Balmung and Gilgamesh Crisis

[NolLacnala]

We need to do the thing that nobody want to do...

That's very noble of you to lead the exodus off the server

[AngryLizard]

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This in every sense.

If square could implement a way for FC's to transfer all their possesions (Houses included) I guarantee the congestion would vanish.

Square is also at fault for letting people transfer into locked down worlds, as the server has only been getting more cramped by the day.

We're also facing the issue some people, such as myself, love the RP aspect of Balmung, and no other server really offers that. If we had a server dedicated to rp (Perhaps square could mark one of the "Empty" worlds as a new rp world, I dunno if that'll help) then again, I guarantee you the server congestion for bal would disappear rather quickly.

Gilgamesh is primarly raiding if I remember correctly, never actually been on it though, so I don't know much on how to fix it's issue.

[Roda]

Transfers are up are they not?
You can take advantage of that any time now.

As for me. My friends, and the community I enjoy are all here on Balmung, and I can tolerate the queues for that. The other issues, are datacenter-wide and expansion-borne so transferring won't solve them.

[Ferrasper]

Yeah, I am staying on Greg after talking to my FC mates, so I am going nowhere.

[SoulEchelon]

A friend and I are thinking about transferring as well to a new server. Was there any news on NA getting free transfers like EU is getting?

[DamianFatale]

We made Balmung a roleplaying server ourselves. We have the option to migrate since we aren't official. We have the power to change this, but again people are stubborn, and they don't want to leave, unless there was a mass exodus, but it won't come. Not enough people will make it happen. It's irony of itself.

[DevilsDontFly]

While I understand that Balmung and Gilgamesh are a problem, if SE decided to shut down server transfer to those servers when they started to be over crowded, that problem would not be a problem at all. But instead they gave us a system that allows you to bypass any character creation restriction on a server that is closed 24 hours a day for the last 3 or 4 years. We cannot blame the community for this, and we cannot blame the community for wanting to play with their friends.

I like SE, but if there is someone to take the blame for this is the company. They offered you a "cheat for money" that raised profit but on the long run caused the stability of the game to go downhill.

[Lexia]

I'm a Balmung native why would I have to leave cause everyone else over populated the server?

[Hyrist]

I am sure if the rping community was offered a fresh server they would. While I don't scream obscenities, I am not completely happy my legacy server got pushed into a rping server. I am sure they don't want to feel like refugees filling out some server already with a community.

Actually. Balmung is the result of merging another server with Besaid, the 1.0 Roleplaying server, which was done before a realm reborn. So technically, Balmung was pushed to be a RP server before it was a legacy server. Nothing against you, I just wanted to correct the misinformation there.

[AngryLizard]

A friend and I are thinking about transferring as well to a new server. Was there any news on NA getting free transfers like EU is getting?

you can transfer to any preferred world (I think worlds like goblin or zulera, may be wrong) for free. Or transfer out of blamung for free. you'd have to check, but I know there are free transfers if certian conditions are met.