How do you actually -get- on Balmung

Other than doing what I did (sacrificing days and nights and about a week of vacation time just waiting for a spot to open and I can nab it), what other ways are there to get a chance to get on?

I have a few friends that want to play with the rest of us on Balmung but the whole "NOPE, Balmung's closed! =D" thing that's been going on is keeping it closed. Do we need to install another hamster on the servfer? Maybe a rabbit instead of a hamster?

Or sacrifice Minfilia cosplayers to the Ascians or the other way around?

Or is there some way that SE can see that it is kind of silly to keep Balmung closed up; it is one hell of a popular and friendly server. Can't we do something to allow the population cap up or allow a queue for new people to wait in instead of hoping for RNGesus to bless you with a spot and not miss out by a breath of an ant?

(And suggesting world transfer silly; you pay for a game, then pay for a sub and then you have to pay again just for access to a server?)

Try to make a character directly after a maintenence. There's usually room on the server at that time, and it's how we make our alts here.

The alternative is to transfer, but you already siad you're not interested in that - and with good reason. :)

Ohhhhh that's why it's always full, mass amounts of alts lol

4am-ish on monday, tuesday, wednesday, or thursday. As long as none of the above are a holiday or next to one. Or, as someone mentioned, near maintenance beginning/end.

But... can we skip the cosplayers and just sacrifice minfilia?

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Originally Posted by Nomad-phx

Ohhhhh that's why it's always full, mass amounts of alts lol

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Do Alts fill up a server? I thought it was just the # of active players we have at any time.

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Originally Posted by Risvertasashi

4am-ish on monday, tuesday, wednesday, or thursday. As long as none of the above are a holiday or next to one. Or, as someone mentioned, near maintenance beginning/end.

But... can we skip the cosplayers and just sacrifice minfilia?

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I swear to the twelve and the nine hells; first few times I heard them call her Manfilia.

And yes. I say we sacrifice the lot of them to the one true lord and saviour, bacon.

But in all honesty and seriousness; can't they upgrade the server for Balmung?

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Originally Posted by Shellasaurus

But in all honesty and seriousness; can't they upgrade the server for Balmung?

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SE won't upgrade just one server. And they probably won't upgrade any servers because it saves them money and lets them put more resources into the cash shop

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Originally Posted by Shellasaurus

I swear to the twelve and the nine hells; first few times I heard them call her Manfilia.

And yes. I say we sacrifice the lot of them to the one true lord and saviour, bacon.

But in all honesty and seriousness; can't they upgrade the server for Balmung?

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I have on a few occasions called her Milfilia

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Originally Posted by Eidolon

SE won't upgrade just one server. And they probably won't upgrade any servers because it saves them money and lets them put more resources into the cash shop

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-cue a lot of annoyed muttering and mild censored swearing- That is rather annoying. Makes me wonder how they've set up the servers; doubt it is anything as big as an actual datacenter; more likely to be a few server racks or such. If it is not, and they can allocate server resources dynamically...then I shall have to tear out my hair in frustration.

Still; I would be quite interested to see the how and what. Aether is one of the older, if not the oldest data center out there, right? Would it not be good for their customer support to have a faster and more stable world/worlds together with lower costs because they can run more worlds on one rack or blade? (Gah, I've been out of the backend world for too long. D: )

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Originally Posted by RinManako

I have on a few occasions called her Milfilia

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>o> Iunno; I've always wanted to plant my boot in her face. Something about her is fishy...also, I shall shake a fish at SE for 1000 character limit per post. What in feck. DX

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Originally Posted by Eidolon

SE won't upgrade just one server. And they probably won't upgrade any servers because it saves them money and lets them put more resources into the cash shop

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Or their response would be "Why? You can just join another." They don't value roleplaying as part of their game development, which is the only reason Balmung is so popular. The fact they hardly use the cash shop also makes it unlikely that is their intent.

As for the OP. Transferring is really your only option nowadays. Balmung's popularity has reached a point Square actively blocks getting on it via character creation. The last two maintenances saw it open for less than two minutes. Personally, the way I look at transfer cost is whether the value of roleplay is worth it to you. If so, then $18 isn't a waste as you'll get plenty of value out of it.

Day four... I still cannot get into the server...

Another point though, there are a lot of afk people on the server. I am sure if they were all logged out you could get into the server and create a character.

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Originally Posted by Bourne_Endeavor

As for the OP. Transferring is really your only option nowadays. Balmung's popularity has reached a point Square actively blocks getting on it via character creation. The last two maintenances saw it open for less than two minutes. Personally, the way I look at transfer cost is whether the value of roleplay is worth it to you. If so, then $18 isn't a waste as you'll get plenty of value out of it.

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'3' It is not so much for RP as much as it is to play with friends. It is making me flail wildly at all the fun we are having but we can't get that one ginormous siege cannon to come on in and shoot Ultima in the face because of SE being silly and not allowing more people on.

Though I suspect he would be the silly bunny that would orchestrate storytime moments out of randomness or try and drag people in a strange and silly storyline.