Server Limitations and the Future of the Game

[LilPhist]

Think phasing in WoW. And the tech may come to FFXIV which would allow phasing zones from different servers together in low pop areas (on the same data center obviously.) Possibly only applicable to town areas which could, for example, put all the folks that have unlocked 2nd Coil into a different phase of Fallgourd Float than those that have not. This would illeviate the stress on the area surrounding the aetheryte without hampering the remainder of the zone.

[Souljacker]

Think phasing in WoW. And the tech may come to FFXIV which would allow phasing zones from different servers together in low pop areas (on the same data center obviously.) Possibly only applicable to town areas which could, for example, put all the folks that have unlocked 2nd Coil into a different phase of Fallgourd Float than those that have not. This would illeviate the stress on the area surrounding the aetheryte without hampering the remainder of the zone.

Phasing in WoW is nothing like instanced areas of zones. Phasing in WoW allows you to "progress" through a storyline with the environment changing as you complete tasks, until it's in its final form. That's not even close to being the same thing.

[LilPhist]

Phasing in WoW is nothing like instanced areas of zones. Phasing in WoW allows you to "progress" through a storyline with the environment changing as you complete tasks, until it's in its final form. That's not even close to being the same thing.

Aye, and I used the task of unlocking 2nd coil as an example to being placed in a diff phase of FF than those that have not. You can also use phasing for housing and gardens much like WoW did with the farm in MoP. This may not be what they are talking about doing (straight up instanced copies of NS, who wants that?) but it is a possible solution that would reduce load due to too many models in an area and/ore on a single server. Heck, they could even quasi merge servers this way by having you phase over to another servers instance of the area. I never said that this was 100% their intended goal or even had anything to do with what is in their design plan. I was throwing it out there as a discussion point.