Aether Data Center Down

[Cutriss]

2) make it (MUCH) more attractive for people to transfer off high pop servers

Variable sub rates based on server population.

I'm not usually a "Let the invisible hand of the market beat the crap out of you" kinda guy, but make it more expensive to play on fuller servers, and cheaper to play on less-populated servers. Or give people time credit for transferring off. None of this "Normally we'd charge you to execute a couple SQL statements, but I guess this time we'll give it a pass" business.

Incentivize population balancing, don't just say "Well, if you can endure the gross inconvenience of having to move a chunk of people off, we won't charge you for the privilege" kinda thing.

[Ozz]

Greetings,
The errors you're experiencing are due to the large amount of congestion.

While the Development and Operations teams are working to ensure that the servers are stable and doing everything they can to avoid downtime, unfortunately, this issue a result of the large populations being housed on the Aether data center.

We truly apologize for the frustration experienced and ask for your patience and understanding.

What is more frustrating is that you are going to do a free login "welcome home campaign" which is going to put even more strain on the login servers for paying customers who are having to spend way more time that is need already to login. Its only going to get a hell of a lot worse on 23/06

[CrystalsSnow]

So in other words .... Keep trying till you get in? Is there nothing that even can be done? or do we just sit on our butts and wait? XD

[Linadae]

Balmung was my 1.0 server. Everyone in my old FC rolled new characters elsewhere, so I had no reason to stick around. I personally got weirded out by people RPing in public places constantly while I was trying to do mundane story things. So I paid the transfer fee and yoinked my Legacy Lala over to Lamia where my 2.0 main lived when the population problems really got serious.

Free transfers off the data center are the only solution. There are 1.0 players who feel like they shouldn't have to move, especially if it costs money - it's not their fault their old server got invaded by RPers. There are individuals who don't want to move unless their entire FC movies.

Make a new server on Primal or re-designate the lowest population server existing as the official RP server. Offer free transfers off Balmung and Gilgamesh to select servers (Lamia is also high population and doesn't need anyone transferring over en masse.)

I'm sorry but I have to correct you there about the rpers. We didn't 'invade'. Back in 1.0 we were on a different server that was merged with Balmung. So the Legacy RPers stayed with Balmung. New players who wanted to roleplay and didn't care about Legacy went to Balmung as well. Others chose Gilgamesh. All because Yoshida has repeatedly refused to name an official rp server. Otherwise we'd all be there.

And free server transfers would never work unless they lifted that stupid money cap...a lot of people on Balmung have tens of millions of gil and they WON'T leave that behind willingly.

My suggestion is lift the cap temporarily for just the free transfers for ONLY the over congested servers. That way the people who would love to leave would no longer have a reason to stay.

[Kerwin]

While the Development and Operations teams are working to ensure that the servers are stable and doing everything they can to avoid downtime, unfortunately, this issue a result of the large populations being housed on the Aether data center.

We truly apologize for the frustration experienced and ask for your patience and understanding.

R.I.P. Now I know I'll never get to log in this weekend. Especially during prime time. GG. ;_;

it's not their fault their old server got invaded by RPers.

That's some pretty hostile words.

[Azurymber]

If this is a congestion error, why would it change in the next 2 weeks. I don't want to spend hours every day battling just to log in :x

[Adire]

What is more frustrating is that you are going to do a free login "welcome home campaign" which is going to put even more strain on the login servers for paying customers who are having to spend way more time that is need already to login. Its only going to get a hell of a lot worse on 23/06

This.

Fair way to do it is to stop time from ticking away for players who have sub time on their accounts.

The free incentive is great when it doesn't screw over paying players, but I really see this being a massive problem if things don't change considerably from now til then.

[Hyrist]

Balmung was my 1.0 server. Everyone in my old FC rolled new characters elsewhere, so I had no reason to stick around. I personally got weirded out by people RPing in public places constantly while I was trying to do mundane story things. So I paid the transfer fee and yoinked my Legacy Lala over to Lamia where my 2.0 main lived when the population problems really got serious.

Free transfers off the data center are the only solution. There are 1.0 players who feel like they shouldn't have to move, especially if it costs money - it's not their fault their old server got invaded by RPers. There are individuals who don't want to move unless their entire FC movies.

Make a new server on Primal or re-designate the lowest population server existing as the official RP server. Offer free transfers off Balmung and Gilgamesh to select servers (Lamia is also high population and doesn't need anyone transferring over en masse.)

Actually, that woulden't work, and is opposite of what should happen.

RPers arn't the problem here. They're the most invested players Balmung has. I'm kinda miffed you spoke up like this, Catwho. The RPers aren't at fault for the 1.xx server merge. They've maintained the same server from the start of 1.xx, and honestly, hold the most housing on the server by a wide margin. It'd be better that Balmung itself be declaired the official RP server and free transfers and housing refunds be offered off the server for non-rpers, onto a fresh new server so they have equal chances for housing, rather than an underpopulated server with all the housing gobbeled up already.

[LTEvil]

I like my server over populated. Once the excitement dies things will settle down. Sorry for those who didn't really get to use their early access.

[myahele]

What is more frustrating is that you are going to do a free login "welcome home campaign" which is going to put even more strain on the login servers for paying customers who are having to spend way more time that is need already to login. Its only going to get a hell of a lot worse on 23/06

I'm all for this campaign, but was it needed when an expansion just hit? Could they not have waited at least a month for this campaign? There's already an influx of PAYING new/returning players in the past few weeks getting ready for expansion.