where can i get server information that tells me how populated worlds are?

like how many active accounts are on a server? world
i am considering transferring to a more populated world thanks

Balmung, Gilgamesh, Leviathan and Behemoth are very populated NA servers.

Correct me if I'm wrong or mention others though.

Because making the population of already over-populated servers higher is such a good idea...

Do you at least have a good reason to transfer to a populated one?!

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Originally Posted by sirDarts

Because making the population of already over-populated servers higher is such a good idea...

Do you at least have a good reason to transfer to a populated one?!

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Most people, I'd dare to say, like to play with other people rather than on a dead server.

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Originally Posted by Kitfox

Most people, I'd dare to say, like to play with other people rather than on a dead server.

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I'm pretty damn sure that there is not a single "dead" server out there.

OP is for example from Lamia. I have an alt on Lamia. There was no issue with empty towns, or anything.

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Most people, I'd dare to say, like to play with other people rather than on a dead server.

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No server is dead though. Some are just less populated than others. Famfrit used to be under populated but it blew up recently. Lamia when I was there for a few months was heavily populated.

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Originally Posted by papichulo123

like how many active accounts are on a server? world
i am considering transferring to a more populated world thanks

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SE doesn't publish that information, and unlike WoW there are no addons to facilitate a guess.

im not saying i want to go somewhere extremely populated but a bit more populated then where I'm at. well square should really start publishing that information so we could balance worlds out.

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Originally Posted by papichulo123

im not saying i want to go somewhere extremely populated but a bit more populated then where I'm at. well square should really start publishing that information so we could balance worlds out.

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As you are a clear example of - publishing this information would have the EXACT opposite effect on server population.
People would mainly aim for the over-populated servers, the lower populated ones would then slowly indeed become dead.

I really don't understand what issue you can have on Lamia though...

why can't there just be one super big server for all na why do we need so many worlds in one data center?

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why can't there just be one super big server for all na why do we need so many worlds in one data center?

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Because then places like Revenant's Toll and Idylshire would not just drop you to 30fps but to 10.
And because there would then have to be instances for all the somewhat crowded areas, which would make hunting impossible and doing fates very annoying.
Not to mention that changing the architecture of the servers after years the game has been out is literally impossible.

Just to be clear - WHY do you want to transfer to a more populated server? What makes you feel like your server is "dead"? Long queue times? Believe me, the populated servers are no better. If you're seeing hour-long queues on your server, you'll see them on a populated server, too.

As has been said, none of the FFXIV servers are dead, so whatever problem it is you think will be fixed by moving, probably won't be.

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Originally Posted by papichulo123

like how many active accounts are on a server? world
i am considering transferring to a more populated world thanks

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Create a character, log in at different countries peak times. Observe Queue.
If theres a queue, it means the server is at capacity for logged in accounts.

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Not to mention that changing the architecture of the servers after years the game has been out is literally impossible.

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The server stress isn't so much of an issue, what is an issue would be the queue times. When ARR was released (after the servers were changed years after the game came out) the unexpected demand led to people staying online permanently to avoid the queues logging back in, which meant no-one else could log in. This would happen again.

someone told me there was a site that showed sever population so there is not one?

balmung and gilgamesh are 100% full. others like excalibur and leviatahan are pretty full too
ive always heard lamia is pretty big too though.
not sure what your problem there is

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Originally Posted by papichulo123

like how many active accounts are on a server? world
i am considering transferring to a more populated world thanks

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Well, it's a fair bet that those worlds that are regularly limited in terms of character creation, are also the more populated worlds.

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someone told me there was a site that showed sever population so there is not one?

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I've only ever heard of a site trying to scrape that data off character searches on the Lodestone. I'm not sure the data would be very high quality or accurate.

http://luckybancho.ldblog.jp/archives/43689452.html

http://livedoor.blogimg.jp/luckybanc...4/24c45281.png

It's showing people with the Veteran Rewards, but I'm pretty sure the first numbers column is whatever standard of "active" character that survey the person did went by.

"Critera same as the last time, must be above level 21. Any changes to HP/mount/minion/gear counts character as active."


Use this to search individual worlds:
http://luckybancho.ldblog.jp/wsurvey.htm?world=Shinryu