I understand your frustration but I don't think this will change.
It is my understanding that character copy/shard transfer can only happen between the shards that have the same version. Right now, you won't be able to transfer to test. Because the test server is one release in front of the production shards.
The good news is that once you transfer to the test shard your character will stay over there for a very long time. In addition to that, devs usually make an announcement when deleting the tests shard. So you can create your character there again.
I don't think this is going to change anytime soon. Allowing transfers between shards with different versions of the game would be really hard. To support this they would need to create a matrix of migration from different versions to different versions. This sounds like a lot of hassle to support something that will only be used once or twice.
I think uo-cah guys will put the necessary information to their shard in a day or two.
This is just my $0.02. We don't know anything about how things happen in the backend.
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The good news is that once you transfer to the test shard your character will stay over there for a very long time. In addition to that, devs usually make an announcement when deleting the tests shard. So you can create your character there again.
This is just my $0.02. We don't know anything about how things happen in the backend.
Ahhh my bad. I saw your post yesterday. I misunderstood the topic.