/claims and Vaniki

Random question due to the apparently (and shocking) limited interest in Vaniki.

Is there any chance of getting a character transferred off vaniki to a live server or a different tlp (aradune, mischief/thornblade) if the population of vaniki goes ghost town in the first 6 months? Or atleast a get a reimbursement of any claimed bags or other once per account items? Wouldn't be fair to loose out on cash bought items taking a risk/having faith on dbg's new server if it falls through. I'm not talking "im bored and want my stuff back for next year", but "there's 20 ppl here, this isn't working. Dead server is legit dead"

Just curious

I doubt they will preannounce that, but I have heard in the past of people getting their bags moved to a different server when they transferred around. Around the Aradune / Rizlona time I think it was. That being said, even their worst performing server TLP since the invention of AOC (Miragul) wasn't 20 people dead, they had a guild clearing content all the way to live. Every server since Phinny that has made it to live has made it with at least 1 raiding guild still active. My point is, even if Vaniki isn't the most populated server ever I'll be surprised if in 6 months its down to 20 ppl.

I'd say a server with one guild is dead

Wow Oaken, thanks for the greatly thought out and helpful post, glad you had anything to contribute mate.

Best of luck to you in your quest to convince a for-profit company that they should introduce policies that ensure they don't make a profit!

If that's your expectation of the server, don't roll on it. And if you do roll on it, don't claim any premium bags. And if you do claim bags, the risk taken is entirely on you.

Historically, they have not announced server transfer options until at least a year past launch. Because of the special-rules nature of Vaniki, I would be very surprised if there was ever any transfer off option other than to a live server. But that's just an educated guess on my part. Don't get your hopes up for an official answer soon.

it's also a bit ridiculous, IMHO, to project that level of doom and gloom before the server has even launched. We know there will be more group activity and less standard raid activity overall than on a standard rules TLP. Everything here is experimental. You can expect that some things will work well, others will not, and there will be some dev tuning over the course of the first few level bumps. A lot of tweaks are available to prevent the server from any sort of collapse.

Nope.

My advice? don't claim anything that's a 1 shot use on a server you don't plan to stay on for good. Which means my /claim window is full of 1 use items as I keep bouncing around, only the 999 ones ever get used (and thus, when I choose to buy or not an expansion; its based on the claims being 999. Any 1 use claims are just ignored.)

To directly answer your question, anything you claimed should follow you when its merged into a live server eventually That is likely the best you will get.