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That...Should be interesting for Balmung. Any bets as to how long before we get locked again?

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Originally Posted by Ilenya

That...Should be interesting for Balmung. Any bets as to how long before we get locked again?

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I give it a week.

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Originally Posted by Ilenya

That...Should be interesting for Balmung. Any bets as to how long before we get locked again?

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I'll be generous and say the same day

Balmung being opened the same time housing restrictions will be lifted on that server.. What could go wrong!?

Expecting Aether data center to crash.

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Originally Posted by Jxnibbles

Balmung being opened the same time housing restrictions will be lifted on that server.. What could go wrong!?

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And with that my dreams of housing are gone.

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Originally Posted by Jxnibbles

Balmung being opened the same time housing restrictions will be lifted on that server.. What could go wrong!?

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Crashes galore. But on the bright side, the housing won't last long enough for a transfer to complete anyway, so it's not like the competition will go up.

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Originally Posted by Jxnibbles

Balmung being opened the same time housing restrictions will be lifted on that server.. What could go wrong!?

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Some people just want to watch the world burn.

Not sure why they thought opening transfers/character creation on congested/locked servers (Balmung, obviously - but others, too) on top of opening the purchasing of individual plots was a good idea.

Inb4 Aether crashes from the combined flood.

Wow, that's going to be an early morning to get up and try to buy a house on the East Coast.

Why don't they disable plot purchasing for like a day or so after the maint so those of us with slower net actually have a chance? Why is this still a thing?

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Originally Posted by Mithron

Why don't they disable plot purchasing for like a day or so after the maint so those of us with slower net actually have a chance? Why is this still a thing?

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Honestly they should have waited at least another week or two before turning on the ability to buy personal plots again. Especially if they were planning to open up congested and locked worlds. This is a dumpster fire of salt waiting to happen on two fronts.

As much as I'd have liked to create some more alts on Balmung... I'm kind of glad I work right after patch

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Originally Posted by BillyKaplan

As much as I'd have liked to create some more alts on Balmung... I'm kind of glad I work right after patch

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I'm not touching it for a day. I'm expecting a flood.

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Originally Posted by Mithron

Why don't they disable plot purchasing for like a day or so after the maint so those of us with slower net actually have a chance? Why is this still a thing?

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Because people will camp the houses they want. So it'll boil down to "who clicked the placard faster" instead of "who logs in faster."

Before maintenance, turn down all your setting and pick a spot to log off where there likely won't be a ton of people. I'd actually suggest one of the existing house wards right to the ferry skipper. Very few people seem to actually stay inside a ward. So that may increase your odds. :)

I am so happy that Balmung is opening this is the best news I’ve heard all week

I'm glad I don't play on the Aether datacenter.

Aether will be wiped from existence :p

Opening Balmung has no bearing on the plots opening up. The plots that are left will be acquired long before you could even finish a transfer that morning anyway. Same for other big realms like Gilgamesh or maybe Cactaur/Mateus.

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Originally Posted by Jxnibbles

Balmung being opened the same time housing restrictions will be lifted on that server.. What could go wrong!?

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It’s like all my name days have come at once!!

May be entertaining to watch. :)

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Originally Posted by Istaru

It’s like all my name days have come me at once!!

May be entertaining to watch. :)

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I'll bring some popcorn!

I give it like 10 seconds before Balmung gets locked again. It'll be nice to see some fresh faces over there though.

Setting Aether on fire are we...let me grab my fiddle...

RIP Balmung again (and Aether for that matter). Clearly they have no idea what is about to happen when they open Hell's Gate.

Are there really that many people desperate to get onto Balmung? I mean it has a huge RP Community okay but seriously there's like 20 other servers you could go to.

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Originally Posted by Krokov

Are there really that many people desperate to get onto Balmung? I mean it has a huge RP Community okay but seriously there's like 20 other servers you could go to.

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The issue is, RPers always direct new RPers to Balmung because of it's community. This is what caused the problem in the first place. Mateus will take a hit now as well because they will want the bigger server.

Ah, crap... I'll be at work that day and probably won't get home until at least an hour or two after maintenance ends. Maybe I can sneak home real quick, grab a house and then head back to work. One of the benefits of being able to (somewhat) make your own schedule.

Plus there will be those who will want to transfer back cause they regretted moving, or those who will want to make an alt there in case/when Balmung closes again etc.

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Originally Posted by Settiesama

The issue is, RPers always direct new RPers to Balmung because of it's community. This is what caused the problem in the first place. Mateus will take a hit now as well because they will want the bigger server.

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Right now I am not so sure that Balmung actually has a bigger RP community than Mateus. Many people have left Balmung, and Mateus has grown an awful lot.

I am hoping that not everybody rushes back to Balmung though. Both Mateus and Omega have active and viable RP communities now, and I do think the game population is large enough to support three RP servers.

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Originally Posted by MistakeNot

Right now I am not so sure that Balmung actually has a bigger RP community than Mateus. Many people have left Balmung, and Mateus has grown an awful lot.

I am hoping that not everybody rushes back to Balmung though. Both Mateus and Omega have active and viable RP communities now, and I do think the game population is large enough to support three RP servers.

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When logging in, I see Mateus as most populated very often.

Finally!

/10char

Hmm. Contemplating on making an Alt there to see the horror 1st hand.

Well, next week on Balmung will be interesting.

Part of me wonders, though, exactly how many people are gonna return to Balmung? Almost want to think it’s perhaps mostly hype over the euphoria of “yay Balmung is open”. I’m a former resident there, and the pile of gil + private mansion I’ve acquired recently make the idea of having to manage gil to get under the cap allowed for transfer far too much of a hassle to deal with. Even if I had all that stuff in order right now, I’m VERY certain all the houses would be bought up by the time a transfer would complete.

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Originally Posted by Kazgrel

I’m VERY certain all the houses would be bought up by the time a transfer would complete.

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As far as Shirogane, Mist and Lavender are concerned, I highly expect every single placard to have at the least 3 people logging in at. Goblet (I personally love the place so a little upset it's disliked by most) will probably just end up getting rushed after all other plots are taken.

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Originally Posted by Kazgrel

Well, next week on Balmung will be interesting.

Part of me wonders, though, exactly how many people are gonna return to Balmung? Almost want to think it’s perhaps mostly hype over the euphoria of “yay Balmung is open”. I’m a former resident there, and the pile of gil + private mansion I’ve acquired recently make the idea of having to manage gil to get under the cap allowed for transfer far too much of a hassle to deal with. Even if I had all that stuff in order right now, I’m VERY certain all the houses would be bought up by the time a transfer would complete.

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I'm probably giving them too much credit for sneakiness, but I wonder if that's the whole point - make people pick. They know that Balmung transfers are going to be a nightmare, and they know housing is going to be a nightmare, so now people have to decide - stay and have a chance at a house on your lower-pop server, or transfer in before it's relocked but know you won't get a house? They're probably hoping that instead of 100% nightmare on both sides, it'll just be 75% nightmare, because most people can't do both.

Whatever the case, good luck to people - and I'm glad I'm not on Aether.

People keep talking about Balmung, but IIRC didn't the latest unofficial census show that some other server like Gilga or Levi had topped it in terms of population? Yeah, some of that might change after its opened up, but I'm curious to see if anyone's making plans to transfer/create a new character on any of the other equally-as-congested-if-not-more-so servers.

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Originally Posted by loreleidiangelo

Yeah, some of that might change after its opened up, but I'm curious to see if anyone's making plans to transfer/create a new character on any of the other equally-as-congested-if-not-more-so servers.

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Weren't those other servers largely open to transfers all this time? Leviathan is among the top 5 transfer-receivers in one of the more recent LuckyBancho surveys, much like Cactuar. Gilgamesh got the most in the last survey. Mateus and Omega also got a bunch (likely due to being unofficial RP realms. RIP them?).

I dunno.

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Originally Posted by Zojha

Weren't those other servers largely open to transfers all this time? Leviathan is among the top 5 transfer-receivers in one of the more recent LuckyBancho surveys, much like Cactuar. Gilgamesh got the most in the last survey. Mateus and Omega also got a bunch (likely due to being unofficial RP realms. RIP them?).

I dunno.

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Idk about transfers, but Levi's been closed to new character creation for a while now (my home server, occasionally get the urge to make alts I'll never play then delete a few days later).

The server rush back to Balmung probably won't be as bad as people are expecting, unless all of the players decide to transfer back to it.

While the congested world restrictions will be lifted, the standard character creation restriction is still in place for worlds that have a spike in activity. For example, Tonberry isn't a congested world, but currently has a restriction on character creation.

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Originally Posted by Ilenya

That...Should be interesting for Balmung. Any bets as to how long before we get locked again?

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A week at most. It's still very highly populated and I have little doubt that a lot of people who left will rush back to the server.

Then we'll see a repeat of Aether as a whole crashing due to Balmung being so dangerously bloated again.