They announced how worlds would be shuffled.

[Moonlite]

Clarification question. So they add new Data center. Which means they get a whole new batch of instance servers. So they are increasing the instance servers from lets say two to three (for simplicity). So that means we are seeing an increase right? Or do they plan to split the physical resources they already have and hope they balanced it? Because if they are adding more physical resources couldn't those just be allocated to what already exists?



Is it they just don't want to build a lobby system for the instance system? They have known they have an issue since HW's. It exploded with their increased desire to instance more content in SB quests.



If they are just splitting the same resources won't it be even worse at the beginning of each patch and expansion. Instead of the same amount of players accessing 1 instance server they are only going to get 0.75. The load is the initial rush having less spread over more won't help.



Or again is the real problem the lobby and not the actual system?

[Mirakumi]

You have time before the switch happens to free transfer.
Talk it out to the people you wish and decide what's important to you more.

Personally, in MY OPINION, I will think the RP players will be happy since Mateus and Balmung are on the same servers.

And Primal can continue on being its Heavy Raid focused.

It will be a tough choice for some people yes.

But SE is being very forgiving and offering many elevations for those people who do decide to transfer...

When I transferred from Hyperion to Leviathan I made the switch for raiding and many of my friends it hurt to say goodbye but I did the choice for what I felt was best.

Now people have that choice too - it's ultimately how you feel which is more important.

[HyoMinPark]

Balmung had a pretty big raiding population back during coil, before cross world party finder was a thing. In fact, it wasn't until Gordias that raiding on balmung got bad, and that was only because people jumped ship to greg thinking they could get carries on the "raiding" server.

And from what I have heard, a lot of those raiders are considering leaving and going back to Aether where the majority of the raid community is.

I know you are a big shot ultimate raider, but its not hard to raid with people who aren't big shots. Just takes like minded people, who can be found anywhere, and some effort. Lots of outrage and "were gonna designate servers for this" fixes nothing.

Raiding with individuals who do not share your same goals and level of skill are a recipe for disaster. You wouldn’t throw softcore raiders into a group of hardcore raiders, just like you wouldn’t throw a hardcore raider into a group of softcore. The goals are not the same, and eventually all the contention and frustration over it will bubble over and result in members leaving and/or statics breaking.

But, thank you, for proving you don’t actually have an argument. You wouldn’t have to devolve into cheap-shot ad hominem if you did.

[Vivi_Bushido]

Except when all those popular servers are on Aether. Instead of Balmung having 20,000 people, Gilgamesh will. In fact, I foresight at least half of Crystal's servers being listed as preferred while Balmung drops down for the first time in four years. Meanwhile, Gilgamesh, Cactuar, Jevona and Sarg will all boaster massive upsurges. In the end, this accomplishes absolutely nothing. I suppose it will force them to prioritize the cross DC PF because they're going to need it.

It's not hard to foresight that when most of those worlds are already preferred worlds. Kind of the point they were paired together so you're only stating the obvious. Gilgamesh, Cactuar, Jevona, and Sarg will not boost because the raiders are there, they will boost because people are being torn apart from their friends who just happen to be on those servers currently. The role players will leave Crystal to be with their friends since their friends won't leave the statics they are in; or the majority of their statics just happen to be on Aether; and they will forge new RPCs on those servers just like they did with Mateus. It has very little to do with raiders and more to do with where the majority of their social networks happen to be. If raiding was the primary focus to begin with than these servers would have been more populated to begin with from the start and they are not. Both Mateus and Balmung have a higher population than any current raid server.


If a raid server becomes the most populated in 5.0 it would mostly happen because all the role players had left went there forming a new RPC on that server. Raiding is an after thought for many before picking their friends.

[Vahlnir]

I'm not overly fond of the idea of having Balmung attached to my server cluster, but if it alleviates server strain during peak hours or expansion launches it'll be well worth it.

[Keridwyn]

Personally I'm not hit with this, my friend circle is pretty small and server contained. However, to those of you making the hard choices in the coming move I wish you all the best.

P.S. Crystal it's time to grab your bootstraps, we're all going into this together let's try to keep the queues moving.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

I know you are a big shot ultimate raider, but its not hard to raid with people who aren't big shots. Just takes like minded people, who can be found anywhere, and some effort. Lots of outrage and "were gonna designate servers for this" fixes nothing.

And if those like-minded people are all on Aether? You may only care about doing stuff casually, but other people don't. Which is why Balmung is currently exploding with people leaving. As more and more people funnel back to Aether, it will becoming increasingly difficult to find these "like-minded people" even for raiders who aren't "big shot ultimate raiders".

I wonder if you'll feel the same should Crystal's PF scene be complete dead.

[xxvaynxx]

foster a new raiding community on Crystal when 90% of it is on Aether, and then come back and tell us all how easy it was for you. We’ll wait.

Mhm, with the serves we're gonna have now...like...I don't even know.
Because I can tell you, almost all PF's I join are hosted by Gilgamesh, Jenova, Cactuar and Balmung.

Everybody else my vary but from my whole time of joining Savages through pf, its always those servers and even joining statics.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

And from what I have heard, a lot of those raiders are considering leaving and going back to Aether where the majority of the raid community is.



Thank you for proving you don’t actually have an argument. You wouldn’t have to devolve into cheap-shot ad hominem if you did.

My point wasn't to make a cheap shot, but to prove a point. You don't have to be a big shot raider surrounded by other big shot raiders to have a good time and clear content (in this case raids). Everyone jumping ship is just going to cause the same issues from before, except now even RP'ers are apparently jumping ship. So now we have a full datacenter because no one wants to put forth any effort into making new friends or fostering new groups.

I'm all for people moving to stick with friends, and it sucks for those groups being broken up, but to be this outraged and have this kind of reaction to it is simply hilarious to me.


I'm also probably stirring the pot more than i intent to, im bad at wording things correctly. I will end my comments here.

[Kiri_Hadaka]

I don't want my server being flooded by people looking to get closer to Balmung...