New Shadow DC in the EU.

https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...36c73ad1bad7ba

Coming on Tuesday May 7th the DC will be added but not accessible. Should be interesting to see how this fills when they actually open it. Only 3 new worlds doesn't sound like it's going to reach a critical mass quick as a functioning DC.

I'm going to take this as confirmation that duty queues will become region-wide with the launch of Dawntrail. Otherwise, a datacenter with only 3 worlds will have issues queueing for 24 and 8-man content just as Dynamis has (despite it's worlds being well populated).

Unless this comes with a regional party finder, I doubt a lot of people will join there, stay there and play all the things there. From what I hear it's not as bad as in NA but just like everyone is DC travelling to Aether in NA, plenty of Chaos players seem to DC travel to Light nowadays. (I am playing on Light, so I have no first hand experience of things getting worse ofc.) Maybe opening it when or shortly before Dawntrail drops might give it a bit of a head start, who knows, but it will have a tough time developing a good stable player base over there.

It's main uses will be to dump congestion during content launches, to offer people a way to do extra hunt trains and S rank spawns and to be a new source of medium and large houses (if they even open the wards on these servers).

The biggest problem regards of servers is the login servercluster because there is only one login servercluster each DC. And if those servers get full then you get those long login queues. Adding a new DC will increase the login servercluster count from 2 to 3.

But i doubt, that 3 servers are healthy for a DC. But maybe they found a way to decouple the content queues from DCs.


Cheers

I don't really get it, if the reason is to ease congestion then what was the purpose of letting us DC travel to OCE, I don't think I need to tell you about how dead Chaos is already.
I'm just really confused about the purpose.

When you are on the edgy "Shadow" dc...but your server is called cute "Pixie".... hm

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Originally Posted by LillyWandsworth

I don't really get it, if the reason is to ease congestion then what was the purpose of letting us DC travel to OCE, I don't think I need to tell you about how dead Chaos is already.
I'm just really confused about the purpose.

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Its about easing inevitable super high expansion release congestion a lot more then it is about current over

As long as DC travel exists they will all be DOA.

Although it would be hilarious if the Innocence server became the new Balmung Quicksands.

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Originally Posted by CidHeiral

As long as DC travel exists they will all be DOA.

Although it would be hilarious if the Innocence server became the new Balmung Quicksands.

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Likely the Opposite.
Everyone knows, and they'd rather be "Sinners" rather than Enlightened like the character.
(Aka, probably just end up taking it too serious. Let alone be a RP server)

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As for my take on the whole thing, eh.

Seems like with how small it is, and how cramped EU looks at from a distance across the pond. It will probably fill nicely enough to have some Community, and likely in a healthier state than us here in NA. [Or the OCE who we pray for their relief]