Square, I beg you. I've lost a dozen friends signing up already. Please open Balmung.

[Illya]

I bet there would be fewer problems with personal housing on Balmung if everyone and their mother and the RPers weren't all on that server.

I'm just saying.

[Hyunckel]

I just made a new person on Balmung not three days ago. Granted, I tend to look in the early morning my time (Central Time, 5-6 hours from the time of this post).

Simplest option, really, is to just try and look at times where people aren't often on, like early morning US time.

This.

I had to wait till 4 am local time to be able to create a new character on Odin server on "EU" Chaos DataCenter. It was closed the rest of the time (I think at about 8 am it's already closed again).

Albeit Ragnarok Legacy server seems to NEVER be open at all.

Is Balmung a Legacy server?

[Tiggy]

Maybe if we'd start kicking all these AFKers it be easier to make characters since the lockout is a function of congestion and traffic tot he server.

I've had some friends give up trying to make characters and therefore the entire game due to these restrictions. Something needs to be done.

[Histoire]

Less useless RP mules that serve no purpose other than sitting in Ul'dah to get whomever their rocks off.

/rolleyes

WTB RP server so the rest of us can actually play.

[Kewitt]

Tuesday to Thursday its been open at 8 AM, my hubby wants to make another character but he is at work at that time.
Finally we are getting RMT spam again so it has to be opening up.

What SE needs to do is open up Free server transfers off over populated servers.

[AnaviAnael]

What SE needs to do is open up Free server transfers off over populated servers.

I think they did this in XI, so it's not outside the realm of possibilities.

[Malusion]

If wanting a slot thats guaranteed to have open characters rather than sitting around for hours, see if you can be around as a maintenance ends. Its -always- open right as maintenance ends. Its still an inconvenient hour, but at least its only for a moment rather than sitting around half the night waiting.

[SummonerSenah]

Had that happen to a few friends, so they ended up just starting on Jenova. My gf and I created alts to play there. Honestly, I'll probably keep that alt there. It's really nice to be on a server that's not so crowded. If I didn't have so much already invested in my Balmung characters and so many friends on Balmung, I would transfer my Balmung characters to Jenova as well.

[Psychosamm]

What SE needs to do is open up Free server transfers off over populated servers.

That's actually an excellent idea, it would open up creation on that world as well as encourage people to populate less populated servers, add more spice to their life. ;D

[HakuroDK]

I think the fact of the matter is that we need more RP servers. I mean, We have Balmung, we have Gilgamesh, but we don't really have another, and none of the RP servers are official.

Honestly? A quick solution would be to give everyone on the most popular servers (Balmung, Cactaur, etc.) two free 7-day Server Transfer Tickets. That way, people who want to leave Balmung won't have to start everything over again.