Why Is Dynamis Dead

[LaylaTsarra]

Give it time 4 more servers are coming and at some point DC travel will start taking lots of time. I've been getting some 20 minutes queues in prime time and they will only get worse as time goes by.

Put a character on Materia if you want to have a depressing situation and Dynamis will only get better.

[SturmChurro]

Give it time 4 more servers are coming and at some point DC travel will start taking lots of time. I've been getting some 20 minutes queues in prime time and they will only get worse as time goes by.

Put a character on Materia if you want to have a depressing situation and Dynamis will only get better.

They are going to add 4 more worlds? I suppose that helps with larger housing, but I feel like that's way too much. 4 feels kind of good right now.

[LaylaTsarra]

They are going to add 4 more worlds? I suppose that helps with larger housing, but I feel like that's way too much. 4 feels kind of good right now.

Servers were delayed so they had to limit it to 4 not 8 but they are coming soon. They haven't announced when but can't be too long.

[SturmChurro]

Servers were delayed so they had to limit it to 4 not 8 but they are coming soon. They haven't announced when but can't be too long.

That sounds terrible, and good lord are they going to have to fix the housing distribution in that case. Tons of larger plots are completely empty and wasted in FC wards, and there are swathes of empty smalls all over the place because nobody wants them, or is waiting for the larger ones. So much for the "community" aspect.

[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.

[caffe_macchiato]

at some point DC travel will start taking lots of time. I've been getting some 20 minutes queues in prime time and they will only get worse as time goes by.

That’s not good, that’s terrible. People on Crystal (the most populous DC) already have to go to Aether for any high-end content because everyone else is there (cyclical effect). They still travel, they simply don’t travel back. That means no FC or CWLS. It’s gutted the community of this game. And Dynamis is even worse, because we have to transfer for a lot more than they do. We can’t even do PvP. Transferring will never stop until Square gives us cross-DC queues.

Honestly, what the hell is going on with this company? They put their money in Forspoken (sometimes called Flopspoken) while their most profitable title has issues? The same people who ran Square during 1.0 are running it now. It’s only a matter of time before they screw things up yet again.

[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.

[Seraphor]

They made the mistake of creating the new Dynamis Datacentre with only new servers, instead of migrating existing servers across to it.
This might have worked in JP, Oceania because it was their first Datacenter, and maybe even the EU.

But Americans have this weird tendency to desire specific servers and specific Datacenters, to bandwagon. The fact that Crystal is uniquely regarded as a casual/roleplay datacenter, and Aether is the hardcore raiding datacenter when no other servers or datacenters in the world have this sort of thing. And so American players simply didn't migrate to Dynamis, forcing the few who did to travel back to Aether/Crystal for queues. They would rather bid against thousands of other prospective house buyers on Crystal, than claim a free house on Dynamis.

You could even say Datacenter travel was a mistake. If those who were forced to migrate to the new Datacenter were also forced to PLAY on that Datacenter, there wouldn't be as much of a problem. But Americans have to follow the largest crowd, so Datacenter travel has saturated all players onto one Datacenter instead of spreading them across multiples.

[Deveryn]

Servers were delayed so they had to limit it to 4 not 8 but they are coming soon. They haven't announced when but can't be too long.

I'm pretty sure they said they would consider adding another 4. It's not definite yet.

[Final-Fantasy]

I'm pretty sure they said they would consider adding another 4. It's not definite yet.

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...8a3986554a2#05

"In the first phase of the expansion, scheduled for August 2022, one new logical data center will be established and four new Worlds will be added under it. In the second phase of the expansion, we plan to add four more new Worlds under the newly established logical DC, resulting in a four-logical-DC configuration of 8:8:8:8."

Its Official, 8 Worlds on Dynamis.