Quote Originally Posted by Penthea View Post
Can crowds get large enough at a placard that it would affect performance on ps4? This isn't sarcasm, it's a genuine question.
There is an actual hard cap on how many characters can be displayed. Personally I never seen it get to that point at a plot. Yesterday I went ot a plot near my home and it was camped by 14 people. YOu can see the hard cap easily during hunts and when the fate for restoration pops.



Quote Originally Posted by Penthea View Post
I don't think it can be done. Even if SE manage to even the playing field between ps4 and pcs of a similar spec with a SSD, there are still far more powerful and far weaker pcs than the ps4. There is always going to be some disparity somewhere.

We need instanced housing :
I don't think people realize that instant housing isn't as simple to implement as everyone thinks it is. Sure other MMOs have it. Personally I like BDOs approach but its completely different engine with a completely different coding scheme and even different server infrastructure. FFXIV is a mash up of coding from 1.0 and what iti is now and the problem with it is every little thing from housing, to the armor, to the head gear being hidden, to even a majority of the UI parts which all require a server call. This is one reason why they can't do glamour chest for housing as it would crash the server. Even the UI guy during the live letter stated even though they want and probably could add certain things, it would bog down the server with the sheer number of requests and cause issues.

Even though there is 3rd party tools that do what what was requested if they implemented every player would be pinging the servers vs the ones using the third party tool. WE have to face facts, this is a bastardize version of the original FFXIV that has a crap ton of band aid fixes to get it where it as it today. It would more and likely require them taking the game offline again for a long period time to make it happen and SE doesn't want that unfortunately. I think the best they can do is and I really don't get why is improve the apartment system by making it attractive to people who are unable to et a plot at this time if SE is so hell bent on making actually housing scarce.