Lodestone: Preventing Congestion on High Population Worlds

[JunseiKei]

If I recall, they locked larger pop servers when Heavensward launched only to open them again not too long after the expansion.

They restricted transfers and character creations, meaning if you were lucky, you could still find a window to get a character through. Not a full-on closure, which is what this is. They may, indeed, unlock at a later date, but I wanted to throw out there the difference.

[Lavendula]

Im considering moving to the new servers, just not sure how its gonna be. With the crossworld PF its not really a issue for my static for example. We are used to it. I would mabey not start over since i have 2 chars full BiS, since ive been raiding at both. But we will see! I know one of my friends wants to move as well. I will see what it brings But i think they should release the servers before 20th of june. So i can get the FC to rank 8 again and get a FC house like i have now

[Shilvers]

Im considering moving to the new servers, just not sure how its gonna be. With the crossworld PF its not really a issue for my static for example. We are used to it. I would mabey not start over since i have 2 chars full BiS, since ive been raiding at both. But we will see! I know one of my friends wants to move as well. I will see what it brings But i think they should release the servers before 20th of june. So i can get the FC to rank 8 again and get a FC house like i have now

In my opinion I'd open them up June the 1st or even earlier and allow people to establish a place there but hey i'm not SE, so my opinion counts for nothing.

[Tsumdere]

My friend was transfering to Balmung tonight. ^^'' I hope he likes leveling in nearly empty worlds for a few months.

Realistically though, Balmung is not going to thin out without serious incentives. To me, some gil and play time is not worth friends, (much bigger amounts of) gil, houses, FCs, roleplay, etc. I'm not moving. No one on my immediate friends list is going because their friends list isn't moving. So on and so forth.

I understand why the axed it, but they should have done this ages ago before the problem could not be solved with a simple lock.

[BloodRubyXII]

EU Balmung players hit the jackpot with this one, there's nothing stopping them from having a mass exodus now and coming to play at home and setting up a new RP 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"

This surprised me though, never realized we were so full. I know we only have 1 dc and 3-4 of the servers on it are constantly locked, but I didn't realize we needed new servers.

[Shougun]

My friend was transfering to Balmung tonight. ^^'' I hope he likes leveling in nearly empty worlds for a few months.

Realistically though, Balmung is not going to thin out without serious incentives. To me, some gil and play time is not worth friends, (much bigger amounts of) gil, houses, FCs, roleplay, etc. I'm not moving. No one on my immediate friends list is going because their friends list isn't moving. So on and so forth.

I understand why the axed it, but they should have done this ages ago before the problem could not be solved with a simple lock.

I think one of the best ways they can hope to clear out Balmung is through some sort of convenient FC moving system (already talk of letting FC refund purchases and such, perhaps they should unlock the move house system for 4.0 to be cross server temporarily as well), with of course encouragement.. (since people most likely came for that social reason).

Although Balmung will always have a bit of a draw (even if it thins out, it'd probably slowly go back to cap again). So maybe they should also slap a few RP stickers onto servers, the most effective sticker use would be to make all the official RP servers not Balmung as this would probably create a larger exodus than if Balmung was one of the RP servers... it'd also probably make a lot of people annoyed though xD lol.

[Lavendula]

In my opinion I'd open them up June the 1st or even earlier and allow people to establish a place there but hey i'm not SE, so my opinion counts for nothing.

i really hope they will. Cause if they dont i might not do that, i have crafted 20 grade 3 exp buffs if i leave it behind i wanna be able to get the same stuff :P i dont mind starting over when there is time to achieve the similar lvl.

[Rakiria]

i really hope they will. Cause if they dont i might not do that, i have crafted 20 grade 3 exp buffs if i leave it behind i wanna be able to get the same stuff :P i dont mind starting over when there is time to achieve the similar lvl.

Yeah, I think everyone would like to just start playing stormblood as soon as that's out, and not have to focus on rebuilding stuff from their old servers...

[Ayer2015]

Balmung may be over populated but the majority just log in and AFK. I for one am considering leaving.

[Shilvers]

i really hope they will. Cause if they dont i might not do that, i have crafted 20 grade 3 exp buffs if i leave it behind i wanna be able to get the same stuff :P i dont mind starting over when there is time to achieve the similar lvl.

Indeed like it to me from a consumer stand point makes sense for them to allow some catch up before stormblood hits, As if they don't I can see alot of people as Rakiria stated above been to invested in the stormblood to make it worth while.