"Regarding Character Creation Restrictions"Follow

I've been waiting almost two weeks for Gilgamesh to allow character creation once again. Finally today I see a little "O" instead of the "X" indicating you can create characters on Gilgamesh once more, but when I attempt to do so it says "This world is currently not accepting anymore new characters." Conflicting information there, or is there something I'm missing? Very frustrated because Gilgamesh is the world I've played on since 1.0 where my main character is and my girlfriend has been wanting to create a character on the same server as me so she can play to.

Thanks for any help.

So how will I ever make another character on Gilgamesh? Seems pointless to even try.

Does it open up that often? Thanks for the advice.

I just created an alt on Balmung for the RP, which as far as I can tell seems pretty much non-existent outside there and Gilgamesh. That would, in my mind, be the only sensible reason to create there. The first time I logged in on Balmung, my new character appeared in the Drowning Wench to open RP going on around me. I have never seen open RP on Lamia, and it's something I've wanted to do (but never had the chance) since I started FFXI over a decade ago.

But my main is still on Lamia where I spend the most time, and Catwho is correct -- we have a wonderful FC there, friendly and helpful, and we'd love to have you join us!

Server transfer costs $18, and (for me) takes about 10 minutes to process once you've submitted it.

And we definitely have past experience with FFXI -- sometimes it seems like half Catwho's Dynamis LS (myself included) is in The Swarm on Lamia. Just as long as your character isn't named some variation of Sephiroth...

You don't have to reroll to transfer servers. You get to keep your character, but will have to name-change if it is already taken on the new server. Other than that, you can only carry across a set amount of gil (think its 4 million or something like that, so you may want to buy allagan silver at market price off the auction house to make the transfer if you have more than that (or invest in a commodity, which may trade better when you get over to the new server). I remember buying a ton of chinchilla hide (well maybe 1 or 2 stacks) when they were 100 gil each on Ultros and everyone and their cousin were running treasure maps right when they came out in early 2.X. Undercutters crashed the market, but it was new stuff so I bought it up just to do it. Then I pay money to transfer to Lamia to meet up with Zero and Piuriu (two guys I ran XI with) and we start Swarm. Shortly after, I find out that no one on Lamia runs maps really, but really like chinchilla hide, so I turn around and sell my hides for 40k each and make my first fortune, allowing me to leave my full time job as a zircon ring maker behind forever. We then brought on Catwho soon after and she has since brought a horde of folks from XI.

Edited, Jan 8th 2015 2:37pm by Valkayree