Reading the Patch notes I saw this in regards to Transfer Tokens:
You must not own any houses before transferring
I’m just wondering why is this the case? Are we supposed to Sell our homes before transferring? If that’s the case, then we’d only get half our gold, plus having to repurchase the house and redecorate is a bit cumbersome especially if you own three.
Am I reading this right? Also does this affect the Free Transfer tokens that I still have? (not owning a home)
That’s what I was thinking, this is great for Bots since they don’t own a home. Plus there’s only a 24hr Cooldown, you would think it would have a large cooldown of about a month, considering Bots could just jump servers every other day and dump stuff on the Trading Post and make profit. Evade the people that report them? Just hop on a new server!
Though I understand the balance of needing to respect players if they are stuck on a dead server or switching because their Company/Friends switched. But 24hrs seems a bit short?
When I transferred not to long ago it said I couldn’t own a house, but I ignored that and activated the transfer anyway. My houses were successfully transferred.
The housing thing is likely just a technical limitation is all. It’s this or likely many more months of waiting for the fix, if that helps. Likely has nothing to do with punishing regular players that own houses.
At for cooldown, I’m not sure what I think. Honestly the price is the most important part. It needs to be high enough to prevent all of these worst case scenarios you are mentioning.
If they buy the game for $20 or whatever rate they can find, it’s often much cheaper outside of US/EU/etc. Then they buy a transfer for $15 then they need to make back $35 per account to just split even, more to start making profit. So let’s say they farm 10 accounts and those don’t get to offload their goods in time before they are tied up in a ban, they at a significant loss. That’s why the price is actually kinda important. The cooldown I imagine is more for people transferring servers and flipping markets, which will probably happen until it’s not really worth the $15.
Yea I understand the limitation of having to sell your house due to technical reasons, though they should at least compensate with 100% gold refund and ONLY apply it to those using a Transfer token.
Yeah makes sense, wonder if that might be difficult to allow for a one time 100% sell back to people that recently bought a transfer token? If they do it for everyone then there might be an issue for people that bought their first house with a company bonus plus 50% discount. That would result in a ton of money being duped into the game. Guess they could keep track of what you paid initially, but if they didn’t already track that then they can’t really go back and check something they didn’t track to begin with… See how it gets kinda complicated? I think ideally they hurry and fix the issue. In meantime it might be the price to pay to transfer which I imagine a ton of people want it so bad they don’t care.
