Character Creation Restrictions : can you remove it?

Umm... could SE remove this thing? ... what's the point of making recruit a friend campaign while our new friend can't even making a character on our server ? :( .. I know sometimes it allowed to make new character , but sometimes it's happening on 1AM or even 3AM ... which is causing my friend can't try to make a character because he need sleep (you don't say)

even now I tried to help my friend making a character on Tonberry , the website : http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...06d0909189e479 says Tonberry now allowed to make character , and voila this happen : ( and I already waiting for like 8 hours up until now )

https://scontent-sin1-1.xx.fbcdn.net...c8&oe=56FEADA7

pretty please SE, or at least make a new account create 1 character on any server without restriction

So character creation restrictions are actually constantly updated in the game itself whereas that post is only updated like every 4 hours or so. The restriction is based on the number of people logged in at the time and if it's full, it's full. There isn't much that can be done. Everyone just decided they wanted to cram into one server. Sorry if I sound rude, but there isn't really much that we as players can do (aside from the old "make it on one server and transfer it" suggestion).

Yea I know...but, he just buy ARR + HW and then forced to pay an extra fee for world transfer... that's really sad ;w; ...

Or SE can just make an extra code for the "recruit campaign friend" so the new player can make a new character on the recruiter servers... I hope... ;w;

I do think it would be cool if they allowed the first character of an account to make a character on whatever server they want, so people who want to play with their friends can play together and not have to deal with all this nonsense.

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Originally Posted by Ehr

I do think it would be cool if they allowed the first character of an account to make a character on whatever server they want, so people who want to play with their friends can play together and not have to deal with all this nonsense.

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That would make the places flooded with bots.

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Originally Posted by Nektulos-Tuor

That would make the places flooded with bots.

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There is that, but I said that in a sense of a perfect scenario. More-so wishful thinking than an actual request.

Or, you know, if you recruit a friend, they can make a character on whatever server you are on and bypass the restriction if your server has one. Restricted for others except the recruited.

Or you could both go to an unpopulated server.

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Originally Posted by Mariel_Crystallie

Umm... could SE remove this thing?

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yes because this is what we all need to see when everyone flocks to the "Popular server".

http://i.imgur.com/8J7dTNE.jpg

To be honest the recruit a friend campaign should allow a limited bypass of that system - what's the point of recruiting a friend otherwise.

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Originally Posted by ruskie

To be honest the recruit a friend campaign should allow a limited bypass of that system - what's the point of recruiting a friend otherwise.

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mounts, feathers and other things...

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Originally Posted by Vespar

mounts, feathers and other things...

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Pyramid scheme?

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Originally Posted by Jynx

yes because this is what we all need to see when everyone flocks to the "Popular server".

http://i.imgur.com/8J7dTNE.jpg

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I dunno with other data center but on Elemental thats only happen when server got problem ( massive dc / lag / after maintenance / patch )... which is never happen during normal days ( and u know tonberry also a popular server , rarely to see queue even on peak hours )

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Originally Posted by Vespar

Or you could both go to an unpopulated server.

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and abandon my FC mate , static , and my other friends on Tonberry? =3=

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Originally Posted by ruskie

To be honest the recruit a friend campaign should allow a limited bypass of that system - what's the point of recruiting a friend otherwise.

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Agree with this, it should allow you to either:

-Transfer a character to the server of your friend
-Create a character in the server of your friend

Sure it would be abused in some way, but really i see a lot of newcomers complaining in this alone, they want to play with their friends and SE isn't helping them much, they need to pay for a server transfer, which is ridiculous.

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Originally Posted by Mariel_Crystallie

I dunno with other data center but on Elemental thats only happen when server got problem ( massive dc / lag / after maintenance / patch )... which is never happen during normal days ( and u know tonberry also a popular server , rarely to see queue even on peak hours )

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I've never seen a queue that long on Cactuar. I would support the Recruit a friend campaign bypassing server limits though.

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Originally Posted by Mariel_Crystallie

I dunno with other data center but on Elemental thats only happen when server got problem ( massive dc / lag / after maintenance / patch )... which is never happen during normal days ( and u know tonberry also a popular server , rarely to see queue even on peak hours

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Yes you don't see it because they restrict users from flooding a single server.

I've been on Tonberry since the game started - the only time I have see those kinds of wait times are directly after the release of a new expansion or patch. I think you are giving a false sense the average wait time on our server (way to be a drama llama).

When Stormblood was released about a week after during peak time the log in wait time was on average only 100. Two months after the release there were no or very little (maybe 5 or 10) wait time queues.

Given this I agree that the recruited friend SHOULD be allowed to make a character on the server of their friend, like everyone else said, what's the point of recruiting a friend if you can't play with them.

Furthermore..

For those "go transfer to their server people", have you considered this; apart from the previously mentioned leaving your friends/free company/static on your current high population world, what about if you have purchased a house there?

While SE has offered incentives to move to low pop servers the "incentive" is "Reimbursement for the full price of the estate, plus compensation of 3,000,000 gil for non-recoverable furnishings".

I don't know about the rest of you, but 3 mill doesn't come close to covering the cost of furnishings/house appearances for my house. Also, it doesn't say anything about you being able to buy a new house on that server. So basically you would lose some money based on your furnishing purchases and not get a new house when you transferred.

ORRRR they could just relax the character creating on popular servers for recruit a friend only.

Some sort of method to allow them to make a char on the inviting persons server would be awesome. I've had 3 friends try the game.. then quit when they had to wait 90 days to transfer or just couldn't make a char on my server.

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Originally Posted by 16bitBounty

I've never seen a queue that long on Cactuar. I would support the Recruit a friend campaign bypassing server limits though.

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Think the only server with a character population to even be possible for that queue to be legitimate would be Balmung. Otherwise, I'm inclined to believe that is an error.

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Originally Posted by Ehr

I do think it would be cool if they allowed the first character of an account to make a character on whatever server they want, so people who want to play with their friends can play together and not have to deal with all this nonsense.

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What's the point in a restriction then? Friend recruits friend who can, in turn, recruit friends, who can then recruit friends. Soon people will be selling their recruit a friend code to allow entry to a server. Doesn't matter if it'd be RMT - it'd happen. (Yes, I still saw the wishful thinking comment. Just iterating how exploitable that system would be.)

Have your friend already tried to create a char around 3 am japan time or 3 am australian time?

I think at the very least character creation should remain open to new accounts aside from servers that are constantly locked.

Preventing a new player from creating a character doesn't really give a first good impression of the game.

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Originally Posted by JunseiKei

Think the only server with a character population to even be possible for that queue to be legitimate would be Balmung. Otherwise, I'm inclined to believe that is an error.

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I've never seen a queue that long before on Balmung. Ever. Not even during the maddening SB launch. It most likely was a error.

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Originally Posted by Urdess

I've been on Tonberry since the game started - the only time I have see those kinds of wait times are directly after the release of a new expansion or patch. I think you are giving a false sense the average wait time on our server (way to be a drama llama).

When Stormblood was released about a week after during peak time the log in wait time was on average only 100. Two months after the release there were no or very little (maybe 5 or 10) wait time queues.

Given this I agree that the recruited friend SHOULD be allowed to make a character on the server of their friend, like everyone else said, what's the point of recruiting a friend if you can't play with them.

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This thread is a year and a half old.....

If by RaF bypassing too many actives, definitely. It's a silly reason to restrict character creation.

If by RaF bypassing server overpopulation hard lock?

https://i.imgur.com/HHB8FfN.gif