Guess I don't get to play tonight.

[Stormpeaks]

That's what happens when you pick popular servers.

I remember when people would tell you to just move off Balmung if you didn't like it. So I did.

Basically this, play on the most populated server in the game and you get queues, especially if there are issues, this is not new

[Nezerius]

Basically this, play on the most populated server in the game and you get queues, especially if there are issues, this is not new

That would be Mateus, as of the most recent census. Although Balmung's population gets very close.

It's also extremely likely that queues like this would happen on most of the NA servers, after a server crash. Aside from Mateus and Balmung sitting at an active character count of 30.9k and 30.5k respectively, every server on the Crystal datacenter is sitting in the range of 26k characters. Coeurl being the lowest at 25k. Aether datacenter servers are sitting at around 24-24.5k characters, while Primal datacenter servers are sitting at around 24-25k characters (with Behemoth being a bit of an outlier at 22.8k).
There isn't really anywhere for OP to move to, to avoid a situation like this. At least not until the new NA servers get added.