Quote Originally Posted by seida View Post
Posting here to say I REALLY hope they don't move Tonberry. That seems incredibly unfair to the large number of us on Tonberry who don't live in Australia?? We have houses, FCs, friends. Out of my whole FC only one person is planning to move because guess what, most of us live in Japan or elsewhere in asia!

Just because Tonberry has the most english speakers, so what? It's not only Australians who speak English. All my FC members who live in Singapore/Malaysia/Philippines think they'll get a worse connection from Australian servers.

Please, just make new servers and offer free transfers and incentives :/
To be fair, the many Aussies that have been playing the game and putting up with this bad connection also have houses, FCs, and friends on their current servers. I've even seen comments on discord from people who are on elemental in particular who would be reluctant to move because the better ping doesn't necessarily outweigh losing this stuff and potentially having issues with low population on new servers, which could then exacerbate the low population issue further.

I think the safest bet would be having a mix of new and older servers. It means established servers that have a high aussie population already bring that into the data center, and encourage aussies from other servers to migrate because there's already a population there. It guarantees that you're going to have people there from day 1 of the new servers rather than having to wait for people to shift across, where a completely new data center you'd need to wait for people to file in.

There also seems like there's a pretty big difference between having to move to a truly new data center where there's nothing really there except what you bring and people being caught in the move who then can jump across to an existing and populated server in their region.