All of Aether closed down

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Originally Posted by Conando

That’s kind of sad considering NA clear rates are so low.

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Is clear rates over the total population? If so, it just means NA has the largest non-raiding population as well.

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Originally Posted by Hitoshura

Login queue funneling? Yes. Absolute lockout of character creation? No, that only serves to create frustration for new players trying to play with their friends, and their friends who want to play with them. Does it really send a good message to new players to essentially punish them for not starting the game sooner?

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It sends the message that SE for the moment feels there is enough people on said server. The current lock is temporary until things settle down which they will.

So I have been playing on Adamantoise for a long time. My husband and I just got SHB, and I was excited to make a Viera dancer. But I can’t! And I can’t make one on a different world either, since you have to have a level 70 character in order to unlock the quest. This is extremely frustrating.

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Originally Posted by Akinnae

So I have been playing on Adamantoise for a long time. My husband and I just got SHB, and I was excited to make a Viera dancer. But I can’t! And I can’t make one on a different world either, since you have to have a level 70 character in order to unlock the quest. This is extremely frustrating.

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If you were making a new one you would have had to level something else to 60 first anyways... unlocks are per-character, not server. If you really want to make a new one, the buff from making a character on one of the preferred realms can get you to 60 in a few days. Aside from that, Fantasia is cheap.

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Originally Posted by Akinnae

So I have been playing on Adamantoise for a long time. My husband and I just got SHB, and I was excited to make a Viera dancer. But I can’t! And I can’t make one on a different world either, since you have to have a level 70 character in order to unlock the quest. This is extremely frustrating.

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Making a new character you would be locked out of dancer until you leveled that character. Unlocks are per character not per server.

Yes this is very true. I didn’t even think about it that way. (Pardon the tired mom brain. Have a new baby at home.) But still, no Viera for me. My husband suggested a race change, but my Mi’qote has been my main character from the beginning. Sighhhhhh.
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As for being "roughly 10% less," if true, I'm not sure how that works out as Crystal has 3 preferred worlds, and all other worlds are standard aside from Balmung. Does Balmung really have that many active players? Either that, or there is actually not that big of a difference between congested and preferred populations, and Aether just so happens to have crossed the line for all of its worlds. So if a few people would move out of each Aether world, they could all be standard.

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Its a little of both.

Balmung - 12.6k

Cactuar - 12k
Greg - 13k

Levi - 12.4k

Are our biggest servers.

Sarg, Behemoth, Excalibur ~10k

Then we get to

Mateus (Standard) - 9.7k

Which has a higher active pop than every other congested server.



For comparison sake:

JP servers are considered congested at just over 6400 active as of the same time. (There are no standard servers above that number).

There are 6 EU servers over 10k population (Roughly half of those servers are above Mateus in population, and are standard, and half are 7100-9600 and preferred).




Note: since then, every listed server is up roughly 3200-3500 active players as per ffxiv census (though we wont have an accurate comparison until we get luckybancho's compiled stats for the first notable shadowbringers achievement, as its still tracking 4.1 as active).

Surprising nobody, the SIGNIFICANT difference in server numbers correspond with a SIGNIFICANT difference in what is considered too populated, and there is no correlation across regions with total or active population and congestion status (All but 1 JP server would be preferred and every EU and NA server would be congested if the distribution of congested/standard/preferred followed the distribution of population).

I guess that means they take into account the availability of servers. The more servers, the fewer number it takes to be labeled congested.

*Wanders right into Shadowbringers through the Crystal datacenter line*

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Originally Posted by Akinnae

Yes this is very true. I didn’t even think about it that way. (Pardon the tired mom brain. Have a new baby at home.) But still, no Viera for me. My husband suggested a race change, but my Mi’qote has been my main character from the beginning. Sighhhhhh.
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I was browsing and saw this. Wait a second, you have a new baby at home and you ACTUALLY think you will have ANY time to play the new expansion and level up a Viera?

Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha! Oh you silly Millennials and your strange optimism at still wanting to have a life after children. You will learn honey, you will learn. And if it's NOT your first, you guys must have a system or something.

I'm sorry Dear, as someone with children, couldn't resist. ;p

Congrats on your child and I hope you DO find SOME time to play, because after non stop demands of your bundle of joy, you will NEED it! ;-)

Welp, Aether has opened up! As I figured, the servers weren't anywhere near as congested as everyone was trying to make them out to be. Glad that I can finally play this online game with my friend!

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Originally Posted by JumaroKezark

...A whole data center being closed down sounds like a very bad idea, I'm sure he is not the only one who has people to play with, and he can't even play "half-off" by going to another server, he would have to go to a different data center entirely and give up on basically everything about playing together...

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It was a momentary peak in peak hours of the peak day of the week. In this very moment I write, 6 of 8 worlds in your Datacenter are open to create characters. Overreacting a bit?

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Originally Posted by LalaRu

It was a momentary peak in peak hours of the peak day of the week. In this very moment I write, 6 of 8 worlds in your Datacenter are open to create characters. Overreacting a bit?

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That is only the case as of this morning. Since the end of June, all servers on Aether were manually locked and no characters could be created on them whatsoever. Not an overreaction in the slightest.

My belief is that crystal was the lowest population and SE wanted new players to go there first. So, they locked down the other DC since they kept the higher populated servers there minus Balmung.

Now that people are back to working and not taking time off and most have started to complete the MSQ, they are undoing the manual status. As I thought, my server really wasn't congested because I only ever saw a queue of about 120ish at about 7pm CDT.

How come they don't offer free transfers off of Aether if it is this congested?

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Originally Posted by IzzyData

How come they don't offer free transfers off of Aether if it is this congested?

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Actually, when I was logging in all last week, I kept getting a notice for free transfer off my server. Now that the status has changed, I no longer get that.

All of aether is up right now. :)

Well, except gilgamesh and cactuar.

Leaving the data center open, creating a bad time for the people who were already there, is an even worse idea. There are free transfers with extra perks being offered to get people off of Aether at the moment. You could always look into one of those.

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Originally Posted by Nixxe

Leaving the data center open, creating a bad time for the people who were already there, is an even worse idea. There are free transfers with extra perks being offered to get people off of Aether at the moment. You could always look into one of those.

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I tried just last week and it would let me transfer a character off of Aether. I'll try again later today.

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Originally Posted by Nixxe

Leaving the data center open, creating a bad time for the people who were already there, is an even worse idea. There are free transfers with extra perks being offered to get people off of Aether at the moment. You could always look into one of those.

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Welp, Aether is open now, so thankfully people can actually create characters on it. I don't think anyone will be getting free transfers at the moment, because it's only for Congested -> New or Congested -> Preferred.

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Originally Posted by IzzyData

I tried just last week and it would let me transfer a character off of Aether. I'll try again later today.

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While you can transfer your character from an Aether server to another server that is not Congested, it will no longer be free, since both your Current Server needs to be Congested and your Target Server needs to be New or Preferred, and there are currently no servers that are New or Preferred in NA.

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Originally Posted by Hitoshura

While you can transfer your character from an Aether server to another server that is not Congested, it will no longer be free, since both your Current Server needs to be Congested and your Target Server needs to be New or Preferred, and there are currently no servers that are New or Preferred in NA.

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That is unfortunate. They aren't going to convince me to to transfer if it still costs money. If they are looking to decongest servers it needs to be free in order to have enough incentive.

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Originally Posted by IzzyData

That is unfortunate. They aren't going to convince me to to transfer if it still costs money. If they are looking to decongest servers it needs to be free in order to have enough incentive.

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They're not trying to convince you to transfer unless it's to a new world or from a congested world to a preferred world. Otherwise, you can stay where you are or pay money to transfer. They just won't let other people join you if your world is congested.

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Originally Posted by linay

They're not trying to convince you to transfer unless it's to a new world or from a congested world to a preferred world. Otherwise, you can stay where you are or pay money to transfer. They just won't let other people join you if your world is congested.

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Very well then. I would have expected them to prefer a more even spread, but perhaps they don't mind the imbalance.

Well Aether's more open, but now all but two servers on Primal are congested.

Inconveniently right on the day my friend's friend who'd been planning to join us on our server was finally able to get the game working after some download issues. Guess we're uh... gonna be world visiting them for now?

Yay.

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Originally Posted by Avidria

Well Aether's more open, but now all but two servers on Primal are congested.

Inconveniently right on the day my friend's friend who'd been planning to join us on our server was finally able to get the game working after some download issues. Guess we're uh... gonna be world visiting them for now?

Yay.

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They can transfer later when the worlds are not congested or create an alt if they don't want to pay the transfer fee. World visit is good in the sense you can still visit people on the same data centre though you miss out on being in the same FC primarily.