Unfortunately, and i believe this is the case for many, some of the friends or clanmates are really stubborn - wanting to play on a certain server and a) either dont start at all and just quit or b) wait for aeons to play on named server while in either cases being extremely unhappy
ideally friendgroups would be flexible and just move over to a different server together, and i certainly would, but many arent willing to…
the easiest way should and could be to just allow a 1x time character transfer for up to 7 days after character creation - this would allow:
- persuade people to change server with one click and have split friend groups merge together
- to play with one or two friends on a random server and after some days to merge onto “the” server
- more happieness, less salt
ofc transfer from low to high should be very limited and the status quo should be from high to low
faction locks would be the only issue to adress that i dont have an inkling of an idea to balance with people being able to freely transfer
also i have no clue how taxing char transfer is, but on paper i think this idea would be very nice for the player base