Add Apex monsters to the Manaclipper

[Sfchakan]

The goal is balanced populations, such that they don't heavily prefer one population over another.

Doesn't work when every Johnny Rando asks Reddit and the community "what biggest server?"

We can largely thank r/ffxi on Reddit for building the cesspool that is Asura today... but that's another story!

[Catmato]

We can largely thank r/ffxi on Reddit for building the cesspool that is Asura today... but that's another story!

These very forums are largely responsible for that as well. With posts like this urging people to come to Asura.

[Pixela]

You need to keep in mind that some people really want to see lots of people around, which is the role Asura fills.

Some have this mindset that if they forced people to move off asura nothing would happen except balancing, no these people would start quitting.

I've played a few mmorpgs over the years and every time the developers start trying to fix overcongestion issues it leads to "the game is dead", "I barely see anyone while i'm in some random out of the way zone!"

This is why games try to funnel players into the same city zones or have less reason to go anywhere else. XIV tries to do this a lot for instance.

[Alhanelem]

You need to keep in mind that some people really want to see lots of people around, which is the role Asura fills.

It's not a simple matter of some people like being in a crowd. There's a general assumption that higher population is better, and that's simply not the case. Beyond a certain point, problems start to appear or get worse, and Asura is past that point.

People also falsely assume that they won't be able to get anything done on a lower pop server which simply isn't true either. 90% of everything can be done with Trust, and most players are ready and able to collaborate on the remaining 10%. In some cases it takes a little more planning but there's nothing you can do on Asura that you can't do on any other server.