark in the screen where my worlds are with guys on them so is there a reason or is it messed up? So is there some reason I cannot see riddermark in the world list because I have a guy on it.



Signed/Astmegnal

[maartena]

I successfully transferred 6 characters and shared items from BW to Crick right after the update was finished. I did not lose any name, kin transferred and had email about my house and the items from the housing hooks and storage were in escrow. I couldn't have been happier! Thank you Turbine!

I did have one strange thing happen though. My kin leader and 2 other characters rolled over to the 2nd page of the character select screen since I had 2 characters on Crickhollow before transfer. Those 3 characters were the only ones that were automatically added to the kin on Crickhollow. It is not a big deal to me as it's a personal kin, but may be for other kinships.

Celtic

PS: I am a VIP Founder with only one subscription so transfers can't be limited to only F2P accounts.

When you move ALL characters at once, some characters may transfer *before* your kin-leader character does, so that is why they were not added to the kin automatically. If you want to succesfully transfer a kinship, you need to move the kin-leader FIRST, wait till the kin gets established, and then follow with all the members and your shared items.

[celticladywolf]

[QUOTE=RJFerret;7432387]



So there were three other characters in the kin on the old server that came to the new server as no longer in kin? Did you transfer all at once; kin leader first, then others; or one at a time, if so, what order?



Sorry, I didn't clarify this better...The kin is just for my characters only, I transferred all 6 characters at once and logged into the kin leader first as it is my main character.

[celticladywolf]

When you move ALL characters at once, some characters may transfer *before* your kin-leader character does, so that is why they were not added to the kin automatically. If you want to succesfully transfer a kinship, you need to move the kin-leader FIRST, wait till the kin gets established, and then follow with all the members and your shared items.

Maartena,

Dang if I didn't already know that! I got all excited and forgot! lol Hopefully my mistake will help someone else though hehe

Celtic

[Stilgaard]

In mid-September to Early October we expect to start open transfers off of the closing worlds to the remaining worlds. We will begin with the smaller population worlds so as not to tax the old hardware as we transition to the new but still allowing those on the quiet worlds to start getting to know their new communities.

Can we get a clarification on this please?

Originally "smaller population" worlds like Vilya were slated to be the dead-last in line to be able to transfer off of after the stalls had been mucked out, and the garbage taken out, and the parking lot hosed off.

Are you now saying that the timeline previously posted with which servers were in line to be transferred off of first has changed?

Thanks!

[maartena]

We believe we have a fix for the blank world select screen for those with character on the remaining US worlds who were seeing this today. The transfer service will go away for a few minutes, but once it is back up, those of you who were having this issue, should be seeing your worlds/ characters.

Vyvyanne,

I think other people have said this already, but I might as well throw in my 2 cents: I would like to thank you for all that you do. Community Managers like Frelorn and Executive Producers like you are just what this game needs. Communication has been better than ever since you came on board, and the changes that have been done to the game have been much appreciated.

Keep up the good work!

[maartena]

Can we get a clarification on this please?

Originally "smaller population" worlds like Vilya were slated to be the dead-last in line to be able to transfer off of after the stalls had been mucked out, and the garbage taken out, and the parking lot hosed off.

Are you now saying that the timeline previously posted with which servers were in line to be transferred off of first has changed?

Thanks!

That order has NOT changed, it just means that you may be wrong about what is a "small population".

[eleanora123]

What ever the issue was, it has been fixed (For me atleast). Thanks Turbine

[RJFerret]

Sorry, I didn't clarify this better...The kin is just for my characters only, I transferred all 6 characters at once and logged into the kin leader first as it is my main character.

Ahs, that would explain it then, it's likely the characters that were not in kin automatically came over first, as per the article kin leaders should be transferred first, then house owners, then shared account stuff, only then should all remaining characters transfer. This way everyone remains in kin happily, and no bound objects get lost that return from houses to characters already gone. (I'm posting this as much so you have an explanation as for others to realize order of transfers for kins and house owners matters a LOT.)

Originally "smaller population" worlds like Vilya were slated to be the dead-last in line to be able to transfer off of after the stalls had been mucked out, and the garbage taken out, and the parking lot hosed off.

Are you now saying that the timeline previously posted with which servers were in line to be transferred off of first has changed?

Vilya isn't smaller. There are eight other US worlds smaller than Vilya. The order is here: https://www.lotro.com/en/game/articl...e-announcement In fact, were seven worlds kept instead of five, Vilya would have remained open.

[Wabeccolicious]

Ok so I am past the issue with the blank server page now, good fix, thanks.


Unfortunately I'm not sure if the transfer succeeded because I did not get an email and my account was not locked out like it said after the confirmation prompt.

I'll wait a bit more...

[Csyfers]

I was able to move my characters..thank you for the fix.

[Ziane]

Ok so I am past the issue with the blank server page now, good fix, thanks.


Unfortunately I'm not sure if the transfer succeeded because I did not get an email and my account was not locked out like it said after the confirmation prompt.

I'll wait a bit more...

I had that happen to me. I tried again and the transfer went through the second time within 5 min.

I have done two sets of characters from different worlds , and both have transferred flawlessly except for the one retry. Awesome stuff there. Now to consolidate all this junk (I mean precious items and stuff!)

[Wabeccolicious]

Ok it worked now weeeeeeee!

[aranen]

Is there a reason that I cannot see riddermark since I have a character on it?

signed/Astmegnal

[Owlish52]

Is there a reason that I cannot see riddermark since I have a character on it?

signed/Astmegnal

Riddermark is not currently open for transfers; only the 5 non-closing worlds are open, and Brandywine is open for outbound transfers only.

[Lenton]

Ugh. Server mergers suck. Going to lose my main's name.

[Owlish52]

Transferred a home owner from Crickhollow to Gladden, where the account already had a house (both Standard Houses). The Crick house had 45 storage spaces (base 30 + 15 for 9g) and the Gladden house had 30 spaces (base only). After the transfer, the Gladden house has 45 spaces (30 base + 15 bought, from Crick) and the transferred character had gold for the value of the Crick house. All good. Minor 'feature': when the character returned to Crick, it bought a new Standard House ('across the street', as it takes some time for a house to 'return to the market') and the prior vault section names were still retained (this was about a half-hour cycle time).

[Fratonia]

Are you sure that you didn't run into this issue?
https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthr...tro-store-down (beginning at post #4)

Yes, that problem is completely unrelated. My problem is that Turbine completely removed the option to configure a proxy server in the game client when they switched to Awesomium. Now you can only access web content (shop, ticket system, bug reports) in the game client when you:
a)allow your Windows direct Internet access
or
b)configure a proxy in Windows Internet Settings to tell every process on your PC how to reach the Internet via proxy

Both aren't valid options for me. Awesomium could be used with a manual proxy configuration but this had to be implemented in the game client which it isn't. Turbine just didn't bother to implement it so they just removed all traces of the former options. Anyway, this is rather off topic so I don't want to discuss it here.

[Annaliel]

After the fix everything worked fine, and the transfer was flawless, really really really thank you Turbine.

[wcpaeb]

Anyone knows when the transfers between the 5 EU remaining servers will be available again?

thanks in advance

[Wirbel]

I went in transfers window and no servers are showing up.
Please there is a way to fix this? I don't really want to be forced staying more on crick, i waited so long for transfers.

I just restarted my computer for unrelated reasons, and was surprised to see the transfers window working fine. It was broke before.

[Wirbel]

Crickhollow is not a remaining world so it is not available for transfers today and tomorrow. ONLY remaining worlds will be able to transfer between each other. (Except Brandy is transfer OFF only)

Crickhollow survives.