Question about Balmung.

[347SPECTRE]

What I linked was the December Census. You may have been looking at the November census, I doubt they'd actually have it out and done on the first of the month.

Yup just checked, Balmung was approx. 21k and Leviathan was approx. 17.6k
https://ffxivcensus.com/2017-11/#ra-na

As a side note, I really do not think it a wise choice to unlock Balmung the moment it's more inline with other server populations, seeing as we do have people who did leave that want to come back. We don't know how many and we could end up with the same exact problem the moment they open it up again. It'd probably be better that they unlock it and just not say anything, that way we won't end up with an anticipated floodgate situation. They should also hold off till afer the release of 4.2, because there will be a mass influx of players on patch day, which is (usually) the norm.

[reiichi]

re:census snip

Until NA stops having servers with under 5k active, I don't think we'll even see a new server pop up either. What makes things tougher with the census is that its numbers are still only based on what they deem "active" players. Ones that show some sort of progression. A lv15 alt used just for RP probably won't make it on their list more than once. Especially if said character is only used casually and doesn't need MSQ completion or glamours, etc.

While we'll probably never get the numbers, I'd love to see SE release a chart with active connections in a 24-hour breakdown for each server. My guess is Balmung is still staying over that over 10k too-many-actives lockdown all of the time.

[Zarabeth]

*snip*

Hey now, please don't drag us into your balmung problems we aren't even on the same data center! But yeah we are the most populated server on Primal atm. There are times that characters can't be made on Leviathan too. The difference is that we don't make 20 threads a month whining about it.

[Nezerius]

Hey now, please don't drag us into your balmung problems we aren't even on the same data center! But yeah we are the most populated server on Primal atm.

Leviathan not being on the same datacenter isn't really going to matter, if the server starts getting closer to Balmung levels of population. At that point, I can see SE locking it down as well.

There are times that characters can't be made on Leviathan too. The difference is that we don't make 20 threads a month whining about it.

The difference is that Leviathan still has times where characters can be made. I'm sure you'll start seeing similar whine threads once Leviathan ends up in full lockdown.

[DeaconMoore]

The difference is that Leviathan still has times where characters can be made. I'm sure you'll start seeing similar whine threads once Leviathan ends up in full lockdown.

Hmm, I wonder how many they'll let pay to transfer in after it becomes practically impossible to find a time to make a character before they'll lock it though...