Dear SE, please unlock Balmung

[Blackweaver]

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These issues though, weren't happening nearly as much when the bots were banned soon after they were reported, and there was an AFK auto-kick feature in place. Now, they removed the afk timer, and bots are running rampant, with nothing being done. Legit players are not the issue. It's those 2 groups that are. Yeah there were lockouts, but Balmung used to be on a level of the other popular servers. But, the fact there's now so many bots. I bet if I did a head count, I could have the names of at least 1000 active bots on balmung. SE should ban those accounts, and delete them characters, and guess what. The issues will dissipate.

[Snugglebutt]

The issues will dissipate.

It would only alleviate it for a tiny amount of time until fills up again whether by bots or by players. It does not solve it, there is no way to solve it completely unless players stop trying to squeeze into a pretty full server. I think they should lock it completely (off peak and peak hours) then go through banning all the bots, then unlock it for period of time to allow players to join to fill the spots once held by bots, lock it again once hit population cap and keep it locked at that stage until population drops significantly of its own accord. I think they should do that combined with the option of free transfer weekends from time to time.