Lodestone: Preventing Congestion on High Population Worlds

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...2360440abe9651

[Vivi_Bushido]

YES!!! Good it's about time. Balmung was getting too big.

[Airget]

If I'm reading this right, sounds like any player is able to transfer to the new EU servers for free which would solve the problem the EU players may have with the ping of the moved NA servers.

"All Worlds on the EU data center are presently experiencing high levels of player congestion. To resolve this issue, new Worlds will be added at the release of 4.0.
Moreover, players who to transfer to or create new characters on designated Worlds across all data centers will receive special bonuses as described below.
* Pleased be advised the bonuses planned for implementation are subject to change.

Bonuses

Transfers to designated Worlds will be free of charge."

[kattzkitti]

So they finally decided to bite the bullet, put aside greed, and shut down transfers in addition to the existing creation restriction? Good job Squeenix, it's just a shame that it's far, far too late for that. Damage has been done, and the current situation will never change without heavy-handing it by forcing people to leave those servers.

[Vaer]

Gil transfer limit increased to
10mil gil on character from 1m + 5mil per retainer from 100k per

Housing compensation

For players who own personal housing, we are planning a number of provisions including a reimbursement for the full price of the estate, and compensation for the cost of furnishings which we will add in subsequent updates moving forward.

[Braggaman]

My friend was going to transfer to Balmung after the maintenance. I guess we can't play together now?

[magnanimousCynic]

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Unfortunately no, but honestly Balmung, and Gilgamesh to a lesser degree, needed a transfer lock for a long time. They're too big for their own good.

[savageink]

My friend was going to transfer to Balmung after the maintenance. I guess we can't play together now?

Come to Mal....we have pie.

[Braggaman]

Come to Mal....we have pie.

I have a lot of friends on Balmung. We have events planned out for the next several months... We were even planning something to welcome my friend. ; ;

[Shougun]

All of this reads excellently, like I was thinking about clapping to myself like an idiot.

Unfortunately due to the nature that draws people to Balmung it'll probably always have housing issues and for other reasons (creative control/limit capacity) I'll probably still cry and beg for instanced forms ala WS/EQ/Rift/GW2/WoW but.. all of this still looks great regardless. I like the mindfulness with reward to move and compensations.

Seriously SE, if you have to do these provision shouldn't you offer free world transfer from high to low worlds on Gaia, Aether, and Mana data centers?

Now I may be interpreting this wrong but I don't think it's just EU stuff, the notice is just put w/ EU stuff. At least to me it reads there will be a list of servers that will reward you if you transfer to them and they could have easily said EU servers but they didn't - rather they said "Designated Servers". To me this means that some server like Balmung or Gilgamesh will definitely not be a free transfer/reward server, but perhaps other servers on Aether, Mana, and Gaia would be (for "Improvements to Population Distribution").