Please Close Balmung again.

[Hakuro89]

Balmung is like a black hole at this point. Virtually no one leaves, and the more massive it gets the more people are drawn to it.
I'd like the doors to be open to let some new faces in, but I also know they can't be for long. Every time the gates open, tons of people flood in. Many just to be 'part of the meme' that is unfortunately our server's stigma.

[NanaWiloh]

Well...

If everyone logs off when they're done playing there won't be a problem.

Ya, SE auto kicked people for being afk to long at one point didnt really hurt the long que times much. Problem will exist so long as more people are trying to log in then log out. Like with Heavensward and Stormblood it is going to be a problem again for servers like Balmung.

[Kewitt]

I started this as a joke thread as I haven't gotten a tell yet and my hubby only one.

But ya I agree with most of what has been stated.
I forgot to log off the other day. I was afk for over 2 days which service no one.
There is no reason a auto afk kick at me 1 hour should be in this game.

[TaranTatsuuchi]

They don't normally have the AFK Auto kick turned on.

They usually activated during like expansion launches.



They had it enabled for stormblood launch, but people were exploding flaws in the system to prevent them selves from being booted off the server...

The servers have a maximum capacity, after that they have to wait for someone to log off for another player to log on.
With people exploiting the servers were constantly full, or at least the biggest ones were.

You'd have queues of four or five thousand people that didn't go anywhere.
There were times I would login to the launcher get into queue, then go off with my family too go eat and do stuff like shopping or cleaning up at Grandpa's house, and then when I got home for 5 hours later I've been online for 15 minutes.

When Square Enix started forcibly logging everyone off the server before primetime, there would still be queues of four or five thousand people but those queues would go through in half an hour or so.
Because the people who were exploiting have been removed from the server and the people who had gotten on the play got off when they stop playing.

[Kasmiya]

Balmung is like a black hole at this point. Virtually no one leaves, and the more massive it gets the more people are drawn to it.
I'd like the doors to be open to let some new faces in, but I also know they can't be for long. Every time the gates open, tons of people flood in. Many just to be 'part of the meme' that is unfortunately our server's stigma.

Tbh I don't get the hype surrounding it. I made this alt back when Balmung first opened up earlier this year I believe and tbh it doesn't really feel all that welcoming in comparison to the other servers I'm on. It feels very "cliquey" to me. But I assume that's mostly just how the RP community is in most games. Idk I'm not an RPer. So I'm not exactly sure what the draw to the server is other than population. But even so I feel like I see more people doing things on Cactuar and Sarg than I do Balmung. Then again I feel like half of the people I do see on Balmung just sit in Ul'dah or their private houses so maybe that's it lol.

[RuleofThree]

There is RP on Balmung? I left, because I could not find RP on Balmung...like...ever. Saddened me, cause I believed in the comments.

[Bahati]

We are usually stuck in here together staring at each other with no new people for months at a time so that is why there is no welcoming committee. Sprouts are usually an alt of someone you already know unless it's the rare time they actually open Balmung.

I've never even heard anyone on my server complain about a log-in queue. Most if us are just afk standing around fashionably hoping for something exciting to happen and would much rather have new players and meet new friends.

[Kasmiya]

I will say though... The novice network is always pretty chatty lol.

[Roda]

Well...

If everyone logs off when they're done playing there won't be a problem.

This is it, this was the whole problem. Once they started the rolling restarts of the server, my longest queue was 15 minutes, quickly being reduced to ~5 minutes and then eventually to no queue at all.
Balmung hasn't had a real queue since the last housing rush, and that was like a 7 minute queue if you were still attempting the race but weren't really on top of hitting that play button (sat in the queue, and still got a house for our FC), and even then it was only for that window at like 5AM eastern.

I'm freaking terrified of my server being quarantined off because a bunch of people are creating alts (has no effect on server load), or because the bots are trying to capitalize on the availability (taking server access away from legitimate players).
So yeah, please no knee jerk closures, SE. Let me meet new people, and invite friends who are looking for a new MMO to play with me.



Protip: if your queue is less than 100, it is a fake queue. Leave it and try to log into that character again. It'll bypass the queue, and save you from complaining about how there's always a 10 person queue at peak hours.

[Ilan]

Yes please close Balmung. We need a new "open Balmung" thread!