Recruit a Friend . . . so he can play on another server!

[PArcher]

We need a forum for all the people on overpopulated servers to complain about being unable to make new characters on or get new people onto the server.

Didnt even need to click the thread to know op was on balmung. If all the people with this problem went to a lower population server a lot of population issues would be solved

[Rampage]

To all of you that are telling me: "You should have known . . .", you realize that you are basically saying that we should be content not being able to invite any new friends to the server right, and you think this is ok?

I would be happy to move to a less populated server with my small FC, assuming they would agree, if:

I could transfer for free
I could take my house

However if we get 5-10 people to transfer thats 90 to 180$ that we are spending. Losing the house would also not be fun due to the time /effort to get it in the first place, the unlikelihood of getting a new house since there is no ETA on more land becoming available, and the non-recoverable money dumped in it in fixtures ext.

My original point in starting this thread was to see what options are out there. However I feel that it is obvious that the most densely populated servers will have higher growth rates, would it not be possible to allocate more servers or other resources to increase their capacity?

[Reinha]

My original point in starting this thread was to see what options are out there. However I feel that it is obvious that the most densely populated servers will have higher growth rates, would it not be possible to allocate more servers or other resources to increase their capacity?

Best option for players is to have patience in making the character. After they succeed they get to enjoy the very small server queues because the server lock keeps the less dedicated away. I bolded the important parts. Even if they increase the capacity, the server maintains it's high growth rate and will soon meet the new limit. It would only be a temporary fix. Best option for SE would be to offer free transfers with an in-game reward (pet, mount, title, glamour) as an incentive to leave overpopulated servers. The incentive needs to be good enough that people would leave their fc for it.

[Nadirah]

We need a forum for all the people on overpopulated servers to complain about being unable to make new characters on or get new people onto the server.

Didnt even need to click the thread to know op was on balmung. If all the people with this problem went to a lower population server a lot of population issues would be solved

imo if you have characters on the server you should be able to make new ones whenever. It's not adding to the load when you can only log in one character per account at a time.

To all of you that are telling me: "You should have known . . .", you realize that you are basically saying that we should be content not being able to invite any new friends to the server right, and you think this is ok?

Yes. You can invite people. *I* invited people. I also told them that they need to be online at 1pm their time to make characters because the server is full otherwise. I myself was up at 4 to do it.