EU Current Highest Population server?

[Xoriam]

I'm thinking about transfering to a EU server since the plans for moving EU database.

Which server has the highest population atm?

[RufusShinra78]

personally i would not switch if i were you. You will find that the EU servers have massive language barriers. take into consideration that the player base is all mix and doesn't stick to one language. I myself came from Eu Ragnarok and i would recommend that server to you if you are serious, but prepare yourself for the language barrier.


I believe Eu RAGNAROK to be thee best server for an EU player Btw

Pro's
:Active PF for end-game
:high player base


Con's
:No events
:Many different language (Many players wont talk in party chat because they don't understand you)
:French people (I'm not kidding here, prepare yourself for them)

I played on Ragnarok for about a 10 months and i play quite a bit. btw, It's also the official EU server.

[Hyunckel]

Either Ragnarok (Legacy server) or Odin. I don't think there is any time of the day that you can create new characters on Ragnarok. For Odin, you need to wait till late night early morning before being able to (at least during week end). Moogle is the 3rd one to 'open up' new character creation, usually a lol bit before Odin does so.

If you go by XIVSoul website, not sure if it has been updated (the front page says it has, not sure if the data itself has) but if you go by who got the Magitek Mount (since everyone gets it automatically after cleaning the main quest) or looking at the Company Chocobo:

http://xivsoul.com/world/Ragnarok/mounts 28,536 Chocobo / 15,936 Magitek
http://xivsoul.com/world/Odin/mounts 31,798 Chocobo / 14,014 Magitek
http://xivsoul.com/world/Moogle/mounts 27,406 Chocobo / 13,377 (<- So L33T)
http://xivsoul.com/world/Phoenix/mounts 30,916 Chocobo / 11,869
http://xivsoul.com/world/Cerberus/mounts 27,945 Chocobo / 11,867
http://xivsoul.com/world/Lich/mounts 22,313 Chocobo / 7,454
http://xivsoul.com/world/Zodiark/mounts 3,353 Chocobo / 1,140

World wide it's 1,181,656 Company Chocobo & 605,323 Magitek Armor Mounts. (<- Makes me question wether the site is actualized at all and/or what's the current state of population? Rising?)

By the way, "EU" Servers are located in the same location as NA DataCenters... In Canada, so expect 70-150 ms latency. But most people here play on EU timezone though

About that so-called language barrier, at least half people I run into speak English. Well, those that do speak. That's only 30% of the playerbase at most.

[Jacost]

According to this, that would be Phoenix, which is also the most populated server period.

[RufusShinra78]

XiV soul is highly inaccurate and should not be used. And op knows that the server are in canada for now, but he is switching because EU are getting servers in EU for 3.0. He is switching to EU for the same reason i switched off of EU.

Hope i could have been help. Good luck with your choice!

[Xoriam]

Thanks for the responses.

Is there a general knowledge of which server might have the largest EN speaking Community?
(obviously don't mind if there are people who can not, but if there is one known to have more ENG speaking players that would be better.)

Can't tell from the forum sections since 90% of the threads are in english.

[DonnieD]

Shiva and Odin are very big ones, but the german comunity is strong there .

[Jacost]

Certainly not Moogle; it somehow became the unofficial French server. It's still about half English, but all the FC adverts are in French (and rarely something else).

[Nuinn]

I'm in EU but I'm staying on my lovely multicultural Excalibur, as I only keep hearing horror stories about EU servers from people who flee from there >.>;;;

[ghgh4545]

For most ENG , go odin (i've been on all but shiva, but i hear shiva is the unofficial german server).
For best pugs, go moogle (as others said in this thread, its much french, so very french)
The other servers are a little quiet, but phoenix and cerberus are ok for english speakers.