Can we please get a dev comment about servers being full?

[twili]

i think they put a temporary cap on all server to get people to go to Ragnarok. i think they'll open transfers up again.

I'm going to hope so. I have two characters on different servers atm and I have to get one of them off Saronia for personal reasons. I was excited to find out I was going to be able to move her, but then log in this morning only to find the only server open is the EU Server. Guess I'll be checking it every few hrs. Its just hard to believe that with not that many people playing this MMO right now there is no way to move servers. They should have done something with the long time inactive players. Such as been inactive for 6 months or longer your character will be deleted or something to that nature.

[Wynn]

- Players wanted to keep their inactive friends on their servers.
- SE should have considered only the number of active accounts in their calculations (because a big portion of inactive accounts will remain inactive).

Taking in their calculations the enormous inactive accounts database is the big problem here.

And no, SE will not ''get what they need out of this''. Being the only server with no inactive accounts, every LS willing to move will end up in Ragnarok... it will be so over-crowded that they'll have to make a second merge before the 2.0.

All SE needs out of this is to condense servers and increase population across the board. It matters little who individually ends up where from their perspective. Guess what? Target achieved.

Also not sure why you are blaming SE for any consideration of inactives when it was the community who demanded that they do so.

[RathSkybreaker]

Yeah, get home from school, -disappointed- all I can really say about this..

[IronSoup]

All SE needs out of this is to condense servers and increase population across the board. It matters little who individually ends up where from their perspective. Guess what? Target achieved.

Also not sure why you are blaming SE for any consideration of inactives when it was the community who demanded that they do so.

Condensing by creating an over-populated server? I don't think this is what they had in mind. They let the Selbina server alone for that purpose. Ragnarok will quickly become the exit strategy of choice for all linkshells trying to move (not just EU). The problem resides in Linkshells using this as a World Transfer Application program which is clearly not the case.

As for the part about keeping the communities together when moving, it's clearly not their primary objective.

On the inactive accounts, they should have just moved them automatically but they shouldn't be in their calculations for the cap space on each server. It's like annexing two cities together and counting the dead bodies in the graveyard in the population of the new city.... it doesn't really make sense.

[Elexia]

On the inactive accounts, they should have just moved them automatically but they shouldn't be in their calculations for the cap space on each server. It's like annexing two cities together and counting the dead bodies in the graveyard in the population of the new city.... it doesn't really make sense.

That was part of their original plan, but people cried foul.

[IronSoup]

That was part of their original plan, but people cried foul.

Wrong. Their original plan was to put all inactive accounts on a remote server where they will stay until the 2.0 (since everybody moved to a new server anyway). To use the same example I used, it would be like moving all tombs in a waste and, if they miraculously wake up, they would render alone in a wasteland. That was their original plan.

[Elexia]

Wrong. Their original plan was to put all inactive accounts on a remote server where they will stay until the 2.0. To use the same example I used, it would be like moving all tombs in a waste and, if they miraculously wake up, they would render alone in a wasteland. That was their original plan.

No, the original plan was to move everyone off of the servers and have everyone partake in the transfer process, thus logically inactive people won't be doing this and will be regulated between the servers after active players are done.

[Pancakes]

SE is trolling us

[Yves]

Firstly, let me apologize for the inconvenience that this has caused. In regards to the situation where multiple Worlds are showing as full, I wanted to let you all know that the population data on Lodestone is not shown in real time, and actually updates a few times throughout the day. Worlds that show as being full now, may not be later in the day. That said, we would ask that you please check back periodically to see whether or not the World you wish to transfer to is open.

Thank you very much for the reply - especially for how fast it was done ^^.

[LytheJade]

Wow, some serious knee-jerk reactions here. The merge hasn't even started yet and people are freaking out. I think the best part is how people are assuming what SE is doing, or funnier yet, what they should have done.

If at the end of the day (or in this case month) you still don't end up on the server you want, that would be a problem. This instant gratification thing is getting old.