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[OmnysValefor]

People bandwagoning to Asura rather than trying to put any effort into forming parties only makes the situation worse.

Yeah underpopulation sucks but overcrowding does too. At times, getting into Ambuscade can take a few minutes on my server with <300 people.

I say what I've said before: If SE just won't do merges, they should do a free server transfer campaign. They should take some of the burden of the skewed population distribution. I don't want to go anywhere leaving all of my friends behind, but it's annoying to look at shouts on FFXIAH and see, I'm not kidding, shouts from as much as two days ago.

[Rooj]

People bandwagoning to Asura rather than trying to put any effort into forming parties only makes the situation worse.

Yeah underpopulation sucks but overcrowding does too. At times, getting into Ambuscade can take a few minutes on my server with <300 people.

I say what I've said before: If SE just won't do merges, they should do a free server transfer campaign. They should take some of the burden of the skewed population distribution. I don't want to go anywhere leaving all of my friends behind, but it's annoying to look at shouts on FFXIAH and see, I'm not kidding, shouts from as much as two days ago.

When people do try to start parties, no one joins them for 2 reasons: 1, there is no one to join, or 2, the few people that ARE on the server are in a linkshell that plays with the same people everyday. <--- These are the people that don't understand why merges are necessary, because they've been playing the game this whole time and already have a list of players to do things with. It's not the same for new and returning players. Usually the only way to get into a setting like that is to already be friends with someone in the LS. The days of posting recruitment posts and shouts are sadly long gone, so linkshells on small servers typically don't acquire new recruits because they don't need to. They're in their own little world, they won't even play the game if they have to play with "pugs." It's silly.

I like pugging, I like meeting people, it's how I got into my current linkshell and how I've met most of the good friends I've already made in my brief time on Asura.

And seriously, let's not act like "overcrowding" has been a thing in FFXI since 10 years ago... The few minutes wait to get into Ambuscade to EASILY get these AMAZING BIS items from joke content absolutely does not count.

[OmnysValefor]

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And seriously, let's not act like "overcrowding" has been a thing in FFXI since 10 years ago... The few minutes wait to get into Ambuscade to EASILY get these AMAZING BIS items from joke content absolutely does not count.

There's a sort-of company line about Asura that everyone claims, but a few people break from the pack on it.

I haven't personally been to Asura so I won't disagree with most of you say except this.

Considering that I have had to wait at Ambuscade, Tenzen, Salvage and a few other places here and there over the months I've come back, I'm gonna say that Asura has to see this more frequently.

During double exp campaign, good luck getting the one good crab camp unless you muscle the current occupants out. During Gain-EXP, good luck getting dragons or sometimes bugards/efts unless you're willing to "steal" other people's packs. It's okay though, they're more than willing to steal yours. I dislike muscling people out of anywhere.

Even my preferred gates-camp for Gain-EXP occasionally sees some competition (unrelated: I always offer to team up, most people don't want to)

All of this is on a server that never sees >350 during the NA day, I'm gonna go ahead and say that Asura has to be much worse.

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In many ways, Remora is a time-capsule of the old game. Remora died the month before Aby arrived, with the new level 76-99 content. Remora is forever level 75, forever old era FFXI. It was a wonderful world, a truly incredible place.

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Wonderfully said Stompa.

[Rooj]

During Gain-EXP, good luck getting dragons or sometimes bugards/efts

I'm always surprised by the lack of people at those camps during Gain-EXP, I mean I totally wasn't even going there at first because I just ASSUMED it was going to be chaos.. But then a friend wanted me to go with him once (in my mind I was thinking it was going to be an annoying and discouraging waste of time, but I went anyway), and now I've been going ever since. Maybe everyone else is being smart and farming Warders during Gain-EXP or something, lol.

Maybe I should become a streamer, IDK.