Petition to Terminate Restrictions on Transfer to “High Population” Servers

[Donaria]

I do NOT support the op. This policy of restriction imposed on the high pop servers is best for all players across the board. It is in my opinion that SE made the right call. This decision of policy change will help the smaller servers grow a community. The op claims these changes will restrict the sharing of creative community ideas for balmung...My question to you all is why should Balmung be the place for creative community idea sharing, role play, raiding, and fun social events? I think the changes will be prolific for several other servers that are not Balmung.

[JGwinters]

Do you know what would need to go into re-design the game to accommodate your desires from it's current standards?

Also:


That's a lot of only 5 people. That's only the aetheryte, too.

Posting something like that could backfire you know. To put it bluntly, to a long-time Balmungite that screenshot doesn't necessarily represent a healthy server population, a likely immediate reaction is to think that it's dead or at least seriously ailing.

I normally wouldn't ever consider playing on a high-pop server and only joined Balmung (aka Besaid) because it was the only real option for RP. Even so, my first reaction on seeing that screenshot was to wonder if it was taken right after maintenance since it's so empty. That does count as empty for Limsa aetheryte square on Balmung, basically, so even if I'm fully aware Balmung's population is absurd and unhealthy, a normal amount of characters won't look right to me without putting some serious consideration to it.

[Kazrah]

I used to be on Balmung. Sure, some good people there, but given how many people there are on that server, that doesn't really amount to much compared to how much racist-fueled animosity I encountered as a lalafell player. It gave me some good things like some friends I still talk to, a girl who means the world to me and an economy that promoted me to really start up on my crafting, all at the cost of other desires like a house or play time free of congestion issues or just everything else that makes Balmung, well....Balmung.

Ever since I left Balmung, I still believe that to be the best decision I've ever made in this game. No more overbearing server queues, no more thinking I'd never get a house, no more trying to convince friends to pay to transfer servers just so we could play together, no more losing vast amounts of gil trying to sell crafts, and ESPECIALLY no more maxed out blacklist because of how many players there have such hatred toward lalafells and even lalafell players for seemingly no reason whatsoever. I still talk to friends I have on Balmung, I still keep up my crafting and that girl is still with me on my current server of Moogle, so really I feel like I still have all the perks I had on Balmung without the sheer bulk of downsides of playing there.

To the OP, I honestly cannot spare any degree of sympathy for your cause. Your server is horribly overcrowded, which means that more problems will occur in the long run, both technical as well as social. If you really want to be happy in the game, do what I did: leave Balmung. If you can't get friends to join you, then I'm sure you'll be able to make new ones. It worked for me, and once again, I'll continue to see that as the best decision I've ever made.

[SilkaN]

Why do these threads always pop up when I am about to go to bed?!

I always browse the internet on my tablet for a few mins before sleeping and these threads always appear when I am too lazy to login on a mobile device.

"ohhh, this is going to be one of THOSE threads, better leave a snarky comment on page 1!"

Nope, creating posts on a mobile device sucks so I don't usually bother.
Won't someone think of us EU players for once?

[Bourne_Endeavor]

I suspect Balmung's playerbase isn't as unified as some RPer's think. Some are complaining about their friends not being able to transfer into Balmung like they planned, while others are seeing the benefit of transferring a large group from Balmung to somewhere with more room.

It isn't. Contrary to popular belief, there is a fairly dedicated raid community. Even on the strictly roleplay side, people have mixed feelings in regards to the overwhelming population. I'm not someone who enjoys tiny servers unless I have a large enough group of friends already playing, but others certainly do.

[RubyCirha]

eh tbh i kinda feel se needs to just make specifically rp servers already but no keep the resections in place please let some of the other servers beef up then re open the full servers

[Amelia_Pond_Behemoth]

Balmung is gonna build a wall. And Behemoth is going to pay for it.

[AureliusDraconium]

I hate that people can not transfer new characters over to these servers or have friends transfer over but I really am afraid for Gilgamesh and Balmung during the SB launch. It is for the best that restrictions have been put into place. It is going to be horrible even as far as expansion launches are concerned because the servers were never designed to support that many active characters on just two servers. The pops of these two servers have grown from the time of HW's launch. I would not be surprised if they went down for multiple emergency maintenances during SB launch on top of all the normal launch downtime.

[Xlantaa]

So, you prefer more populated server rather than stable servers? This is to avoid as much as possible server crash. Also, it is temporally. On Stormblood launch an avalanche of people will enter to the servers at the same time. The congestion will long for few week till the newness is over. It is necesary ensure as much as possible the stability. Is not as simple as "YOu can let us go to the server and everything will go ok". That's not how work.

[Dzian]

Couple software questions about the ops alternatives.

Who pays that increased subscription fee? Would I on sargatanas or someone on the apparently dead servers have to pay those extra subs so your friends can play on balmung?

Or Would everyone on balmung suddenly find there sub fees increased. Even the ones that have been there since 1.0?

Or would those increased cost only apply to newly created or transferred players?

The forced disconnect when players afk for extended periods of time is something I've never had a problem with. Would help load times for idyll shire ando stuff on most servers.

However it has been suggested a few times before now and that never turns out well.