PLEASE ADD A WORLD VISIT WARNING MESSAGE

Just as the title requests!

In these heavy times of congestions, its hard to discern when the influx of people will hit or not. and On a heavy congested server such as mine (Balmung, and no i will not be transferring off as some here may no doubly suggest), We can world visit others just fine, but then IMMEDIATELY find ourselves stuck, for hours on end even. Usually around the heavy hours. Please add a message warning that pops up before we transfer, notifying us that the server que is congested before we visit another place, and lose our precious spot on our home server. IT'S A PAIN, to be stuck with out use of our retainer for hours, we cant even leave the map we're in if we're in que waiting to go back...

TLDR: Please add a warning message prior to world visiting informing us of congestion and heavy ques.
It can read something like "Warning! Due to heavy congestion at these hours, you may find heavy traffic upon returning. Do you still wish to world visit?"

Any other ideas are welcome, but currently I'm stuck outside my home world and thought this might be a good idea to implement.

Personally, I think the queues, errors, several status updates on the launcher, and constantly-exploding forums were warning enough for me...

...But more quality-of-life is never a bad thing.

Kinda seems like you already know this is an issue and you shouldn't do it, since you don't want to transfer to a more accessible server. But you do you.

Might as well add it though for the people who don't.

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Originally Posted by MaiSuu

Just as the title requests!

In these heavy times of congestions, its hard to discern when the influx of people will hit or not. and On a heavy congested server such as mine (Balmung, and no i will not be transferring off as some here may no doubly suggest), We can world visit others just fine, but then IMMEDIATELY find ourselves stuck, for hours on end even. Usually around the heavy hours. Please add a message warning that pops up before we transfer, notifying us that the server que is congested before we visit another place, and lose our precious spot on our home server. IT'S A PAIN, to be stuck with out use of our retainer for hours, we cant even leave the map we're in if we're in que waiting to go back...

TLDR: Please add a warning message prior to world visiting informing us of congestion and heavy ques.
It can read something like "Warning! Due to heavy congestion at these hours, you may find heavy traffic upon returning. Do you still wish to world visit?"

Any other ideas are welcome, but currently I'm stuck outside my home world and thought this might be a good idea to implement.

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It's all very well to complain.

But if you do a little research, inter-server travel works in much the same way as connecting to this server.

So, if you think a bit before clicking, you'll soon realise that it's a bad idea, especially when you've had to wait 2000 queue to connect.

It's also not possible to create a character when there's a queue.

Do you see the link or not?

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Originally Posted by Naoki34

It's all very well to complain.

But if you do a little research, inter-server travel works in much the same way as connecting to this server.

So, if you think a bit before clicking, you'll soon realise that it's a bad idea, especially when you've had to wait 2000 queue to connect.

It's also not possible to create a character when there's a queue.

Do you see the link or not?

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I get on during the non peak hours, and mostly operate during all those hours in game, but there was a 30 min window in which it flooded with people, so while you guys ARE CORRECT in stating the obvious, implementing a warning system, for those who just may not be aware of the hours because they've been in game ALREADY, is a good idea. I don't think it would bring any harm by having it.

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Originally Posted by MaiSuu

I get on during the non peak hours, and mostly operate during all those hours in game, but there was a 30 min window in which it flooded with people, so while you guys ARE CORRECT in stating the obvious, implementing a warning system, for those who just may not be aware of the hours because they've been in game ALREADY, is a good idea. I don't think it would bring any harm by having it.

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Mmm, yes. Maybe it could show the current queue depth on the page where you pick the server.

However, it's likely to be a short term problem, it's clear less and less people are playing each day, and the time of day where there are long queues is getting shorter. As valid and nice as the QOL idea is, other things could be cleaned up by SE's developers too.

You can withdraw from a world visit so it's not a problem trying a server. I was doing that yesterday in an attempt to look at crafted accessory prices. Interesting to see that servers like Cactaur and Gilga are always congested at night. Others can be too but not all.

The problem arises when the world visit is instant in one direction, but takes hours in the other. Which happens if you visit a low pop world.

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Originally Posted by MaiSuu

I get on during the non peak hours, and mostly operate during all those hours in game, but there was a 30 min window in which it flooded with people, so while you guys ARE CORRECT in stating the obvious, implementing a warning system, for those who just may not be aware of the hours because they've been in game ALREADY, is a good idea. I don't think it would bring any harm by having it.

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Why do you need a warning? You can jump off Balmung from around 11PM->11AM Eastern no problems. After 2 or 3PM the queue starts to climb. Most people play from 3PM->10PM.

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Originally Posted by MaiSuu

PLEASE ADD A WORLD VISIT WARNING MESSAGE

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The message has to be in all caps, though.