Square: You need to open servers before this community is slowly choked

[DeaconMoore]

RPers will generally flock to wherever the biggest hubs are as more roleplayers = more variety in roleplaying. Small communities stagnate faster than locked ones lol

*facepalm*

Mateus was one of the smallest populated servers, Omega was a new server. Omegas locked and Mateus isn't small anymore. If everyone tells new RPers go there Mateus will be locked as well soon enough. There are other RP communities on the other servers, I know, I found many while I was creating characters on various servers on my quest to find an FC I liked while figuring out what class I'd like to main.

There is no reason to dog pile on a couple of servers for RP.

[DiamondOrion]

I disagree, this is a great game and very popular with over ten million gamer's. I believe lots a jealous WoW nerds are messing with us. Lets just wait for our beloved game owners to fix this problem.

[Rokke]

*facepalm*

Mateus was one of the smallest populated servers, Omega was a new server. Omegas locked and Mateus isn't small anymore. If everyone tells new RPers go there Mateus will be locked as well soon enough. There are other RP communities on the other servers, I know, I found many while I was creating characters on various servers on my quest to find an FC I liked while figuring out what class I'd like to main.

There is no reason to dog pile on a couple of servers for RP.

If server A has 100 rpers, server B has 1000 rpers and server C has 10 rpers, server B is the ideal destination if rping is important to your gaming experience. Can you rp on server A and C? Yes. But say you move to server C and discover that 6 of those 10 rpers strictly rp pirate storylines and you don’t, you are now left with a pool of 4/10 people to rp with. That is why the dogpiling happens in every mmo that has rpers.

[DeaconMoore]

If server A has 100 rpers, server B has 1000 rpers and server C has 10 rpers, server B is the ideal destination if rping is important to your gaming experience. Can you rp on server A and C? Yes. But say you move to server C and discover that 6 of those 10 rpers strictly rp pirate storylines and you don’t, you are now left with a pool of 4/10 people to rp with. That is why the dogpiling happens in every mmo that has rpers.

Server B is locked, pick another server.

Here's the deal, if you insist on dog piling you limit the number of rpers anyone will ever encounter. In fact if all the rpers dog pile on one server people who've never rped in their life will continue to not be exposed to it and may likely never rp. They may hear about it and think maybe, but with the servers locked where are they going to go to find out? Open world RP can net you more RP players than you never knew existed in the first place. You'll never find them stuck in the bottle you're in now. The community needs to spread out more to grow and flourish.

[RokkuEkkusu]

I've said it before in a similar thread, and I'll say it again here. There are some quality of life stuff to help players out in the event they are on different servers such as the following:
- Cross-Server party finder (godsend since 3.5 IMO)
- Cross-Server Friend Lists (long time coming)
- Cross-Server Linkshells
- Discord
- Teamspeak
- Mumble
- Lodestone blogs
- Those discord chats that apply to the entire data center

I mean, servers such as Leviathan, Excalibur, Hyperion, Sargatanas, and Behemoth have decent populations, raiding, and social scenes, but not on the level of Balmung or Gilgamesh. I wonder why?

Other servers need opportunities to flourish as communities too.

[Rokke]

Server B is locked, pick another server.

Here's the deal, if you insist on dog piling you limit the number of rpers anyone will ever encounter. In fact if all the rpers dog pile on one server people who've never rped in their life will continue to not be exposed to it and may likely never rp. They may hear about it and think maybe, but with the servers locked where are they going to go to find out? Open world RP can net you more RP players than you never knew existed in the first place. You'll never find them stuck in the bottle you're in now. The community needs to spread out more to grow and flourish.

People are free to go wherever their heart desires, Im just trying to explain why unofficial rp servers happen in pretty much any mmo. Even as early as the BnS beta, through twitter and tumblr I already knew what server to roll for rp. The bulk of a rp community will usually clump together- This is not a XIV exclusive thing, its just what happens when you're got niche interests.

[Xerek]

To be fair, the RP community asked for official RP servers during ARR's development, and Yoshi-P even said he liked the idea. Then beta hit...and silence. Without official servers Balmung remained the primary unofficial RP server, and after a vote on it, Gilgamesh became the non-Legacy unofficial RP server. When Balmung and Greg were locked, the RP community picked Mateus next.

RP can be tricky. In lot of cases characters, players and RP style just isn't compatible. Of course RPers are going to flock toward the highest concentration of available RPers.

[MistakeNot]

There is no reason to dog pile on a couple of servers for RP.

Actually there is. For RP it is better the more RPers are around, so moving to a server with lots of RPers on makes perfect sense. Lots more chances of finding a group you like.
If you move to a server where there is just a tiny RP community and then you find out they don't match you - then what? You move elsewhere. On a big RP server like Balmung you can easily find other people to roleplay with, but on a tiny server there might be no choice but to move to another server.

[MistakeNot]

Server B is locked, pick another server.

Here's the deal, if you insist on dog piling you limit the number of rpers anyone will ever encounter. In fact if all the rpers dog pile on one server people who've never rped in their life will continue to not be exposed to it and may likely never rp. They may hear about it and think maybe, but with the servers locked where are they going to go to find out? Open world RP can net you more RP players than you never knew existed in the first place. You'll never find them stuck in the bottle you're in now. The community needs to spread out more to grow and flourish.

Most RPers are not very interested in "exposing" non-roleplayers to RP. Certainly much less interested in that than in getting a good RP experience for themselves.

Servers getting locked is not only due to roleplayers moving there but also because lots of non-RPers go there.

[DeaconMoore]

Actually there is. For RP it is better the more RPers are around, so moving to a server with lots of RPers on makes perfect sense. Lots more chances of finding a group you like.
If you move to a server where there is just a tiny RP community and then you find out they don't match you - then what? You move elsewhere. On a big RP server like Balmung you can easily find other people to roleplay with, but on a tiny server there might be no choice but to move to another server.

Have you never scouted a server out before? You don't have to 100% commit right away blind.

The servers have technical limitations to the amount of people they can accommodate. Picking just a couple servers to dog pile on and well, we see the results. Spread. Out. More. Who knows, you may even meet your new best friend.