Data center travel

Maybe a dumb question but how do I visit other regions? I wanna visit some friends over in EU. But I can only seem to open the menu to visit, Aether, Crystal and Primal.

The "North America" part is frozen in place and cant switch it to Europe. And it only shows those three datacenters.

The only reason I had interest in data center travel was for visiting EU friends but I cant seem to figure out how.

it's not a thing, at least not yet. we can only visit data centers in the same region as our original dc.

You can't. So far, Data Centre travel only applies to Data Centres of the same region.

Oh thats sad to hear. I hope they open up other regions soon it was the only reason I was excited for it.

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Originally Posted by Juun

Oh thats sad to hear. I hope they open up other regions soon it was the only reason I was excited for it.

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Wouldn't hold your breath on that tbh. They stated a reason for that is due to difference in values/playstyles & market systems. So basically the NA servers would have to show we can mesh well with EU/JPs side of the game before we'd be allowed to go there.

If you watch the circus that is happening in Balmung atm you might understand why it's limited at the moment. Personally I'd love to see it opened given i have characters in all regions of the game.

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Originally Posted by LianaThorne

Wouldn't hold your breath on that tbh. They stated a reason for that is due to difference in values/playstyles & market systems. So basically the NA servers would have to show we can mesh well with EU/JPs side of the game before we'd be allowed to go there.

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I think the better explanation would be that no one can handle balmung but the NA datacenters.

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Originally Posted by gotaname1

I think the better explanation would be that no one can handle balmung but the NA datacenters.

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Why are you kicking a dead horse?

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Originally Posted by gotaname1

I think the better explanation would be that no one can handle balmung but the NA datacenters.

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Oddly enough I see ERP explicitly mentioned in pf ads and it's not on Crystal/Balmung but across the pond. I personally hope we get to DC travel everywhere once they shake out the bugs regionally.

The last official statement on the matter as far as I recall, earlier this year.

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...837.1597828932

> Launching of Data Center Travel System
> As I previously mentioned in a Live Letter, while the system has been designed to allow cross-region travel, we'll be limiting it to travel between logical data centers within a physical data center at first due in part to differences in game economy and values.
> We’ll be paying keen attention to the opinions of players as we consider whether or not to introduce cross-region travel in the future.

Considering the Oceania data centre only exists because JP demanded it to get rid of 外国人 instead of actually, y'know, helping Oceania residents -- never. Ever. Neeeveerrr ever. Japan would blow gasket.

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Considering the Oceania data centre only exists because JP demanded it to get rid of 外国人 instead of actually, y'know, helping Oceania residents -- never. Ever. Neeeveerrr ever. Japan would blow gasket.

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Also the market price gonna be a hell in JP server if you can still can buy it from other region...

I've been enjoying Data Center Travel so much! I haven't even touched the other 6.18 stuff. So much fun.

I think regional travel would be lots of fun, too.

Cross-region travel might sound fun, but it's likely to be problematic in different ways, starting with lag and language barrier.

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Originally Posted by Deveryn

Cross-region travel might sound fun, but it's likely to be problematic in different ways, starting with lag and language barrier.

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I have a level 90 character in Japan on Chocobo and it's fine although the language is an issue especially when it comes to hunt calls for A trains given it's hard to understand the ping information. Tonberry is a server with a lot of English speaking people. Traveling to the EU and Materia would be nice although it would be a hard sell to allow those and not Japan.

I had a friend in the EU that used to play on Excal, but left it behind due to bad ping which really hurt during savage content.

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Originally Posted by Deveryn

Cross-region travel might sound fun, but it's likely to be problematic in different ways, starting with lag and language barrier.

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The lag is acceptable. I have alts on Crystal and Materia. You can still play very well. :) And language barrier? It depends. :)


Cheers

Yeah Lag is really overstated at least between NA and EU, I'm a Irish player who plays on Crystal and have other EU friends who have mains on Crystal, its honestly not that bad at all

To piggy back off this I would like to put my vote in for cross-region travel. I would love to be able to play with my friends on Oceania and European servers. And I'd love to host my friends on my server. They could disable markets for cross region travel if people are so worried about economies being destabilized

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Originally Posted by LaylaTsarra

If you watch the circus that is happening in Balmung atm you might understand why it's limited at the moment. Personally I'd love to see it opened given i have characters in all regions of the game.

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how bad is bmung? i transferred out about 2 months ago because i thought it would become highly questionable