Friday September 7, 2012 07:14

PSO2 JP: Ship Transferring (700AC)

Posted by Ricardo

The Ship Transferring System will be implemented late September 2012 and will allow for your character to move to another ship (server). Unlike other MMOs, you can start this process at any time and it won’t take hours to do. Once you transfer to another ship, you must wait 120 hours until you can do the process again. (This has changed from 24 hours when it was last reported to the media.)

When you transfer, certain things will carry over with your character data and other things will remain on the originating ship. You won’t actually lose your data even if there’s no characters on your original ship.

What Transfers Over:

  • Character Status
  • Your Equipment
  • Item Pack
  • Client Order Completion
  • Matter Board Progress
  • Cash functions that are tied to your character (Like Item Pack Expansion etc.)
  • Your Symbol Art
  • Data that’s attached to your character.

What Doesn’t Transfer Over

  • Items within Storage
  • “My Room” Customization
  • Items displayed in My Shop
  • Team
  • Friends
  • Mail
  • Player Profile
  • Cash functions that’s tied to each ship (like Extra Storage etc.)
  • Data that’s attached to ships.

This ship transferring system costs 700 AC!

Before you actually transfer, the data that’s left on that ship is saved, so in the future, once you return, you can continue playing with everything you left there.

After you transfer your character, you can not transfer to another ship until 120 hours have passed. After 120 hours, you can either move to another ship or return to your originating ship. If you plan on returning to the original ship, you will still be charged AC.

You will not be able to transfer if you are a team master, or for whatever reason, there’s some use restrictions imposed on your character. You also won’t be able to transfer if there’s a character creation cap imposed on the ship you are trying to move to.

 

On the character selection screen, choose a character, but in the sub-menu choose “各種手続き” > “キャラクターのシップ移動”

 

Next is the ship selection screen. The ship that you started with will be grayed in this menu.

 

You’ll then reach the confirmation screen where you will be charged 700 AC to purchase. Press the left button はい to confirm it.

 

When the process is complete, you will automatically log out to the title screen.

 

TGS Porori

So at the Tokyo Game Show they will exhibit PSO2 in three flavors. There will be 24 PCs, 24 PSVitas, and 10 Android play stands. Yes, the Android and PSVita versions are playable with a considerable increase in quality. Of course the PC version will have some new information too. After playing, you can receive the Phantasy Star Series 25th Anniversary Soundtrack which will have all the Phantasy Star theme songs made since PSO.

Not only will you be able to play PSO2, but there will be surprises in various ways too.

I wonder!

12 Responses to PSO2 JP: Ship Transferring (700AC)

CyberMan

September 7th, 2012 at 3:59 am

This is not so good. Even blizzard mkes part of transfers free of charge.

DarK-SuN

September 7th, 2012 at 4:24 am

No they don't.

Very few allow free transfers, Rift does it and that's it, even in Guild Wars 2 you'll have to pay to transfer (although it's free right now because of server congestion and forcing people to create in other servers away from their friends, but once this "flood" is done it'll be pay to transfer once again in GW2).

velocity7

September 7th, 2012 at 5:53 am

I'm not sure where you got that Blizzard makes character transfers free, because on this page they say it's $25 per character (a far cry from 700 AC):

http://us.battle.net/support/en/article/character

Imaginationland Guy

September 7th, 2012 at 10:27 am

If you're referring to WoW, then no: usually the free transfers are from large successful to small fail servers.

This seems like a fair deal, should help out some people who originally didn't get on the ship they wanted to play on and not take every item you own.

Rockmanshii

September 7th, 2012 at 11:00 am

A Phantasy Star anniversary OST CD??? Niiice… I wish I could go there and queue 5 hours to play and get it…

me

September 7th, 2012 at 10:43 pm

its sad that ship movement was done better in PSOBB that it is being handled here…..this is an utter disapointment

velocity7

September 8th, 2012 at 11:23 am

If you don't mind my asking, how were transfers in PSOBB handled?

Aewyn

September 8th, 2012 at 1:35 pm

Considerable improvement in quality? So the Vita version looks better now than it did before?

me

September 8th, 2012 at 3:41 pm

@velocity basically your all of your character data was stored in the login server that you would go through when you logged in, and once you logged in you were free to move between ships/blocks as much as you wanted. Due to this setup, teams/friends persisted between ships, and could be on different ships and still be able to talk to each other

Aero

September 8th, 2012 at 4:58 pm

That is because they had a low amount of users. Basically everyone was on 1 server.

Jenna

September 9th, 2012 at 11:55 am

actually @Aero in the original PSO and PSO Episodes I&II you had a lobby server(where you logged in) and multiple ship servers, all of your data was on your own memory card, the only major difference with PSOBB was it was a lobby server that held all your data and multiple ship servers, PSOBB did have multiple ship servers both in Japan and in he USA, I don't know where you get the idea there was only 1 server, SEGA was expecting more users than they got

Volt_Opt

September 10th, 2012 at 12:32 am

So wait, I have to pay to move to a different server? That… sucks. Immensely. I guess it's ok unless you join a guild or something that's on a different ship, in which case, sucks to be you. I can understand this since it's their first time doing a "free" mmo, considering every other game is pay to play. Gotta make that profit somehow.

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