Forcefully move people out of Balmung (and other insanely congested worlds)

[Septonyte]

Put Balmung on its own data center away from the other servers. That way they arent affected by its congestion and problems.

You do realize the "congestion problem" is only on us, right? Putting a server on it's own data center wont fix the login queue and will kill anything that is cross-world (aka: data center wide like the duty finder).

Also, why don't we also put Gilgamesh on it's own server? They have queues that are almost as bad.

[RyuujinZERO]

This sounds good. Balmung has enough people to fill its own data center anyway. Roughly 26,000 active players I think? Probably way more now that SB launched.

Since shortly before SB launched new characters and transfers have been disabled on Balmung. The population can only go down (Furthermore transferring out of Balmung is currently free, comes with a fistful of gold chocobo feathers and no gil transfer limit to encourage people to move).

[Araxes]

Title ^

People keep complaining so much about the login queues on Balmung yet refuse to transfer. Start forcefully transferring them to a random low pop world SE. Auto log them out and make it happen. Start with all the people who abuse the auto logout workaround.

Okay. So you are the Person who pays the costs of theyr houses, furniture, other Stuff wich they loose as soon as they get force-transfered. Good to Know SE doesnt have to bother and can just empty your current and future Gilbalance

[Firesped]

if Balmung gets their own data center, then the Balmung people will get into DF queues faster and everyone else will get into queues longer. sounds like a plan! How much of the Tank population is from Balmung?

[Zomkei]

That's a load of garbage, there's tonnes of open plots on Mateus still (My ward alone in the Goblet has 5 open spaces), and the apartment housing is barely even touched.

On a side note, a lot of us Balmung residents who've swapped server get a tonne of hostility off the 'natives' ("Balmung turds go home" "Stop shitting up our server" etc), which is something else to think about. People seem to want players to move away from Balmung, but nobody wants those players on their server

This is what I heard from people who transferred there. I do not have an alt there and nor do I want to transfer there (that community is part of the reason as well). I didn't include apartments because they're not the same as a plot. Though if they're mistaken and there really is "a ton" of plots there, then I'm sure more people will transfer just because of the plots, or the fighting chance at the new ward.

[Yasuhiro]

But Balmung is a containment server and cross contamination is bad make a Balmung II I guess.

[Oscura]

Do people think before posting threads like these or is it just akin to projectile vomiting anything that comes to mind?

[SicariusSeven]

Alright I'll humor you OP. Lets say they did start forcibly removing people from Balmung as you want them to. Who gets booted? Random players? Players who haven't logged in since ARR, since a certain patch in HW? You know SE won't do that, hence why they offer the incentives to leave instead. If they started forcing people off the server it would be a nightmare. Since Balmung is huge (and a few other servers just as large) you immediately have a large chunk of the player base that will be angry. You think people being pissed during Early Access was bad? Square won't cause they know it would just cause headaches. All they can do is offer incentives to leave. I only know a few people who have taken it but only because they had little connection to Balmung.

People wanted on Balmung because it was made the unofficial RP server, as is Gilgamesh (so I am told). If SE had tagged other servers to be RP, most likely Balmung wouldn't be so large.

[Aquaslash]

Not that I wouldn't mind latency like it was before...

But you do realize that while this might solve one issue, it would probably introduce several more?

Yes actually. It's the more expensive solution, but it's better in the long run, and worth working out all the bugs

[Tyndles]

No server comes remotely close to Balmung. It's double Gilgamesh which is the next highest. But this is Squares problem for allowing paid transfers for so long. But I'm willing to put up with queues for a few weeks until things calm down unless all the housing and stuff me and my friends have invested in is refunded in full. and a new spot is guaranteed right where we are now, which cant be done.