Make more servers and offer free transfers.

Perhaps a good way to help a bit with the server population problem:

1) SE makes new servers, or select lowest populated servers.

2) SE Gives people the option to transfer to those low populated servers for free.

If this kind of service is offered to players, I am sure many people would transfer.
Some people want to play with their friends, no matter the server. Some just wouldn't mind transferring.
I am sure this wouldn't completely fix the issue, but it might help a bit.

What do you folks think?

The problem is that the majority or all of the NA/EU servers are inundated with players and opening new ones and flooding them with transfers will do nothing to help.

You can't just throw new servers at it and hope for the best. There needs to be a balance. The current servers all need to be able to handle the heavy traffic.

I don't care about new servers. I just want my character off Gilgamesh. It's ridiculous to have that many people all at once, so that its full 85% of the time. I want to go to somewhere my friends joining at launch (7+ people) can all join my world. Free transfers one time only. Please SE.

While I think this is a fantastic idea, the fact that they didn't plan to offer transfers until 2-3 weeks after release in the first place may mean that they don't have the infrastructure for single character transfers set up. This may also be a low priority until they get the current server infrastructure stabilized

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Originally Posted by Rhue

While I think this is a fantastic idea, the fact that they didn't plan to offer transfers until 2-3 weeks after release in the first place may mean that they don't have the infrastructure for single character transfers set up. This may also be a low priority until they get the current server infrastructure stabilized

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They will stabilized the servers if they make new servers. It will be naive of them to keep ignoring the cry of new servers. When their solution to the problem is keep a minority of their players outside the game just to keep the game from crashing on them again.

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Originally Posted by SenKoyo

The problem is that the majority or all of the NA/EU servers are inundated with players and opening new ones and flooding them with transfers will do nothing to help.

You can't just throw new servers at it and hope for the best. There needs to be a balance. The current servers all need to be able to handle the heavy traffic.

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This doesn't even make sense. First you say that the problem is too many people on the NA/EU servers. Then you say that somehow opening new servers and allowing people to transfer to them will "do nothing to help". How is that logical in anyway shape or form? Obviously adding servers and letting people move to those servers would lessen the amount of people per server. OP i completely agree (and apparently so does SenKoyo he just doesn't realize he agrees. Add more NA/EU servers then allow free transfers. That would 100% alleviate the issues based on what they have told us. They are saying it is all because of congestion so therefore if they relieved the congestion the problems would be at least lessened if not completely solved. It's not rocket science. They gave JP WAY too many servers, they are like ghost towns. But won't open more servers for the NA/EU population. Makes no sense. This thread needs way more visibility and likes on OPs post because that is what is needed. This issue is only going to get worse come tuesday when the people that didn't have EA get to logon, what then? More "maintenance"?

I agree wholeheartedly!

Shell out those free transfers!

The problem with saying "HEY free transfers for everyone!" is that so many people are having issues that the transfers themselves would populate the new servers entirely too fast, and problems would still exist. What I don't like about their Worlds list is the lack of information as to just how full those servers are. If they could place some sort of meter displaying the server population then others would feel less inclined to go to them. I'm sure some servers are more stacked than others, but people have no real way of knowing.

If new servers are opened and free transfers are granted, then may I suggest allowing us to have a visual of the server's current size. I never would have joined Diabolos if I had known it was HORRIBLY full.

I agree that they need to add a LOT more servers, and they definitely need to provide us with free server transfers right away. But NOT exclusively to low populated servers.

Personally, I am on Leviathan. My RL friends and I have been on Leviathan since it was added with the start of Phase 3. That's our chosen server. But today some of us are on Leviathan, while several more friends are currently scattered across various other servers due to all these lockouts.

This is entirely unreasonable. It's not a mere inconvenience that they can just apologize for. There is no reason my friends and I should be forced off of our chosen server. They need to provide free character transfers so that misplaced friends, like mine, can all get together on the same server.

I'll add my voice to this. If they'd let us free transfer to some other server, I'd be in. But they need to do it fast. People are losing interest...

When Rift was released they had tons of servers. It made their launch smoother but after a month all those servers became ghost towns. Eventually they had to merge the servers. I rather put up with congestion now than having low population for 99% of the rest of the game time.

If people are quitting over this then they don't understand MMOs. What's a couple of days or weeks compared to 5-10 years of game play.

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Originally Posted by Rennius

Perhaps a good way to help a bit with the server population problem:

1) SE makes new servers, or select lowest populated servers.

2) SE Gives people the option to transfer to those low populated servers for free.

If this kind of service is offered to players, I am sure many people would transfer.
Some people want to play with their friends, no matter the server. Some just wouldn't mind transferring.
I am sure this wouldn't completely fix the issue, but it might help a bit.

What do you folks think?

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But that would be too easy.

What worries me is the old 'build it and they will come' idea. Say they build more servers, which I agree should happen, one of the problems of urban development is designing something that everyone can use when they want. You can not fix interstate 405 by adding more lanes, it will just fill up again with an even larger traffic jam. I'm worried that if SE does add more servers, as people start to fill those new servers up, we will be right back at the same problem, only bigger.

I'd be game for server move if necessary. where it stands now friends of mine who I talked into joining can't play with me because they wouldn't be able to get on my server as it is.

Earlier today you could only create a character on 4 servers and Faerie was on of them so I did......

And I was still getting the same error as everyone else all night this is supposedly a new server and it's already full.........

I just want my character off Gilgamesh but heck where can we actually transfer too that's not gonna be constantly full besides a new server or JP ones........

Please give us new servers and transfers so I can actually play with my friends who can't login/create on Gilgamesh......

Agree.

Would it be so hard to make temporary servers and split the population somehow? I mean I know having it now with 2k people AFK all night long and 100k not able to log in is logical somehow?

Agree with OP 100%. The only problem with it is that it makes too much sense. So therefore it will be ignored.

The server I'm in is just way too congested. Fates are not even a challenge because it just a ton of people running around tagging mobs.

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Originally Posted by Incendium

Agree.

Would it be so hard to make temporary servers and split the population somehow? I mean I know having it now with 2k people AFK all night long and 100k not able to log in is logical somehow?

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Yea that is pretty dumb having afkers stay logged in.. Final Fantasy XI had the same thing where people could stay logged on forever, well until the server is shutdown. It was dumb back then and even more so now.

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Originally Posted by Incendium

Agree.

Would it be so hard to make temporary servers and split the population somehow? I mean I know having it now with 2k people AFK all night long and 100k not able to log in is logical somehow?

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While this does seem like a great idea, splitting the server population is the main issue. Unless they can code us a request transfer ticket and have it actually work on the fly, deciding how to split the population of a server with established linkshells and free companies would be rather difficult. If done at random people would end up on different servers then thier friends. If they do have us request a transfer ticket it would take more then 1 night to set up. They had nearly a month between beta 3 and 4 to transfer the requested transfers the first time. Asking them to do the same instantly is not really a good solution which could go horribly horribly wrong.

Adding more servers isn't an answer until after the first month when billing cycles start. Then they will have a real baseline for determining how many players they have.

I won't however refute the possible need to throw more hardware at the existing servers to expand their capacity. That investment won't impact the community as much as ghost servers with no population will, or having to merge servers 6 months from now.

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Originally Posted by evilmica

They will stabilized the servers if they make new servers. It will be naive of them to keep ignoring the cry of new servers. When their solution to the problem is keep a minority of their players outside the game just to keep the game from crashing on them again.

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While your point is valid, having them add a new transfer system to already instable servers is not going to solve anything. If we give them a little bit of time to sort things out with the multitudes of other errors they have been having, they may be able to have a small team work on a instant transfer service. But a service like that will not be a priority untill later on.

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Originally Posted by Lunasea

Adding more servers isn't an answer until after the first month when billing cycles start. Then they will have a real baseline for determining how many players they have.

I won't however refute the possible need to throw more hardware at the existing servers to expand their capacity. That investment won't impact the community as much as ghost servers with no population will, or having to merge servers 6 months from now.

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Waiting after the billing cycle to fix this problem will be a problem in itself. Nobody will pay for a service that doesnt work.

I will bump like never before.

The problem is that they have to adjust the data center at Canada.

REALLY ? SE....... What is the hell going on with the server? I have been stuck on the main screen for 1 hour and still can't get in .... U know ,never happen this kind of problem in 1.0 ,, Why WHY WHY ????????????????????? I REALLY WANT TO PLAY ..................