Data Center Travel

I'm not sure this is the correct place to post but I couldn't find anywhere else. Is it going to be permeant that we will be unable to travel freely to other servers? My data center is Dynamis, even though it's new and SE wants people to play on their servers that doesn't happen on Dynamis, people log in but then they just stand around doing nothing. Why pay for a subscription if all you plan to do is stand around? But I digress. I still have to travel to do content because no one queues for frontlines or Crystalline Conflict or if I need to queue for a specific raid I won't get a queue for it. I want to be able to travel to hang out and do content with my friend on Balmung so we can do dungeons together.

You will be able to travel freely to other servers, but you can't if they are Congested or overpopulated at a given time.

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Originally Posted by Jeeqbit

You will be able to travel freely to other servers, but you can't if they are Congested or overpopulated at a given time.

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I guess I didn't say it clearly. I was wondering if it has been said anywhere that they will be removing those restrictions? Before Dawntrail I could travel where I wanted as there weren't any restrictions.

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Originally Posted by Moonsparkle

I guess I didn't say it clearly. I was wondering if it has been said anywhere that they will be removing those restrictions? Before Dawntrail I could travel where I wanted as there weren't any restrictions.

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It will ease as the patch hype goes down. There will be more capacity to travel again as we enter the gap between patches. You can also try to travel at other times of the day if you're able, when less people are playing.

Another option you could try is traveling to a world other than Balmung. It might let you world visit to Balmung still after that.

If it doesn't, you can still form a party with your friend on the other Crystal world. You can communicate by adding eachother as friends, forming a private PF with a password, creating a cross-world linkshell to chat in, or them world visiting to play with you in open world content.

Moving to Dynamis was the worst decision I've ever made. They need to fold Dynamis worlds into the other three DC's at this point. It's never going to fill. No one is ever going to keep their main here. All of us who stupidly transferred for houses and thinking it would eventually fill were duped.

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Originally Posted by DynnDiablos

Moving to Dynamis was the worst decision I've ever made. They need to fold Dynamis worlds into the other three DC's at this point. It's never going to fill. No one is ever going to keep their main here. All of us who stupidly transferred for houses and thinking it would eventually fill were duped.

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For me it was where I started when I started playing the game. I just stayed because I didn't see a real reason to leave. I agree with you though. It isn't ever going to fill. No one does content on Dynamis, you have to leave to complete anything. Even when I do find myself doing roulettes on Dynamis the groups are usually so bad because people are just trolling or don't know what they are doing so it takes forever to complete the instance.

They really need to just remove the restrictions. Aether remains congested because people come at low activity periods and park their characters. So if these restrictions were to get the playerbase to spread out and stay on their own DCs and stop piling on Aether, that didn't succeed. Now Aether is being punished because we can't do things like have friends just hop over and join us or hang at our houses or venues because other people won't stay on their own DCs. This was not the solution.

Carrots like the ranked PvP could be. Or not allowing someone to create a PF if they aren't from the given DC is a stick they could employ. Non-DC players could still join but not create. If that wasn't enough, lock them out of PFs entirely as a secondary step. There are many other things they could have tried but they just plopped the nuclear option down and called it a day.

I want them to come up with a new login system that can handle mass logins and then merge all the worlds into a single DC.

Would be even better if they heavily leveraged auto instancing to dynamically add or remove instances for all zones. Then they could have one world for each of the regions.

A system like this would work if they actually updated it based on player volume. We're almost at end of Endwalker player volume at least based on Steam activity, so there's really no need to have these restrictions. Makes it near impossible to raid if you're from a non-Aether DC and playing with friends is a nightmare. It's really unfair for anyone not from Aether in general since Aether players can still travel freely to other DCs and back to their own without issue. I'd rather just deal with a 5000 player queue on launch if it means I don't have to wait for the devs to catch up.