Why Is Dynamis Dead

[Ardeth]

I agree that the option to DC hop hurts of queue times, but I feel forcing people to queue locally would hurt Dynamis far more as people would just refuse to make a character here. Not everyone has hours of time to play each day, and certain queues can easily eat up 30+ minutes (and usually far, far, longer). I was sitting in alliance roulette yesterday for over 45 minutes before it popped. I've had an alliance queue that took almost 4 hours. Earlier in the week I was trying to clear some of the ShB & SB raids for glams, and even with 5 items selected, it was still showing over 30+ minutes. I finally moved as I didn't have that much actual playtime at that moment.

Also, the queue times lie. I can't tell you how many times I've queued up for something and it will initially show less than 5 minutes, only for it to grow to over an hour. The opposite has also happened, shows like a 20 minute wait, only for it to pop sooner....but that is faaaaar more rare in my personal experience.

I personally will queue locally when I can, but I can't fault anyone for actually moving to be able to get things done in a timely manner vs staying for the "needs of the DC". I don't think that means they're selfish. We don't owe anyone or the DC our free time to just sit around in a queue. Do I hope more people will queue locally? Yes, of course. And I'm optimistic that with time it will continue to get better. It's already better than it was a month ago, but it's just going to be a slow process.

Cross-DC queueing when? :3

No I agree with you. I just feel like a lot of people say they're trying to help, but they exclusively queue on other servers. I had a few people in my old FC do that. It was faster to jump over to Aether then wait 20 mins for a healer queue. I understand their frustrations. Like you said forcing people isn't the best option. I agree with that. I just wish people understood what datacenter hoping does to Dynamis. I'm not anti people playing with their friends, but in a lot of ways datacenter travel hurts us more than it helps them. I wish it didn't but that's the truth. But I think as long as we stick to our guns and at least try queue here when we can we can make a difference. If not for us than for others. But I'm no server architect. I'm just a man who wants to help anyway I can to make this place more of a home.

[TaleraRistain]

No I agree with you. I just feel like a lot of people say they're trying to help, but they exclusively queue on other servers. I had a few people in my old FC do that. It was faster to jump over to Aether then wait 20 mins for a healer queue. I understand their frustrations. Like you said forcing people isn't the best option. I agree with that. I just wish people understood what datacenter hoping does to Dynamis. I'm not anti people playing with their friends, but in a lot of ways datacenter travel hurts us more than it helps them. I wish it didn't but that's the truth. But I think as long as we stick to our guns and at least try queue here when we can we can make a difference. If not for us than for others. But I'm no server architect. I'm just a man who wants to help anyway I can to make this place more of a home.

One thing I've noticed with Marilith is there are a lot of new folks. So queue times for that lower level stuff isn't too horrible. My alt is only in HW so I only have CT unlocked and I'll get a random hour and a half alliance raid queue but leveling and 50+ tend to pop fairly quick. Some of my alt's higher level FC members who moved their mains over say there isn't as high of a population at the higher levels. I don't blame them for needing to cross over to do the newer content. And the thing to remember is that eventually the new folks will catch up so we'll have a bigger endgame population. It will just take some time because the DC is so newbie heavy right now.

[VerdeLuck]

It's a prisoners dilemma, I queued for alliance roulette yesterday and got a 2 hour long queue before it dumped us into LoTA. When it's that long, you cannot get all your roulettes done in a day, which means you don't get tomes for gear/relics. If everyone stayed on Dynamis and didn't just have random alts they level to 30/50/60 and left alone, the queues would pop normally, but being one of the people who stays means you get effectively punished with waiting and you grind slower than normal. There's no benefit to being the one with morals who stays, only falling behind on prog or grinds.

There probably needs to be some kind of incentive like I said before to get people to do things on the dynamis data center, something like increased tome drops/xp/gil if you run things on either your home DC or a DC that has low current population to try to break up and spread players out more evenly.