Quote Originally Posted by Snugglebutt View Post
The server being locked is not the issue, it is done for very good reasons. The issue is people trying to bypass that lock and squeeze more in to the server whenever there is a crack in the wall found aka specific time gap.
Actually I don't think it is legitimate players that is the issue. It's the hacking bots that is causing the issue. There's quite frankly, a ton of them on Balmung, and nothing appears to be getting done about them. Goto a major quest hub, mainly a story quest npc area, or even just to the npc outside of the sunken temple of qarn. You will see black mage bots teleport hack to the npc, talk to the npc, then teleport hack away.