Lodestone: Preventing Congestion on High Population Worlds

[Natsuno]

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.

From the wording on there they are not planning to create a new data center rather add more worlds to the current one.

Which is why, from their wording, it does not apply to just the EU. "across all data centers." If it were as you say, it would say "across both data centers", and also why I suggested a rep response here on the forums to clarify.

[Mature]

Yes it appears they are considering removing the gil limit entirely if the new transfer amounts don't affect world economies. It's about time they increased those amounts before the older ones were simply ridiculous. I wouldn't count on them removing limits any time soon though.

I would not think twice on moving if I can take all my gil. This is my main concern when it comes to transfering. I've been saving up for such a long time that I don't wanna buy unnecessary stuff for the sake of the restriction

[Rakiria]

My question is why they add the new EU worlds on the 20th, and not the 16th with early access. I'm really not looking forward to that on Ragnarok since I know that a lot of people there have early access and obviously want to play it, so I assume there will be more people logging in in those 4 days too. I will most probably transfer to those new worlds, but why do we have to wait to do that while already doing SB content and getting the longer login queues? Even for people without early access it seems to me like it would be nice to get some preparation time on the other server.
And about the servers that will get free transfers to them, when will they be announced? Since it seems like it will be before SB, which makes sense since the goal is to get people off high pop servers before SB launches, but as it is now, people on those are just somewhat "trapped". Sure they can pay 18$ to leave but barely anyone will do that, so all that's been achieved for now is keeping the population stable when the goal is decreasing it.

[Felis]

Addition of EU Data Center Worlds and Improvements to Population Distribution

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.

EU data center
all data centers

My question is why they add the new EU worlds on the 20th, and not the 16th with early access. I'm really not looking forward to that on Ragnarok since I know that a lot of people there have early access and obviously want to play it, so I assume there will be more people logging in in those 4 days too.

If i understand it right, then only Stormblood alone without ARR or HW is on preorder. So whoever want to be in early acess have to own the ARR+HW bundle already and have to finish the 3.5 MSQ before ea start (or all what he will have from ea are the 2 new jobs).

[Shilvers]

I 'll be honest I'd like the new worlds prior to early access giving those of us who are willing to sacrifice our current characters in order to populate them a chance to at-least get somewhat catch up and be on a similar level playing field going into the expansion I.E not starting at level 1 but rather giving us a week to prepare so we can get roughly 50 or so.

[Berethos]

did plan for a better form of population control on servers with psuedo mergers and virtual space with phasing. For all of its flaws SE needs to sit down and realistically consider options more carefully.

I'm not sure I'd hold them up as a standard for handling server population - the pseudo mergers don't adress the bigger issue of faction balance and CRZ is widely decried as one of the worst additions to the game since it launched.

Really, these kinds of rewards (xp boosts and currency are common, free game time is a step above the usual) and free transfers are among the best solutions unless they go full in on the mega-server option.

[Rakiria]

I 'll be honest I'd like the new worlds prior to early access giving those of us who are willing to sacrifice our current characters in order to populate them a chance to at-least get somewhat catch up and be on a similar level playing field going into the expansion I.E not starting at level 1 but rather giving us a week to prepare so we can get roughly 50 or so.

I mean, you can just transfer there, as far as my understanding goes those worlds will get free transfers, but I'd very much like it if there wasn't just level 1 and transfered level 60 players then... Also I want to get the time to set up an fc there, and hopefully get housing there too as fc, without having to dvote time to that instead of getting to play SB.

[Rakiria]

If i understand it right, then only Stormblood alone without ARR or HW is on preorder. So whoever want to be in early acess have to own the ARR+HW bundle already and have to finish the 3.5 MSQ before ea start (or all what he will have from ea are the 2 new jobs).

That's still not a few people, and also additional motivation to play mroe on those last few days to get ready for SB, clogging up the servers, doing exactly what SE is trying to avoid.

[Shilvers]

I mean, you can just transfer there, as far as my understanding goes those worlds will get free transfers, but I'd very much like it if there wasn't just level 1 and transfered level 60 players then... Also I want to get the time to set up an fc there, and hopefully get housing there too as fc, without having to dvote time to that instead of getting to play SB.

While that is true I have some friends coming to the game for Stormblood so starting from 1 will be quite helpful to them as I can level with them via quest ect. However if the new worlds don't open until 20th of june then I can't see alot of people moving/starting there since they'll have been playing SB for the early access period and unless full FC's Static groups move over it will just lead to a dead world.

[kuma_aus]

It does suck that friends can't join the game on my server, but it's a good thing for the game.

I remember when 3.0 first launched. We had 2 x of every 3.0 map to prevent over crowding. And even after that people were locked out of The Dravanian Forelands for days if you played at peak hours. We had double the limits of other servers and we still hit the player cap in an area.