Celtic Heroes

I believe people call it xfer because it is universally recognized and understood as transfer yet is 4 letters shorter. In average, it takes approximately 4 extra seconds to type those extra numbers. Depending on how many transfers or 'xfers' a person does in a day, this could lead to substantial time savings over a long period of time. Assuming someone needs two transfers or 'xfers' every day, and they have been playing for a years time, this would save them 2920 seconds a year or 48.66 repeating minutes per year. In this 48+ minutes one could use this time farming. Assuming someone makes about 30K an hour farming, this equates to 24.3K approximately. Therefore one can assume typing transfer instead of xfer is indirectly costing that player 24.3K Gold per year.

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Oh Guffy.... <3

I am such a math phobe. I luvs u geeky numbery types

Agrd, y ppl do that????

mke no cents?!?!?!?

Ppl shud L2P & b fstr

Thx 4 tlking!

Agrd, y ppl do that????

mke no cents?!?!?!?

Ppl shud L2P & b fstr

Thx 4 tlking!

Classic

Cant you just type transfer? Xfer just sounds stupid IMO

hello,

People say xfer for the same reason as you typying IMO in this post. Its shorter and easier to use.

Sincerely,

Lady Rosethorn of Rhiannon
Guardian to Rapture Eve

I was curious about where the X came from in transfer-.-

Commonly, 'x' is used to refer to 'cross' because of its shape of two lines crossing. You can often see this on street signs, where space is limited, so one might say something like 'deer x-ing,' meaning 'deer crossing.' In many cases, 'cross-' and 'trans-' are interchangeable, at least semantically. For example, a transatlantic flight is one that crosses the Atlantic, and something that is transdermal crosses through the skin. The "trans-" in transmit and transfer is completely analogous to "transatlantic". In this case the X is in regards to crossing a "mit" or a "fer"-Mit is from the Latin, mittere, to send, and -fer is from the Latin to bear, or carry. While the word has broader usage, compared to "send", transmit often means to send across something or over a specific medium, and transfer can be literally to carry across from one to another. Therefore Xfer is like saying cross carry, which is kind of what is happening, carrying items from one account to another.

Agrd, y ppl do that????

mke no cents?!?!?!?

Ppl shud L2P & b fstr

Thx 4 tlking!

I peed my pants laughing so hard