New character creation restrictions

[Niwashi]

SE really needs to redefine "congested" to mean "more congested than the others" rather than "more congested than they used to be last year". It defeats the whole purpose if they set it on everything. The point of blocking character creation on the busiest servers is supposed to be to get people to start on the other, lower population servers instead. I'm not sure how SE thinks that's going to happen when they're ALL marked as congested, like they are on Aether. They can't all be the highest.

Along with that, and for the same reason, the rule that temporarily locks servers with too many people online needs a higher threshold whenever its current threshold would lock out all of them at once. It's only supposed to be spreading out the population more evenly, not blocking people from playing at all. (And sure, that could sometimes mean having a login queue when creating a character, but it still beats not being able to create one at all.)

[savageink]

SE really needs to redefine "congested" to mean "more congested than the others" rather than "more congested than they used to be last year". It defeats the whole purpose if they set it on everything. The point of blocking character creation on the busiest servers is supposed to be to get people to start on the other, lower population servers instead. I'm not sure how SE thinks that's going to happen when they're ALL marked as congested, like they are on Aether. They can't all be the highest.

It means Aether, the whole datacenter, is overcrowded and they don't want anybody else on it.

[Niwashi]

It means Aether, the whole datacenter, is overcrowded and they don't want anybody else on it.

I might have believed that if they hadn't just finished reorganizing the data centers to set up Crystal. While their populations may well drift apart over time, all three should be pretty even now, at least even enough that they shouldn't be locking one of them out entirely.

[MistakeNot]

I might have believed that if they hadn't just finished reorganizing the data centers to set up Crystal. While their populations may well drift apart over time, all three should be pretty even now, at least even enough that they shouldn't be locking one of them out entirely.

They also gave free transfers in conjunction with the reorganizing, which a bunch of people used to move away from Crystal - and many moved to one of the Aether servers.

[savageink]

There were several weeks of free transfers after the datacenter addition. During that time the majority of the people on the new crystal servers who weren't avid RPers decided that the Datacenter would become a giant ERP zone and they would catch cooties if they stayed. So, they all moved to the other 2 data centers. However, Gilgamesh which had shared Aether with Balmung as the defacto home for the "Hard Core" became the target for the majority of those people and because of world visit the other worlds on the DS. Oddly enough there are a lot of people out there who think they are raiders. So, now all of them get to complain about 3,000 long queues which Balmungians used to get crap for complaining about. I haven't seen a queue longer than a couple hundred the whole launch cycle so far.