First zone of Heavensward

[Gunspec]

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Well I was thinking they could give us two quest chains that lead to different parts of a zone, and while we would eventually do both, it would be a way to split up players for that first hour or two of congestion. But yeah, I never got to any of the expansion content in FFXI, so I was curious how they handled it there. It'll certainly be congested, but I really hope they have SOME kind of mechanic to lessen the impact that will obviously happen.

Hmm, if it becomes too bad, there is always fishing.

[Grey_Cain]

Well I was thinking they could give us two quest chains that lead to different parts of a zone, and while we would eventually do both, it would be a way to split up players for that first hour or two of congestion. But yeah, I never got to any of the expansion content in FFXI, so I was curious how they handled it there. It'll certainly be congested, but I really hope they have SOME kind of mechanic to lessen the impact that will obviously happen.

Hmm, if it becomes too bad, there is always fishing.

There really isn't much for them to split up at the start. As Enki said, we all finished at the same place, and we're all likely going to be starting from the same place. FFXI actually starts and continues the same way. Three different city states to start, players from each state has individual quests for that city that eventually take them to the central city, then everything thereafter is all the same no matter what your starting city. I never finished any of the XI expansions (quit shortly after Wings of the Goddess), but they tended to all progress the same way at least in the beginning; one quest line that's the same no matter the starting city state. From what I read, they didn't end any differently for the different cities, either.