Is Lamia Dead?

I've noticed that Lamia is suffering very badly right now in terms of player population. There are players who are fresh 50's that are STILL gearing since post 2.3 - A lot of the server's high end raid groups are gone so there is no recruitment for Coil. A good majority of the FC's are quite possibly dead/inactive (to my knowledge) and the PF groups are very lack luster in terms of progression. The economy...let's not talk about it.

I've been thinking of moving to another server with my wife, but she insist we stay here. We have our own FC to ourselves, maybe opening it up would bring in more players to help speed up their progression. But the way Lamia is now, it's looking like it might need a server merge to help stimulate the population of players we have. If anyone is on Lamia come find me, I'd like to discuss hanging out or Coil or something. Just anything that beats idling around in-game just waiting for something to happen.

Seriously?? I actually visited the Lamia forum today for the sole purpose of looking at all the 'Population is BOOMING' threads...seriously I've been on Lamia about 6 months now and I have noticed the EXACT opposite, a steady rise in population to the point that during the last few weeks ive encountered sporadic log-in QUEUES which ive never ever ever seen on Lamia. Im just hitting gear level iLvl 80 (currently 79) so I cant speak for anything past BCOB turn 1, but even that has been almost instant queue pop the few times ive joined via duty finder for it. This is definetly not the thread i was expecting to see...is there any chance you could be...well...completely wrong/mistaken/really unlucky? Do you have wierd login/play times/hours?

What time does it seem dead to you? in my world it become pretty boring around 2AM not much going on but hunts. Still a lot of players but not much to do other then hunts lmao.

Helloooo Falsetto :3!! Lamia's economy does sucks a lot. everything is over price or under price. Not sure bout population, I feel it's been the same since I started playing (Nov 2014)

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Originally Posted by Laxxus

Helloooo Falsetto :3!! Lamia's economy does sucks a lot. everything is over price or under price. Not sure bout population, I feel it's been the same since I started playing (Nov 2014)

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xD Hey Storm. Seen you in-game with your spiffy PvP gear. My usual play times are from 12:00 AM (EST) to 2:00 AM (EST) I've also checked out PF and it doesn't seem that there is much going on in terms of progression. Lost is currently the top FC after DHS fell off I guess. I'm in my own FC with my wife, we've been trying to recruit people to help them, but no fish are biting either. Maybe my sense of "alone" probably comes from the fact that there is nobody in our FC.

oh yeah, maybe.., recruiting is also hard, and definitely being a new start-up guild it would make you feel "alone", especially when you have only you and your wife in it.

You can always recruit fresh newbies but chances are you will be running around like a parent with a bunch of adopted kids asking for help, which isn't really that bad but compounded by "X" amount you will get burnt out in no time.

I suggest looking for like-minded people to start with, do some casual raids and recruit newbies above 30+, do fc exp buff that's always a good incentive.

If you decide to join another guild I can suggest "PURE", I was with them when I first started this game until recently, some of my friends irl and in game are in it also. they have at least 10-15 people online during peak, they also always have some sort of fc buff going on almost 24/7 (mostly exp + something else).

I only quit them because I pvp a lot and most (90%) of them pve and adders :P.

Hey Laxxus, I'm not currently pvp level, but is your guild recruiting? I'm very interested in pvp.

majority of players on lamia are getting off around when you get online, so that may be the reason it seems empty to you, other than that, the main reason for the lack of progression based recruitment is most progression focused groups are done with the current raid content, since patch 2.5 didnt bring anything extra in terms of progression (or even possible BiS changes), so there is more than likely a lot of people that are only raid logging by now.
as for starting up your own fc, it become rather difficult to start a new fc about a month after 2.0 release, and then again about 2-3 weeks after ps4 version was released, just because the majority of players want a well established fc to join to start with.

da faq u sai?? i had a queue to get in today i was number 24!!!

I would say that mainly the community isnt very active on the forums, not the server dead or dying. Maybe someone should make a General Discussion thread for the Server or something. That may help like minded people find each other. Just a thought if you want to find people you have to make an effort to look instead of just having people fall in your lap. Well I guess thats not true if you are toight like a tiger and where tight pants.

I recently transferred off the server due to lack of groups for Final Coil. Yes, there's a lot of friendly people on Lamia and yes, lots of social gatherings happen as well but for those that want to progress, it's extremely hit-or-miss. There's just not enough skilled players go to around and more often than not schedules often are a problem. Right now it's extremely late to try and bother with trying to raid on Lamia unless you're already part of something or have a group set up consisting of raider alts. Just cut your losses and pack up, you will be missed but at least you won't be bored anymore.

The peak hours are 9PM EST to 2AM EST.

While the numbers are not entirely accurate, this website http://xivsoul.com/ is very useful for looking at population numbers and statistics between servers.

...And according to the numbers (in scale), it looks like Lamia is on the higher end of the spectrum of population.

EDIT: xivsoul is not even close, simply just use it for scale.

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Originally Posted by Litner

While the numbers are not entirely accurate, this website http://xivsoul.com/ is very useful for looking at population numbers and statistics between servers.

...And according to the numbers (in scale), it looks like Lamia is on the higher end of the spectrum of population.

EDIT: xivsoul is not even close, simply just use it for scale.

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http://luckybancho.ldblog.jp/wsurvey_en.htm?world=Lamia has more recent data. Just went through the server list and out of all NA/EU servers, lamia appears to have the 20th "highest" population out of 32 servers. We're sorta kinda alive!

I played on lamia for a year. I thought it was normal...It wasn't until I moved to Balmung that I realized what a ghost town Lamia was. There are always party finders up for Balmung, instead of Lamia's hours of nothing. There would be times in Mor Dhona that myself and only 3 other people would be there. It might not seem empty to some, but when you end up playing on a real high population server, you wonder how Lamia hasn't been merged with another server yet.

You must be on when the populations is down because I have a 20 person wait queue to log on every day.