Please, PLEASE lock Balmung's access to Wanderers and Travelers.

[Kurando]

Wonder if SE should extend cross-travel to cities in expacs (but not the latest one), so Ishgard, Kugane and Crystarium. It might reduce some congestion of players just standing around the Aetherytes in the current starter cities. Would people take advantage of this perhaps, hmm....

[KitiaraIornsight]

LMAO at this. The fact you honestly think that SE would give one server special treatment. Regardless if some of the supposed things that happen on balmung are overblown to a minor degree, it most definitely isn't UNTRUE. You had an ERP FC put up a BILLBOARD. Those are your people that did that on your server to directly coincide with cross data center travel and before they got all the negative blowback, were actively attempting to get Asmongold, Zepla and other MAJOR FFXIV streamers to attend. With all the drama surrounding just THAT, you're gonna have excessive visits to the server. Thank your own people for causing it.

[SoraLuna]

LMAO at this. The fact you honestly think that SE would give one server special treatment. Regardless if some of the supposed things that happen on balmung are overblown to a minor degree, it most definitely isn't UNTRUE. You had an ERP FC put up a BILLBOARD. Those are your people that did that on your server to directly coincide with cross data center travel and before they got all the negative blowback, were actively attempting to get Asmongold, Zepla and other MAJOR FFXIV streamers to attend. With all the drama surrounding just THAT, you're gonna have excessive visits to the server. Thank your own people for causing it.

A few idiots doesn't represent a whole server's mindset.

[RecoveryPotion]

LMAO at this. The fact you honestly think that SE would give one server special treatment. Regardless if some of the supposed things that happen on balmung are overblown to a minor degree, it most definitely isn't UNTRUE. You had an ERP FC put up a BILLBOARD. Those are your people that did that on your server to directly coincide with cross data center travel and before they got all the negative blowback, were actively attempting to get Asmongold, Zepla and other MAJOR FFXIV streamers to attend. With all the drama surrounding just THAT, you're gonna have excessive visits to the server. Thank your own people for causing it.

I'm pretty sure they've done special treatment for other reasons when it comes to server congestion/issues, haven't they?

[KitiaraIornsight]

I'm pretty sure they've done special treatment for other reasons when it comes to server congestion/issues, haven't they?

No, when Asmongold showed up, they did not do anything about server congestion for the server he joined other than enforcing the actual rules and banning the people harassing him. They didn't lock the server from travel, they didn't lock the server for anything. The only thing that got those servers locked for new characters was when they reached the population threshold to designate the servers as congested. No server has gotten special treatment.

[Avoidy]

Maybe it's different for other people, but when I go to log in on Balmung, the wait time is like less than a minute and the queue's got 40 people at most. Only Ul'dah is basically unusable at this point, so if you used it for (E)RP, then yeah, you got kinda screwed by tourists. But everywhere else has been virtually identical, so I really couldn't care less atm.
Maybe if you use uldah for ERP, just migrate somewhere else for a week until the tourists get bored, I guess. Sucks, but it's better than being in uldah as it is now, or waiting on SE to do anything about a single town.

[KitiaraIornsight]

A few idiots doesn't represent a whole server's mindset.

A few idiots also doesn't mean that they will lock down your server to make a handful of players happy either. The RP community as a whole on Balmung made that server famous within the community YEARS ago. If you don't like the server's reputation or the fact that it draws in spectators, $20 can get you a home on another RP type server like Mateaus that's more chill.

[Aneshda]

I'm a long time player from Balmung and I can say that this server is in utter shambles due to being pretty being turned into a +18 tourist place.
But my main issue with it are:
2) Ul'dah and Limsa Lominsa (and soon Gridania!) being congested due to the amount of people server hopping

OH NOES ever thought about moving for RP to your House / FC House / Apartment and even one of the other Maps / 10000 Places in this Game? You see problems can be so easy solved.

[Shougun]

Hehe. I didn't say it yet Shougun, you are a very nice Hroth!

No u! But like really smoll Hroth, without hair



Also, thank you for entertaining some of my questions I've had

mods halp!

No one can hear you /tell in The Quicksands.... >:3

Balmung is awesome damn the secret (well not sure it's that guarded a secret) will be gone and we'll be exposed to the world! :P (You could take that literally.) Ul Dah might need instances.

I joined Balmung via the Fabul server merge back in 1.0, so I didn't really pick a server for RP- but to me having increase bards, people hanging out in towns, etc, it's nice backdrop to my gaming, and as a casual player I don't have issues with DF (I used to do savage in DF long ago, and I found that painful and not a good use of my time lol-- as people had a hard time learning mechanics, but since dropping that my enjoyment of the game increased significantly). I know that is true for many places, but you can see the lower clear rates on the more casual oriented spaces (on the other side we absolutely destroyed the Ishgard restoration lol). Though I know I could use PF if I really wanted to do that content, but I just really dislike / don't enjoy the idea and act of shouting / advertising for content (so I generally don't use PF unless it's like a hunt or an almost full party for something I wanted to do).

Anyway, for me- a non-rp player, I feel Balmung has been quite nice. Gives my world space activity, and for the content I tend to do, and SE's design style, I can do what I want to do.

[Shuhannazy]

I feel bad for yall tbh. but it will calm down once this whole billboard mess is over with. the shine will wear off and people will go back home. that billboard thing really screwed yall tho cause people were going to see what the fuss was about. I haven't server visited at all, I'm waiting for it to bust and people to be stuck for a few days like last time on aether lmao.