Moving Character to another server

tuxon · May 2019

Hello everyone,
so my question is very simple. Does anyone ever contacted support with a request to move one of the characters to another server? And if someone did what was the response?
In my case I just want to move lvl 4 character to my main server, as I made it on NA but I play on EU, however, I really fall in love with the look of the character, I designed an outfit already but on NA I just don't have any of motifs. So all in all it's just simple lvl 4 character and the reason I want to move it is because it's nearly impossible to recreate appearance.
How it is likely for my case to actually succeed? Thanks

White wabbit · May 2019

Yes and was told that they wont do it as I would even pay to swap server

freespirit · May 2019

Afaik it is not something they will do,

Maybe take a picture of your character and have it infront of you whilst you try and recreate it.

That should enable you to make a very close, if not exact copy

kargen27 · May 2019

White wabbit wrote: »

Yes and was told that they wont do it as I would even pay to swap server

Not so much a won't probably as a can't. There would be naming conflicts along with a few other problems. Either way so far the answer has always been no.

Arunei · May 2019

@tuxon
Do you the PTS installed, or have the sufficient drive space to install it? If so, how long ago did you create your character? There's a chance that they may have been uploaded to the PTS during the last copy of live stuff, and if so, you can get Character Appearance Change tokens for 1 Crown there. Essentially, if you have the PTS or can install it, fire it up and see if that character is on your list. If so, buy one of the Appearance tokens, and then use that to access your character's sliders. That way you can copy or screenshot them and use them to rebuild your character over on EU.

If you don't have the ability to access the PTS, or if your character isn't there, then unfortunately if you wanted to access your character's sliders to remake them on EU, you'd need to actually buy an Appearance token from the Crown Store at the normal price. It sucks that they won't transfer characters, but it's probably because there'd be a coding nightmare trying to do so.

Goregrinder · May 2019

BEcause it's not a server transfer due to ZOS's Mega Server system....you're asking for a region transfer.

Mettaricana · May 2019

Haven't seen a transfer since the console launch

Donny_Vito · May 2019

This topic has been brought up a lot, but it's always the same: ZOS will not do it.

As one of the other posters mentioned, the names might be an issue. From a development and database structure mindset, there would be lots of primary and foreign key constraints that would throw errors if you tried to insert your characters data from one database server to another. It could be done, but the effort would not be worth the payoff. They also want you to buy the game again on another system as it's more revenue for them since you'll most likely have to re-purchase any crown store items you want again.

TheShadowScout · May 2019

As has been said, at this time this is not something ZOS has any intention of doing.

So, until and unless they change their mind on that...