Square, I beg you. I've lost a dozen friends signing up already. Please open Balmung.

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Originally Posted by Noshpan

A fair number of NA servers, not just all of the NA Legacy servers, are frequently closed. The Japanese world servers rarely have this problem (at least according to the list)..

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Certain JP servers are often closed to new characters (mine sometimes as well and it's supposedly low pop). Check mornings NA time (JP prime time) and you'll see. Remember too, there are actually more JP servers, so the population seems to be lower on each one.

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Originally Posted by Terrini

I Roleplay with a bunch of friends on Brynhildr and have been trying to promote roleplaying there more with mt Free Company. The sad thing is everyone who roleplays is told "Oh Balmung's the place to be for Roleplaying" and no one is willing to give other servers a shot... heck I love making characters and I'm thinking of expanding to another server for more RP but I'm scared of Balmung because we had a brief member of our group that had come from there and didn't like how oppressive the atmosphere was there and how much pressure there was to RP. I'm pretty casual, I like having fun but I need OOC time too.

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It's awesome that you are taking the initiative to start something on your server. :D Most people want to go to Balmung because they don't have to put forth any actual effort to make RP happen. It's already well established. :/ But oppressive? That I haven't noticed.

Considering that he founded the free company with me and then bailed and hopped to another server without telling anyone I am not so sure he is a reliable source, but he made it sound like everyone had to follow certain rules on the server and that you had to be able to mesh with anyone... Besides that though, I don't like the idea that I might not even be able to log in due to the server being bloated or the ridiculous economy ... Not sure if I want to deal with the hassle.

Welp.

I have been hitting refresh on the server list for over 2 hours this morning.

Every NA server opened up... Except for Balmung.

This is pretty tiresome.

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Originally Posted by Terrini

everyone had to follow certain rules on the server and that you had to be able to mesh with anyone...

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I've seen zero evidence of this. And the mb looks about like any other ex- NA legacy server's.

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Originally Posted by Santherelle

I have been hitting refresh on the server list for over 2 hours this morning.

Every NA server opened up... Except for Balmung.

This is pretty tiresome.

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It only has the chance to open at these set times:
3:00 a.m./ 7:00 a.m./ 0:00 p.m./ 5:00 p.m./ 10:00 p.m. (PST)
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...06d0909189e479

I'm aware it has a chance.

But when the chance is zero it is petty lame.


Kinda feels like I am fighting RNGesus to be able to play. lol

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Originally Posted by Santherelle

I'm aware it has a chance.

But when the chance is zero it is petty lame.


Kinda feels like I am fighting RNGesus to be able to play. lol

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Maybe they give you a set of atma if you make it in? ; ; (haha I wish >< ) Try again just after lunch time EST. I have my fingers crossed for you!

eta: It WOULD be nice if a mod could clarify what "closes" a server to character creation. Is it overall population? Number of active subscriptions? Number of people online at that time? And why does creation open only at these set times? Is it like traffic pacing?

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Originally Posted by Sadana

Maybe they give you a set of atma if you make it in? ; ; (haha I wish >< ) Try again just after lunch time EST. I have my fingers crossed for you!

eta: It WOULD be nice if a mod could clarify what "closes" a server to character creation. Is it overall population? Number of active subscriptions? Number of people online at that time? And why does creation open only at these set times? Is it like traffic pacing?

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A little weak level 1 Atma would be pretty funny to own.

And yeah knowing why the servers were closed would relieve a bit of stress and wonder.


And I really only posted in this thread to vent this morning. I remember the OP had difficulties and wanted to agree with the poor soul.

here's what we need, ok? hear me out.

recruitment tokens. Player x has friend y who wants to be with them on server.

player x can give friend y a recruitment token, and this will allow friend y to bypass the server restriction, reserving him/her a slot for a character.

can simply restrict it so that one person can only use this feature maybe once a month. if you have a bunch of friends, daisy chain it. friend x gets in friend y who gets friend alpha who gets friend omega.

If you want to make a character on Balmung, Excalibur, or any of these other hard-to-join servers, pay attention to when the maintenances are. Know when the maintenances are scheduled to end and be ready. I got onto Balmung easily by waiting until the most recent maintenance had ended and then using saved character data to quickly finish the creation process.

That is a very good suggestion.

I will try that the next time I want to make a character. Unfortunately I didn't plan on that when I wanted to make the new one.

I might have to wait for it though the way it is going.

Either move to a server that isn't overpopulated or have your friends try at less busy times. You have the power to fix this, but the devs don't. The servers only hold so many people.

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Originally Posted by Vorpal_Spork

Either move to a server that isn't overpopulated or have your friends try at less busy times. You have the power to fix this, but the devs don't. The servers only hold so many people.

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Actually, the developers could have a hand in fixing this, in more than one way. Like the poster below stated:

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Originally Posted by Tiggy

Maybe if we'd start kicking all these AFKers it be easier to make characters since the lockout is a function of congestion and traffic tot he server.

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I'm not sure how it is on other servers, but there are a ridiculous number of long-term AFK characters on Balmung. I don't think I'd be that far off if I suggested nearly 25% of the characters currently logged into Balmung have been AFK for longer than an hour. If players were automatically logged off after 15 minutes of inactivity I suspect the number of characters logged into Balmung at any given moment would be significantly lower.

The other thing that really should be happening is that character creation restrictions shouldn't apply to players who already have a character on Balmung. If I switch from my main character to an alternate character, I'm not increasing the number of characters logged into the game - it remains exactly the same. As I'm not adding to the number of characters currently logged in, I shouldn't be prevented from creating new characters when the population is too high. After all, I can't play more than one character on the same account at once.. thus I can't contribute any more to the population problems than I already have. My impact is exactly the same whether I have just one character on Balmung or eight.

Well said Gyson.

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Originally Posted by Gyson

I'm not increasing the number of characters logged into the game - it remains exactly the same. As I'm not adding to the number of characters currently logged in, I shouldn't be prevented from creating new characters when the population is too high.

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That's the thing though... we don't know if this is the reason Balmung or any server is closed. :/ It could be overall population, not how many are active at that time. SE may want people to spread out more and not leave some servers deserted.

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Originally Posted by Sadana

That's the thing though... we don't know if this is the reason Balmung or any server is closed. :/ It could be overall population, not how many are active at that time. SE may want people to spread out more and not leave some servers deserted.

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I suspect if it were overall population (rather than the current number of characters online) then Balmung wouldn't be open to new characters in the wee hours of the morning, or just following a maintenance / server-crash. But that's often precisely when new characters can be created on Balmung, so it seems likely it's more about the number of characters currently logged in at any given moment.

Having said that, I find that new character creation on Balmung is not usually possible on the weekends or during holidays, when more people have time to play (and for longer). I would be surprised, for example, to see Balmung open for character creation anytime over this next week - although people do travel over the holidays, so who knows.

There are other servers, just go to another server. Why bother getting Balmung? What's so special about it? I mean, you can do whatever you want so why stress over one server? I just don't understand... Help me understand. *confused*

Because friends want to play together. If they can't play together then they eventually don't play. Also, if you've spent a lot of time on a character that happens to be on an often closed server you don't really want to start a new character and do everything all over again. And some people just don't want to transfer to a different world server, either because they don't want to pay the fee or they've also got established friends on the server that they are on (and trying to get new friends on).

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Originally Posted by finalthief

There are other servers, just go to another server. Why bother getting Balmung? What's so special about it? I mean, you can do whatever you want so why stress over one server? I just don't understand... Help me understand. *confused*

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Balmung is the unofficial RP server and is very active at all times. There isn't another server quite like it, in my experience. ^^

eta: Oh... you're ON Balmung. I'm guessing you don't RP and have never tried a different server?

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Originally Posted by Sadana

Balmung is the unofficial RP server and is very active at all times. There isn't another server quite like it, in my experience. ^^

eta: Oh... you're ON Balmung. I'm guessing you don't RP and have never tried a different server?

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Yes, I am on Balmung which is why I don't see why it's such a big deal for people to jump on but I do see Noshpan point. I have failed to see that point myself, I apologize. FYI, I didn't choose Balmung because it was an RP server but because it was one of the few Legacy servers that was available on launch coming from v1.0. I apologize again.

Balmung was where I was shuffled from 1.0 along with all of my friends once characters were actually put on to servers after beta. A majority of us were put there, so that's where we stayed. Balmung has ALWAYS been congested; a friend who started playing had to transfer her character in since when they called SE they said Balmung was going to pretty much be on lockdown for a long while with very few attempts to be able to create a character there. Server transfer may be the only way at this point, beyond waiting for maintenance to conclude.

That was kinda what I was thinking was going to be my end result rainchan.

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Originally Posted by AvalonBright

Just, please, Square. I'm begging you here, stop leaving Balmung under permanent lockdown, it's ridiculous. ESPECIALLY when you aren't even decent enough to tie the server limits to accounts instead of characters. God forbid any of them ever want to make an alt in the future...

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Balmung feels like the Berlin Wall, actually.

Why don't you move to a less populated server?

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Originally Posted by Vondoomervil

Why don't you move to a less populated server?

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So a person has 1 friend who wants to join and it makes more sense for that person to spend money for a server swap and any other friends that want to keep playing together must also spent money for a server swap? That's very wasteful. This is a poor response to this persons concerns.

I was able to make a character the other day just before maintenance began, so I would suggest trying right before or right after maintenance right now.

Creating a char on balmung is ez, just keep watching the lock window through the day.

Ragnarok is facing the same situation, you only have a small windows for create a character on it, meaning any friend that decide to join can't.... why this? because the server can't support more player...

ps: they really need to do something about the trouble of server.... the capacity must be enhanced and not wait to be reach the maximum capacity simply for save money...

If you look at xivsoul.com Balmung doesn't even have that large of a population. It's around 80k and midling compared to other servers. Where my server Brynhildr is over 100k and has no issues with having new characters be made. So it must be how many people are logged in...

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Originally Posted by Terrini

If you look at xivsoul.com Balmung doesn't even have that large of a population. It's around 80k and midling compared to other servers. Where my server Brynhildr is over 100k and has no issues with having new characters be made. So it must be how many people are logged in...

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This is my guess as well. Too bad we don't have the numbers for active subscriptions available. I'm curious about how the servers rate with that set of numbers rather than just how many characters were made on each server.

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Originally Posted by silentwindfr

ps: they really need to do something about the trouble of server.... the capacity must be enhanced and not wait to be reach the maximum capacity simply for save money...

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I would figure they want people to spread out more over the servers available rather than all try to pile into a few. :/ The formerly-known-as-ps4-servers are pretty empty for example.

Does anyone know if the character creation restrictions are looking at the number of accounts on the server, or at the number of characters? I know a lot of people on Balmung who have several alts, either for roleplaying or just for fun. If SE is looking at the number of characters on the server rather than the number of accounts, Balmung probably looks very, very full when the world itself doesn't feel overcrowded at all.

I'll also never understand why it prevents people from making a new alt on the server when they already have a character there, since you can only log on as one character at a time.

you can't make an alt on a server close at the creation of character (that dumb). maybe they want people to spread, but if you look at it, a few server are in this situation for over 1 years it's way too long for decide to increase the capacity of the server....
i have too a friend that will soon join the game, he will need to wake up early and create him character in the small windows where ragnarok allows to create a character, and all of this for join us. worst, i did recruit him, he did enter the code from me... do you think it will have make easier for him to join me? nope.

they are always talking about how they want to make the game easy for new player, but if this new player want to join another player on the wrong server it's another story!

A few days after the start of this thread, I created a character on Balmung.

He's level 25 now.

(Try logging on and creating a character early in the AM)