Lodestone: Preventing Congestion on High Population Worlds

[magnanimousCynic]

I do wish that Aether also got the free transfers from high pop servers to low pop servers. It feels like 50% of Aether players are basically on Balmung/Gilgamesh. We're home to some of the emptiest servers like Mateus, which may not actually exist according to player-made censuses.

[Kimicora]

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?

I agree with this whole hardheartedly.

I'm sure there are people who regret their decision to be on a high populated server and would like to switch but the $18 fee per character is a little much this would give lots of players the incentive to try a lower population server. Giving a period of time where people can transfer off all the high population servers for free and hop servers ( to test to see if they enjoy that server of course ) would be a good idea.

[Hasrat]

We're home to some of the emptiest servers like Mateus, which may not actually exist according to player-made censuses.

It actually feels a lot more populated than when I first started, in my opinion.

Which isn't saying a whole lot. But it is a little harder to go long without seeing anyone.

[Ultimatecalibur]

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?

Read the post. The phrase is "Across All Data Centers."

[Hasrat]

Read the post. The phrase is "Across All Data Centers."

Reading sounds a lot like waiting to see how something is implemented before jumping to conclusions.

And if we've learned anything from this game it's that nobody has an ounce of patience for that.

[Zaine_Lionheart]

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

This isnt to poor salt on the wound, however you joined a year ago o_o why wait till now to move if you had so many friends over there? I mean Ive seen this in a few places people upset they cant move NOW when they really should have done so much sooner if they really wanted to do so.

[Hasrat]

From the sound of it though, these restrictions are only going into place in June. So, get those transfers in now?

[cakesphere]

Glad I got my buddy on gilga before these restrictions went through \o/

That being said, this is a good change. "Just move to Balmung/Gilga lol" was not a great solution for population issues. Hopefully this will allow some of the other servers to fill up.

[Hasrat]

I've been told by others in my FC that Balmung is not on the transfer list anymore.

Ah. Wording was unclear, I suppose.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

I've been told by others in my FC that Balmung is not on the transfer list anymore.

Can confirm. Just went and looked at the mogstation and neither Balmung nor Gilgamesh appear. In any event, this is only temporary. They did it back when Heavensward released in the hopes a flux of new players won't populate the already massive servers. Give it 3-4 months and they'll be open for transfer again.