will they update the congested servers in 6.3?

have a friend that want to decorate my house, but dont have character in my server world. and can't create char neither because it's still congested.

Probably not considering that Dynamis is a ghost town as it is and needs players.

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Originally Posted by Oizen

Probably not considering that Dynamis is a ghost town as it is and needs players.

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well they can just update other DC first

Usually you need to have them wait till after server prime time before they can create a new character anyway.

Congested servers are locked. They usually update the list of what is and is not congested with patch. I would expect some news on Tuesday.

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Originally Posted by LaylaTsarra

Congested servers are locked. They usually update the list of what is and is not congested with patch. I would expect some news on Tuesday.

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Are you sure? I clearly remember wanting to create an alt on a congested server and had to wait late at night to be able to make it.

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Originally Posted by Atelier-Bagur

Are you sure? I clearly remember wanting to create an alt on a congested server and had to wait late at night to be able to make it.

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Congested server is locked to any new users. Balmung for example. They normally update the list periodically. You can make new characters on Standard , New and Preferred.

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/worldstatus/

I would expect more and more servers to go congested the closer we get to xpac encouraging new users to make them on the new data centers.

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Originally Posted by Atelier-Bagur

Are you sure? I clearly remember wanting to create an alt on a congested server and had to wait late at night to be able to make it.

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Then your memory is wrong.
If a server is Congested you can't create any characters on it, nor transfer any characters to it. No exceptions.
Character creation can be temporarily disabled on non-Congested servers too, and then it often works to wait until late at night or otherwise slow periods.

The status of servers (New, Preferred, Standard, Congested) is reviewed on a regular basis, and changed when the population has changed enough to warrant a change in status.
Changes in server status always happen in conjunction with a maintenance (but not all maintenances result in a change) and are accompanied by a note in the launcher and on Lodestone that they have changed.

To answer the OP - it is likely that server statuses will change when 6.3 is released, but there is no guarantee it will.

FC mate made an alt after a certain time. Maybe that's a little different.

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Originally Posted by kevin_satron

have a friend that want to decorate my house, but dont have character in my server world. and can't create char neither because it's still congested.

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They'll do updates to world status with the patch but whether your world will be changed from Congested to Standard can't be predicted. That will depend on changes to world population distribution for your data center/region.

For those getting confused by the conversation in the rest of the thread, there are worlds that are on the Congested status. There is no character creation allowed at all on these worlds, nor can you transfer a character to them.

Then there are Standard/Preferred worlds experiencing high player traffic that are temporarily locked to new character creation/transfers. The locks are usually removed during off peak hours then enabled again during peak hours.

In the OP's case, the world is on the Congested status and not just temporarily locked to character creation. Unless SE changes the world's status back to Standard, the OP's friend will be unable to create a character on that world.