They announced how worlds would be shuffled.

[NormaBates]

I'd like to see the possibility of FC World Transfer. However they can do it, Leader is able to carry over their FC keeping it's ranking, FC Credits, reimbursed for housing, workshop, etc. understandable that all members would need to be removed before transfer. Players/Members of can relocate with the already established player world transfer incentives and also their FC can too and meet back up on their new destination world.

[Frogger2]

Not good. It's not just about the gil. I have a lakeside medium in Lavender Beds, the refund won't help me in getting a new one. So it's basically either my house or my friends.
There's no way I'm giving up the house I searched a year for, so I guess I'll have to make an alt.
Also imagine the queue times off peak hours/for PvP on Chaos.. It already takes over 30 min quite often.
Honestly this could be fixed with cross DC duty finder and linkshells. Pls.

[Barraind]

Being on Coeurl, this is terrible.

I'm losing my static, my potd/hoh teams and everyone I do party finder with that isn't on my server.

Keeping the ERP Hellscape that is the 2 rp servers though! Guess that counts for nothing.

Crystal party finder and raid scene is going to be godawful unless people transfer here.

[HyoMinPark]

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).

You don’t make a comment like that if you aren’t trying to make a cheap shot. Why call someone a “big-shot Ultimate raider” when you can simply say “I know that you enjoy Ultimate raids” if you weren’t trying to make a jab at someone?

Also, see my addition:

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.

Anyone who would want to do something like the Ultimate raids or do speedkills/optimization runs cannot achieve that goal if they are raiding with people who do not share that goals.

[MorfineCeres18]

I'd like to see the possibility of FC World Transfer. However they can do it, Leader is able to carry over their FC keeping it's ranking, FC Credits, reimbursed for housing, workshop, etc. understandable that all members would need to be removed before transfer. Players/Members of can relocate with the already established player world transfer incentives and also their FC can too and meet back up on their new destination world.

Yes please!

[SaitoHikari]

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.

Theres no reason why new statics cant form, people can raid anywhere.

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.

I am some 'big shot ultimate-tier raider', and while I'm sort of fine with the way this is going (since I saw this coming from a mile away when the devs already locked Balmung multiple times and continuously upped transfer incentives and designated preferred servers), I'm still upset over one thing.

The one thing being that they would even do this without going the extra mile and making sure that players/FCs that decide to transfer are able to keep their housing intact. Of course, this is quite difficult from a programming standpoint, but it is also the number one roadblock preventing people from transferring in the first place. As it currently is, the only people transferring are the people with little to nothing to leave behind. With Balmung being grouped with all of the low end population servers, it's not really going to work out upon further thought. The people in Balmung with little to lose will just move back to an Aether server to reconnect with friends there instead of going to any other Crystal server, and the raiders of all the other Crystal servers (that are probably already well established enough to own a house and everything due to the low population in the first place) that are to be moved to Crystal are basically completely out of luck.

[Jybril]

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.

If they installed AFK kickers like they did before, we would of never had this problem to start.
The AFK kicker helped tremendously and should do that every time an expansion begins.
They took too long to implement it on SB, like 3 days. Should of done it from the start
if they learned anything from HW launch. Kinda sad because of congestion that people
are forced apart like this when there's a fix for said congestion.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

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 have an existing friend circle, static and housing. Why is it mine or anyone's responsibly to make new friends? What a silly thing to say. People don't want to lose their existing communities nor should they. Hence why they're outraged. If you had ties, maybe you'd appreciate that.

[InkstainedGwyn]

I'd like to see the possibility of FC World Transfer. However they can do it, Leader is able to carry over their FC keeping it's ranking, FC Credits, reimbursed for housing, workshop, etc. understandable that all members would need to be removed before transfer. Players/Members of can relocate with the already established player world transfer incentives and also their FC can too and meet back up on their new destination world.

I've thought this was something that would be useful, too. It won't solve the housing issue, which is real, but for those who don't want to leave their FC, it would smooth stuff over.

[Vahlnir]

If they installed AFK kickers like they did before, we would of never had this problem to start.
The AFK kicker helped tremendously and should do that every time an expansion begins.
They took too long to implement it on SB, like 3 days. Should of done it from the start
if they learned anything from HW launch. Kinda sad because of congestion that people
are forced apart like this when there's a fix for said congestion.

The AFK kicker helps a bit, but it's not the solution. Upgrading server infrastructure is. Getting people more spread out across multiple servers is also helpful, and they've been doing that for some time.