It should be really easy to guest to another server, but extremely difficult to transfer. Guesting to the wrong server has no costs and, at worst, the problem resolves itself in 24 hours. Transferring accidentally costs at least 1,600 gems (800 for the incorrect move and another 800 to move back), takes at least a week to fix, and creates all sorts of headaches for support and the player.
This suggestion builds from other ideas I’ve seen here (including my own):
Require that a player type the name of the destination server before transferring. We do this for character deletion for the same reasons: to prevent accidents and ensure the player has triple-thought things through. The burden on players is low, since no one can transfer more than once per week.
Move the “guesting” and “transfer” buttons so that they aren’t right next to each other. Ideally, I’d prefer to see a “Guesting & Transferring” button that takes you to the guesting panel — if you want to transfer, you have to click an additional button to take you to a new panel.
Make the buttons look different from each other. If using the second panel suggestion above, the panels should also have different background colors or designs.
After choosing a guesting server (or two), add a new button that allows one-click guesting — as it stands now, you have to search for the previously selected server every time you change characters, even though you are limited to at most 2 possible servers at any given time.
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It’s the strange sort of wonky setup as the laurel and Zhaitaffy venders. You need a confirm to buy something with 5 Zhaitaffy but there is no NPC warning that you can’t use 2 of the same ascended trinkets, resulting in people losing out on a months worth of laurels.
They should take some time and overhaul some of these features that have been known problems for months.