[Suggestion] Close off Aether, Primal and Crystal to new character creation temp!

[Ranaku]

Or...maybe...just maybe give Dynamis a bit of time or actually try to form a community over there to do stuff with. Dynamis isn't dead, people just expect that a new datacenter is from the start as populated as the old ones. Which is bonkers. It will need a lot of time for Dynamis to get a good population and everyone going there or creating a char there should've known what they sign up for, if you don't like it there is always the option to transfer your character to a more populated datacenter...or just travel.

[Stormpeaks]

Or...maybe...just maybe give Dynamis a bit of time or actually try to form a community over there to do stuff with. Dynamis isn't dead, people just expect that a new datacenter is from the start as populated as the old ones. Which is bonkers. It will need a lot of time for Dynamis to get a good population and everyone going there or creating a char there should've known what they sign up for, if you don't like it there is always the option to transfer your character to a more populated datacenter...or just travel.

"just give it time" lmao

like Materia ? The datacenter that is still an absolute ghost town to this day after a year or more ?

Dynamis is dead, and even the people that decided to move there are 24/7 on other more established datacenters, Seraph is the only world that is sort of "alive", the other 3 are ghost towns and if you look at housing it gives you a good image of that

[Daeriion_Aeradiir]

"just give it time" lmao

like Materia ? The datacenter that is still an absolute ghost town to this day after a year or more ?

Dynamis is dead, and even the people that decided to move there are 24/7 on other more established datacenters, Seraph is the only world that is sort of "alive", the other 3 are ghost towns and if you look at housing it gives you a good image of that

Materia has multiple issues with it that Dynamis doesn't need to deal with though, hence it was a doomed prophecy from the get-go.

Dynamis was never meant to become super populated during 6.X series - it's always been meant to handle 7.0 (technically it was meant for 6.0, but chip shortage for network servers was extremely brutal), where DC travel will become basically impossible due to the massive amounts of returning players causing multi-hour long transfer queues, and where most likely, every single Aether/Crystal/Primal server will be placed on lockdown, force-funneling new characters to Dynamis and effectively forcing them to play on it (also highly suspect they'll force-return every player back to Dynamis thats DC traveling when the game goes for 7.0 maintenance to alleviate queues for other servers from DC travellers). The only reason they added it early was to make sure that the hardware & backend of it was actively operational instead of sticking it in right before 7.0 and having it suffer from failures right before the moment its crucially needed.

[Avoidy]

Would be cool if we had region-wide queues for dailies and things. One thing I see a lot are dynamis players traveling to crystal for the queues so they can get their dailies done. I feel like if we had that, but otherwise put a pause on DC travel in general when a new DC dropped, that would allow the DC to actually breathe and form its own culture and economy without it being ruined by people just traveling to places that were already established. Probably would've helped to have dynamis release with half the worlds it released with, but it was also pretty obvious that dynamis was made to future proof against the anticipated population influx 7.0 could bring, so, eh. It's a bummer. I know people who wanted to go to dynamis to have an all new community experience. They wanted to spearhead initiatives on a new world and be at the forefront of, like, a whole new frontier. Instead 90% of the population bought a house and then dc traveled to crystal. I don't think any new DC will ever get to come into its own ever again now that DC travel exists.

[Stormpeaks]

Would be cool if we had region-wide queues for dailies and things. One thing I see a lot are dynamis players traveling to crystal for the queues so they can get their dailies done. I feel like if we had that, but otherwise put a pause on DC travel in general when a new DC dropped, that would allow the DC to actually breathe and form its own culture and economy without it being ruined by people just traveling to places that were already established. Probably would've helped to have dynamis release with half the worlds it released with, but it was also pretty obvious that dynamis was made to future proof against the anticipated population influx 7.0 could bring, so, eh. It's a bummer. I know people who wanted to go to dynamis to have an all new community experience. They wanted to spearhead initiatives on a new world and be at the forefront of, like, a whole new frontier. Instead 90% of the population bought a house and then dc traveled to crystal. I don't think any new DC will ever get to come into its own ever again now that DC travel exists.

Same will happen with the new EU DC they want to create, the new worlds (Sagi and Raiden) are already barely surviving, the economy is absolutely dead and the population is very tiny, while Phantom and Alpha got quite a few people, but when they release 8 new worlds with the new EU DC, they will just become dead worlds as the EU doesnt have the population to populate a new DC, and yet they seem to be going ahead with that idea no matter the fact that it will make an already tinier community (compared to NA) spread out even more, not only that but also create empty worlds that will end up like Materia,and the daring few that will move there will go back to Light to do content. Same issue, different region, they actually dont have a clue what they are doing and it shows.

[Ravenblade1979]

now i seen region wide queues mentioned. while this would be cool. they would essentially be programming it into the dc travel system i would believe. which might end up being complicated because you are essentially pulling characters from different dc's into one location. its temp travel but with how the system is designed. would need a total rework

[Katish]

There is one thing they could do but probably won't, outside just gating it that is, and that would be to provide incentives for playing on said dead or new DC continually...damage buffs, gil, etc. That is one way to grab attention and interest...could be by influx hours too. Just message each DC when there is a low population on a specific DC so people can see and join that dead DC, this would allow queues to go smoother and might also build community given people would flock to said DC just to get the rewards, this would allow you to see familiar faces

[CidHeiral]

They either need to disable DC travel entirely or restrict players from using duty/party finder while on a different DC.

[Jasott]

While the Dynamis players are just making their own problem by refusing to stay on their own data center "because no one queues for anything there" (just stay put and the queues would naturally happen), since a good majority of them moved their for housing plots, what SE should do is automatically demolish houses if you spend X amount of time away from your home data center. Maybe something like 240 hours over the span of a month (roughly a third). So if they hit that 240 hour mark their house is automatically destroyed. Yes it'd be an extreme, but it would get them to actually use those servers instead of SE wasting resources on them.

[Chie_M]

They either need to disable DC travel entirely or restrict players from using duty/party finder while on a different DC.

I agree with this. Despite the doomposting and lower overall population, Materia is in a significantly better place than Dynamis. Due to being unable to DC travel, our markets, DF and PF are all livelier than Dynamis, even if we have more empty housing plots.