Server merging

[Ravenmore]

There are probably thousands of legitimately created characters that aren't in use anymore but just happen to take up names that are currently used on other servers. It's not always intentional although some are. They blocked character creation for merging servers before they announced the merge last time, though.

Not really there was a day long window where you could still make a char on any server so some stealing still happened.

As for 6 man content the players got down and begged for 6 man groups and to do less with alliance content so SE gave the payers what they wanted.

Then we have VW, even with increased numbers filling a alliance for old and boring content will still be hard. With how much the items go for and still people don't want to really do it.

[Damane]

As a company selling subscriptions another merge would be a very bad idea, so don't expect it any time soon imo.

They will want to have as much capacity for "new/returning" players as possible. I understand to us this sounds silly
but lets say they merge..every server is 2-3k peek time aside from the obvious problems with events etc what will they do
with all the "new/returning" people they have to expect when the next expansion hits? a new server? no.

I think when they give up with the game we will see a merge, but I hope that's no time soon as it will
likely spell the end of updates or any chance of another exp pack.

Careful what you wish for.

there arent alot new/returning players only a few... and at this rate i doubt we see another expansion. Like seriously, the numbers of people playing the game has halfed since adoulin release. There isnt gonna be a sudden surge of 1000 people returning on each server all of the sudden.

[bungiefanNA]

I dont see, the best solution would be of them to assign 1-2 NA and EU player servers and let people move for free over there.


and playing during JP primetime is not the solution, especially when you work during that hour, imho the only solution i see is either a designated EU/NA server where people move to/are moved to, or try plaiyng the game until its not anymore possible with the remaining shell members and call it then quits.

That doesn't change the peak hours that people play, and would make servers completely dead outside of JP prime-time, while crowding the servers moreso. Flooding all the NA/EU players to one or two servers would give us the opposite problem, too many players to be able to enter events in a timely manner.

[Draylo]

Voidwatch was something that brought the server community together, despite how much people hated it. Now I never do anything with the server outside of my linkshell.

[Ravenmore]

Voidwatch was something that brought the server community together, despite how much people hated it. Now I never do anything with the server outside of my linkshell.

Not at all it was the first to have every shout asking for REM weapons for DDs since DDs are a dime a dozen.

[Afania]

People shouldn't be asking for this. What they should be asking is: Can we please form alliances with other players that have their trust NPCs active?

Now that is the real solution to low player populations across servers.

I hope they allow to max out with 5 NPCs instead of just 3. Filling out all the party slots would make life a lot easier.

OP's issue was "he can't find good player, /shouting isn't an option", having NPC in party/alliance does not solve the issue.

[Draylo]

Not at all it was the first to have every shout asking for REM weapons for DDs since DDs are a dime a dozen.

That's why you come as a proc job if your DD weren't up to par. You can practically do that naked, so I fail to see how it excluded anyone.

[Olor]

Not at all it was the first to have every shout asking for REM weapons for DDs since DDs are a dime a dozen.

But there were lots of spaces for players without REM weapons. I never had trouble doing events back in the voidwatch days. It was WAY less exclusive. Now it's 3+ song BRD, A/O PLD or go home.

[detlef]

If you had BLU leveled with the proper spells you would never be turned away. RNG, COR, WAR were all great too. Even 2 song BRDs were more than accepted. Yeah the DD spots generally filled up first, but you could get into almost any ally if you put a little work into your character.

[Olor]

If you had BLU leveled with the proper spells you would never be turned away. RNG, COR, WAR were all great too. Even 2 song BRDs were more than accepted. Yeah the DD spots generally filled up first, but you could get into almost any ally if you put a little work into your character.

Yep, also SMN - as long as you had summons you were welcome. Obviously not something you can spam up as quick as some things - but a lot of people who just loved the job and had their summons were able to participate.