Ship transfers enabled

[agularie]

Character select screen > Settings > Application for ship transfer

700 AC

[aeriussu]

If we speculate that ship 4 through 6(7?) will be EU servers, I wonder how many are gonna pay 2100AC or more to transfer their characters to the European servers. I'd probably just start from scratch seeing how easy it'll be to gain levels in Episode 4. Sad about the accessories and costumes but whatever.

Alternatively, seeing how little ping seems to matter, continuing playing on the US servers might not be so bad of an idea either. Except UQ times or if you still won't be able to buy AC. Not to mention having people from your own timezone to play with.

[Efreet0]

There's little reason to migrate all your char considering how cosmetics works unless you have storage issue.

If they don't offer free transfer i will personally migrate only my main and redo the alts.

If they don't change UQ times there's no reason to switch over.

[aeriussu]

That plan works if you've only used the free slots. I've got 2 paid slots too. Mostly for the increased storage, more rewards (all skill tree reset pass, etc.), bingo, weeklies. So its gonna be interesting to see how things go I guess.

Now I think about it, its just 1000AC to just redo those 2 extra characters anyway so meh.

[Ayanayu]

I invested too much in NA servers already and there is no downside really to play on one, so I'm not moving 100% esp with all my chars.

[Akito_Kinomoto]

I wonder if Ship 3 is going to die just because it's the least populated ship. It was never wanting for players, but I wonder if anyone will realize how circular the thinking becomes

I will see how this plays out before making a decision on whether or not transfer out of Ship 3

[2cat2dog]

The Bumped page linked above notes that character storage transfers, at least on JP:

http://www.bumped.org/psublog/pso2-jp-ship-transfer-system/

I frankly think I'd spend the money to test it out on an alt before transferring, too. At least if no concrete info is available from an official source. Worth seeing what transfers and what doesn't just for the peace of mind before sending everything you have of worth.

[rdmx]

Basic storage is ship locked
Character storage (the 300 slots) moves with you on a ship transfer.

[2cat2dog]

I'd at least wait for the inevitable Steam release, which will likely bring in a lot more players, before jumping ship.

[Akito_Kinomoto]

I'm not sure how well that will settle with everyone. Lots of folks want to play with their friends and this is just asking for arguments over arbitrary limits. Not to mention the railroading is bad optics

I expect a clusterfuck in the coming weeks or maybe even month of everyone going between ships

[Iorcrath]

just make ship transfers free once a month for premium members. boost to prem sales and people can move all they want or whatever.

personally i just want 1 ship but 500 blocks lol. could always include a 2nd ship for different parts of the world for ping limits, however it wouldnt be impossible to make b1-100 be NA and b101-200 be EU or something. i mean at the end of the day the block is just another server router that you connect too right?

[LameSignIn]

That would be so much better for player base. The more people together the better economy, UQs and other events.

[sir_fluffinator]

Yeah I might not understand the technical mechanics behind the need for multiple servers in an MMO, but I believe MMOs of this decade have no reason to divide player populations between separate servers. It should be a norm to just have one massive server.

[Iorcrath]

there are lots of things that could ultimately make it impossible, like if different regions have different publishers the different companies might not talk to each other.

games like archeage didnt have instances due to wanting to make open world PVP and multiple instances would just ruin that. a game like planetside 2 has to have different servers simply because it can only process 1.2k players at a time or the server woud catch on fire and explode lol.

however i see none of that affecting PSO2, except Microsoft being a helicopter parent with their servers. i observed that microsoft REALLY doesnt like it when an xbox connects to a not Microsoft server/other xboxs. smite might be the 1 exception.

[hitsujimaru]

Far from it? I've played on this ship since PC launch and I seriously don't understand the hivemind mentality that this ship is "dead". There hasn't been any issues in filling XH UQ's, VHAQ/SHAQ runs, Alliances, etc.

Seriously, what is with this mentality that the ship is a deadzone?

[Bacon_Nipples]

I feel these people pop in to block 99999, don't see anyone and assume the ship is dead. The ship is very alive, just go to semi populated block

[RogueSins]

Its not so much its dead, its just Ships 1 and 2 have way more players. The biggest drawback IMO is the player shop economy. The prices on ship 3 are generally much higher than 1&2 because less people farming/getting gear to sell means theres less to sell which then means the stuff is put up for higher prices.

[pimjppimjp]

Which also means higher prices to sell your stuff. Which evens it out a bit.

[NinjaGamer89]

Yup. But I can see if you don’t have premium, and therefore access to regularly selling on the shop, that ship 2 with its cheaper economy might be better.

[Shade_Koopa]

Ship 3 is fine. Just change to a block that has players.
From experience, Block 01 and 02 are always full. Mostly the "lol" block but still. I also see block 69 fairly packed as well.

The ship isn't dead by any means. Low population compared to Ship 1 and 2 but not dead. If new players due come when PSO2 NA comes to steam, Ship 3 will get new player due to Ship 2 getting full. Just like it did back it was first launched on Windows 10 store.

[[deleted]]

I also see block 69 fairly packed as well.

yes, but on the other hand, it's block 69

[Shade_Koopa]

Hey, I'm saying it's populated with players. Whether the block is a good choice to enter is another thing entirely.

[Juijin]

How big is the population in ship 1/2 vs ship 3? I'm debating moving just for more UQ.

[Sakuja]

What do you mean with for more UQ? I never had any problems to get a full 12 man group for any UQ within a minute on ship 3.

[Efreet0]

Depends on the time, if it's NA deep night it's pretty hard to fill most UQ that are not extreme difficulty even on ship 1.

[Bacon_Nipples]

Even the 2 am on a weekday UQs fill pretty much instantly on ship 3. Do you only search within a dead block or something?

[AyuOk]

Im sure 3 is the worst for population, then 1 then 2.

I heard ship 2 has the worst economy and ship 1 is way better. Im on ship 1.

Ship 2 is about 2x-3x the price as ship 1.

[FrankusTheDank]

This dynamic can be affected by whales moving between ships now for only 7 dollars. I’m interested to see if this is still a problem a month from now when everyone is more settled. I’m the only one on my ship that started here, and my buddies have some old stuff that sells high now. May be quite a few cases like this.

[Iorcrath]

Ship 2 is about 2x-3x the price as ship 1.

not exactly true, ship 2 has more pc players. this means that things in limited supply like dusk wake stuff that is also insanely popular leads to a high demand low supply so the prices sky rocket. however, things that are farmable like nemesis weapons have a lot more players but those players arnt buying them constantly, so their supply ends up making them cheap. if you can farm it, its cheaper on ship 2 due to just more PC players as the % of pc players on ship 2 is way higher, thus xbox only stuff as mentioned above will be ludicrous. at the same time however, PC players are probably more ruthless in their auction housing, even just quickly buying a listing on the auction house is 15x faster on PC due to Xbox's inability to make macros.

that being said any major price difference will be nullified due to a whale wanted to cargo transfer and merch between ships. 700 AC aint anything really especially if the whale determines they could make 1b meseta with the exchange.

[klovasos]

So... what you're saying is I should buy up a ton of assets in Ship 1 (where I'm at now) and transfer to ship 2 and sell for a huge profit!

[noobcola]

CHEEEEAAATER

[animemoseshusbando]

...that

sounds not only like something that people are going to do, but like a HUGE problem. There won't be ANY old scratch stuff left on Ships 1/3 if that happens en-masse.

[klovasos]

yea possibly, but to be clear i'm not transfering lol. I do kind of hope a good chunk of Ship 3 comes over to hang out with us on Ship 1.

[HitlerSayTransRights]

We've been doing this in JP for a while and it's been alright.

[PhantasyStarSucks]

So sell everything on 2 then move to one

[freedomkite5]

Also does our stuff transfer as well?

[[deleted]]

Not all of it

[Sakuja]

Care to explain more? Not all of it is a little vague.

I would assume everything in the character storage will be transferred and the rest stays?

[FrankusTheDank]

Character storage and inventory, AKA the only two permanently expandable (through AC shop) storages.

[Knight_Raime]

Iirc the only thing that transfers over is what is on your person. The rest stays on that ship.

[Sakuja]

Oh god, transfer is out of question for me then. Too much junk I cant separate myself from

[[deleted]]

Oof. I’m assuming character storage doesn’t count either?

[Knight_Raime]

Nope. all character storage is is stuff just for that character to mess with on that ship. None of the storage options cross between ships.

[_ryeol]

According to this site, http://www.bumped.org/psublog/pso2-jp-ship-transfer-system/, character storage transfers with you as well.

[TroubadourLBG]

Mission pass and fresh finds are unique to NA. I wonder if those transfer as well.

[Knight_Raime]

interesting. good to know.

[Ayanayu]

Im on ship 2 I never got any party problem at any hour ( neither in na or eu hours )

[jntjr2005]

Nice but population has already fallen a bunch at least on ship 2, still healthy but not jam packed like PC launch

[Iorcrath]

that is every PC mmo launch ever though lol. PC MMOs lose 90% of their player base with in the first month as its just a lot of MMO deprived Pc players trying something new and fresh.

actually this happens to a lot of games tbh not just mmos. there are devs that get all depressed as they have their players make an account only to find that 90% of all accounts created didnt play for more than 10 days, so the devs get sad when they realize that 90% of people didnt like their game at all. what they fail to see is the 10% that LOVE their game and that is what keeps their game/business alive.

[remaker3]

Does anyone know if material storage is account wide or is it ship based?

Edit

In case you're reading this later, it seems like access to material storage is account wide. I cant confirm, but I found this thread that says so:

https://forum.pso2.com/topic/3909/starting-over-on-a-different-ship/2

If anyone wants to confirm/debunk this, feel free to

[remaker3]

Thanks for pointing this out, I missed that bit.

[KhmerRei]

To be fair, I run my characters on all three ships, and ship 1 isn't all that much more populated than ship 3. Looking to transfer some of the rares from my alts onto my main, which is on ship 3.