Developer's Blog: A Whole New World - Can & Cannots of World Visiting

[UnrealTai]

Not too keen on not being in party when swapping, will make it a major pain in the ass for me personally but i get it.

[supergiz]

Damnit can't use retainers while visiting. Guess my visits will be short then.

Edit: Guess I could just go back to my home world quickly to re-assign ventures.

[Alien_Gamer]

For the worlds that will be joining Balmung on the Crystal Data Center it will likely mean their prices tanking. Our prices are notoriously low compared to most other servers so I see a lot of people trying to pop onto Balmung during quiet times to raid our MB.

No, Balmung won't affect it for now because people can't visit a congested world. If Balmung is ever opened, then it will start affecting things.

[KageTokage]

It just occurred to me that those gil farming bots are going to be extra obnoxious because they're generally occupying 100+ player slots on every server, though I've seen upwards of 200 on Cactuar alone on an especially bad week.

Hopefully SE shifts to daily ban waves instead of weekly to mitigate that a little.

[Reinha]

Can you talk in your home server's Novice Network when visiting another server?

[BillyKaplan]

No, Balmung won't affect it for now because people can't visit a congested world. If Balmung is ever opened, then it will start affecting things.

So uh. Yeah. About that...
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...06d0909189e479

[Kurando]

No, Balmung won't affect it for now because people can't visit a congested world. If Balmung is ever opened, then it will start affecting things.

Balmung is now changed to a standard world, looks like things will be effecting the MB quicker than you thought.

Ah beat me to it Billy!

[Alien_Gamer]

Oh my, that was unexpected. This will make things interesting for a while.

[Jojoya]

Balmung is now changed to a standard world, looks like things will be effecting the MB quicker than you thought.

Ah beat me to it Billy!

Even though they aren't marked as Congested to block new character creation and transfers, congestion can still prevent players from other worlds from visiting Balmung if the population online at that time is too high.

It will be interesting to see what ends up happening.