Concerted Efforts - restrict wanderer access

So, having spent a lot of the day earlier contributing to the Restoration, I nipped off for dinner during the two hour window before the Concerted Effort was to begin. I returned about twenty minutes early to get myself loaded in and settled and meet this:

https://i.imgur.com/RPQaWTT.png

The zone remained congested until 10 seconds after it ended.


Disappointing, obviously, but the worst part is that a large portion of those who actually did get in were from other servers, who had come to our world to take advantage of the massive rewards for these events having already done their own, and admitted that afterwards they are nipping off to other servers to hoard theirs, too. If it was just that the volume of people who contributed to the main run was too much for the system allocation for the instanced zone, that would be annoying, because that should obviously have been anticipated. But with the current system, people who contribute to the hand ins are being denied the right to participate in the concerted efforts because of world-hoppers running "FATE train" style taking up all the allocated space.

The zones should be locked to home world only to give residents the best chance at actually getting the benefit of their contibutions, as currently the only ways of seeing this are to hog a spot in the zone and just perma-afk there to be sure you're in, or join those others and steal it from other servers. At least for the first week or so until the zergers get bored.

Agreed, pretty damn disappointed, i contributed and never stood a chance to get in thanks to other world players.

Welcome to my world where I have to leave SBlood A rank hunts due to rendering and not being able to /tar the boss due to clumped up, wanderers. Started to farm gather mats then stopped when I saw how many to fill the gauge and there doesn't seem to be anywhere to turn in after. Not interested.

It really sucks when you can't participate in things on your own server because a thousand randos from other servers are clogging up the zone. The wanderer thing was a cool idea but it's caused my friends to crash out of the game and now is just locking people out of zones on their own server.

Not being able to do the Concerted Efforts on your homeworld is really upsetting and very disappointing. SE should have anticipated the volume of players that would be using this to level their crafters and the risk of wanderers coming in and locking out players. They've started a 'FATE-train' going from world to world to get as much exp as they can. :mad:

Honestly, I'm hoping they fix this and roll progress back to zero. Lots of people have been locked out of participating in something they might not get another chance at.

Spent the good part of my afternoon in there, crafting and turning items in. Came back from errands and dinner, couldn't get in the Firmament because the FATE was going to be up and the area was congested with off-world visitors. Pretty upset with this.

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Originally Posted by Lariel

Spent the good part of my afternoon in there, crafting and turning items in. Came back from errands and dinner, couldn't get in the Firmament because the FATE was going to be up and the area was congested with off-world visitors. Pretty upset with this.

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This is actually another issue: when I was stuck outside, another chap was saying he didn't even want to take part in the CE, but had a full inventory of collectables to hand in, and because the only turn in is inside this zone, he couldn't get in to hand them off. Meaning he couldn't go play, as he had zero inventory space until the wanderers left and he could get inside.

Cerberus was the first Chaos Server to fill the bar. Was exited to be there in time, but couldn't enter because it was congested - mostly by Ragnarok. So, since Ragnarok was the next server with the Fate, people from Cerberus mived to do it there since we couldn't on our own and were like 'hah, revenge'. And this started the World Visit trend on Chaos.

Yeah, there was a concerted effort coming up in an hour when I got home from work, I figured I'd gather mats for turn-ins while I waited. Come back five minutes before the pop only to find the Firmament congested - not by people from my own server, but FATE-train farmers from all over the datacentre. This shouldn't have been allowed to happen in the first place. Disgraceful.

Agreed, this should be emergency fixed. I finished the quest and logged out. I came back on in the zones and see my screen filled with peeps and was told by a friend not to leave the zone. I am currently stuck in the zone waiting out the 2hr timer - doing nothing!!!

I only have some hours to play and the 1 evening I can play - I can't, if I want the fate. SE Failure big time on this!

So - if on Goblin and see a Dark elf wandering around doing crazy emotes - say HI

I am honestly appalled that this was allowed to be crossworld contributed. This is content that SO many people were looking forward too and it was literally stolen by a handful of greedy jerks. Very few people on Adamantoise got to participate in the FATE if any, all the while being heckled by Cactuar wanderers who had formed a train to snipe and hoard every world that they could.

1) Get a life, perps

2) I agree that this should be locked from CW and ALL progress reset to zero across at entire game. Remove crossworld hunting while you're at it for all the S-rank snipers

3) Great idea, poor execution.

Wow so much hostility.
Can only add that after doing it on Shiva (my server) we went in group to lich to do even there where we arrived 20 min before it was going to start and had no issue getting in. Wierd other servers where overloaded at that point in time

I'm on Zalera, one of the smallest servers... And almost none of us Zalera's resident could get in.

It's really sad to not be able to do the special fate for something you have contributed on your home world. And this does nothing to bring people together, shout chat is so hostile from both sides and when you add to that the ones who brag after it for leeching on other's world fate it's just too much...

They really need to adress this and fast

Same happened to me and i've been spending about all day in there but got kicked out while i was eating and couldnt get back. For me its not even about the 500 scrips the events gives (already capped them 3x so 500 more 500 less), its about experiencing it day one. But we've got used to it on Crystal with Balmung. So a group of people organized on discord an pretty much leeched all the servers and deprived everybody else from the experience so they can be lazy earning them. And they did it all over Crystal. I know SE seems to think this community is nothing but special snowflakes, but those special snowflakes ruin it for everyone, and I think its about time they put restrictions. On the Firmament, for one, and on hunts, for two. Im extremely disappointed. Ive spent all day in there getting hyped up for it and getting kicked like that at the last moment and not being able to get back was bit a... disheartening. And meanwhile there are leeches that didnt lift a finger that are gonna experience it for the 10th time today. GG SE. GG.

We have a concerted work happening in about 30 minutes and The Firmament is already congested on Mateus.

I was already concerned when they decided that these events would happen at a scheduled time - one where most West coasters would be going to bed and a time that most East coasters would be sleeping (10:30pm Pacific/1:30am Eastern) and the congestion doesn't help matters at all. While I thoroughly enjoyed seeing my Weaver go from 29 to 51 tonight thanks to the Ishgard Restoration, I do hope that they come up with a better way to have these events occur. I'd imagine the congestion's something that they're seeing on the backend, so I'm hoping we hear about this sooner rather than the next Live Letter.

Fully agreed. They need to eliminate server-specific event access from wanderers asap. I came to the second one a full 30 minutes early and its clogged with world visit folks.

Seriously, this needs to be an instanced area. The Firmament in my world was congested at least 40 minutes before the CE was scheduled to start, but I saw people in shout chat saying they were starting to fill up our world an entire hour and a half before it was scheduled to start.

Yes to this. It's absolutely ridiculous that people from another server can come and lock native players out of their own restoration.

This kind of thing will not be put up with very long. Squenix needs to Hotfix this ASAP.

I got on late yesterday after work. I wanted to get on my servers CW to see how it works and contribute since I didn’t get to earlier. Was sorely disappointed when I couldn’t get into my own servers CW and there were 200 other people trying to get in as well. Keep the people from other servers out please. At least for the time being until the craziness has calmed down.