Character Transfer Bug : SWG Premium Discussions

I recently did a character transfer and happened to stumble across an interesting bug.

I did a transfer with items to another galaxy. I had full inventory plus and full backpack before I did the transfer. My inventory had about 30, +35 power bits and a few other things that were important to me. When I did the transfer it put the new toon on the galaxy I wanted to transfer to but the original toon stayed in the galaxy I was trying to tranfer from.

I checked my email and it said it was an unknown error. So I tried again. Same thing happened. Here is the good part though. I kept doing it and everytime I did it, the new toon that was created in the new galaxy had about 10 of the power bits and all of my credits in the inventory. So what I did was drop off the power bits at the house I already had in that galaxy and transfered the credits to the toon I had there.

I did this about 5 times and then decided to figure out why this was happening. So I got rid of a few things in my invetory and backpack so I wasn't completely full and then the transfer went through. So to me it seems that if you make sure you have a full inventory and backpack it may cause an error with transfering. Not sure if it could be reproduced but It sure did work out nice for me.

(oh, and I only got charged for the one that successfully transfered.)

So let me get this straight. Each time you tried and got an error, it still created a new toon on the new galaxy? How were you able to access the new toon?

rugburn wrote:So let me get this straight. Each time you tried and got an error, it still created a new toon on the new galaxy? How were you able to access the new toon?

Yup, each time it created a new toon. Accessing the new toon was just like accessing any other toon. Just log in. Like I said it had all the credits from the original toon and about 10 of my 35 bits.

Hmm if we knew exactly how this works. It could be a credit dupe and item dupe

Are you able to keep all the toons created on the new server?

Could it possible the name you were transfering with was already taken on the new server?

rugburn wrote:Are you able to keep all the toons created on the new server?

Could it possible the name you were transfering with was already taken on the new server?

Yes I was able to keep the toons on the new server but once I transfered the credits and dropped off the items I deleted them and did it all over again.

I don't really think it was a name issue because everytime i went through the transfer process I had to choose a new name and it accepted it. The only thing I can think of would be a completely full Inventory and backpack.

I may try this again in a few weeks to see if I can reproduce it.

Did you have -'s In your name? They usualy dont allow that in transfers. Which also causes the character respec device exploit to happen.

Hmm would like to see a confirmation on how you got the transfer to fail. Dont wanna waste 60 bucks :p