Give some love to the smaller servers!

Due to there being no cap on the size of the large servers, small servers like Goblin have been getting smaller and smaller in recent days due to people transferring and their friends going as well to follow them making our server go froma medium size, to small. This has really put a strain on many of the hardcore players in the community. If you are looking for a place to transfer or wanting a new start , please consider Goblin, or some of the other smaller servers like Mateus, Coeurl and Zalera to keep our communities thriving.

Having more people on the Coeurl server would be a beautiful and glorious thing!
I've been trying to do PVP, in major hopes of obtaining that pretty fox tail, but I can never get it to go through. Please people... help the smaller servers get these pretty fox tails! lol

I feel like my best decision was to go where my friends are on Cactaur. It's not populated to the point of being overwhelming but full enough to have activity where it needs it. It's a nice Goldilocks zone for me personally

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I'm with you guys, Coeurl at times just feels dead unless you go to any of the 3 major cities or Idle-shire.... and even then it's pretty empty at times once you get away from the aether plaza.

I'd very much like SE to implement some kind of Mega-Server/Sever Cluster that bunches together smaller sized servers to other less populated servers so their worlds can be more lively, unfortunately i don't know how likely that is.

Another Coeurl-ite here. The server feels dead unless you're in Limsa or Idyllshire. Even then at certain times there's barely anyone there. I miss how it was when the game first came out and everything was bustling. I really wish they'd give players some sort of incentive to play on one of the smaller servers so we can become decently populated.

Easy Solution to make empty Servers populated would be that Square Enix puts a Experience Increase Buff on new People who start on dead Servers. Once the Server exceeds a Number of Active Players, the Buff will Drop.

The only Way to attract People on different Servers is if those have a slight Advantage over the other Servers.

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Originally Posted by Mwynn

Easy Solution to make empty Servers populated would be that Square Enix puts a Experience Increase Buff on new People who start on dead Servers. Once the Server exceeds a Number of Active Players, the Buff will Drop.

The only Way to attract People on different Servers is if those have a slight Advantage over the other Servers.

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The new character restrictions can also get people onto smaller servers. But...how do you keep them there? It seems like any advantage would need to be long running else people will just transfer later anyway.

I'm from Coeurl and I actually transferred there from a busy server. I didn't like the toxic atmosphere as well as it felt just as lonely with all these people around cause no one spoke unless it was a malicious nature. Now I do admit that coeurl can feel empty at times but I've met some wonderful people there. The community is great. Whenever a new patch comes out the hustle-bustle comes back but that's for every server.
So I guess yes, it could use more but overall I'm happy with the people who are there. To each there own though.

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Originally Posted by Mwynn

Easy Solution to make empty Servers populated would be that Square Enix puts a Experience Increase Buff on new People who start on dead Servers. Once the Server exceeds a Number of Active Players, the Buff will Drop.

The only Way to attract People on different Servers is if those have a slight Advantage over the other Servers.

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Leveling is easy honestly.
Buffing won't help. People tend to go to where places have people and get away from bots and all...
Places like Zalera for example was a last minute server on 2.0 so of course it's kinda dead.
Probably ran to hell with bots/rmts.
What they need to do is start merging servers.

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Originally Posted by Mugiawara

Leveling is easy honestly.
Buffing won't help. People tend to go to where places have people and get away from bots and all...
Places like Zalera for example was a last minute server on 2.0 so of course it's kinda dead.
Probably ran to hell with bots/rmts.
What they need to do is start merging servers.

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I don't know how they would manage to merge servers with the house plots. How would they handle 2 people owning the same plot when they are merged?

Yea, if everyone who transferred off goblin for raiding reasons had stayed, we'd have a grey raid scene today. Over the year, goblin has lost several top 50 players in their respective jobs. It's sad really. Even people in my own raid group are talking about Gilgamesh

*great raid scene*
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Originally Posted by Bixillarla

I don't know how they would manage to merge servers with the house plots. How would they handle 2 people owning the same plot when they are merged?

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They could incentivize going to the new merged servers by allotting more housing? Might get a bunch of people transferring for that (may create another imbalance though AND a lot of crying because the merged would have more stuff than the other servers).

But a server merger would be ideal in my opinion, coming from a guy on Coeurl.

I don't get it. Why do some people choose to be on smaller servers? I always go to the largest in every game. It'll be packed for the first few weeks but it'll be better in long term.

SE will never be able to solve the server problems cause even if they offered free transfers to less populated servers why would anyone want to if they have lot of gil and/or a house and lose it.

I feel you. I'm on Goblin too. I hope more people will come back in 3.4.

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Originally Posted by Evangela

I don't get it. Why do some people choose to be on smaller servers? I always go to the largest in every game. It'll be packed for the first few weeks but it'll be better in long term.

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Apparently balmung has proved you wrong in that aspect. It been packed and has stayed packed and will stay packed with no end in sight of people still trying to come to it.

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Originally Posted by Lexia

Apparently balmung has proved you wrong in that aspect. It been packed and has stayed packed and will stay packed with no end in sight of people still trying to come to it.

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As long as it doesn't cause any problem (like frequently lag and dc), being packed is a good thing. I love lively server.

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Originally Posted by Evangela

As long as it doesn't cause any problem (like frequently lag and dc), being packed is a good thing. I love lively server.

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Well the others servers would be lively if everyone didn't flock to one server and correct server locks were in place to distribute the player base better.

If any of the fellow Coeurl members want to get together for dungeons or raids, send me a friend request! Just send me a Tell to inform me of who you are. ^_^/

Well, they gonna help them with cross server party finder.
With that (and to be able to raid with that) ppl can switch to lower pop servers if they want because of housing, hunts, whatever..

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Originally Posted by Evangela

I don't get it. Why do some people choose to be on smaller servers? I always go to the largest in every game. It'll be packed for the first few weeks but it'll be better in long term.

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There are few in-game indicators that show how many players are in a server, and the most populated ones aren't readily visible, so new players with no outside connections with other people will more than likely just pick a random.

That, and there are probably many other reasons I'm personally not aware of.

I know this is not the best solution but they could well merge those small servers and make it one and call it another name to keep all happy.

Housing problem ? I dont see it as a problem since they are small it means those small servers have lots and lots of free slots that could be filled by merging. It will probably happen at one point but yeah at least it could answer some of the problems that Goblin, Mateus Zalera and maybe others have.

Not ideal again but maybe the only solution, or better said, better this solution then closing the server due to ...low population right ?

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Originally Posted by Windi

That, and there are probably many other reasons I'm personally not aware of.

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I personally don't like the feeling of a crowded server, seeing hoards of people wherever you go, no place to have your own space. I work with people all day so when I game the last thing I want is crowds.

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Originally Posted by LadyVal

I personally don't like the feeling of a crowded server, seeing hoards of people wherever you go, no place to have your own space. I work with people all day so when I game the last thing I want is crowds.

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I was in Balmung a long time and there are plenty of places in there where you never see anybody whatesoever. So just because there are zillions of people in a server doenst mean you will be seeing people constantly, that is not true at all.

Just me though

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Originally Posted by Evangela

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It's a shame it's literally impossible to create a character on Balmung unless you're willing to pay for a server transfer, if there's any server in this game that's grossly overpopulated it would definitely be Balmung. c:

The only problem with that is that even though we have a lot of free spots, the majority are still filled regardless making that kind of method not too plausible since people who owned a house on both servers with the same plot will have troubles. They're not gonna close the server though that's one thing. Even Mateus has an active server it's just not bustling to the point where things such as replacements for raids are readily available, or PFs constantly up.

Housing honestly...I don't think would be an issue if you merged servers. For me...I had 3 houses on famfrit now I have 1 still and I'm not even on there anymore so...yeah. In addition there's one guy who has half of a ward all his Alt FC houses too. Also not all servers are great. I'd dissuade anyone from going to famfrit unless you like not actually doing any content and like people that aren't helpful at all.

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Originally Posted by Evangela

I don't get it. Why do some people choose to be on smaller servers? I always go to the largest in every game. It'll be packed for the first few weeks but it'll be better in long term.

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For some of us that started at 2.0 launch (also those of us who pre ordered to get the 3 days early access) we could only get into a few servers because of the amount of traffic straining the servers. Also the legacy servers such as Balmung were locked to EVERYONE that didn't play 1.XX. As such, it became a "whatever is open". And I say this as a guy who played a bit of 1.XX and have a legacy character on Balmung (I'm on Coeurl cause my friends and brother couldn't get on Balmung, so my original guy is still there due to transfers being implemented months down the line).

Fast forward to now, people can pay to transfer to legacy servers and there was a mass migration of players from smaller servers wanting to go to bigger ones. So smaller got smaller and bigger got bigger. Not the ideal situation for the already small servers.

"Gilgamesh is the raiding server" has become a self fulfilling prophecy. Back in Coil and early Alex there were lots of teams on every server. Sure, some had more than others but even on slightly smaller servers we had a healthy amount of static raiders and reps. But as more groups split and more people quit, the number of statics and reps declined on every server. If a static can't find a rep and they don't want to quit raiding, their only choice is to move to where there are more people raiding. And the community more or less decided this was Gilgamesh. So Gilgamesh gets a huge amount of transfers to refill its statics and reps and a lot of the other servers lose. "Gilgamesh is the raiding server" is now true because the community made it true by stacking the server with transfers.

Cross server PF, if implemented well, will help a lot with the static and rep problem on smaller servers. But I can't see many people leaving the grossly overpopulated servers except to obtain housing.

...anyone heard of Zodiark by any chance?

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Originally Posted by -DMR-

...anyone heard of Zodiark by any chance?

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Thanks for telling me that this sever exists.

SE needs to merge some of the smaller/less pop servers. Malboro has suffered a lot as well. The crowd that is into raiding/end game is dwindling down.

if i recall correctly on how the duty finder works, it searches for groups in the entire data center so que times for dungeons and PvP would still remain the same i would think. as for the problem of people migrating to bigger servers. i am unsure how SE could give people an insensitive to join those servers. anything outside of a server merge (which is out of the question unless some serious big changes are made to various things such as housing) would not be that effective in drawing people to smaller servers while bigger ones seem to offer more benefits.