Time To Hit The Dusty Trail - Server Moving

So my girlfriend and I are finally on the same server after the whole server epidemic crisis that happened back during 2.0 and we're thinking of moving to another server. We're both on Lamia and while the people on the server are very nice, it's not what we're looking for, we both like end-game raiding. Mind you we're not hard core and we like to take our time doing things. But we'd like a little more in terms of interaction with the locals. Lamia is quite honestly a server that has a very small community and a lot of people keep to themselves, which is fine. But we're both social butterflies, we tried opening up our FC to the public, but after a straight year, no fish were biting so we gave up entirely.

What we're looking for.
An LGBT Friendly FC/LS
A nice group of friendly folk to hang out/do stuff with on a daily basis.
Players who are competent enough to hold their own in a raid without needing to be scolded.

We have our sights set on Behemoth, mainly because they do server wide events which neither of us have ever done and one of my favorite streamers is actually on that server (MTQ) so it's a win for the both of us.

In terms of progression, I'm on T9 in Coil and my girlfriend is currently working on downing T11. I'm not as much of a raider as she is, which is fine, I tend to do the more fun fights and I'm more of a rare item hunter/collector. We both main Scholar and we're just generally looking for good folk to hang out with and find a place to call home. :) We plan on trying to make our transfer date on Sunday or Monday.

Well Behemoth is a great server and all and there are quite a bit of end game groups, but as with any other server, that comes with it fair with trolls and elitists. There are a bunch of friendly FCs there as well, like mine but mine doesn't raid.

I think most FCs are LGBT friendly but I don't know any that actively advertise it

Behemoth is a good server. My FC is not a big end-game or progression group. We do have some raiders, but do not maintain a static within the company. Instead we find that our members who raid work well in external statics, and enjoy socializing with us. As I said in another topic, I haven't been able to play anything near as often as I would like due to RL issues and RL business. However, our FC is more like a family or group of friends rather than the more structured progression oriented FCs. I'm not so much suggesting my FC as an option as I am explaining us so you know who we are. I'd be happy just to have another couple of friends/LS members on Behemoth who enjoy playing the game without stress.

So, if you wind up on Behemoth (which may be an issue since they regularly limit character creation on Behemoth) ping me in this topic, and I'll try to find you.

Though I should note that strictly speaking lalafell might be considered as food items by the many Nekos we have in our group. However, we are usually very good at sticking to our modern Miq'ote principles of not eating our friends for supper.

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Originally Posted by zcrash970

Well Behemoth is a great server and all and there are quite a bit of end game groups, but as with any other server, that comes with it fair with trolls and elitists. There are a bunch of friendly FCs there as well, like mine but mine doesn't raid.

I think most FCs are LGBT friendly but I don't know any that actively advertise it

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Indeed. Besides, in this game who is to say who is who and what is what? Both myself and my wife play female Miq'ote, as you can see Kosmos tends to the cute side, but I'm most definitely a dude - last time I checked anyway...

Zcrash/Quinton, what part of the day do you normally arrive in Eorzea, your FC sounds a bit like mine...

Before you go, you should tryout the FC I am in. Its very huge, like +300 players and its very active, very friendly. Im in Lamia and ive been with this FC since I started this game in Sep. 2013. Try it before you leave. FC Name: Apocalypse. Tell them Bloody sent you. or I can invite you when I get home from work. They do just about everything from crafting to end game, etc. The FC leader is awesome (shout out to Zero) and the atmosphere is fun. just try us out before you go.

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Originally Posted by Lycelle

...But we'd like a little more in terms of interaction with the locals. Lamia is quite honestly a server that has a very small community and a lot of people keep to themselves, which is fine. But we're both social butterflies, we tried opening up our FC to the public, but after a straight year, no fish were biting so we gave up entirely.

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I'm sorry to hear you're having such an issue with the server. Granted, Lamia doesn't always have the best community out there, but from what I hear that's sadly a constant state. Mostly I blame the cross-server Duty Finder for this, since there's no need to ever really run with anyone from your server save for the later raids and that doesn't promote any kind of community building. I also started my own FC with some friends (who have sadly gone inactive due to life issues), opened it to the public and haven't received a single bit of interest despite being Rank 8, allied to a GC and all the works... sadly you do need to actively recruit to find people.

Where I did find some respite, however, and this is an amazing turn of it... was in a hunt LS that I joined a couple months ago. Great community there, lots of people chatting and having fun. But that stems from the fact that in order to do the hunts you need to have a tight-knit group to be effective and it has to be on-server.

I hope you find what you're looking for in a community and your move goes successfully. In the mean-time, there are still of us out there on Lamia who are friendly and where 'LGBT' isn't something that even crosses our mind when picking our friends.

I think you'll find that most FC's are lgbt friendly even if they don't specifically advertise themselves as such. It should go without saying don't be a jerk to people in the FC.

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I'm on and off through out the day but mostly on from 7PM est -12 am.
I doubt you remember my guild, DOGMA WARRIORS, from WKC but my FC is made out of people who went to XIV after the servers were shut down. We always been a friendly guild XD

I think any highly populated server will suit your needs. With that said, Gilgamesh is very populated and filled with alot of different people, from lgbt, hardcore end-game raiders, role players, casuals. Many FCs here advertise LBGT inclusion, people will talk to each other (/shout, /say) usually in mor dhona.

The PF is always active (right now theres 22 listings), it's the official reddit server.

Only down side is that it highly populated and you can only get in at certain times if you're lucky.

oh well welcome in advance to behemoth! i just moved in to it myself two weeks ago and i've had little to no trouble so far. in fact i think im having more fun than on my last server. i'd welcome you to my fc but it probably way smaller than what your looking for, everyone is super cool though. but yeah chat me up if you ever wanna i'd be happy to converse ^^

Well the neat thing is when you server transfer you're paying money to do so, so the server has no choice but to accept you whether or not they are taking characters! (Hooray!) I did this when I found out I couldn't make a character on Hyperion due to the character restriction But I was able to force my way onto Hyperion via Server Transferring. It's like being VIP at a club and normal people can't get in after 8:00. Hooooweeeeever if you show that special VIP pass the Bouncer will just be like "Come right on in." Which is essentially what we're doing when we transfer to another server. :P

I have heard different things about being able to transfer to a locked server. Can you really transfer on when it is locked to character creation? That would be great, as it was a pain making alts to check out some more crowded servers. xD

More on-topic, if I was looking for a high pop NA server I would pick Gilgamesh or Excalibur, or possibly Leviathan or Behemoth. Best of luck with your choice! :)

I am part of an LGBT LS on Ragnarok, called "Eden Pride" which is pretty active most of the times that I log into the game. We all love having a laugh, a chat, and helping each other out.

might be off topic but your signature is great lycelle cant stop grinning looking at it

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Originally Posted by ElieDavion

might be off topic but your signature is great lycelle cant stop grinning looking at it

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:P Hehe. I like it too. Can't tell you how many times that has happened to me in Coerthas with Ixals.

I don't know why people have to add in "LGBT friendly" to their list of requirements. It has nothing to do with the game and your sexuality doesn't affect your ability to play it. Unless you're planning on broadcasting what you do between the sheets, in that case any FC would be bothered by it at some point. I don't tell my FC what my wife and I do after a bottle of wine when the baby's sleeping, so it doesn't matter what their perspective is on my relationship or who I choose to be with.

Can someone explain to me why this is still a thing? I don't care if you like ding dongs or tacos and I don't know anyone in my FC who does either.

I don't mean to come off as being rude. My point is, you're accepted and we all think you're fantastic. This community has never been anti anything but early pulling in my experience and that is what makes it so much better than the other mmo.

For the most part, most FCs I've been don't care and disapproves of people who say offensive things. Being in in a lgbt friendly group is more than just "hey guys I'm ate my gf's tacos last night, lols" It means that you members won't look at your character and say "omg why you wearing that, you look gay" Or say something offensive as a result of ignorance. There's abit more, but it all about maturity level

People still care about someone's sexual orientation? Whatever then...

I haven't met anyone on Behemoth who has issues with this stuff though I'm not really actively looking to find them either. I personally dedicate a lot of my time to helping people learn end game content all the way up to T10 in hopes that the server becomes more proficient at clearing the end game content since majority of end gamers on Behemoth look at you, see you can't one shot something, and rage like 10 year olds who were denied cake. You start to get a feeling for what kind of gamer someone is here after meeting a few of them and you can know who to avoid unless you can get along with anyone regardless of their attitudes, then you can hang out with the more fun, open minded people who are still capable of doing the end game without needing hand holding and without terrible attitude problems.

Still, throughout all my time trying to teach people things like T9, I found that a lot of people really don't have what it takes to ever win. Mostly due to these reasons:

• Confidence issues.
• Really bad ADD (nearly impossible to have any kind of situational awareness at all).
• Extreme impatience to dedicate themselves to learning.
• Inabilities to look at themselves and find faults in their play style that may need fixing (I know people who are afraid of failure so they don't want to accept that they may have failed in order to correct themselves and improve.
• Perhaps a lack of seriousness necessary to focus down on a fight and improve themselves. (Maturity issues are usually the reason for this).

But that's not everyone and even the issues I mentioned above can actually be corrected if someone could see that they fall into one or more of these categories.

Still T10-T11 are frequently cleared in party finder these days... I daresay you have a better time getting clears for T10 and T11 than T9 but they are arguably easier than T9. T12 and T13 are commonly on progression for many groups and groups are looking to find replacements all the time for their statics. Shiva Ex is on farm and you have a high chance of winning with any farm group you join. Ramuh Ex is still derpy and hard to get a clear on due to situational awareness issues by the vast majority of players.

If you put together full 8 man VOIP static groups you have a much easier time clearing content cuz people have a lot more situational awareness when someone is shouting in their ear to pay attention during the mechanics lol. But I know a lot of people who don't need the VOIP to focus on content too so it's a mixed bag but people usually go the no nonsense route with statics and require VOIP since it's less stressful than dealing with those people who can't focus on their own.

So these are pretty much my summaries of my experiences with end-game on Behemoth over the last several months. The term 'hand holding' is pretty vague so I am unsure what you meant by that because I consider hand holding to be many things that I won't mention here because I do not want to irk people but I feel like what I just described above is likely all servers lol.

It depends if you are looking for an NA or EU server.

We on Odin are a really nice bunch and our FC is really friendly too. We have from all over the world, from Korea, to Saudi Arabia, the UK and NA too.

The FC itself isn't a raiding FC, but we do have a team and we are currently on T10. We also share a LS with a few other FC's who are generally very nice people.

And we neither care nor think about sexual orientation.

If you ever end up coming over the Odin, feel free to add Sakon Shima and give me a shout :)