Give OCE players a free transfer off their dead datacenter.

[Jojoya]

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.

You're the first one I've seen mention marketboard problems in this thread (though I've seen the complaint elsewhere, and might have missed someone else's comments in this one).

I was addressing those complaining about the duty queues.

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

Right, that's what I was saying. The number of worlds isn't impacting duty queues. It would severely affect log in queues.

Having the population spread out between multiple worlds and data centers allows more players to log in at the same time. We know it's not solely at the logical data center level (though that's also a factor). At the start of the expansion Balmung players were facing multi-hour log in queues even though log in queues for Coeurl were rarely more than 5 minutes and we're on the same logical data center.

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

Does the quest requirement also apply to purchase of FC houses in those districts, or just personal houses/apartments? Considering the difference in purchase requirements between FC and personal, I'm not sure the quest would be needed for a FC house entry.

If the quest completion isn't needed, then it simply takes one high level RMT character buying an apartment in one of those districts then friending low level RMT characters so all those low level characters have access to at least that one ward.