How do you feel about your Server?

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Originally Posted by Kazrah

Omega: Horrible, horrible idea.

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Could you elaborate on this please? As Omega resident, I'm genuinely curious!

Started on Famfrit, switched to Siren to join a personal friend in the FC that he's with. I've since started my own little quiet FC. Siren wasn't too bad, though it's definitely quiet due to patch lull. I like it because the content I usually go for, I can easily find in the PF. Sadly, I don't see many Siren raiders - a huge chunk of them seem to just hang out in Limsa and go AFK. Though I will say, I miss the excitement when the hunting linkshell I'm in, the largest on our server, engaged in a war over practically every hunt after Stormblood's release with a large FC.

It was interesting - the hunters vs that FC to see who could could claim whatever S/A rank was discovered before the other party found out.

I'm on Diabolos and there is an abundance of dank Mean Girls level drama among most of the long-time players I know. Especially with high-end crafting and people who like to hang out in a set public place with their friends.

I'm pretty numb to it at this point and just focus on what I feel like doing.

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Originally Posted by Joryan

Could you elaborate on this please? As Omega resident, I'm genuinely curious!

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I cant judge the general atmosphere of the omega server as a whole. But I heard that a christmas event held there had to be cancelled early due to drama and misbehaviour. The same event held on the moogle server was a smashing success. With over 350 million gil worth of gifts being distributed among players attending. And even cash shop items, without a single incident.

Knowing this, I feel alot better about the general atmosphere on the moogle server. If a toxic atmosphere is the price you have to pay for having a high endgame clear rate on your server, ill take a casual server any day.

I've been on Leviathan (Primal data center)since the ARR beta. I love it. We have a big server population and some very nice people. I've made a lot of friends here and don't have nearly the problems with pugs that most on the forums seem to have. Wouldn't change servers for anything.

Used to be on Ultros, lagged a fair bit, and met a lot of salty peeps in the high end HW duties. Moved to Tonberry and lag was much improved as was community. Took break and decided to make new character. Tonberry was locked, so went to Gungnir which I love.

Omega is a very bad place.

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Originally Posted by Saiah

I cant judge the general atmosphere of the omega server as a whole. But I heard that a christmas event held there had to be cancelled early due to drama and misbehaviour. The same event held on the moogle server was a smashing success. With over 350 million gil worth of gifts being distributed among players attending. And even cash shop items, without a single incident.

Knowing this, I feel alot better about the general atmosphere on the moogle server. If a toxic atmosphere is the price you have to pay for having a high endgame clear rate on your server, ill take a casual server any day.

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Originally Posted by Yorha

Omega is a very bad place.

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Originally Posted by Raido-

All the toxic people I have met in DF have come from Omega.

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I know nothing about the Omega Christmas event so I cannot comment on that.

I came to Omega from Phoenix, and haven't really experienced any increased toxicity level on the server. There are bad apples, sure, but I believe these can be found everywhere; on the contrary, I think Omega's Novice Network and novice/veteran cooperation is really good (if you blacklist that single person who uses the NN as SJW twitter).

Maybe the issues are related to specific place (Limsa general chat?) or time (late EU night?) or FC/linkshell? Again, I don't want to attack your opinion, but it would be nice if it would go into more depth than "Omega is bad."

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Originally Posted by Joryan

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To be fair, the thread simply asks how you feel about your server. They don't particularly care for Omega - but they don't have to state why. Don't let their opinion of the server upset you. If you like it, that's fantastic. But they don't seem to care for it and they don't have to explain to you why. Opinions are just that.

As for Midgardsormr, it's decent enough. People wait for hunt pulls, you see the same people day in and day out for years at a time so it has a friendly, neighborhood vibe to it. A little quiet, needs more active linkshells. That aren't related to hunts. I see a few people trying to bring RP to the server so that's nice.

My server is full of weirdos and annoying toxic people. Those elitist types who put so much value on their performance in a video game because their real life is so unfulfilling.

Then there's also the normal people who just want to play, and those who want to be helpful.

Gilgamesh is neither good nor bad, and like any other place in life you just have to choose well in who you socialise with.

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Originally Posted by Joryan

Again, I don't want to attack your opinion, but it would be nice if it would go into more depth than "Omega is bad."

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That's the thing: we don't have to because it's that bad. I had to take a break from the game because of all the unreasonable elitists and grade-A drama queens I kept running into over the course of the month that I was actively playing on that server. The only place I had seen it worse was Balmung, and at least they had the excuse of population proportion.

That being said though, sometimes you wind up in a group being an exception to the rule. That was my case with Faerie, and I'd wager it's your case with Omega as well. It could also be that enough of the toxic players have left to the point where Omega wound up on the preferred server list, but the darker memories and stories will always stick to that server's reputation.

From what people tell me there's a lot of high school drama on Phoenix but I'm antisocial so nothing ever happens to me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Thank you all for the responses :)

Goblin's nice. Great company in our Novice Network, not a lot of spam, the few FC's I've dropped out of or lost interest with were full of legitimately good people.

Marlboro 4 life yo! Pretty decent population... plenty of hunters, players on almost every map, drama is kept mostly private, and on occasion you can even find open housing...

I quite love Mateus, full of friendly people. Only gripe is those two people that together bought up an entire ward and apparently that's just fine and dandy to them

I used to be on Zalera.I transfered to Faerie because it was empty as hell.I am trying to find a server that is not over or underpopulated but just right.Faerie is still emptyish.

Odin is a nice server. The hunting culture is good and people in the cities seem civil and friendly. Our Novice Network is helpful and doesn't have any notorious trolls in it. I'm not aware of any drama, but I assume that has to do with who you associate with more than what server you pick. A funny thing I've seen on Odin is people's habit to quietly form mount lines in random places. Maybe it happens on other servers too, I dunno. :D

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Originally Posted by Ameela

From what people tell me there's a lot of high school drama on Phoenix but I'm antisocial so nothing ever happens to me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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What high school drama? I would know if there is one.

I love it. Great people.

When they see my client is English, they'll try to speak in English which is pretty funny. As one of them puts it... "PPAP English onry"

Good range of player types too: casual, midcore, hardcore, raiders, PvPers, hunters, roleplayers, cosplayers, the list goes on.

The market is buyer friendly.

Big free companies hold their own seasonal events where non-FC members are invited.

Glad I picked this server since 2.0 launch.

Faerie is more active on peak times at night, but mostly is friendly people and LGBT+ community strong. I used to be in Sargatanas years ago, but dislike it.

Zalera's been good, even though there's been growing pains on my end as well as the server's (speaking as a Balmung refugee), namely with the hunt scene and how the two servers handle them fairly differently (but effectively, in both cases). Those growing pains mostly ironed out after 2-3 weeks into SB. I've been able to make piles more gil here than on Balmung, so the market here is a seller's haven, save for the knuckleheads that undercut by massive margins...but that's another thread subject that's happened for years (both here and in other games). I'm seeing a fairly decent amount of sprouts around when out in the zones looking for hunts. Despite being a recommended server, I do believe all houses have been bought up at this point, although that may be moot come 4.2...wishful thinking, of course. There's a bit of people all along the casual-hardcore spectrum, but since raiding can be done cross server, that's not quite as big a factor as it used to be.

When it comes to bratty players, I would personally rather deal with RPers having drama over pretend time than "competitive players" feverishly parsing and screaming at one another to "git gud". The amount of snowflakes on Balmung is the most annoying factor in my opinion but it's very easy to avoid these people by simply not interacting with them in their little realm where they are the supreme princess/prince. During content lulls you can always grab a snack and stand around the Quicksand, you'll find entertainment at all hours.

I like Shiva. :)

I started my adventure back in 2015 on Odin, but moved to Shiva 2016 with my old FC, not because I disliked it but...oh well...i didn't want to leave my FC at that time I guess.
Looking back on it now, it was the best desicion I could have made back then. Not so much becaus of my FC, since I seperated from them some time after the transfer. But because I met my ingame husband there who I still hold veeery dear to this day <3

About the amount of drama on Shiva, I guess there is some drama on every server. There are always ppl standing around and chatting in Limsa who all know each other and I heard of some drama in those cliques from different sources. But if you aren't part of this specific group, I guess it's a pretty chill server. Many Germans there too, which doesn't bother me, since I'm German myself. :)

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Originally Posted by KaivaC

Started on Famfrit, switched to Siren to join a personal friend in the FC that he's with. I've since started my own little quiet FC. Siren wasn't too bad, though it's definitely quiet due to patch lull. I like it because the content I usually go for, I can easily find in the PF. Sadly, I don't see many Siren raiders - a huge chunk of them seem to just hang out in Limsa and go AFK. Though I will say, I miss the excitement when the hunting linkshell I'm in, the largest on our server, engaged in a war over practically every hunt after Stormblood's release with a large FC.

It was interesting - the hunters vs that FC to see who could could claim whatever S/A rank was discovered before the other party found out.

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You know, it's funny you say that about Siren because I am originally from Coeurl and I came to Siren to raid with a different character. I started hanging out on Siren since 2015 and from that point on, my alt then became my main.

What people say about Coeurl is true, which is partially why I left. Coeurl is in many ways a small town. Or at least it was small when I was last there. I heard a lot of Greg and Balmung expats moved in lately but I haven't stuck around much to notice. Most people are super friendly and very sociable! But Coeurl just did not have many people that I could reliably ask to join in on the raiding shenanigans. It's really a who you know kind of server, and most of who you know thinks that crafting is a good time.

When I established myself on Siren, I met all sorts of people that loved to do endgame content. I got to experience a lot of extreme primals for the first time and then dove right into the savage game shortly after. Thanks to Siren, I've completed all of coil, Alexander, and Omega 1-4 savage. I've mostly hung out with my own circles that I've networked with before cross server was a thing. It definitely made it a lot easier back then to identify who did what, and then once you got to know the party leader, you met all these others that also love to farm that kind of content.

In a way, I like to think Siren is a lot like Coeurl. They are both smaller, social servers and most people are friendly. But I think the difference on Siren is that there is a very clear divide in player type, and based on who you hang out with, you may venture more in the farm group or the casual/hunt/shenanigans group. There is no shortage of endgamers on Siren; a lot of us are just taking a break until the patch in Jan. I wanted to experience a little bit of the casual side too, so that is why I joined a casualish FC that mostly is just fun and chatty for a change of pace. Kinda reminds me of home. :)

(Haha, I also totally know what FC you're talking about with the terrible rep. People like to antagonize them, but for realsies, not all of them are jerks. The hunt wars on this server are so stupid it's hilarious.)

Nice smaller server with nice people.

I don't see a lot of mention of Brynhildr on here. My experience so far has been pretty pleasant. I can safely say by the way that Val Hallen (our resident 80s Glam Rock inspired Miqo'te) is pretty much a mascot at Limsa Lominsa, he is always dancing there for GODs know how long lol.

As for the Lalafell Civil War, I didn't see any of that going on.

The game feels rather empty... :(

Cerberus is nice - lively, normal MB prices, the content do-ers present. I switched to this server at the beginning of 3.0 from NA server I forgot the name of, since I live in EU and started on NA cuz of a friend from US.

Plus I met some amazing peeps on Cerb ^^

Gilgamesh is alright. I know some good people and I know some obnoxious douchebags. The marketboards are...kind of all over the place. Lots of people with lots of retainers means prices are a bit low, both for weal and for woe. The fact that it was raiding heavy until cross server raids means there are more of "those" types floating around, but if you stay out of Rhalgr's Reach unnecessarily you should be fine. Maybe Limsa lower decks too at certain times. Its still not all that bad though. I don't figure there's much benefit in going somewhere else, it's likely similar, and I've already got a house I busted arse to buy and furnish. That said, in the same vein, unless you have friends here already, there's probably no point in specifically coming to Gilgamesh either.