Please make Balmung a congested world and lock it down like the Firmament.

Title says it all. It's impossible to go to the Island Sanctuary because of this many people.
There's a 24/7 queue, even at dead hours 1AM~7AM, it's way too full with all the new characters and Wanderers and Travelers both. Ul'dah, Limsa and even Gridania are a laggy mess.
Please block entry from Travelers and Wanderers and disable the creation of new characters.

Or use the free server transfer to a fresh server so Balmung gets less congested. But that won't happen ofc and i wonder why, could it be cause Balmung is the ERP Hotspot of the game and the server with the worst housing market cause every second player wants to open a brothel...naaah that can't be it!

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Originally Posted by Ranaku

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Why should I be the one leave my home server because people, not from my server, are flocking to it?
World visiting is also a thing, you can very well open any type of venue you want in other servers.
Fun fact, most brothels aren't from Balmung even.

Please lock Balmung in and never let it out.

Or set it aflame. Sickness must be purged.

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Originally Posted by TheMightyMollusk

Please lock Balmung in and never let it out.

Or set it aflame. Sickness must be purged.

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Funny because the only people who will cry about this are Balmung house owners who want to show their friends their place and people (wanderers and travelers!) who will have to move their ERP spot elsewhere.

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Originally Posted by Yukimin

Why should I be the one leave my home server because people, not from my server, are flocking to it?
World visiting is also a thing, you can very well open any type of venue you want in other servers.
Fun fact, most brothels aren't from Balmung even.

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Balmung was in a really tough place even before the datacenter/server travel. On a new preferred server you wouldn't have any troubles is all i am saying.

People are staying way too long way too much and way too many inside their houses and apartments on balmung, way more than on any other server. For...well...reasons i guess! So instead of this futile protest maybe you should persuade your fellow balmung players to emote more on each other in the open streets again, that would most certainly do more than banning the travel. xD

Balmung was at it's peak when it was closed off before, so I agree. And lock transfers too.

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Originally Posted by Ranaku

Balmung was in a really tough place even before the datacenter/server travel. On a new preferred server you wouldn't have any troubles is all i am saying.

People are staying way too long way too much and way too many inside their houses and apartments on balmung, way more than on any other server. For...well...reasons i guess! So instead of this futile protest maybe you should persuade your fellow balmung players to emote more on each other in the open streets again, that would most certainly do more than banning the travel. xD

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This guy definitely has an erp alt or two on here.

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Originally Posted by TheMightyMollusk

Please lock Balmung in and never let it out.

Or set it aflame. Sickness must be purged.

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Ha. Ha. Funny. Never seen this joke before.

Even though when visiting, it was probably 99% Travelers. Locking it would keep the sickness out actually.

Square wants the servers to be balanced, if there is pressure inducing people to move then people will move to balance out the servers, it’s why square keeps housing limited, it’s their biggest incentive to get people to move to quiet and new servers

If balmung is too busy then move away from it, not upend the entire system because of one server

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Originally Posted by Rekun

This guy definitely has an erp alt or two on here.

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Damn how did you know? To be fair i had once, a long time ago, an alt on Balmung plus my mainchar was stationed some time on Goblin. Not for erp but well i saw enough to know that the problem here isn't caused by a lack of server space, nothing will ever fill that endless hole the Balmung players created. Pun intended!

Edit: Just cause i feel it needs to be said, i think if two consenting adult players want to emote on each other all night long that is their right and i have no business in that. BUT this problem is something that is caused by players not the game itself.

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Originally Posted by Ranaku

Damn how did you know? To be fair i had once, a long time ago, an alt on Balmung plus my mainchar was stationed some time on Goblin. Not for erp but well i saw enough to know that the problem here isn't caused by a lack of server space, nothing will ever fill that endless hole the Balmung players created. Pun intended!

Edit: Just cause i feel it needs to be said, i think if two consenting adult players want to emote on each other all night long that is their right and i have no business in that. BUT this problem is something that is caused by players not the game itself.

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Mostly your weird compulsion to make lame innuendo's unprovoked for no reason at all. Only ERP alts and travelers do that.

they haven't done anything about the sex tourists since world visit dropped, they're not going to do anything about it now, lol. just have to suffer through it and hope it dies down.

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Originally Posted by Wyssahtyn

they haven't done anything about the sex tourists since world visit dropped, they're not going to do anything about it now, lol. just have to suffer through it and hope it dies down.

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They don't do anything about it until it's "bad enough". A most recent example, the housing situation where we had 75% plots for FCs and 25% to personal. Still, I'd rather them deal with this issue late than never. Sooner would be ideal because my server is already a shadow of it's former self.

the only time i have issues getting into IS is during peak. 12-10 AM EST (which is my active time) i get in just fine. i can enter instances or log back into the sanctuary without being kicked out. i think that’s common in most servers, unfortunately we just have to wait until it dies down

They're probably not going to give Balmung special treatment so you can live in the equivalent of New York City or move somewhere quieter. Ya'll have a reputation for a reason, even without the ERP side of things you're the biggest hub for RP related activities in all of the NA servers.

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Originally Posted by Yukimin

Funny because the only people who will cry about this are Balmung house owners who want to show their friends their place and people (wanderers and travelers!) who will have to move their ERP spot elsewhere.

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Got a friend on Phoenix that has to keep his house locked because ERPers keep using it.

Not just a Balmung problem. Voyeurs everywhere.

Just transfer to another server, preferably new.

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Originally Posted by Imora

Got a friend on Phoenix that has to keep his house locked because ERPers keep using it.

Not just a Balmung problem. Voyeurs everywhere.

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https://twitter.com/SutaBuns/status/1264701751099305984

I'm on Balmung and have played it everyday just fine. I had once during prime time on release day that it took 30 seconds of clicking to get into the IS.

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Originally Posted by Rekun

This guy definitely has an erp alt or two on here.

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Seriously. Look at his past posts and they'll be the first to bring up erp for some odd reason.

But yeah I would like to try Island Sanctuary sometime in the future as this week, it was inaccessible to me.

How long are these queues?
Just curious, cause I think this expansion no world apart from the few dead ones has ever had no queue. But it's usually like 10-people, are the Balmung ones actually long queues?

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Originally Posted by Tlamila

How long are these queues?
Just curious, cause I think this expansion no world apart from the few dead ones has ever had no queue. But it's usually like 10-people, are the Balmung ones actually long queues?

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Yesterday I had the day off and tried in the morning and still couldn't get in or access my apartment. It's been congested pretty much all this week for me, no matter what time I try.

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Originally Posted by Violet_Galaxy

Yesterday I had the day off and tried in the morning and still couldn't get in or access my apartment. It's been congested pretty much all this week for me, no matter what time I try.

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Oh wow that's so bad!

Also I'm a total potato cause I read the OP wrong and thought it was about login queues and my bad, but this is super bad too.

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Originally Posted by Axxion

https://twitter.com/SutaBuns/status/1264701751099305984

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I remember that lol. Turned out it was a joke but it does happen.

I usually take most FFXIV issues in stride. However, the problems that have come with the release of Island Sanctuary are really starting to frustrate me because I haven't been able to enter my house since the patch released.

I'm sure Island Sanctuary is great, and I even look forward to trying it one day whenever everyone can actually access to it. But the fact of the matter is the developers willingly released a system into the game that essentially broke housing on my server. Either they failed to test for these congestion issues under a simulated scenario on par with Balmung's traffic, or they did test it and released Island Sanctuary knowing it would create these problems. Either scenario is bad.

I was pleased when they said they were looking into potential solutions. I am not pleased with their remaining solution for players to "try again later" once those potential solutions didn't pan out. I doubt many players in FFXIV are thinking "I need to access my house a moment.. or I could wait and do it in a month or so per the advice I was given, that's fine too..". Waiting for this problem to sort itself out is not an acceptable solution.

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Originally Posted by Yukimin

Title says it all. It's impossible to go to the Island Sanctuary because of this many people.
There's a 24/7 queue, even at dead hours 1AM~7AM, it's way too full with all the new characters and Wanderers and Travelers both. Ul'dah, Limsa and even Gridania are a laggy mess.
Please block entry from Travelers and Wanderers and disable the creation of new characters.

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New characters, Travelers and Wanderers have zero impact on your ability to visit your Island Sanctuary because they can't form new Island Sanctuary instances when not on their home world (or can't at all in the case of new characters). They can only enter an Island Sanctuary instance if visiting a Balmung player that is on their island, and that doesn't create a new instance. It places the player into the existing instance.

Every NA world has log in queues right now - it's patch week. Nothing new.

Players on every NA world are having problems entering Island Sanctuary and housing during normal and peak play hours. Island Sanctuary is new content everyone is trying out. Nothing new.

Wait two weeks and then it's something to revisit if it not being able to enter them outside of peak hours continues to be a problem (it's going to stay a problem during peak hours).

Last time Balmung was locked down as Congested for more than 2 months, Balmung players were complaining about how boring the game was without any "fresh blood" being added to its community.

Your best bet is to wait until the new NA data center opens in November (hopefully they don't have to delay it yet again) and hightail it off Balmung. You're always going to have problems as long as you remain on Balmung.

All the people hating on Balmung are the ones who hang out there all day long.

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Originally Posted by Axxion

https://twitter.com/SutaBuns/status/1264701751099305984

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Basically, that.

He says there's like three couples that do it and it's always the same ones.

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Originally Posted by TheMightyMollusk

Please lock Balmung in and never let it out.

Or set it aflame. Sickness must be purged.

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I support this.

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Originally Posted by Jojoya

New characters, Travelers and Wanderers have zero impact on your ability to visit your Island Sanctuary because they can't form new Island Sanctuary instances when not on their home world (or can't at all in the case of new characters). They can only enter an Island Sanctuary instance if visiting a Balmung player that is on their island, and that doesn't create a new instance. It places the player into the existing instance.

Every NA world has log in queues right now - it's patch week. Nothing new.

Players on every NA world are having problems entering Island Sanctuary and housing during normal and peak play hours. Island Sanctuary is new content everyone is trying out. Nothing new.

Wait two weeks and then it's something to revisit if it not being able to enter them outside of peak hours continues to be a problem (it's going to stay a problem during peak hours).

Last time Balmung was locked down as Congested for more than 2 months, Balmung players were complaining about how boring the game was without any "fresh blood" being added to its community.

Your best bet is to wait until the new NA data center opens in November (hopefully they don't have to delay it yet again) and hightail it off Balmung. You're always going to have problems as long as you remain on Balmung.

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Travelers and Wanderers do have an impact though. The Island Sanctuary uses the same server as the housing server. So all of the people who travel to another server to experience things like the clubs at Balmung do keep people in their houses longer on average than other servers. Meaning there's less space available for those wanting to try out Island Sanctuary or enter their house to access the repairman.