Cloud DC Proves Cross-Region Travel is OK

[Orinori]

Yeah, it's not my fault you dont know what you're talking about.

Can you show me where the Aether DC Travel queues are? If every player in Primal, Crystal and Dynamis are travelling, there should be pretty massive queues! There would also likely be emergency patches adding new channels to handle the influx of hundreds of thousands of new players right? I mean we're apparently talking about so many people that every other DC is dead! Could you explain this to me like I'm 4 since you're clearly the knowledgeable one who most definitely knows what they're talking about and most definitely isn't just parroting talking points they don't understand?

[Jojoya]

I feel like a lot of the "DC Travel killed my server!" hublah is severely overplayed, Aether isn't anymore packed than it was, the same amount of PFs up, same amount of people in towns, no increased instances or channels. The game just doesn't have a lot of people playing it right now. We're 8 months away from anymore meaningful content and people have taken the community's favorite advice and left to play other games and do other things. Hopefully many of them return for Dawntrail next year, but until then nearly all servers despite the very few active ones will remain completely dead.

The fact that Aether DC travel has no queues, no login queue beyond the normal 10-40 on any server, there has been absolutely no channel/instance updates to address the supposedly multiple entire servers of people transferring over, and that this is all coinciding at the same time with one of the largest content draughts in the game's history leads me to believe that this issue has very little to do with DC travel.

It isn't any more packed that it was before 6.35. Okay.

With the normal end of expansion content drought, shouldn't it be noticeably less packed than it was before? As the data center with the raid centric reputation and raiding effectively done for the majority of players who were here when the content was released, Aether should have less activity as those raiders move on to the other games they play as they normally do.

Where are the extra players coming from so Aether is experiencing the same activity instead of less activity?

I agree that the "data center travel killed my data center" complaints are exaggerated but there's still truth in that it has impacted where the active raid population is gathering. That's going to distort things for those who are mainly interested in raiding and not in other parts of the game.

The other things you're neglecting to mention is that things seem well enough for now. What about when Dawntrail releases and you have a large NA raiding population conditioned to believe that Aether is the only place they're going to find parties for the new content? There will be congestion from Aether home world players trying to log in to play. There would be additional congestion from Primal, Crystal and Dynamis players trying to get to Aether. Each off world player that makes it onto an Aether world is one less Aether player able to get to their home world to check retainers, reset housing timers, gather from timed nodes, etc. Worlds will absolutely hit their max limit for online players at the expansion launch unless SE can press the cloud servers into service in time for Dawntrail.

Better for the potential issues to be discussed with solutions found before we reach the critical time period.

[Stormpeaks]

Can you show me where the Aether DC Travel queues are? If every player in Primal, Crystal and Dynamis are travelling, there should be pretty massive queues! There would also likely be emergency patches adding new channels to handle the influx of hundreds of thousands of new players right? I mean we're apparently talking about so many people that every other DC is dead! Could you explain this to me like I'm 4 since you're clearly the knowledgeable one who most definitely knows what they're talking about and most definitely isn't just parroting talking points they don't understand?

Nice bait.

Not taking it though but nice bait, I give it a 2/10 for effort.

[Jeeqbit]

Can you show me where the Aether DC Travel queues are? If every player in Primal, Crystal and Dynamis are travelling, there should be pretty massive queues! There would also likely be emergency patches adding new channels to handle the influx of hundreds of thousands of new players right? I mean we're apparently talking about so many people that every other DC is dead! Could you explain this to me like I'm 4 since you're clearly the knowledgeable one who most definitely knows what they're talking about and most definitely isn't just parroting talking points they don't understand?

It's not that "everyone is traveling to Aether". It's that "everyone who sets up high-end raid parties" goes to Aether. That isn't enough to create massive travel queues. But it's enough to kill the concept of pugging extreme and savage on other data centers.

[Larirawiel]

It's not that "everyone is traveling to Aether". It's that "everyone who sets up high-end raid parties" goes to Aether. That isn't enough to create massive travel queues. But it's enough to kill the concept of pugging extreme and savage on other data centers.

This is true. But it is not really an obstacle. Because if someone wants to pug extreme or savage content, he can also travel to Aether.





Cheers

[Jeeqbit]

This is true. But it is not really an obstacle. Because if someone wants to pug extreme or savage content, he can also travel to Aether.

But then the individuals are not on their home DC anymore. Returning or newer players that just reached endgame are confused why PF is empty on their home DC. They can't access FC chat. They queue for other content on Aether because it's convenient and avoids having to travel back and forth too much. They might then tag along Aether hunt trains because it's more convenient than returning to their home DC whenever they want to join PF, so hunt trains become more congested on Aether. It has this ripple effect.

[Orinori]

Nice bait.

Not taking it though but nice bait, I give it a 2/10 for effort.

Nice minimum wage job and 200 extra pounds. I give you a 1/10 for effort.

[Stormpeaks]

Nice minimum wage job and 200 extra pounds. I give you a 1/10 for effort.

[Dysvalence]

I feel like all the people complaining about DC travel need to make an alt on materia and see how truly dead things are there. DC travel has made the game more playable at really late hours and I will absolutely take inconveniencing people over content being literally unplayable past 1AM.



inb4 but you play on Aether: I regularly hop to Primal for PvP and hunts. My degen hour raid static has people from all 3 major NA servers, and finding replacements/subs is difficult enough as is. It'd be impossible without DC travel.

[Stormpeaks]

I feel like all the people complaining about DC travel need to make an alt on materia and see how truly dead things are there. DC travel has made the game more playable at really late hours and I will absolutely take inconveniencing people over content being literally unplayable past 1AM.



inb4 but you play on Aether: I regularly hop to Primal for PvP and hunts. My degen hour raid static has people from all 3 major NA servers, and finding replacements/subs is difficult enough as is. It'd be impossible without DC travel.

Make an alt on Marilith/Maduin/Halicarnassus.

You're welcome, you'll see how dead it is and the damage DC travel has done.

Dynamis literally didnt even stand a chance because of it. It ruined it