Dynamis DC's Duty Finder is pretty much dead, and people are using Party Finder to fill parties for normal raids and normal trials. Everyone goes to another Data Center for content, only making their characters there to get the Road to 90 EXP boost.
Unless you have an out of game friend who made a character there, the only reason why people go there is to kill Hunt Marks.
Shadow DC has the worst of both worlds, so to speak.
People are unable to make a character there, leaving it without the playerbase boost of people who don't know what World Travel is yet, and while on the NA Datacenter you just grin and bear it, you aren't able to access your Retainers or your Free Company's 2 buffs because you're on a world that isn't your Home World.
People literally only went to Shadow DC to kill Hunt Marks because Party Finder was better on both Chaos and Light DC, or to abuse the fact that there was practically no-one on the DC to cheese Mentor Roulette or Crystalline Conflict.
If Dynamis was first made as a Probationary Data Center to "see what happens", we'd still have only 3 NA Data Centers.
Shadow was dead on arrival because it doesn't have any of the reasons why a group of players would want to play for a prolonged period of time.
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08-16-2024, 08:51 PMLibitIncarneShadow DC vs Dynamis DC
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08-16-2024, 08:58 PMTDawnstar
I don't think they intended Shadow to be permanent, only as an overflow. It is getting removed soon anyway.
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08-16-2024, 08:59 PMRuebyWait really? Why soQuote:
Originally Posted by TDawnstar
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08-16-2024, 09:06 PMCaptainLagbeard
https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...153483dbda9ea6
The Shadow DC was only really meant for people to use during the launch of DT as extra space in-case worlds got too full as they did with EW launch... A lot of servers had queues in the thousands at EW launch, they wanted to avoid that.
Their plan was to make a new temporary DC, let people travel to it and play on it while their regular one was full. -
08-16-2024, 09:08 PMHyperiaShadow was designed as surge capacity to prevent long queues for people to play, it was never intended to last.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rueby
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08-16-2024, 09:10 PMRuebyOh I never knew that...interesting approach..??? I thought it'd be a permanent DC, but I guess it makes sense, EU isn't that large and no need to spread us thinly...Quote:
Originally Posted by CaptainLagbeard
I see, I was out of loop since I didn't play for a long while, I only heard they were adding a new DC, just didn't know it was a temporary oneQuote:
Originally Posted by Hyperia
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08-16-2024, 09:14 PMShinku_Tachi
Sorry you're having a rough time on Shadow, but calling Dynamis dead is an outright lie.
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08-16-2024, 09:14 PMAmecoeur
*Cries in Materia DC*
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08-16-2024, 11:26 PMLibitIncarneDynamis was very much dead when it only had 4 worlds in it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shinku_Tachi
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08-16-2024, 11:48 PMShinku_TachiGotcha. I wasn't there then, so I can't speak on that. I was on Primal from 2013 to 2021, then Crystal from 2021 till a few months back. Since being on Dynamis over the past few months though, while the PF isn't as active as Primal's or Crystal's was, I've had no trouble doing content.Quote:
Originally Posted by LibitIncarne
(also, I would like to apologize if my post came off as antagonistic, that wasn't my intention. I feel bad about coming at you like that after rereading my post.) -
08-17-2024, 12:55 AMDynnDiablos
I haven't had a single issue with Duty Roulette on Dynamis.
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08-17-2024, 12:59 AMUncle_Jafar
Dynamis DF is dead? I guess I hallucinated clearing alexander last night.
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08-17-2024, 01:01 AMGember
You have to thank Endwalker's DC traveling for that regarding Dynamis. Its doing better than it ever was since they changed it. Shadow DC cannot hold anyone because its a temp DC to help with congestion on expansion launch. Its actually shutting down today.
Dynamis will still need time to grow in order for everyone to queue up at any given time a day. Still though: I had a frontline pop in 10 minutes at 9AM in the morning, and had queues pop within 5 as a DPS. Prime hours had over 30+ PFs for raiding, and 20 were "other". The datacenter is growing, and its thanks to the restrictions that SE put on traveling. -
08-17-2024, 01:16 AMLibitIncarneYeah. Back then, people used the sheer lack of players to artificially inflate their chances at getting rare Eurekan drops (Iirc the post I heard about was about the Pagos accessories) due to the fact that instances are forcibly reset if there are no players in the DC's version of the foray.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shinku_Tachi
Duty Roulette. The most popular activity in the game. The only way that Duty Roulette is a metric is that if that has issues, the place is FUBAR.Quote:
Originally Posted by DynnDiablos
Have you had issues with low player desire to do Deep Dungeons? Ever gone into a Eureka or StQ instance and been alone for half an hour?
Are you able to get into a Frontlines duty outside of peak hours?
Are you able to do Savage/EX content on-data center without learning everyone's names and potentially accidentally making a static? -
08-17-2024, 04:44 AMShibiMaddy is now sadly, too full. I want my nice quiet limsa back. I miss my nice quiet Limsa.Quote:
Originally Posted by LibitIncarne
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08-17-2024, 05:07 AMOizen
Dynamis is doing a lot better than it was before, even if the PF situation has shifted back to Aether for PF everything despite the stupid lockouts.