Server Merge (Yes Please!)

Hello fellow players,

as you all can see, since payment started, the population of the servers is not very well.If you are for a Server Merge - please like this thread so devs can see it.

Its nearly impossible to get a pt together on Wutai for days, and i think other servers with lower population see the same.:confused:

(Not RL)Fun=MMO+many ppl

i think there is not much else information needed.

Regards and thx for your help.

HKP

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Originally Posted by HKP

Hello fellow players,

as you all can see, since payment started, the population of the servers is not very well.If you are for a Server Merge - please like this thread so devs can see it.

Its nearly impossible to get a pt together on Wutai for days, and i think other servers with lower population see the same.:confused:

i think there is not much else information needed.

Regards and thx for your help.

HKP

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What about starting a Character on a different World? Just saying

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Originally Posted by Nero

What about starting a Character on a different World? Just saying

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i'd much rather merge than to throw away over a year worth of the game and go through the early stages again.

I don't want merge on Gysahl. I see a lot of people running around and idk why but at least on my ls i see more ppl after jan 6 than before lol.

Why should i make a new character that i pay for too? i got multiple 50 only need 2 jobs leveled. that should not be the point

Posting only because the OP has a fantastic character name. That aside, I agree, server merges are definitely needed.

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Originally Posted by vax

I don't want merge on Gysahl. I see a lot of people running around and idk why but at least on my ls i see more ppl after jan 6 than before lol.

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I´m more happy too :) if it is ok on your server thats great, but what about merge the lowest population servers with the highest?

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Originally Posted by Sojiro

Posting only because the OP has a fantastic character name. That aside, I agree, server merges are definitely needed.

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Cheers Up ! :)

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Originally Posted by HKP

I´m more happy too :) if it is ok on your server thats great, but what about merge the lowest population servers with the highest?

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Merging Servers isnt actually an good Idea. Maybe you would like something like a Server Transfer. Merging is something different tho and atm not really an option until SE checked the Population like they said 2 Weeks ago.

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Originally Posted by Nero

Merging Servers isnt actually an good Idea. Maybe you would like something like a Server Transfer. Merging is something different tho and atm not really an option until SE checked the Population like they said 2 Weeks ago.

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If it would be free, that would be another idea too :)
Well, since SE are the only who can decide this, let´s see what they say

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Originally Posted by HKP

I´m more happy too :) if it is ok on your server thats great, but what about merge the lowest population servers with the highest?

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Well, they could just merge lowest servers. I don't want the merge atm because there is almost nothing to do. I see stronghold camps pretty full at some times, at some levels there is one or two good camps, if there is more people it will get a bit hard to find a spot. I don't see any problem with finding people for ifrit or even darkhold. And finally the problem with the market wards getting full of retainers.

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Originally Posted by vax

Well, they could just merge lowest servers. I don't want the merge atm because there is almost nothing to do. I see stronghold camps pretty full at some times, at some levels there is one or two good camps, if there is more people it will get a bit hard to find a spot. I don't see any problem with finding people for ifrit or even darkhold. And finally the problem with the market wards getting full of retainers.

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The Problem is not that you cannot find ppl for events, it is that most of the paying members already got multiple 50s and/or not leveling anymore. I dont think there are many new players around. Besides of that , merging only the lower populated servers seems logical to me.

I would rather have the option of server transfers with the offer of the first one being free, trolls and VG media will over exaggerate with server merging this early on with the start of billing,

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Originally Posted by Dhalmel

I would rather have the option of server transfers with the offer of the first one being free, trolls and VG media will over exaggerate with server merging this early on with the start of billing,

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this looks more and more interresting.
Like it´s sayed - don´t feed the trolls :o

Why are we still asking for server merges? They've already been announced, it's just a matter of waiting to see the exact details.

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Originally Posted by Arcell

Why are we still asking for server merges? They've already been announced, it's just a matter of waiting to see the exact details.

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Ok let me explain this to you.

The Reason why -we- are still asking for merges or server transfer option is because there are servers where you can´t actually enjoy every aspect in this game - like wutai - and on others you can - like besaid.

right now on wutai - 188

(dont take this too serious) since we are paying customers now, and not all players can enjoy this game because of the low population on some servers

we pay now - so we wanna play now

simple as that :)

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Originally Posted by HKP

Ok let me explain this to you.

The Reason why -we- are still asking for merges or server transfer option is because there are servers where you can actually play this game - like Besaid - and on others you simply can´t.

(dont take this too serious) since we are paying customers now, and not all players can enjoy this game because of the low population on some servers

we pay now - so we wanna play now

simple as that :)

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Yeah but they've already announced that they're going to. There's no need to ask anymore because we know they are indeed going to. It's just a matter of time at this point. They'll do it once they want to and not a minute sooner.

Well, i won´t argue on that.

but for me it´s Demand-driven supply that counts for a solid customer base

I feel your pain Hongkong Karnak is very empty as well second only to your server I believe. What we did on our server is just make 1 LS that functions as way to communicate between all the NA Linkshells.

It works out well when someone from LS A wants to get an Ifrit party they ask their shell then jump into the gathering shell and ask. We are able to get alot of things done that way. Shouting is tough because alot of people are bouncing city to city doing local, or gathering.

It may or may not work in your case but we run events almost daily now. And it has brought alot of people together.

Saronia which is supposed to be a low pop server seems to be quite active, 500+ people online from 4pm-11pm GMT

I search Karnak during NA peak times and have not got over 200 in a few weeks now. When you search just English players its usually around 50. Give or take some days are higher some are a bit lower.

I will check tonight at 5pm EST and 8pm EST and list the numbers

Umm, I agree with Arcell, one of the community reps already confirmed they will be looking into server mergers once subscriptions hit and they evaluate player populations, so there's really no point in this topic.

From Yoshi-P:

Hi, this is Producer/Director Yoshida here.

I understand your concern on the number of concurrent users.

Actually the world merge is currently in plan.

We will first analyze the number of players in the game after the billing service begins.
Based on that analysis, we will be running a simulation where the maximum concurrent access during the peak hours will become somewhere around 1500 to 2000 per World.
* The above number is provisional and not a finalized number.

And with the method on how the world merge will be done, it will not be done in a simple method where World A and World B will merge into a single new World.
In order for EU players to gather on the same server in a certain mass, we are planning to go with the method where the players from a World with a less population can designate the World they wish to transfer to.

With the details such as when and how it will be done, they will be announced once they are confirmed.
(I'm assuming that the next update should become available in mid-January.)

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Originally Posted by Garlen

Umm, I agree with Arcell, one of the community reps already confirmed they will be looking into server mergers once subscriptions hit and they evaluate player populations, so there's really no point in this topic.

From Yoshi-P:

Hi, this is Producer/Director Yoshida here.

I understand your concern on the number of concurrent users.

Actually the world merge is currently in plan.

We will first analyze the number of players in the game after the billing service begins.
Based on that analysis, we will be running a simulation where the maximum concurrent access during the peak hours will become somewhere around 1500 to 2000 per World.
* The above number is provisional and not a finalized number.

And with the method on how the world merge will be done, it will not be done in a simple method where World A and World B will merge into a single new World.
In order for EU players to gather on the same server in a certain mass, we are planning to go with the method where the players from a World with a less population can designate the World they wish to transfer to.

With the details such as when and how it will be done, they will be announced once they are confirmed.
(I'm assuming that the next update should become available in mid-January.)

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Please read post #16 and #18
Since there is no announcement yet when this feature will be implementet we should post here - i really dont think the next update would be in the next some days. More like mid Feb. it´s more likely to be

Other thing that i see is that you are on a server with one of the best populations atm, so i can understand , sir, for you, it is a pointless thread.
Demand-driven supply is the key word

Maybe we get some Rep give us an update? :D

I would rather see a merge then a transfer since a transfer is going to mess up many LSs. A merge would b nice since it will just add more PPL to a server, but should change the name of the sever after that tho. And yes it has been kinda tough to do stuff lately HKP since our LS is not popin like it used to lol. We should b getting some info from the devs i would think soon since we pay now and im sure they have stuff to say to the paying bunch.

Transfers would be a bad idea right now, because not everyone has the will to spend time transfering the character, what would leave the lowest populated servers even less populated and the most populated ones even more populated.

IMO a merge is a must to balance the populations...only after a merge then server transfer could become a good option because by then the population at every server would be somewhat even.

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Originally Posted by Headseed

I search Karnak during NA peak times and have not got over 200 in a few weeks now. When you search just English players its usually around 50. Give or take some days are higher some are a bit lower.

I will check tonight at 5pm EST and 8pm EST and list the numbers

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QFT ^

Gyshal has around 500 ppl but only ~100 are NA-FR-DE.

Hoping this happens soon.

Palamecia last night at 8:00PM EST: 192 players (nobody running ifrit or moogle)
Palamecia today at 8:00AM EST: 465 (gotta love the jp bump)

I logged off early last night for lack of people searching/groups already running >.>

I did my searches last night at 5:30 pm EST and 8 PM EST

At 5:30 I showed just over 100 people online on Karnak 51 of them EN
At 8pm Server size was up to about 150 people online with 53 of them EN

A server merger would be good if and only if SE dosent allow players the choice of servers, as this will create the same problem we have now. A forced server merger from 1 server to another only, no option should be given to have players choose what server they want at this time. If players get to choose where they want to go we will still have servers that have hardly anyone on. The best solution at this time is a forced merger to whatever server SE chooses for now.
I disagree with SE doing it so that certain regions are populated at peak times by regions. This game should remain as all regions all the time. I want to play with people from other countries and this should not be an option, nor should SE even think about doing it this way. If you have all countries playing together peak times will vary through out the day and there is no reason for anyone not to beable to find a party or what not. If it is done by regions we will still have the same issue. Once the peak time is over for that region the server will be less populated for other players.

Eh, I rather stay on a low population server but if we have to merge I'd rather it be a forced all into the same new server type merge.

My only concern is naming conflicts, retainer conflicts, linkshell conflicts with the move.

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Originally Posted by CrystalWeapon

Eh, I rather stay on a low population server but if we have to merge I'd rather it be a forced all into the same new server type merge.

My only concern is naming conflicts, retainer conflicts, linkshell conflicts with the move.

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Hm it would be a possible solution too, but what SE sayed, i dont think they would merge into only one new server