Questions about moving to Ship2

[Ryo_Hayasa]

Good afternoon,
So i dusted off my PSOW account after who knows how many years to ask some questions about switching ships in PSO2.
I've been sorta been off and on playing PSO2, i think i've figured it now that i just don't enjoy the game because english patching doesn't help me when it comes to the community. I'm currently on Ship 9 (when i first began playing way back during it's beta launch i picked an arbitrary ship. i regret it now)
I hear from reddit and here that the Official/unofficial/*Shhhh don't tell anyone we're here* English speaking ship is Ship 2 block 20(22?)

I'm willing to pay money to change over ships but before i do so i wanna know what i'm getting into.

Is the english speaking community on ship 2 large? Will i find myself unable to join block 20(22...? actually yeah serious which is it now?) because it's full?
I read a post here recently that the prices for changing ships is going to raise from 350AC to 700AC (per character)

Is the economy.... reasonable? Because the english patch for the game only does so much; when i returned to PSO2 early this month i looked up all the promotions and events that i missed. I saw SO much awesome cross promotion events and items that were released as i believe AC scratch prizes. I looked up those items in the shops..... Their prices are 9-11 Million. It reminds me of PSU.
Is the economy on Ship 2 any better?

If i do switch and just sorta hang out on the english block, should i still use caution and not "speak" in the lobby? Any word on Sega catching on and tosses that big ol' IP ban like last year?

Thanks guys, and excuse my giant wall of text.

[Anduril]

B20 is a ghost town. The new social block on Ship02 is B01 (never really fills up), with some spillage into B10 for people who run SH EQs, and there is no stigma against speaking English in the those lobbies. The English community is a few hundred strong from what I can tell, but a good portion of it is scattered throughout other blocks running missions. As for the economy, it is also pretty bad depending on the item, like some LAs being 20mil+. And yes, they are raising the cost back up to 700AC.

[Petunia]

Ship 2 is FULL of English speakers. Of course there's more Japanese players than Western still, but it's not like you'll go that long without seeing another Western player.
Like, a minute.

[TehCubey]

9-11m meseta for accessories/lobby actions/hairstyles is not unusual. These things disappear when used so they get only more rare and thus more expensive as time goes on after their scratch ends. Outfits tend to be cheaper because they're resellable.

It's not as much money as you'd expect, with weekly XQ/taco you can easily make ~3m per character and that's not counting dailies and other sources of income.

Talking in lobby is considered rude, in English or not. Some people do it anyway.

Ships 4 and 10 also have English speaking playerbases, not as large as ship 2 but that has its advantages too.

[starwind75043]

For English players if i am not mistaken is sh2 then sh4 by size.

b1 is the new English player gathering block on 2. Its really not much a secret that non JP players play this game.

Teams are not hard to find. Just depends on what your looking. just use the Visaphone or just ask.

Economy for cosmetic stuff is not cheap on 2 So may want to see if you can buy a cheap cosmetic item on 9 that is worth a lot of money on 2 to cash in.

if your over 70 your going spend most of your times in block 25 and up.

Just dont be a dick and you will be fine. Many people on sh2 speak English on any block. You could technical be banned for being a non jp player but i think most jp players (and sega) Its not that big a deal.

[Hysteria1987]

I think a lot of people on this game try to be a lot more 'careful' than they have to be in regards to talking or being plain non-Japanese. From my experience, like starwind said, don't be a dick and you'll be fine.

I thought Ship 10 was the second biggest English community- I don't really know much about Ship 4.

As noted, B20 was the English block, but there was a particular kind of English player that gave that place a bad reputation, and drove everyone else away. Nowadays it's pretty empty, even in EQ time it's skipped over. Many have come to unofficially call it Chernobyl

B1 is where the surviving B20ers went- it is the unofficial 'social' block but it's a pretty heavily stigmatised place both by the English and the Japanese players. The players who hang out in there are typically stereotyped as everything bad about the community- overly concerned about dressups, poorly equipped, not playing the game too well, argumentative, overly silly and full of uguu~ anime nonsense. I'm not trying to cast judgement here, that's just how they're seen- that's a bit of a political discussion I won't get into any further now. All I'll say is that it can be said that a bit of a stigma on the English community as a whole comes from here.

That said, where you choose to go and what you choose to do is entirely up to you and what you want to get out of the game- you've got the options There are English players all over the place, and some real good talent and real good personalities too. You can find them basically wherever you look on Ship 2.

[KLMS1]

TL;DR version - B-001 is Cancer Town, population Too Many. Every time I spawn there at login the inanity of the chat spam makes a few more of my brain cells commit sudoku.

Stay away from there and you'll be fine. (Unless you're into that kinda thing...)

[ArcaneTechs]

TL;DR version - B-001 is Cancer Town, population Too Many. Every time I spawn there at login the inanity of the chat spam makes a few more of my brain cells commit sudoku.

Stay away from there and you'll be fine. (Unless you're into that kinda thing...)

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[Konquer]

accessories expensive? dont tell me that until you've played SEA kek. they're x10 at least

[AmanoMai]

Every time I spawn there at login the inanity of the chat spam makes a few more of my brain cells commit sudoku.