Odin server locked

[Eugie]

Hi.

Just bought the game and I'm trying to join the Odin server where basically all my friends are. The server is like always locked. I have tried to get in for like 14 hours now and still no success. Does someone know how to work around this system WITHOUT paying to transfer your characters from another server?

Thanks in advance for the help!

[Lumen]

Don't know if it's still like this because I haven't played for a while.
Some month ago I had the same with a friend who also wanted to play with me on Odin.
He was able to create a character there late at night when the server was on low load.

[Burnnie]

Odin is locked completely at the moment. No new characters and no transfers.

[Elazul]

SE has a promotion going on to transfer people from heavily populated servers to the less populated ones. The bigger servers are completely locked out of character creation and transfers for the forseeable future. I'd say go and try a preferred server as they're giving huge bonuses for people to go to. Even giving free transfers for established players so you could try and convince your friends to transfer to one of these servers and then create a character there to play with them. Unfortunately, that is the only thing I can think of at the moment until the promotion ends.

[Eugie]

I don't know if I can get them to come over to another server, since they're running a pretty big guild at the moment on Odin. I have a friend on Omega, but even that one is locked out... -_-

[Lillevi]

Omega works in creation just the transfers to that server right now locked

[Eugie]

Originally posted by GiftGottes666:

Omega works in creation just the transfers to that server right now locked

It does not work at the moment. It says that it's restricted, even after restarting.

[Shade]

Just have your friends transfer to one of the lower pop servers that has the incentives.

[Unholy Eve]

Originally posted by Shade:

Just have your friends transfer to one of the lower pop servers that has the incentives.

and what about their friends or thier FC's? That not such a simple solution.

[Shade]

The transfer is free, no gil cap, and housing is fully refunded and any non recoverable funishings entitle the owner to 3mil gil as compensation for anything lost. In the future they plan to try and implement the transfer of FCs and their housing as well.

[Eugie]

Originally posted by Shade:

The transfer is free, no gil cap, and housing is fully refunded and any non recoverable funishings entitle the owner to 3mil gil as compensation for anything lost. In the future they plan to try and implement the transfer of FCs and their housing as well.

The problem is that they need to presuade their whole guild to do the transfer for 1 person. I have a few friends on omega, but that one is locked as well all the time at the moment. Haven't even enjoyed the game yet since they keep locking the servers I want to get into.

[Myrkana]

Originally posted by rubenbunt:

Originally posted by Shade:

The transfer is free, no gil cap, and housing is fully refunded and any non recoverable funishings entitle the owner to 3mil gil as compensation for anything lost. In the future they plan to try and implement the transfer of FCs and their housing as well.

The problem is that they need to presuade their whole guild to do the transfer for 1 person. I have a few friends on omega, but that one is locked as well all the time at the moment. Haven't even enjoyed the game yet since they keep locking the servers I want to get into.

unfortuantely your friends have chosen to settle on very high population servers :/ good luck actually getting on them as they are so congested that during SB launch wek we had 3+ hour queues on the congested servers

[Ryoku]

Originally posted by Shirayuki474:

Or you can wait until they will unlock server (it is gonna happen) and until then play via cross party finder.

^This I raided for weeks with a group of people thru the cross realm partyfinder and then they transfered from their server to mine to get away from the congestion.

[Eugie]

Originally posted by Shirayuki474:

Or you can wait until they will unlock server (it is gonna happen) and until then play via cross party finder.

yeah. I'm now trying to get on Omega (A new world on EUW), but it's locked for some time, so I hope it might unlock for a bit in the next couple of hours. Don't really feel like going ALL alone on a server, since other friends have a guild on Omega as well which I should be able to join.

At least thanks for the help everyone. Hope they will just normally function in the future. (the servers)

[c0ndu]

Originally posted by Shirayuki474:

Or you can wait until they will unlock server (it is gonna happen) and until then play via cross party finder.

It's locked for like what? 3-4-5 weeks? Also no news of unlocking.

[Will]

What i'm doing ina similar situation is playing on a different server until my cousins server is unlocked. Im currently playing on a preferred world that has double xp, ill just transfer over once im 60.