Transfer Restrictions and Roleplayers

[CyrilLucifer]

I don't think CyrilLucifer honestly cares if roleplayers joined Mateus. But their point is directed at the suggestion of everyone having to pay for Balmung's extreme overpopulation. It's unfair to everyone else to have to monetarily pay for it.

Yes, exactly.

I don't care if you RP here! What you do in-game is your choice and it's not my place to interfere with that.

My argument is also that it's also unfair to make other players and other servers (as is the case of suggestion 7) pay with real life money for a problem you caused yourselves. If you read his last proposition, he's saying SE should close smaller servers so that they can put more money into larger ones.

I am vehemently against that, not against RPing on Mateus. Mateus has just as much right to exist as Balmung.

[savageink]

(7) reallocate server resources to concentrate players on fewer servers, and divert resources previously used to sustain small, dead servers to supporting high population servers..

This made me laugh... like, a lot. It's like the people complaining don't have a fundamental understanding of why adding more people to the server is a problem. It's not just server processing power. You are running up against a fundamental flaw in all online games - how much data can be sent at a given time to X number of people and having it remain smooth. Not even considering varying ping times which adds more complexity. It's why they sometimes instance cities or start-up areas. They need to break it up into smaller chunks of data.

All the files required to render appearance are kept on your computer, and each area has a list of data that is always there like the buildings that's all pretty much stored on the computer as well. What isn't stored there are variables that can change based on what is happening in-game. Every character in the area adds new data which needs to be processed on every single computer in the instance, the devs try very hard to keep the amount of data that needs to move back and forth between the server and the players minimal, but they can't erase every character within a certain distance of yourself. They do try to lower it...you've seen the monsters appear magically as you get closer to an area in a swirl of purple, I assume.

But that data doesn't just magically appear it's stored in the instance on the server until you get close enough to render it. Every person and what they are doing in each instance is stored there and the closer they are together...like all standing around an aethernet hub in limsa doing the manderville or whatever, makes the amount of data being sent back and forth every second increase exponentially. Even if the computer can process 50 times that amount of data per second, it has to then send it to all of the people whose bubble is affected. More people, more data, more lag, eventually making it unplayable. You cannot put the whole world in one instance, it won't work.

[Acilith]

It seems Mateus is far ahead in the polls of 'new RP server'. Enjoy!

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

It seems Mateus is far ahead in the polls of 'new RP server'. Enjoy!

Yeah, but how many Balmungians are going to actually transfer? Or is this more for people getting started and looking for an RP server?

[Nixxe]

I'd rather roleplayers stay here. Larger markets are generally less irritating to deal with.

[Nicodemus_Mercy]

The thing to understand is that players cannot just be continuously funneled into a few servers. There is a hard limit to the number of players a server can support no matter how much hardware you throw at it. Far better for everyone to have each server with a healthy population not a congested one. Balmung and Gilgamesh are NOT HEALTHY populations. There's too many people there. Ideally new player RPrs flock to a less populated server and a build a new rp community there so RPrs coming to the game have more servers to choose from instead of trying to shoehorn yet more people onto already overcrowded servers.

[savageink]

One other thing that needs mentioning is that the number of alts a person has on a server has absolutely no effect on game play congestion. You can only log in on 1 character at a time. All it does is increase the number of taken names on the server, annoying you during character creation....and that problem has been solved on the locked servers from a certain point of view. lol!

[Acilith]

Yeah, but how many Balmungians are going to actually transfer? Or is this more for people getting started and looking for an RP server?

A lot of us are taking gil there and bringing alts to buy up those delicious plots.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

A lot of us are taking gil there and bringing alts to buy up those delicious plots.

Ahh, making housing worse on smaller worlds cuz alts. Got it.

[Acilith]

Ahh, making housing worse on smaller worlds cuz alts. Got it.

I mean, is it 'worse' if they're empty anyways? Nobody's using it at all, what's wrong with an alt using it?