Server merges

[Runespider]

The amount of topics complaining about the merge after the update is going to be immense, the server merge for me was the most horrible thing I've experienced with this game and was one of the biggest things that made many people I knew to quit.

Being unable to do content is going to be the biggest negatives but also losing the familarity will be another, so many people changed name on my server when it went through the merge that it seemed like I simply changed server completely.

I feel sorry for you guys about to experience this.

I know they offset the players they will lose over the merge by the money they save on having less servers but I still hope this is the last for a long time.

[svengalis]

I am dreading this. When I look online now I see over 2k people online with 1200 of them being level 90. The NMs on our server are overcamped as is and we haven't even been hit with the merger yet. This is the wrong time to be merging IMO. They should have waited until they introduced new content so people won't all be after the same things.

[Anewie]

support /

wow im agreeing with you all alot today.
Just came from brareus (/wave leon) so many groups after brareuos.

[Neika]

My boyfriend and I have been doing so much Abyssea stuff this week to try to get alot of the stuff we want done before the merge. We are both not looking forward to it. We enjoy being on a server that at most has 1.5k people on it, and even now there are some NM's that are nearly impossible to get because of all the people camping them. I can just imagine what it's going to be like after the merge...

[Airget]

Name wise it shouldn't be as bad hopefully since they did do their best to swiftly close access to character creation to the destination worlds. Overall though it will be curious to see how things play out with this. They are attempting to divert the population increase with the changes being made to abyssea though odds are there may be more changes to be made later on. Perhaps "Enhanced Playability" refers to balancing the way content is atm. One ne main issue that will probably surface is the increased difficulty in obtaining Empyreans in the merged worlds, while they have added more +1 +2 areas they haven't really made any mention of the items needed for Empyrean.

One simple idea is if they continue with their "Battlefield status" that they are introducing with dynamis and Voidwalker,

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/237-dev1000-Dynamis-Reborn!

"Battling boss NMs:

* Battles will be conducted in Confrontation format, with a maximum of 18 players able to participate.
*Confrontation: A unique battle format in which the combatants are isolated from all non-alliance players and monsters for the duration of the battle."

If congestion with Abyssean mobs did become a problem I would imagine they could implement a system like this into the NMs that drop loot needed to upgrade the Empyrean weapons. While you may wonder why not just add more ??? to spawn more then one at a time, an imbalance issue that could come from that would be a group hoarding all the ??? and then brewing the 3 NMs at once or something like that lol.

If Confrontation works in the manner it sounds like it would work, it could become a viable way to create duplicates of the same NM so when it comes to bigger pop ??? it helps to lower the amount of time one will need to wait to fight the pop NM they desire.

[Nidhogg]

I honestly can't see why they just don't reduce the spawn time on pop NMs to 1 minute, same time as the ??? in all the zones, cause that all the NM really is, its not like there is some magical brokeness if the repop time is that short.

[Rie]

I honestly can't see why they just don't reduce the spawn time on pop NMs to 1 minute, same time as the ??? in all the zones, cause that all the NM really is, its not like there is some magical brokeness if the repop time is that short.

Repop time of 1 minute won't help if it's a gimp DNC soloing it for 30mins.

[Siviard]

Being merged into Fenrir server....../shudder

Oh, and lolFeiwong (if he's still on that server under the name Riousan)

[Anathiel]

which server's are being merged? ^ awesome sig btw

[Fearforever]

Being merged into Fenrir server....../shudder

Oh, and lolFeiwong (if he's still on that server under the name Riousan)

Whats wrong with us on Fenrir? lol

[slakyak]

Being merged into Fenrir server....../shudder

Don't be scared... We'll look after you lol.

I guess the merge will suck at first for endgame players (i.e. most players) but SE obviously recognise the issues around overcrowding from the mentions of 'congestion' in Port Jeuno (my peecee sounds like it's going to take off whenever I zone in there!!).... It just might take them ages to actually do something that helps reduce it.

[Pikel]

Ya I remember the days of playing on a dead server it was awesome to be able to get most of what I wanted to do finished with little to no competition. It sucks having everyone camping everything all the time now I feel for the servers merging. Just remember to stock up on items that sell better on your destination server to lighten the blow of getting screwed. lol

[Mirage]

Well, adding another Horst in port jeuno would at least spread people out a bit. Adding one or two of them in Lower Jeuno would help too. While you can't idle in Lower and hear the shouts from Port, you can still go use the teleporters in Lower Jeuno whenever you know you're not looking for shouts. It would be a helpful option for those who get big slowdowns in Port Jeuno at least.

[Zumi]

This should be fun. I actually looking forward to seeing some new people around, Phoenix got kind of boring with only 1000 or so people on at a time.

[Siviard]

Whats wrong with us on Fenrir? lol

It's just the fact that Fenrir has Feiwong on it. I'm sure there are plenty of good people there, but personally I was hoping I would NEVER be on the same server as lolFeiwong since I've read all the stories about him being a monumental douchenozzle.

[Juilan]

I'm going with Diabolos... I'm not looking forward to more people on Siren, we seem more like a back water server slow on the revolutionary techniques, maybe shells will have to increase to accommodate extra people on the server luckily, I didn't have to drop my stacked inbox

[Sama]

I don't understand the whole meaning of merges...

All I can think of SE doing that is to save some money??? Well if that's the case, ok, linkshell got kicked into other server may simply break-up, players who fail to camp/complete within much larger population server will got bored and upset, and therefore leads to ID cancellation, that's not saving money.

I do not see the advantage of this...

[Rocman]

I am in Odin. Odin is already over populated, this is really going to make Jueno lag even worse, NM's camps horrible.. The only good thing i can see coming out of this is maybe my low level items might sell now!!! Lol i doubt it though.

[svengalis]

This should be fun. I actually looking forward to seeing some new people around, Phoenix got kind of boring with only 1000 or so people on at a time.

Maybe if you are not doing Empyrean trials... Briareus was camped really bad last night.

[Jalonis]

This should be fun. I actually looking forward to seeing some new people around, Phoenix got kind of boring with only 1000 or so people on at a time.

Wait what, Titan was averaging 1800 at peak, 900+ at low pop times. And you guys get to keep your server name? What gives?

[Korpg]

It's just the fact that Fenrir has Feiwong on it. I'm sure there are plenty of good people there, but personally I was hoping I would NEVER be on the same server as lolFeiwong since I've read all the stories about him being a monumental douchenozzle.

Didn't Feiwong die?

Something about a suicide or something like that? I remember reading something about it from Wyred, Feiwong's stalker.

[Zyeriis]

Wait what, Titan was averaging 1800 at peak, 900+ at low pop times. And you guys get to keep your server name? What gives?

Phoenix breaks 2k+ still, we do have more people, 1.1k is the lowest I see on a daily basis (also Phoenix > Titan!)

[Jalonis]

Phoenix breaks 2k+ still, we do have more people, 1.1k is the lowest I see on a daily basis (also Phoenix > Titan!)

Titans were greater even than the Gods. Your silly immortal bird has nothing on us.

[Zyeriis]

Titans were greater even than the Gods. Your silly immortal bird has nothing on us.

I wonder who lost that war :P and became slaves/imprisoned in Tartarus. Wasn't us, the immortal birds of fire, that's for sure. >:D

[Jalonis]

I wonder who lost that war :P and became slaves/imprisoned in Tartarus. Wasn't us, the immortal birds of fire, that's for sure. >:D

Shut up and roast yourself for me. Mmm.. Fried Phoenix.

[Zyeriis]

Shut up and roast yourself for me. Mmm.. Fried Phoenix.

You got some on your loincloth, and it's starting to catch on fire. Eh...you're on your own on that one.

[DoomLord]

Phoenix and Titan will merge and be come the Titan of all Phoenix's bring the world of FFXI to an all new hight

[Thizzerio]

I honestly can't see why they just don't reduce the spawn time on pop NMs to 1 minute, same time as the ??? in all the zones, cause that all the NM really is, its not like there is some magical brokeness if the repop time is that short.

did a paladin invinc to flail nighogg in your sig? looks like it lol..

[Tsukino_Kaji]

I see that Diabolos crashed yesterday before the update. lol