Returning player looking for direction

[BST]

I take back my post recommending Asura.

I do NOT recommend Asura, it almost made me want to Quit after Six months of being on that World.

Populations nice, but I tell you right now, the amount of Botting, Gil Buyers and Cheaters makes for a Horrible experience.

You can't do Salvage, you can't, its packed with Bots 24/7 with tons of them blocking entrance.
You can't do Dynamis, Botted 24/7. Zeni NM, Tokens, Assault, areas packed with Bots.
Bots botting crafting shield drops in all areas 24/7.

Give the other Worlds a try.

[Sirmarki]

I recommend Asura because we have a huge active population, never mind the /yell for Merc and trash-talking, disable it as mentioned above!

I don't think it is as huge as the "player" numbers in /sea all suggests.

It's good IF you find a good Linkshell that is on your level, and obviously active during your time zone.

Outside of that, it's a very lonely experience, especially for new players as the merc culture has pretty much destroyed the community aspect of the game.

[BST]

I don't think it is as huge as the "player" numbers in /sea all suggests.

It's good IF you find a good Linkshell that is on your level, and obviously active during your time zone.

Outside of that, it's a very lonely experience, especially for new players as the merc culture has pretty much destroyed the community aspect of the game.

As I found out, this is very True, the Mercenary culture has Destroyed the Asura community.

[Kalimairo]

I haven't played in a very long time and I was surprised to find that the admin staff was able to recover my account. I have a character on Lakshmi and I'm finding the zones I used to hang out in are now ghost towns. The auction house is almost empty and I'm worried that maybe this isn't a server I should be on if I want to do anything with other players.

Should I look at moving to a more populated server or in general are all the servers fairly empty these days? Are there any guilds on Lakshmi or any other server that play casually that would like to have a new player join?

Asura and bahamut are good servers for english speakers, Bahamut peaks 900-1750 Asura 2000-4000 i think

[NathanHedera]

Just returned from a very long time away. Used to play on ps2 but now i need to set up on a pc. Do I need to purchase the game all over. I logged in and reactivated my old account on square enix. Would be more than happy to change worlds and join up.

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[Dragoy]

Just returned from a very long time away. Used to play on ps2 but now i need to set up on a pc. Do I need to purchase the game all over. I logged in and reactivated my old account on square enix. Would be more than happy to change worlds and join up.

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Welcome back!

You can download the installation media from the official PlayOnline website, so no need to re-buy anything that you already have registered to your account.

EU: http://www.playonline.com/ff11eu/dow...stall_win.html
US: http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/dow...stall_win.html

[Alhanelem]

As noted earlier in the thread, I reccomend against changing servers, unless you have friends still playing who moved and you want to be with them. The game is perfectly fine and playable on any server and you'll be helping to make whatever server you're on a better place by being there.

[BST]

So I ended up having to Move off of Asura after Six Months, the fact EVERYTHING is extreme-level Botted makes it really, really difficult to enjoy playing there.

[Alhanelem]

So I ended up having to Move off of Asura after Six Months, the fact EVERYTHING is extreme-level Botted makes it really, really difficult to enjoy playing there.

My personal experience is that a greater porportion of the players on other servers are legit players and not RMT/other undesireables.

Of course, really SE should be doing more about these things, but it seems like they gotta get at least $12.95 out of every cheater before banning them or something because it seems like that's how long it takes.