Please help Dynamis

[Nebelheim]

Never heard of this heading to Aether thing until now. Crystal fills all content, including EX trials and all raiding content. I've never once had a problem searching for anything to do while on the crystal DC, so sounds like it's a dynamis specific problem if people from that server move to Aether for whatever reason

I data center traveled to crystal last night and all there was were 100 pf groups under other advertising clubs and maybe a handful of trial dungeons and raids if that. I love being on primal but dynamis primal and crystal are suffering endgame party finder issues because of everyone piling onto aether for endgame because "aether is raid datacenter" kept being promoted to people and people claiming that's where all the "good raiders" are.

[Striker44]

Yes I too go on the absolute lowest population server when I start a new game knowing I won't even be able to queue for anything at all and struggle to make friends because 90% of the already small DC is DC traveling.

Get real.

Also yes maybe on expansion drop there will be quite a lot more, and what when the numbers fall off ? That's normal for mmo's, be it ffxiv or wow, big peak on expansion release then massive drop back to normal/stable numbers.

Well, actually, if I knew I could go to the low-pop server to get access to certain things I probably wouldn't get on high pop servers (i.e. housing), and still with a click of a button (DC travel) easily queue for all of the content I want to queue for, I could very easily see that as a tempting proposition.

[Ardeth]

Well, actually, if I knew I could go to the low-pop server to get access to certain things I probably wouldn't get on high pop servers (i.e. housing), and still with a click of a button (DC travel) easily queue for all of the content I want to queue for, I could very easily see that as a tempting proposition.

Once you get above a certain level, it drastically tapers off. Most roulettes are duds. Generally speaking, if you're level 90 or 100, when Dawntrail comes out, those servers aren't ideal. I like being in a small town. I really do, but when you need convenience, you have to be smart enough to realize you sacrificed it for peace and quiet. Because that's the truth. Dynamis is dead post 50. And that's after a year of new player growth. I don't see it changing much in the future. As more and more people leave for better pastures, it still remains dead. The choice on how to fix it is obvious. Blizzard figured it out for them a decade ago. They just need to figure out how to implement the fix. It could take two three years to get it going if it's even possible. I generally have hope in the devs because usually, when something bothers me, they fix. I'm not asking for much. I'm just asking for cross DC queuing. That's it. I personally couldn't care less about cross DC PF, but everyone here wants it as well, and I'm not going to stand in the way of progress.

[Swordsman]

We need cross datacenter grouping asap.

Yeah, man that honestly sucks. Just DC travel, lol.

[Eastwall]

We need cross datacenter grouping asap.

Oh boy, that's so dead. Reminds me of the unranked feast match back then. Feels bad

[EorzeaWanderer]

I see some people saying that this is a player-created problem, that if only people stayed on Dynamis to queue, things would work out. I disagree.

SE has set things up the way they are now. These are the current "rules of the game":
- Players are spread across different home data centers
- Players get better DF and PF activity if more players are on the data center they are on
- Players can freely travel among data centers

The obvious, optimal solution to the "game" so to speak, as it is currently designed, is for *all players to try to play on a single data center* because doing so benefits *all* of those players.

This is the current game design from SE. It's not really a "self-fulfilling prophecy" to say that one data center is for raiding. It is the inevitable result of players choosing to play optimally! And we are gamers, of course that's what we are going to try to do.

Asking someone to voluntarily choose to seek DF and PF activity on a non-congregating data center is basically asking them to play suboptimally.

SE are the game designers, and it's a bit concerning if they never thought this through.

I hate what DC travel has done to my PF (Crystal) and my FC chat. All of the announcements around data-center travel that I remember pitched it as being a way to play with your friends. They could have accomplished this by having DF and PF inaccessible to travelers. No party creation, either. Your friends could have invited you to whatever activity, you're good. This would have been enough to keep people on their home DCs and Primal and Crystal would have been just fine, as they were before the change. Not sure about Dynamis, but I guess we'll never know.

The genie's out of the bottle and it's probably going to be awkward to remove free-reign DC travel now that people are using it. The only way out of this is cross-DC matchmaking.