Server Instability Beginning to show on Balmung

With the servers going down in the early hours of the morning tomorrow, people have been logging on to complete that last minute pre-SB goal and that's not all.. Untouched Sprouts and Returnee's have also been logging on in droves. I have been kicked out of the game twice now in a span of 30 mins.

The game was fine until about an hour ago when I started to receive pauses in gameplay. And then as I said 30 mins ago I received my first boot from the server and just not recieved my second while I was in Mor Dhona trying to get a lvl 47 to 50 before servers went down. Looks like I won't be able to complete that pre-SB goal. :\

And there's the third boot not even 3 minutes after I log in.

Well, that free transfer info just went up today... maybe you know what you need to do! ;)

http://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...f136e7c4fe2596

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Originally Posted by Aramina

Well, that free transfer info just went up today... maybe you know what you need to do! ;)

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I'm not server transferring after I've been a part of this server since beta. I even brought the issue up with my two FC's and no one wants to move to another server so, take that somewhere else.

But Omega is a EU server, why someone for NA will go there?

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Originally Posted by Driavna

But Omega is a EU server, why someone for NA will go there?

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It's going to include more than just Omega.

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Originally Posted by Grimmel

I'm not server transferring after I've been a part of this server since beta. I even brought the issue up with my two FC's and no one wants to move to another server so, take that somewhere else.

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a) I was mostly teasing. (hence the wink)

b) But seriously, complaining about disconnects on a full server is akin to someone complaining that they are wet while standing in the rain.

It sucks, but we all knew this was going to happen.

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Originally Posted by Driavna

But Omega is a EU server, why someone for NA will go there?

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Plenty of EU players use Balmung, at least on the RP side of things.

Oh boy... my hyped for this new server just die :(

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Originally Posted by Driavna

But Omega is a EU server, why someone for NA will go there?

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There will be other designated severs

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Current Status of High Population/Designated Worlds

* World population status will be announced following the commencement of maintenance for the release of 4.0.

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I've been on all day and I've yet to even have lag spikes.

My FC is transfering off as soon as we can lol. Thats part of the reason why :P

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Originally Posted by Tsumdere

I've been on all day and I've yet to even have lag spikes.

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You're IRL location can affect lag, too.

But yeah, asking someone to pack up to a newer, more stable server after being established for that long on the overpopulated one is a hard deal. My server is smaller to mid-sized, so I'm expecting on influx of players if these free tranfers hit us.

I predict balmung won't be A playable server on day 1.

I've been seeing stutters, but, mine at least, seem to be coming from the server being moved an entire continent away from me, more than population issues since it's more a consistent lag instead of huge spikes in packet loss during peak hours.

Tho I have been getting 90ks on zone transitions, but that's been going on for months.

Solution: Mandatory transfers off of high pop servers.

Before you complain you'll understand that I play on mateus, one of the unfortunate servers that's has to suffer data center reboots and maintenance because of the stupidly high congestion on BOTH Balmung AND Gilgamesh. A lot of the other servers are small yes, but that does not change the fact that we are subjugated to downtime forced upon us because of those two servers.

You lose literally nothing and perhaps even gain stuff by transferring off. The fee is waved and you can transfer all your gil and you're given a 100% housing refund plus an extra for lost furnishing.

You can't even use the "friends" excuse because ALL transfers AWAY FROM these servers is free. Who cares if there's not labels on servers? People will always hate on something.

If people ignore this golden opportunity I propose that high pop servers have their monthly sub increased by 25% to compensate for all the inconvenience for the rest of the data centers and extra maintenance these servers require.

I haven't been having any issues with the server. :(

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Originally Posted by SomeRandomHuman

You lose literally nothing and perhaps even gain stuff by transferring off. The fee is waved and you can transfer all your gil and you're given a 100% housing refund plus an extra for lost furnishing.

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But I moved to Balmung specifically because it had a large RP community.

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Originally Posted by SomeRandomHuman

Solution: Mandatory transfers off of high pop servers.

Before you complain you'll understand that I play on mateus, one of the unfortunate servers that's has to suffer data center reboots and maintenance because of the stupidly high congestion on BOTH Balmung AND Gilgamesh. A lot of the other servers are small yes, but that does not change the fact that we are subjugated to downtime forced upon us because of those two servers.

You lose literally nothing and perhaps even gain stuff by transferring off. The fee is waved and you can transfer all your gil and you're given a 100% housing refund plus an extra for lost furnishing.

You can't even use the "friends" excuse because ALL transfers AWAY FROM these servers is free. Who cares if there's not labels on servers? People will always hate on something.

If people ignore this golden opportunity I propose that high pop servers have their monthly sub increased by 25% to compensate for all the inconvenience for the rest of the data centers and extra maintenance these servers require.

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No.

/10char

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Originally Posted by Grimmel

I'm not server transferring after I've been a part of this server since beta.

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News Flash, its been overpopulated since 2.0 beta. You would have known this if you were an original Balmunger. We even had Ul'dah crashes in 1.x.

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Originally Posted by Gwendi

But I moved to Balmung specifically because it had a large RP community.

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Then you can pay 25% more to play on there.

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Originally Posted by Derio

I predict balmung won't be A playable server on day 1.

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Balmung HaHa. Balmung and Gilgamesh are going to melt the login server blocking 3/4 of Aether.

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Originally Posted by SomeRandomHuman

Solution: Mandatory transfers off of high pop servers.

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What should have been discussed is a brand new server untouched. The dead servers should have had to been merged opening a fresh server up. If we are discussing some sort of compromise all sides should have to make concessions. Another decent thing would be for Balmung and Gilgamesh to be their own Data center.

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Originally Posted by Moonlite

Balmung HaHa. Balmung and Gilgamesh are going to melt the login server blocking 3/4 of Aether.



What should have been discussed is a brand new server untouched. The dead servers should have had to been merged opening a fresh server up. If we are discussing some sort of compromise all sides should have to make concessions. Another decent thing would be for Balmung and Gilgamesh to be their own Data center.

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I personally don't care what they do to cut down the data center explosions as long as they do it. I'm sick and tired of losing gameplay time because those two servers were aloud to grow to game breaking size and nothing has really been mentioned until now.

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Originally Posted by Driavna

But Omega is a EU server, why someone for NA will go there?

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Most east coast players will get the same latency to EU as they do to California, amusingly enough

I've been on for about two-ish three hours and haven't noticed anything yet and I live in Ohio. /shrug

I'd imagine there's even more people in Balmung and Gilgamesh now than there were when Heavensward released.

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Originally Posted by NolLacnala

Most east coast players will get the same latency to EU as they do to California, amusingly enough

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Yup, pretty much same latency from Florida to EU servers. Maybe a few MS difference here and there but /shrug

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Originally Posted by Aramina

a) I was mostly teasing. (hence the wink)

b) But seriously, complaining about disconnects on a full server is akin to someone complaining that they are wet while standing in the rain.

It sucks, but we all knew this was going to happen.

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As a Balmungian myself. This.

We know the drawbacks to being on a high pop server. Look at it this way, we endure potential server queues while 95% of servers deal with RMT spam. I think it's a fair tradeoff.

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Originally Posted by SomeRandomHuman

Solution: Mandatory transfers off of high pop servers.

Before you complain you'll understand that I play on mateus, one of the unfortunate servers that's has to suffer data center reboots and maintenance because of the stupidly high congestion on BOTH Balmung AND Gilgamesh. A lot of the other servers are small yes, but that does not change the fact that we are subjugated to downtime forced upon us because of those two servers.

You lose literally nothing and perhaps even gain stuff by transferring off. The fee is waved and you can transfer all your gil and you're given a 100% housing refund plus an extra for lost furnishing.

You can't even use the "friends" excuse because ALL transfers AWAY FROM these servers is free. Who cares if there's not labels on servers? People will always hate on something.

If people ignore this golden opportunity I propose that high pop servers have their monthly sub increased by 25% to compensate for all the inconvenience for the rest of the data centers and extra maintenance these servers require.

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I suppose you can guarantee I'll have a house, hmm? Because I happen to have one now and the reimbursement fee means nothing to me. Luckily, I didn't have to buy one from a scalper, but I may not be so fortunate a second time. Regardless, mandatory transfers are useless. Do you not think people won't just congregate somewhere else? Say SE did force people off Balmung and Gilgamesh. Okay! The raid population opts to move to Sargatanas and the roleplayers all go en masse to Mateus. You've essentially renamed the mega servers.

Keep in mind, while the incentives are nice. An important omission is the 100% EXP buff. For those who have a house and roots on Balmung and Gilgamesh, why would they care about transferring gil? They like where they are. The one potential incentive would be easier levels for those who don't have all their jobs at 60. Even going that far, I'll cite myself and say I like Balmung. I have plenty of friends who are equally uninterested in leaving; both of the PvE, raid and roleplay variety, and I prefer high populated servers. Simply put, I am not interested in this "golden opportunity."

Seriously, if you're pissed that Balmung and Gilgamesh being so populous is breaking your gametime on the same datacenter, then YOU transfer instead of demanding happy players bail on the server they /want/ to be on.

Nothing about this should be mandatory.

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Originally Posted by Gwendi

But I moved to Balmung specifically because it had a large RP community.

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Mateus is also an RP server now I believe and Shiva is the EU RP server.

Too many connections connecting to a full server, plus maintenance put on hold until the release of the Stormblood patch for early access :/. Wish they wouldn't hold the maintenance, server maintenance is really important.

Do people get to choose where they transfer to? My FC has been kicking this idea around, but we want to go to the same server.

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Originally Posted by Amelia_Pond_Behemoth

Do people get to choose where they transfer to? My FC has been kicking this idea around, but we want to go to the same server.

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Yes, and you can transfer as many characters from one server to the same server at once.

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Originally Posted by SuzakuCMX

Mateus is also an RP server now I believe and I think EU is trying to make one of the EU worlds an RP world.

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Shiva is already the EU RP world, maybe they're making a second one?

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Originally Posted by ErryK

Shiva is already the EU RP world, maybe they're making a second one?

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Maybe they just didn't know when I asked them then, or I misunderstood what I was reading.