Server Merge Destination - EU Players

I thought it might be worth discussing where EU players on Cornelia might like to go. There aren't a huge number of active EU LS's (though there are certainly quite a few), however, there are a good number of EU players who are members of some of the same LS's, or who have friends in these LS's.

It seems a shame to potentially get broken up, and it would be nice to try and stay together if possible.

Knights Of The Round (KOTR - which I am leader of) is still deciding where we might like to go.

Any thoughts, anyone else?

I was waiting for this post. :)
Since none else has decided anything yet, I vote for World 1.

Cornelia is the first town of the first Final Fantasy game and none else has suggested anything yet so Number 1 is as good as any number.

This server tranfer gives us the oportunity to create regional dedicated servers so I hope most if not all people from Europe will follow.


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Theres this topic here http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ers-new-server
They suggest to all the European players to gather at Server 10 (the German - French one)
It doesnt sound bad, what do you guys say?

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Originally Posted by Meleena

I was waiting for this post. :)
Since none else has decided anything yet, I vote for World 1.

Cornelia is the first town of the first Final Fantasy game and none else has suggested anything yet so Number 1 is as good as any number.

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This was why I chose Cornelia, and why I am pushing for the same.

We are first city, we are first server. I hope for a cornelia united.

I would not only suggest EU LSs to move together, but the entire Cornelia community. Knights of the Round, Kweh, Emerald Dream, Valour, Luminair, Zodiark, Valkyrie Network, Dark Alliance, and all other LS that don't come in my mind atm, I'm asking the leaders of these LSs (since I'm assuming that LSs will want to keep together): do you want us to go together to the same server?

Yeah I like this idea as well, but we still have to decide on a server.

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Originally Posted by Bebekurenai

I would not only suggest EU LSs to move together, but the entire Cornelia community. Knights of the Round, Kweh, Emerald Dream, Valour, Luminair, Zodiark, Valkyrie Network, Dark Alliance, and all other LS that don't come in my mind atm, I'm asking the leaders of these LSs (since I'm assuming that LSs will want to keep together): do you want us to go together to the same server?

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Yes please

server 1? luls

As the only active Sackholder in Kweh, alot of players have been asking me about merging because they want to stay together.

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Originally Posted by Bebekurenai

I would not only suggest EU LSs to move together, but the entire Cornelia community. Knights of the Round, Kweh, Emerald Dream, Valour, Luminair, Zodiark, Valkyrie Network, Dark Alliance, and all other LS that don't come in my mind atm, I'm asking the leaders of these LSs (since I'm assuming that LSs will want to keep together): do you want us to go together to the same server?

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I agree, this way we will basicly have the same Cornelia's community plus the extras that join from low-population servers. (aka would look as if another server merged into ours).

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Originally Posted by Meleena

EDIT:
Theres this topic here http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ers-new-server
They suggest to all the European players to gather at Server 10 (the German - French one)
It doesnt sound bad, what do you guys say?

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Thats also another good option we can look at. It will result in a vast EU community on a single server.

However, if we do go to server No.10 there will prolly be very little non-EU players. Meaning we will loose all the NA players we already have because they will avoid server No.10.

I still have to read all the posts in that link you posted Meleena.

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It will be nice to hear from leaders of other LS of what thier thoughts are. We have to decide if its gonna be :

A) Server No.1 (or number X that we all agree on)

Pro : Have all Cornelia's community + alot of new players.
Con : Not very high on EU players since some will go to Server No.10.

B) Server No.10

Pro : have high EU pop
Con : few NA players.

Regarding server option 10, I would treat this server with care. Since it's the one recommended for EU players, it will probably soon be full enough for us to move to, especially if we plan on moving all together.
Eu players might not be enough to scale with japanese and american zones, but if they gather up in one single server, it will be definetly enough to fill it up.
Also, I personally would love to be in a server where there are players all the time, not language based or time zone based. But that's just me, as I've experienced to be able to play with most on different schedules. it's just awesome to play with people from all around the globe ;D

server 10 is a bad idea, if i wanted a area specific server theres plenty of games that offer it, but i like playing with NA's and im english and play late, so id be playing at dead times neway.
Server 1 idea would work but for one thing, server 1 is the most obvious choice for those with a my world is best and should be first attitude, which means we wont be the only people tryin for server 1, and with population caps on each server, if were trying 2 basicly move cornelia somewhere else then a server like 5/6 might work better

yea i agree with both bebe on the side of it would be nice to move with the linkshells and people we are familiar with and to stay together and on a plus side were all going to lose the dead wood rotting our linkshell lists when we have to reform our almost iconic LS's (at least that how i see the LS names)

As for Embers comment I agree with that also as I see server 1 as being the easy choice for the lazy to just say its first on the list lets just join there, and server 10 I don't personally like as I don't want to put myself in a position where when I sign on at an unusual time I don't want to feel like im in a ghost town.

i'm happy with any choice for server just a little apprehensive about server 1 being over crowded and we end up going there and we lose people due to them not getting in on time, and then have to find a server where we can all fit.....cause some of us dont always come online everyday and due to work commitments might be unable to sign in on the 1st of march to make and log your server choice and ultimately lose our friends, cause i know if i am not able to stay in the same community i would quit the game until such time i had the freedom to join my friends again..

Ok everyone, there is already a Linkshell existing for purposes like this, and we thought we might aswell make good use of it. The name is "United Linkshells of Cornelia", active again just for this merge subject, and to easen communication between us all.

I want to encourage all officers/leaders from Cornelia's Linkshells to /tell either myself Bebe Karakurenai, Blenka Sop or Thug Hunter for an invite.

Please let us gather and discuss wether we go together and more important, where we want to go.

Ok it seems pretty clear that Server 10 doesnt fit the Cornelia - style of gaming and I agree with you guys on that.
On the Server 1 thought it's very intresting that most of the other servers already expect us to go to Server 1...

I have looked on the other world threads to see what the other servers have in mind and I found that it generally goes like this:

World 1: Cornelia
World 2:
World 3: Istory, Mysidia
World 4: Fabul,
World 5: Selbina, Lindblum
World 6: Gyshal, Figaro
World 7: Trabia, Wutai
World 8: Besaid
World 9: Palamecia, RPCommunity
World 10: EU

Undecided: Rabanastre, Bodhum, Melmond, Saronia, Karnak, Kashuan

As I see it right now Server 1 is a pretty safe bet for us, the only problem is what are the Japanese thinking about it.
On the other hand too many people have thought of suggesting server 5 or 6 :)

Waiting on people's thoughts.

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Originally Posted by Meleena

Ok it seems pretty clear that Server 10 doesnt fit the Cornelia - style of gaming and I agree with you guys on that.
On the Server 1 thought it's very intresting that most of the other servers already expect us to go to Server 1...

I have looked on the other world threads to see what the other servers have in mind and I found that it generally goes like this:

World 1: Cornelia
World 2:
World 3: Istory, Mysidia
World 4: Fabul,
World 5: Selbina, Lindblum
World 6: Gyshal, Figaro
World 7: Trabia, Wutai
World 8: Besaid
World 9: Palamecia, RPCommunity
World 10: EU

Undecided: Rabanastre, Bodhum, Melmond, Saronia, Karnak, Kashuan

As I see it right now Server 1 is a pretty safe bet for us, the only problem is what are the Japanese thinking about it.
On the other hand too many people have thought of suggesting server 5 or 6 :)

Waiting on people's thoughts.

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This is so helpful. I was hoping someone would try this in the general forums. Guess it's just to messy for factual posts with all the drama.

Don't think the JP are a big concern, our server is mostly jp already, and it doesn't cause problems

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Originally Posted by Meleena

Ok it seems pretty clear that Server 10 doesnt fit the Cornelia - style of gaming and I agree with you guys on that.
On the Server 1 thought it's very intresting that most of the other servers already expect us to go to Server 1...

I have looked on the other world threads to see what the other servers have in mind and I found that it generally goes like this:

World 1: Cornelia
World 2:
World 3: Istory, Mysidia
World 4: Fabul,
World 5: Selbina, Lindblum
World 6: Gyshal, Figaro
World 7: Trabia, Wutai
World 8: Besaid
World 9: Palamecia, RPCommunity
World 10: EU

Undecided: Rabanastre, Bodhum, Melmond, Saronia, Karnak, Kashuan

As I see it right now Server 1 is a pretty safe bet for us, the only problem is what are the Japanese thinking about it.
On the other hand too many people have thought of suggesting server 5 or 6 :)

Waiting on people's thoughts.

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Server 1 at the moment might be a safe bet, but theres also the fact that there are undecideds to consider. If everyone from cornelia and rabanastre decided to go to server 1 on top of the jp population its going to be a hell hole. Jumping into a server that already has a low pop server dedicating to it like world 4 might be a safer bet.

Well if the undecided people care to check on what's happening to other servers so they can decide, they will be able to see what world is occupied by whom and they will decide accordingly.

The important part is to have a server chosen (Number 1 for now) so that the other servers have a general idea on whats happening, and then if something goes wrong we can decide to change.

Also if you take Pads into account: http://xivpads.com/?ServerMerge
World 1 is still a safe bet, since its the 3rd server with the lowest population so far.

By the way because of this:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...004#post549004

I think we should postpone our server merging plans for next week, let's see what happens first.

Historically the first choice is the one that fills first, making server 1 a very risky server to "plan" on choosing if you want everyone to have adequate time to choose to move to server 1 during the time window.

If you remember, Cornelia was the first server to hit max capacity at the start of FFXIV's launch for that reason and gave the server full, choose another, from day one and onward.

Also if you want to be "CORNELIA" there would be no way to tell which of the 10 server's is Cornelia... sure its FF1 and the servers started in that pattern but some of the first 10 servers are not the 10 most populous (Wutai for instance) so you can't assume they'd name them to that schema. Its probably best to just choose a server you know won't fill up quickly so that everyone you want to play with can get in before it population locks.

For instance I could say Server 1 is going to be named Selbina because it has the #1 highest JP population right now (last time I saw a reading). Which would make Cornelia Server 4 if they decided to name from Top->Bottom populations (for that particular reading it was 4th, but may not be the case overall).


On another note about Yoshi's letter, its very interesting because that plan has a flaw in it because they want 10 servers but theres 18 worlds so they can only merge 9 times and allow 1 overflow server but that overflow server might have nearly no body at all... I think thats why they chose the decide your fate option to start with.

Actually only 9 servers, if 10 is being reserved for eu

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Historically the first choice is the one that fills first, making server 1 a very risky server to "plan" on choosing if you want everyone to have adequate time to choose to move to server 1 during the time window.

If you remember, Cornelia was the first server to hit max capacity at the start of FFXIV's launch for that reason and gave the server full, choose another, from day one and onward.

Also if you want to be "CORNELIA" there would be no way to tell which of the 10 server's is Cornelia... sure its FF1 and the servers started in that pattern but some of the first 10 servers are not the 10 most populous (Wutai for instance) so you can't assume they'd name them to that schema. Its probably best to just choose a server you know won't fill up quickly so that everyone you want to play with can get in before it population locks.

For instance I could say Server 1 is going to be named Selbina because it has the #1 highest JP population right now (last time I saw a reading). Which would make Cornelia Server 4 if they decided to name from Top->Bottom populations (for that particular reading it was 4th, but may not be the case overall).

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You have missed the point, we dont actually care what the server name will be, we are reffering to server 1 as cornelia server because we want to move there as "Cornelia".
We will use the new name of the server when it will be renamed.

Now about your concern of overflowing world 1, up until now there is nothing indicating that this will happen.
Everybody is thinking that world 1 is gonna be overpopulated so everybody choose to go on a different world, making world 1 a safe place to go for us.
Also if we make our intentions of going to world 1 known to other people, then they will choose a different world for them.
It's not that there are this many people playing the game in the first place and most of them have already decided on where to go.

Now all this planning might not even be needed cause Yoshi-P is thinking on changing to Plan 2 so we have to wait untill the week is over.

Albeit we are not on the same sever we too aren't going to migrate to the "EU" server. Just seems like a bad idea.

Counting Sheep,

One of the several EU LSes from fabul.

Hello! Kweh leader here sorry for not replying earlier but was having problems with the forums.
i read the topic and while i first thought of going to world 10.. reading the various replies it might seem indeed
a good idea to stick together with as many as we can. Il have a discussion with kweh members about this since some ppl haven't been online yet and il keep you guys updated either via here or the united ls of cornelia.

KotR are staying in Durandal.

Thanks for the Heads up Bebe!

would be great to keep playing Cornelia players on the new server

well this is a problem. looks likeim not able to join durandall the server my linkshells are going to. ok found out that if i choose default i will remain on the one i am on.

Cornelia will become durandal Zephyr, you will be with us.

Durandal ftw

Sad to see the Cornelia EU community opting out of Ragnarok as that's where me and my friends are heading. Wish you all the best on your new servers though :)

Are KOTR recruiting? I'm looking for an active English speaking LS. I'm kinda new though, so...