Dear SE, please unlock Balmung

[Blackweaver]

Well yeah I know servers can get to capacity. However from what I read on a certain roleplay site, Balmung was created from merging an RP server with a PvE one, back in 1.0's day. So a lot of legacy roleplayers were already stuck on the server before a realm reborn. For a lot of us, Balmung is home. Cleaning hout the RMT, would clear up a huge chunk of the congestion. Server infrastructure upgrades would help fix the issues as well. And of course, deciding who should migrate off, roleplayers or pve'ers, and either slap an RP tag on Balmung, or make a server dedicated to roleplayers with free transfers to it, would help as well. But for now, I feel the server shouldn't be locked to the creation of alts, if we already have characters on the server.

[ExKage]

Unless the bot population is like 2000 times more than real player population, dealing with the bots won't -fix- it. Eventually the server will just fill up with real players (ideally). Then what?

Maintenance on the servers and also help work the worlds may help.

I'd worry a little bit about the economy of some worlds based on migration etc. Crafter services or people to run X Y Z dungeons may be -very- high in demand with not enough supply.

[NinjaTaru72]

I'm not saying I dislike rolplayers or you. I'm just saying if you guys get rid of some of your alts it would make room to make more. If you don't wanna do it as an. Accidental death, then just delete them. I just said "accidental death" for a suggestion that would fit in the "RP" stile. Then you could make new characters that go on an adventure together to find out what happened and why/how they died. =D

THIS also isn't a perma fix by any means, but more of a here and now fix without waiting for SE to twiddle there thumbs enough before doing soemthing

[NinjaTaru72]

Well yeah I know servers can get to capacity. However from what I read on a certain roleplay site, Balmung was created from merging an RP server with a PvE one, back in 1.0's day. So a lot of legacy roleplayers were already stuck on the server before a realm reborn. For a lot of us, Balmung is home. Cleaning hout the RMT, would clear up a huge chunk of the congestion. Server infrastructure upgrades would help fix the issues as well. And of course, deciding who should migrate off, roleplayers or pve'ers, and either slap an RP tag on Balmung, or make a server dedicated to roleplayers with free transfers to it, would help as well. But for now, I feel the server shouldn't be locked to the creation of alts, if we already have characters on the server.

Also, merger or not, it's not good to try and tell either pve or RP to get off. Since both have been around since 1.x (me included)

[Catwho]

I pulled my Legacy character off Balmung long ago. She lives on Lamia now, with my main character. Balmung wasn't really an ANYTHING server in 1.0 - by then we were down to barely a thousand players daily, so most of us were just derping around once 1.23 came out, waiting for the end. PVE I guess but we didn't really have anything special about us.

What I wonder is why Lamia, which also has daily login queues during the evening hours, doesn't have the same character creation restrictions?

[Kiroh]

I'm not saying I dislike rolplayers or you. I'm just saying if you guys get rid of some of your alts it would make room to make more. If you don't wanna do it as an. Accidental death, then just delete them. I just said "accidental death" for a suggestion that would fit in the "RP" stile. Then you could make new characters that go on an adventure together to find out what happened and why/how they died. =D

For the hundredth time, the amount of characters on the server has absolutely nothing to do with the server being locked. Server locks are based on the number of players logging in to the server at the time.

What I wonder is why Lamia, which also has daily login queues during the evening hours, doesn't have the same character creation restrictions?

Because Lamia doesn't have the amount of login server traffic consistantly enough to be locked. Other servers are locked pretty regularly too, like Behemoth and Cerberus.

[Tiggy]

Unless the bot population is like 2000 times more than real player population, dealing with the bots won't -fix- it. Eventually the server will just fill up with real players (ideally).

At least then it won't be some dbag bot preventing my friend's from playing. I'd rather we had this problem from legit players. To me that would be an improvement that should be made. The fact it won't perfectly remedy the problem isn't the point and is a poor reason to ignore the bots.

[Blackweaver]

For the hundredth time, the amount of characters on the server has absolutely nothing to do with the server being locked. Server locks are based on the number of players logging in to the server at the time.

I put him on ignore after a comment he made. And yep, I definitely feel you are correct. And a lot of this, is from RMT. Prior to 2.5, I saw no bots personally, or if I did, it usually was a random RMT whisper. However, the moment I logged in after being patched to 2.5, went on my rogue and for the first time ever, saw huge armies of thaumaturge bots. Reported quite a few, and there were so many in one area, I couldn't get every single name and ended up just giving a location. And even today, they are still active. And prior to them, we didn't see the server as badly locked down as we do right now.

[Tiggy]

For the hundredth time, the amount of characters on the server has absolutely nothing to do with the server being locked. Server locks are based on the number of players logging in to the server at the time..

Saying it repeatedly doesn't make it true.

Specifically the page here http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...06d0909189e479 specifically says..

During periods of high congestion, we may institute a temporary restriction on the creation of new characters.

it may surprise you to know that congestion includes logins, AND other metrics like current server population. So until you can provide a source that specifically says that it is ONLY logins then me and others will continue to call BS on your baseless statement. Currently logged in players absolutely count as server congestion since they actively take away server and network resources. Not just logins. Your statement has no bearing on the realities of how the internet and servers actually work.

TLDR: Bring a source or drop it because what you're saying doesn't make any technical sense.

[MageBlack]

MageBlack, that sounds good. I am sure many roleplayers would do it, as long as there's free transfers to a dedicated roleplay server. My own FC, actually transfered to Balmung from Gilgamesh. I never played on Gilg, but I am happy they are on Balmung. Ideally though, I'd rather they addressed the actual server infrastructure, and deal with all the bots that are more than likely the real issue of why the server is locked down.

The problem goes beyond bots and RMT, I'm on Balmung too and in all honesty I have hardly a peep from RMT tells or seeing Bots running around, at least in comparison to a server like Litch. This is entirely BECAUSE it is locked down. which means, if you cant make a character, neither can RMT. Makes managing a blacklist much easier (i have less than 10 names on my blacklist and I could probably get away with removing half of them) as well as them making bots for farming. This is a case where a "solution" also hinders legitimate players, not that lockdown is to solve this but it has that result.

The real problem really can be boiled down to Player mentality. For example shortly after release it was discovered the fastest way to level was FATE's so no one did dungeons and everyone rode the FATE train. Path of least resistance created an influx of people all doing the same thing. It happened again with Hunts and is still happening. All other content gets hurt because players find the best way to do something and EVERYONE does it (figurative everyone, not literal everyone. I avoid hunts). Same thing happened when people found out that the Maelstrom was the "Winning team" in PvP, mass transfers to that company just because it was said they win more ended up almost breaking the PvP queue times and is the reason i switched away from Maelstrom.

It is happening with Balmung for two reasons as far as I can see. First is because it has been labeled the Unofficial RP server and Balmung is what pops up with a quick google search so new players will flock there for this alone. Not to mention those players have their friends and other people who go there, or some go there because they want to have a full server with lots of people to make friends with and group up with, etc.

Again, this is why I think my solution would be the best one for this situation but it will not be something that will happen over night. We can hope this kind of a thing will come along with the actual EU server that will be coming because at that point they will have to offer free transfers to players because there is no way of knowing how many people are on NA servers because it didnt make a difference between NA and EU. At that point all they would need to do is add a (PvP), (PvE), and (RP) next to a few select server names on all data centers and the problem will sort itself out. Will SE actually do this, I honestly couldnt tell you. Is the THE BEST solution? I have no idea, but I have given my reasons for it.

Any server can be a RP server if enough people who want to RP on it move there.

Yes, any server can be an RP server but it helps to actually have that distinction when you are a new player looking at creating a character. Thats really all I'm saying. Do this and it will at least help the different player types get in a server with more like minded players. Especially for the PvP linkshells considering they are GC locked at the moment.