Balmung Character Creation Restrictions - Something Needs to be Done

[Knahli]

True.
Unfortunately, the auto log out had a ridiculously easy work around of interacting with the FC coffer or starting a craft and leaving the menu open. :/ If folks want to stay in game so that they wouldn't have to deal with log in queues, they will find a way. So, sadly, I'm not sure that would make any difference.

Login queues..... they don't last 30 seconds on Balmung on the worst of days and they only occur (occasionally) at peak times. I really hope that's not peoples' reason.

[Yutsimaki]

I'm confused. Why is Balmung so popular? (out of curiosity)

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Because it's where all RPers go to.

[Yutsimaki]

Because it's where all RPers go to.

I wouldn't last 2 seconds.

[myahele]

I'm confused. Why is Balmung so popular? (out of curiosity)

ERP, that's why

[Ametrine]

ERP is there, most definately, but the RPers are a MASSIVE community.

Also, for some reason, any FFXIV fan who uses tumblr is pointed towards Balmung. I know a great many players who are Balmungers that have nothing to do with RP, but use a tumblr blog for their GC site or just to post goofy stuff they do. The FFXIV tag is always filling up, so, that's another relatively large community of players all hopping into Balmung.

[Seoulstar]

I literally stayed up all night just to get into Balmung..I have no regrets.

[Violyre]

ERP, that's why

Why am I not on this server!? D:

[dice137]

Hey guys!

I can't create new characters on Balmung, where my Free Company is. I was up as early as 5AM EST to see that half the worlds were locked for character creation (on a Monday Morning, mind you, which is the most opportune time to be doing this), and I waited until 6AM when things changed over, and both Balmung and Gilgamesh are still locked.

Is there any way to fix this problem? I'm pretty sure Balmung is permanently locked at this point, largely due to the fact that it is THE unofficial RP server and will always be heavily populated. Is there some way to, I dunno, encourage players to transfer off Balmung and go somewhere else? Like, I dunno, free server transfers off of Balmung?

I'm starting to get annoyed here, and paying the $18 for a server transfer TO Balmung from another server on Aether seems silly.

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[Blackweaver]

One idea that would help in making alts, is what world of warcraft did. If a server got so full that they closed character creation on it, people who already had characters on that locked server, could still make an alt. It was only locked to new players trying to create a character on the server for the first time. If they did that, it would help folks like myself. Another thing that would help, just last night during RP, poof, 15 tiny lalafell black mage bots appeared in the inn room in drybone, they all jumped over to a phased npc creating a weird after image effect, then jumped to the end of the bed, then vanished again. Happened multiple times in the course of that RP. SE gets rid of those, the server would be open more.