Please Update Server Status - Way Too Many "Congested" NA Servers

The world classification exists as a tool to balance world populations. They want players to be creating new characters on worlds with lower populations and avoiding those worlds with high populations. As a world's population shifts to one or the other extreme, they'll change the classification.

Considering NA players tend to demand high population servers to play on, don't expect SE to add any more NA worlds unless all NA server populations are getting close to what the servers can handle. And expect the highest population worlds to remain marked as congested.

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Originally Posted by Derby_Crash

The servers probably wouldn't be so congested if Square actually got off their bums and bothered to deal with the amount of bots...

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Fun Fact - a bot operator can't create new characters on congested worlds any more than actual players can. If bots were the true cause of congestion, congested worlds would very quickly lose their congested status as the existing bots get banned (see the weekly notice).

This game is getting insanely popular. It might be time for new worlds.

it's not there yet.

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Originally Posted by Jojoya

Fun Fact - a bot operator can't create new characters on congested worlds any more than actual players can. If bots were the true cause of congestion, congested worlds would very quickly lose their congested status as the existing bots get banned (see the weekly notice).

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Balmung was completely bot-free for years because of this. No gil selling tells or shouts, no packs of teleporting black mages and/or archers, no DoL gathering from inside the terrain, etc. As soon as character creation was opened up after the big data centre reshuffling, the bots came flooding in. :(

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Originally Posted by Mhaeric

Balmung was completely bot-free for years because of this. No gil selling tells or shouts, no packs of teleporting black mages and/or archers, no DoL gathering from inside the terrain, etc. As soon as character creation was opened up after the big data centre reshuffling, the bots came flooding in. :(

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Luckily most of the bot on Balmung are gone. Sadly they just visit from another server.
I think all 3 Data Centre need more server.

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Originally Posted by Kewitt

Luckily most of the bot on Balmung are gone. Sadly they just visit from another server.
I think all 3 Data Centre need more server.

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SE very much prefers that players fill out the existing servers, so as long as there is even one under-populated server in a given Data Centre there won't be any new servers added to that Data Centre.