Game is a ghost town after server split.

[Vahlnir]

Yes, I mostly play at off hours. From 11pm-6am. The game still felt alive at all hours even these late hours before the split. Maybe I'll have to swap to a European data-center and see if I can play with the lag.

I missed this earlier apparently. But yeah, this is part of your problem right here, if not the biggest part of it. That is not prime time. 11pm is on the tail end of it and prime time usually ends a couple hours later, so no wonder things slow down. It's also a month before early access so a lot of people are taking a break. It should pick up as we get closer to Shadowbringers launch and new players join to catch up.

[Rosentretter]

I play on Chaos, with less servers than Aether, around 4 to 6 hours behind the rest of them, and it's not dead when I play. It's a bit hard at certain hours to get into a duty, but it isn't a ghost town. What you're experiencing is, as others said, the pre Expansion period when most of the playerbase takes a break.

[Averax]

See i'm having the opposite problem.

Coeurl used to be empty. So empty that i used to know everybody's name off the top of my head.

And now it's one of the most booming servers on the crystal datacenter. I have wait times now. I understand why they split them.

[AnnaRosa]

I play on Chaos, with less servers than Aether, around 4 to 6 hours behind the rest of them, and it's not dead when I play. It's a bit hard at certain hours to get into a duty, but it isn't a ghost town. What you're experiencing is, as others said, the pre Expansion period when most of the playerbase takes a break.

Louisouix is the only Chaos DC server with many small plots for sale around 470 and is already in above half of it's capacity if not more I did create one character there to get one of the houses and every time am to long in there is queue.

[Rosentretter]

Louisouix is the only Chaos DC server with many small plots for sale around 470 and is already in above half of it's capacity if not more I did create one character there to get one of the houses and every time am to long in there is queue.

470 what? No lol there's plenty of plots available but not 470... No one wants to live in The Goblet x)

[Vahlnir]

470 what? No lol there's plenty of plots available but not 470... No one wants to live in The Goblet x)

The Goblet is a bit of an acquired taste outside of the inner ring around the pool. Personally I didn't mind it but it's not very scenic or vibrant for the most part.

[BokaSmowl]

The population decrease isn't as noticeable during prime hours, but if you play mostly at night I could tell a big difference starting the week of the split. Perhaps a majority of the late night gamers are on primal or crystal. Or maybe they started playing other games that week because it's the end of the expansion. Or maybe they log in, see nothing going on like me, and THEN go play other games... There's a threshold in online games where once the population gets low enough, it plummets. This is a great game, and I'd just hate to see it start dying because of bad decisions like fracturing the player base. I already lost a good portion of my friends because of the server split.

[Rosentretter]

The Goblet is a bit of an acquired taste outside of the inner ring around the pool. Personally I didn't mind it but it's not very scenic or vibrant for the most part.

Everything is so messy in there, it's an effin labyrinth, and the position of the houses, specially the mansions, makes me think it got really, really rushed.

[RukiaFae]

I'm on goblin and I feel like since the world transfer system, I see more people.

[Dualblade]

I've only recently moved to Cactuar so I'm not sure how it usually is but it seems populated enough. Que times seem about the same as I remember them being in HW too at this time outside a couple pieces of content (particularly Yojimbo) that could be chalked to not nearly as many people needing it compared to some other content. My lvl roulettes for example have been dinging at normal rates, same for EX, Trial, and Alliance raid.

I never said I was unhappy. I'm just not used to having people wandering around so much in the open world.

As for DPS queue times, I would have quit this game a long time ago if that actually bothered me.

Back in the ARR days the Central Highlands and Northern Thanalan were THE places to level for 30-40 and 40-50 via fates, might be some are reliving those days?