Lodestone census march 2017

[Lexia]

Oh my god. How much players have Balmung. Can you even log in? o.O

Can log in fine only becomes a issue around maintenance when big patch is done and everyone tries to get on at the same time.

[Kit-Kat]

NA/EU servers tend to relies on statics to do anything which means you have to find 8 people who play the roles and set aside a few hours a week to meet with em which creates the hardest part of raiding getting into the raid. JP servers are able to pug for the most part and unlike us who have like 4 different youtubers with 4 different starts and people who been in statics make up there own custom strats. so when all of that tries to pug it becomes a nightmare because no one is on the same page.

Not only that, but the average NA/EU player are casual, raid rates will always be lower. There's nothing wrong with that but these statistics are not surprising lol.

[NolLacnala]

o.O

I'm playing on Balmung from germany and only have 130-150... wtf?

Servers are currently located in Montreal, to serve both NA and EU originally. Having moved EU servers to an EU based datacenter, NA still suffers awful latency due to location. When they move the datacenter, our connectivity will improve drastically, while yours will jump to 500+

Edit: Also, lol@Cactuar, I thought this was a midcore server

[Zojha]

Servers are currently located in Montreal, to serve both NA and EU originally.

Well yes - I'm just saying it's 6k kilometres away, from where are people connecting to get 500+ MS? Even New Zealand over in Australia is only 14k kilometres away and should proportionally offer around 300-400 MS.

Actually I just tried - I can connect to Sydney at around 300 MS latency, that's 16k kilometres distance! Gee, I'm inclined to believe the routing horror stories in the US net now.

[loreleidiangelo]

Any values on the total number of active characters per region? Too lazy to maths right now.

[Zojha]

Any values on the total number of active characters per region? Too lazy to maths right now.

That would be this, I think. Can't offer a translation, but it looks like the statistics he usually does on active characters and MSQ progression.

[loreleidiangelo]

So about 300k completed 3.4, not too bad. That said, wew lads, look at that 100k bleed as the result of a delayed (and disappounting) 3.1. I hope the devs don't work themselves frothy trying to avoid a repeat of that in Stormblood.

[BigRed5392]

Dying off...?

The creator numbers are the highest numbers for a "current" raid tier ever. Raiding has never been bigger.

I think the most obvious thing to note here is that raiding is a lot more popular on JP than on EU/NA worlds. Likely cultural reasons. Either that or raiders on JP worlds are simply more successful so EU/NA doesn't make it to the stats.

i concur this, I was on tonberry with my g/f for a while the raiding scene is much more different. The jp community is way more organized, and not filled with trolling comments.

When i did some raids, no one did the blame game, everyone took responsibility as it was a group problem. No one singles anyone out for being the cause. Jp are more group centric then NA which we do childish blame game bs. Look at the 2 healer dps threads... you see none of that on jp side. yes they have trolls... but even they not as bad as NA ones.

[Zojha]

That said, wew lads, look at that 100k bleed as the result of a delayed (and disappounting) 3.1.

Uhm...I think you're reading the numbers wrong: Those seem to be current numbers, not historical numbers.

A picture from january 2016 for comparison:


Your point is still valid, tho - It was just a 200k bleed at the time >.>

[BigRed5392]

NA/EU servers tend to relies on statics to do anything which means you have to find 8 people who play the roles and set aside a few hours a week to meet with em which creates the hardest part of raiding getting into the raid. JP servers are able to pug for the most part and unlike us who have like 4 different youtubers with 4 different starts and people who been in statics make up there own custom strats. so when all of that tries to pug it becomes a nightmare because no one is on the same page.

jp does statics too. pf for practice df for clear is how they do things. and 24 man is set up where group b main tanks while a and c do adds/mechanics. for us we just do w.e and not that organised.