Give OCE players a free transfer off their dead datacenter.

[DezereDawn]

I would LOVE to be able to pop over on my main account in NA and help our OCE community with queues and clears and stuff. The JPs so worried that people are coming to raid their PFs.... nah fam. I just want to play with mates. And as far as I can see, everyone else who wants cross region is hoping for that exact same thing.

Bingo, i have friends on NA, JP, and OCE now and i'm not making 3 alts and managing each of them to play with all of them with this game's frankly awful Alt experience, i'd rather transfer to play with who i wish to play with at any given time of day when they're active and maybe even introduce them all to eachother

[Serious-Cat]

Yesterday I manage to do the copied factory in OCE with a 5 min queue as healer in need. Things aren't that bad I guess xD

At around 9pm oz time

[Serious-Cat]

There is also a difference in ping and latency; if everyone is on the JP servers, where ever you are you are connecting from you to the central JP hub.

Cross Region means.. say, your tank is connecting from Okinawa to the JP server, which is then connecting to the NA server for the Healer based in Vancouver, who are then trying to connect to the OCE hub for that New Zealander dps…etc.

I think ff14 have some good netcode for it tho because while playing in NA from OCE isn't optimal but it really isn't that bad xD

[Jojoya]

I wonder why they made so many servers for OCE.
Probably woulda been better if they made a single one considering their population numbers

Because it would have buckled under the stress of 100k characters trying to log in at the same time.

It's not the number of worlds in the data center causing long queues because queues are cross world regardless. It's the active population across the entire data center and what content they want to do that is affecting the queues. If 75% of the population is trying to get through the non dungeon/trial portions of the MSQ, that's only 25% of the population trying to do other things that might include hunts, crafting/gathering, treasure maps, etc.

It might be a reasonably healthy number as a whole, but not when you start splitting it down into "this player is queueing for Expert roulette, this player is queueing for Trials roulette, this player is queueing for Alliance roulette, this player is queueing for Baelsar's Wall for MSQ completion and so on". None of those players are going to be placed into the same party because the content they are queueing doesn't match. Mentors would generally help fill parties for many of those queues but how many mentors went to Materia and are queueing for Mentor roulette?

It's also not going to help when tank/healer/DPS role requirements for parties need to be met. There could be 100 players in queue for leveling roulette but if there are only 5 tanks, 3 healers and 92 DPS, there's going to be a long wait for 88 out of the 100.

[Tigerlilley]

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We are finding that the number of servers aren't the problem for queues, but for the marketboard. If you're not on Ravana, it is incredibly hard to sell anything...at all. As soon as the 90 days are up we are shifting our whole FC off Bismarck for this exact reason.

For a while people were excited that it would be dead easy to get a house on a dead server but this excitement was swiftly killed off by the fact no one can make any gil.

[hagare]

It's also not going to help when tank/healer/DPS role requirements for parties need to be met. There could be 100 players in queue for leveling roulette but if there are only 5 tanks, 3 healers and 92 DPS, there's going to be a long wait for 88 out of the 100.

isn't DF across servers? So the same thing would happen regardless with multiple servers?

[DixieBellOCE]

We are finding that the number of servers aren't the problem for queues, but for the marketboard. If you're not on Ravana, it is incredibly hard to sell anything...at all. As soon as the 90 days are up we are shifting our whole FC off Bismarck for this exact reason.

For a while people were excited that it would be dead easy to get a house on a dead server but this excitement was swiftly killed off by the fact no one can make any gil.

Honestly ravana has a huge bot problem with hundreds of fake FC's being made to buy up houses, you would be better off just making marketboard alts to sell stuff than transfering over

[Tigerlilley]

Honestly ravana has a huge bot problem with hundreds of fake FC's being made to buy up houses, you would be better off just making marketboard alts to sell stuff than transfering over

I had a look at those bots and it seems non of them are past level 50. They wont be able to buy in Shirogane or in Ishgard.

They're still a massive issue, of course, but they're not worth staying on a dead server for

[Nethereal]

Look on the upside at least you don't have a housing issue, yet.

[Tigerlilley]

For people who move over on day 1,you should be able to transfer again on April 26.