Materia/Oceanican Data Center needs help please!

[Nebelheim]

Honestly, I believe they released too many Oceania servers at once. It should have been like 1 to start with, open up more as needed. The playerbase is too spread out between them.

There should be limited cross overs too for dungeons, I agree. Make it an easy to spot option, like build it in so it's on the same page as the daily roulette and make it a toggle.

It seems from the census data there is only roughly 10-20k at most active on oceania spread out on all its servers. That 10-20k active players could easily fit on a single server or 2 servers if they merged the servers down to 1 or 2.

[Supersnow845]

It seems from the census data there is only roughly 10-20k at most active on oceania spread out on all its servers. That 10-20k active players could easily fit on a single server or 2 servers if they merged the servers down to 1 or 2.

The number of materia servers doesn’t matter because all queues pull from the entire data centre

How busy limsa feels has never factored into the game design since this has never been a social MMO for the purpose of clearing content

Every person on materia could have their own server and it would change nothing

[Nebelheim]

The number of materia servers doesn’t matter because all queues pull from the entire data centre

How busy limsa feels has never factored into the game design since this has never been a social MMO for the purpose of clearing content

Every person on materia could have their own server and it would change nothing

The low population of the datacenter in general will make queing for anything for any level range difficult regardless of if they have 8 servers or 1. A lot of people care about population numbers when considering a large population of the game roleplays and goes to venues and dont want to be on a datacenter where the population of the entire datacenter is less then 20k active players currently. Which is also why there is problems queing for anything. I'm glad oceania got a datacenter so people in that region can get better connection but the entire datacenter is a ghost town except for small windows of time at peak times that only happen for 2 hours. People don't want to be restricted to 2 hours of playtime to get anything done. I think oceania and dynamis came too late but unfortunately covid caused delays. Im sure there are people that like being there and love the small tight knit community but a large portion of Oceania people end up going back to JP or NA because of a lack of population as one of the reasons for leaving.

[Supersnow845]

The low population of the datacenter in general will make queing for anything for any level range difficult regardless of if they have 8 servers or 1. A lot of people care about population numbers when considering a large population of the game roleplays and goes to venues and dont want to be on a datacenter where the population of the entire datacenter is less then 20k active players currently. Which is also why there is problems queing for anything. I'm glad oceania got a datacenter so people in that region can get better connection but the entire datacenter is a ghost town except for small windows of time at peak times that only happen for 2 hours. People don't want to be restricted to 2 hours of playtime to get anything done. I think oceania and dynamis came too late but unfortunately covid caused delays. Im sure there are people that like being there and love the small tight knit community but a large portion of Oceania people end up going back to JP or NA because of a lack of population as one of the reasons for leaving.

Yes but the problem is number of players on materia; the number of servers on materia is completely irrelevant

[Nebelheim]

Yes but the problem is number of players on materia; the number of servers on materia is completely irrelevant

The game would probably need to provide more long lasting content or some sort of incentive to get people to want to stay there and build a community. But i also think part of the reason for its low population is former materia players went back to there former datacenters and doom and gloomed materia saying it was dead and convinced any potential new/returning player to not go there.