Impossible to create a new character on Famfrit?

Hi all,

I've met some people irl that play in Famfrit and I wanted to create a character there so I could hang out with them a bit.

But it's been FULL. Non-stop. For like... 3-4 days in a row?

I'm on till 1am, get up at 8am for work from home. Constantly checking the status. Full. Always full. I've seen it not-full exactly ONE time, and it was the one-second period between 9:59 and 10pm PDT last night when the forced maintenance was on. Not enough time to create a character.

Is there like... a bot factory there or something? I can understand mostly-full because it's currently preferred, but literally every minute of the day that I'm awake, it's full.

The heck do I do about this? Is there no other way but to wait until it becomes non-preferred or something? I want to stress that *other preferred worlds in other data centers are NOT full 24/7. It is only Famfrit*

Halp!

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Originally Posted by Nightingaile

Hi all,

I've met some people irl that play in Famfrit and I wanted to create a character there so I could hang out with them a bit.

But it's been FULL. Non-stop. For like... 3-4 days in a row?

I'm on till 1am, get up at 8am for work from home. Constantly checking the status. Full. Always full. I've seen it not-full exactly ONE time, and it was the one-second period between 9:59 and 10pm PDT last night when the forced maintenance was on. Not enough time to create a character.

Is there like... a bot factory there or something? I can understand mostly-full because it's currently preferred, but literally every minute of the day that I'm awake, it's full.

The heck do I do about this? Is there no other way but to wait until it becomes non-preferred or something? I want to stress that *other preferred worlds in other data centers are NOT full 24/7. It is only Famfrit*

Halp!

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Game population has increased with the closing of schools and the quarantine. Many US states are reopening mid May which should see a corresponding drop in the FFXIV player base.

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Originally Posted by Edax

Game population has increased with the closing of schools and the quarantine. Many US states are reopening mid May which should see a corresponding drop in the FFXIV player base.

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Long periods of closures I get. That's how all of the other preferred servers are behaving. Full for the majority of the day except for non-common hours. Every other server has had a period of being open except Famfrit though. Why Famfrit!? D:

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Originally Posted by Nightingaile

Long periods of closures I get. That's how all of the other preferred servers are behaving. Full for the majority of the day except for non-common hours. Every other server has had a period of being open except Famfrit though. Why Famfrit!? D:

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As I look at the chart, Famfrit is not a particularly busy server, population may not be the problem. I myself am on Lethvitian which has one of the highest populations and that is currently open to character creation. https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/worldstatus/

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EQX1xluU...png&name=large

[QUOTE=Edax;5344673]As I look at the chart, Famfrit is not a particularly busy server, population may not be the problem. I myself am on Lethvitian which has one of the highest populations and that is currently open to character creation. https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/worldstatus/

Oh that's a lovely chart! thanks! :)

But if it's not population, what could be the cause?

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Originally Posted by Edax

As I look at the chart, Famfrit is not a particularly busy server, population may not be the problem. I myself am on Lethvitian which has one of the highest populations and that is currently open to character creation. https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/worldstatus/

Oh that's a lovely chart! thanks! :)

But if it's not population, what could be the cause?

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Online players at once.

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Originally Posted by Nightingaile

But if it's not population, what could be the cause?

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Servers open & close character creation throughout the day based on how many characters are simultaneously logged in at once. If you're unable to create a character during a certain set of hours, you'll either need to try again later, or try during the game's dead hours when a lot less people are awake. (3/4am - 7am EST, especially during weekdays). (With quarantine, I'd be even more inclined to say the window is even shorter, probably closer to 3/4am - 6am)

Alternatively, if you absolutely want 100% chance of getting in and don't mind spending $18 to do so, you can create a character on a server that is open, play around with it a bit, and then three days later transfer the character through the world transfer service on mogstation, which bypasses the above system. (Unless the server is hard-locked from character creation, but afaik no server is hard-locked atm.) I've had to do it twice to get characters on servers with friends since I'm never awake during the open windows for the servers my friends were on.

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Originally Posted by MariaArvana

Servers open & close character creation throughout the day based on how many characters are simultaneously logged in at once. If you're unable to create a character during a certain set of hours, you'll either need to try again later, or try during the game's dead hours when a lot less people are awake. (3/4am - 7am EST, especially during weekdays). (With quarantine, I'd be even more inclined to say the window is even shorter, probably closer to 3/4am - 6am)

Alternatively, if you absolutely want 100% chance of getting in and don't mind spending $18 to do so, you can create a character on a server that is open, play around with it a bit, and then three days later transfer the character through the world transfer service on mogstation, which bypasses the above system. (Unless the server is hard-locked from character creation, but afaik no server is hard-locked atm.) I've had to do it twice to get characters on servers with friends since I'm never awake during the open windows for the servers my friends were on.

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Ouch that's rough... but solid advice I appreciate it :)

Guess I'll keep trying for a couple more days, see if I get lucky. If not.. well I'll have to see how much I wanna keep my $18 lol.

Thanks so much for your help <3

Theres a few different types of server status, and the amount of players needed varies by server.

Full/Locked is simultaneous online users.
Congested is based on a sliding scale of total pop, active pop and simultaneous users.

The requirements for those are pretty arbitrary though. JP servers will congest at populations NA servers are preferred and open (at one point JP was congesting on hitting 60% active pop of the lowest congested NA server), and at one time EU servers were waiting until even longer to congest.

Locked,, you just have to character create well outside peak hours.

Do we really need a thread every time someone can't make a character on a full server?

I've seen it open a lot when I get up usually around 5-6am est. Try then maybe if possible. Go to bed early so you can get up early ya know

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Originally Posted by spf1200

Do we really need a thread every time someone can't make a character on a full server?

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Someone new to the game isn't going to understand why they can't make a character on the same world as their friends, especially when that world is marked Preferred and supposedly recommended for new characters.

RMT Bots are hitting the preferred worlds hard to create characters then use world visit to set them up elsewhere for botting activity. I've been seeing a lot of Wanderer bots lately while leveling an alt. All that bot character creation is making things hard for legitimate players.