Omen queues

[Alhanelem]

While there are perhaps too many servers, it won't solve the problem if people continue to pack and test its limits.

I'm not bitter specifically about people being on Asura (there's a JP-dominated server that's just as big and one or two others that are close), I admit, it's a bit frustrating and I'm still very curious who it was that had enough influence to decree that Asura was the server everyone should move to. But even if it was Shiva that was the one people piled on, I'd still not be happy because I'd still be dealing with problems, just of a different nature.

It would be better for everyone if the server populations were more balanced. No giant servers nor tiny servers, just roughly equal ones. Then everyone will be satisfied with their ability to find people to play with, and people won't have to deal with queues and SE won't need to engineer special solutions specifically because of overcrowded servers that other servers don't need. While you've seen me try to dissuade people from going to Asura, I don't specifically want them to come to Shiva (though they can if the want), I just want to see them on any server that isn't the biggest ones.

In short, I'm not salty about specific servers, i'm salty about the imbalance in populations in general. You have two kinds of servers both with unique sets of problems, and your choice is which set of problems bothers you the least.

[Zehira]

While there are perhaps too many servers, it won't solve the problem if people continue to pack and test its limits.

I'm not bitter specifically about people being on Asura (there's a JP-dominated server that's just as big and one or two others that are close), I admit, it's a bit frustrating and I'm still very curious who it was that had enough influence to decree that Asura was the server everyone should move to. But even if it was Shiva that was the one people piled on, I'd still not be happy because I'd still be dealing with problems, just of a different nature.

It would be better for everyone if the server populations were more balanced. No giant servers nor tiny servers, just roughly equal ones. Then everyone will be satisfied with their ability to find people to play with, and people won't have to deal with queues and SE won't need to engineer special solutions specifically because of overcrowded servers that other servers don't need. While you've seen me try to dissuade people from going to Asura, I don't specifically want them to come to Shiva (though they can if the want), I just want to see them on any server that isn't the biggest ones.

In short, I'm not salty about specific servers, i'm salty about the imbalance in populations in general. You have two kinds of servers both with unique sets of problems, and your choice is which set of problems bothers you the least.

Asura has always been that popular for a decade even before my server, Pandemonium, merged into.

Asura, Odin, Bahamut, and soon Fenrir are the only servers that seem to be more balanced. Queues are absolutely necessary for a large server.

[Alhanelem]

Asura has always been that popular for a decade even before my server, Pandemonium, merged into.

Asura, Odin, Bahamut, and soon Fenrir are the only servers that seem to be more balanced. Queues are absolutely necessary for a large server.

"A couple servers are balanced"
No, those servers are too large. If they wer ebalanced, all servers would be in that list of tours. Balanced means ALL the same, not "a couple the same and the others different."
If the full population of the game were more evenly distributed, things like the duplicated instance areas for Ambu and other such measures that were added to mitigate crowding would not have been necessary.
And further, Asura, which has by far the worst botting/RMT problem, would not be standing out in this area. You could split Asura in two and still have totally playable server populations (still larger than most others).

Ask yourself: Is "more people" really worth longer wait times, and some content being entirely locked out by bots at times (COUGH SALVAGE COUGH), more lag in more places, among other issues caused by overcrowding? Regardless of whether or not Asura was "always popular," the point remains: Asura needed special measures to increase its capacity after it became full, something that has never happened before in FFXI's history? The fact that it reached capacity by definition makes it overcrowded.

As with most things in life, things are better somewhere in the middle than at one or the other of two extremes.