Looking to move server (from Moogle EU) need some advice please.

Time and time again I am encountering situations where I question why I even play this game anymore. Any potential enjoyment is immediately sucked away after playing even a single piece of instanced content. The amount of abuse, trolling, lying, AFKing that takes place inside Duty Finder content aswell as Party Finder teams is really getting to me. I want to move to a server that has a nice community where people actually help each other, where people actually play their roles and work hard in content. I want to join an active FC that is about playing together, and not just for Raiding. I've made many forum posts over my playtime complaining about the community and I'm often met with people disagreeing. I feel like the reason those people do disagree, is because the community on Moogle is really bad compared to most other servers. I want to enjoy the game, not be depressed by it.

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Sorry to hear things aren't going so well on Moogle. I would have suggested Coeurl if you were looking for a NA server as there are a lot of friendly people willing to help others. Hope you find what you're looking for.

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I was on Cactuar a bit and absolutely hated it. I wasn't happy with the people at all..
I absolutely love Leviathan and the FC I ended up with. I highly recommend Levi if you can get in it.

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Originally Posted by PantslessPrince

I was on Cactuar a bit and absolutely hated it. I wasn't happy with the people at all..
I absolutely love Leviathan and the FC I ended up with. I highly recommend Levi if you can get in it.

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the problem with that is he is looking for EU servers and leviathan is a NA server last time I check.

Euh, changing server won't change who you meet in DF, you'll still be playing in the same Chaos Data Center as you are now.

Come to Tonberry~~

Don't want to deal with the trolls, AFK'ers and all them you just describe... Transfer to the Japanese data centers. Other than that, you still be dealing with the same stuff regardless of which NA/EU server/data center you transfer to.

Duty finder not always yout best friend for contents, and party finder is sadly the same beacuse people expect you to be same they are and they have been on same boat as you..
Why don't you find active social / casual fc in moogle?
Or try be social with others do stuff together its mmo afterall.
Sorry to say this but trolling is everywhere so you won't find completely trollfree server., and all you have to do is learn ignore them.

If latency permits, may I suggest giving the JP data centers a try?
The server culture is vastly different and it will be a very distinct experience all together.

You'll find a good portion of the community on Tonberry speaking english as well

Duty Finder is a bit of a gamble when it comes to who you're going to be playing with.
You could have a really pleasant party who will communicate and use team work to get through the dungeon or boss
Other times you could have some of the most disgusting people ever, luckily SE takes reports of bullying seriously.

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Originally Posted by Natashio

Don't want to deal with the trolls, AFK'ers and all them you just describe... Transfer to the Japanese data centers. Other than that, you still be dealing with the same stuff regardless of which NA/EU server/data center you transfer to.

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I've seen a lot of posts about discrimination and abuse of Japanese toward western players. As soon as they see E as system language they kick you from any PF, or don't heal you in DF etc. All PF there are 'JP ONLY'.

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Originally Posted by SuperZay

I've seen a lot of posts about discrimination and abuse of Japanese toward western players. As soon as they see E as system language they kick you from any PF, or don't heal you in DF etc. All PF there are 'JP ONLY'.

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Please, they aren't so narrow-minded. If a PF states 'JP Only', you can still join provided you have the ability to communicate with them. Here's a typical example of what happened in a T13 JP greed party on PF I joined recently.

*English player joins*
Host: 希望どうぞ (What item do you wish to roll on)
E player after 3mins: 剣です (Sword)
Host: すみません、剣は空いていません (I'm sorry but the sword is not available) - Someone had opt for the sword earlier.
Host: 他の武器はどう？ (How about choosing another weapon)
E player after another 5mins: 剣 (Sword)

At this point it's fairly obvious that this E player has very little JP ability. The host had no choice but to kick him because he was essentially holding up 7 other people. Not to mention that he wouldn't be able to understand a single word of the 説明マクロ (explanation macros, positioning) for T13.

Of the 19 months that I've been on Tonberry, I've never been kicked just based solely on the fact that I'm an E player. I've also never heard of JP players not healing E players in DF. They aren't little petty children for god's sake. If you join a JP server, at least make it a point to either learn the basics of the language or make an effort to communicate via auto translate.

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True.

So basically JP server transfer was a bad advice because there's a very high chance TC does not know Japanese.

I wish I could vote what server not to go to, because that would be Odin.
(personal experience)

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Originally Posted by BunnyChain

I wish I could vote what server not to go to, because that would be Odin.
(personal experience)

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I am from shiva but heard a lot of good things about odin. Whats wrong with it?

My best advice is to create an alt on another server (level enough to get party finder) and see yourself how it is... Sure you won't be able to experience much but you can get a general idea without wasting money for a transfer to a server that you may end up not liking.
My personal experience is limited on Lich, I like the server, there are a lot of nice people and I love my free company.:)
For the duty finder, if you want to stay in EU, then it probably won't change much... The only bad experiences I ever had were in the CT duties, as 4 man dungeons usually runs smoothly for me.

I wonder if French and Germans gets their own realm when EU data centers comes, currently Moogle is "unofficial" French server and that causes problems with non-french players in Moogle server as PF and shouts are most of time in french. So if anyone is looking a EU server i would suggest Phoenix, alot of old FC members has transfered there and it sounds it is actually a english server.

I'm hoping that with the EU data center, we also get language tags (honestly, when they put all the NA/EU servers in the same place, they should have put language tags on them) in addition to the Legacy/EU tags (probably just for English, German, French, Spanish and Russian) on some of the servers to make it easier for people to find the world with the language they're most comfortable with.

I always see these posts and cannont figure out why you people don't get in a good FC? Problem solved

It's all subjective advice. People will put a server in a box once they experience something egregious.

When you for example say "Odin is bad, personal experience", you are a tad short sighted in my opinion. When you say JP servers discriminate, I'm tempted to snigger. I'm on Odin and I can't count the "German only" and "French only" groups. Not to mention they will talk German/French in DF/PF groups if at least one person has the same language highlighted. Talking about rude. Good thing Odin is pretty busy and you can make your own groups quickly, but DF is a gamble.

I doubt that other servers are better than Moogle, especially DF which uses several servers to make groups. What I have experienced is that groups with a French majority often cause a disappointing anti-social experience, not to mention the perpetual wipes. I believe Moogle has a huge, French population.

Best best is to just try and find a group of people on a server (any server) which you get along with. I had the fortune to have such a group of people on Balmung, but most of them were Americans, and me being in Europe made it hard to do group stuff. Ended up transferring to Phoenix after checking out both Odin and Phoenix. At the time Odin was closed for transfers, which made my choice easy, but it was a good choice in the end. Was again lucky to find a bunch of great people on Phoenix, and I usually run content with them. I hardly ever sign up for DF solo, and PF I don't use much either, unless I know other people from my FC/LS are already in a party that's up on PF.

If you end up moving to Phoenix, feel free to send me a tell, I'm usually up for doing things as long as I'm not already doing something ;)

Moogle is a fine server. The problems you describe you will encounter no matter where you go.