World Transfers

[the_antisocial_hermit]

So, I just transferred a character from Crickhollow to Landroval and thought I would share my experience with you all.

It was extremely smooth. I just followed the instructions on the transfer screen, choosing to take one character and the shared storage to the new world. The last screen said the transfer was in progress and I could expect an email when it was done. I received the confirmation email within minutes - I was shocked at how fast it was.

I logged into Landy and lo and behold, there was my guy with all his stuff (standing right where I left him on Crickhollow, of course). Now here is the part that is a little confusing and I don't know if the devs would want to know about it or not - you guys tell me what you think. The character I decided to transfer to Ladroval is named Darkthorne. I had previously logged onto Landroval with another toon and set up a friends list to check name availability and discovered there was a level 1 Darkthorne that had not been played in at least a couple years so I knew I would get the name and the original should end up with Darkthorne-1. So I logged in and confirmed that I was indeed Darkthorne but on my friends list there was now a Darkthorne at the top of the list showing as online that was my level and location. It has to be me, right? Well you are not supposed to be able to add yourself to your own friends list. I then removed the character from my friends list and then tried to add "Darkthorne" again. I was greeted with the expected error of "You cannot add yourself". But for the heck of it I tried to see if I could add "Darkthorne-1" and the name popped back into the friends list as "Darkthorne" (without the -1)! It was still showing my level and location but it can't be me, I thought to myself, because you can't add yourself AND I typed the -1 but it still had my stats. I don't really know what this means. Will the -1 character continue to show my stats until they log in the original toon someday (if ever). Will there be a name conflict when/if they ever decide to log in again?

I'm not worried about it because this was just a practice run with a low level toon but I'm here to say that the transfer itself was a breeze! Nice work team!
I'd love to hear some of your thoughts on what might have happened and whether I should bug it.

~Best Regards to all

This happened to me on one or two of mine. I did a bug report on it; hopefully others do the same if they encounter it. It wasn't really a big deal, but it was confusing!

ETA: I just noticed when I logged on my other character on the server, it shows my char in the friend's list as Name-1 while offline (stats indicate it is mine, not the one I booted), even though she's definitely just Name. I had not thought to look at that, so I thought I would add it to this now.