Data Center Travel is ruining server Party Finder

[ZiraZ]

Really hope that homeworld queue preference is substantial once DT is live, not my problem if someone made the bad choice of transferring to a dead server to get an easy house, that's on them, aether players should completely bypass travelers in the queue.

[Ardeth]

Sad part is that dynamis actually has a pretty healthy population, you see it now the moogle event going on in Gates. There are probably more people that I've never seen before on Dynamis now than ever. I'm not saying it's just populated the big DC but it's not near as bad as I initially thought it's just nobody stays on the server

For sure, we absolutely have the population for it. People are just selfish.

[GartredZW]

A lot of people here don't understand that it's not the players' job to make the game work. It's broken in it's current state, and Square is responsible for fixing it.
I don't care how difficult it would be to implement a cross DC party finder, they either need to implement it somehow, or remove DC travel. It's downright terrible to be a raider based in Crystal. I've tried reviving the raiding scene, and it's left me sitting there waiting for a PF to fill for 10 hours on a saturday for a raid with ten PF entries over on Aether.
What annoys me the most is the people here who just accept that this is the only way it can be instead of considering that it can be fixed.
You want a solution from me? Have all DCs within a region access the same cross DC Party Finder. This could be hosted on one of the already existing Data Centers, maybe separate from the Cross World PF. When you join the party, it prompts you with a confirmation that you will need to cross Data Centers to properly join. Click yes, and it goes through that whole process for you before logging you in again on the host's world.
Not a perfect solution, but it's perfectly doable on the infrastructure in-place. Don't try to tell me it's not. Data transfer from Server to Server is no harder than from Client to Server.

[Colt47]

It makes sense that people all go to one point to do the raiding: The entire point of sitting down when the player gets home and loads into the game is to get into doing something as quickly as possible so they're playing the game. Sitting in town for hours with nothing to do while waiting for the PF to fill is not really playing the game at all as much as being in an elevator.

Also, I feel like aether is kind of pushing this game a bit too much towards the "sweat" category vs being about "fun". The only reason someone goes to aether is for raiding or to catch a hunt train. No one is going there because they got friends there unless they are native, and from my experience the community that exists over there exists specifically at the raiding hours.

[Moomba33]

Primal PF has been pretty depressing, often with less than 1 full page of total parties up. It's reminding me of the old ARR/HW days when PF was your server only.
I've still been able to get Unreal/Ex trials done on Primal but it takes a bit to fill.

[DesignZ]

This thread needs to stay active in hopes it gets the attention it deserves. A lot of people here have really valid points and suggestions.

[Jojoya]

A lot of people here don't understand that it's not the players' job to make the game work. It's broken in it's current state, and Square is responsible for fixing it.
I don't care how difficult it would be to implement a cross DC party finder, they either need to implement it somehow, or remove DC travel. It's downright terrible to be a raider based in Crystal. I've tried reviving the raiding scene, and it's left me sitting there waiting for a PF to fill for 10 hours on a saturday for a raid with ten PF entries over on Aether.
What annoys me the most is the people here who just accept that this is the only way it can be instead of considering that it can be fixed.
You want a solution from me? Have all DCs within a region access the same cross DC Party Finder. This could be hosted on one of the already existing Data Centers, maybe separate from the Cross World PF. When you join the party, it prompts you with a confirmation that you will need to cross Data Centers to properly join. Click yes, and it goes through that whole process for you before logging you in again on the host's world.
Not a perfect solution, but it's perfectly doable on the infrastructure in-place. Don't try to tell me it's not. Data transfer from Server to Server is no harder than from Client to Server.

The game does work. I have no problems playing it and 98% of my visits Aether to marketboard browse. If members of my Marilith FC want to do something that is awkward to get a party for on Dynamis, we head to Crystal and manage to get things done just fine.
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If you're so certain it's that easy to accomplish, please feel free to send your resume listing your certifications and experience to Square Enix. YoshiP has stated they are specifically trying to hire someone who can solve this problem with the infrastructure they have in place. This isn't a situation where they're being lazy. They want it fixed because it's become a big problem on the JP servers just as much as it is for NA and EU.

[Ritsuka-55]

EU Chaos PF is a barren desert, literally, dead is an understatement.

[Sqwall]

The game does work. I have no problems playing it and 98% of my visits Aether to marketboard browse. If members of my Marilith FC want to do something that is awkward to get a party for on Dynamis, we head to Crystal and manage to get things done just fine.
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If you're so certain it's that easy to accomplish, please feel free to send your resume listing your certifications and experience to Square Enix. YoshiP has stated they are specifically trying to hire someone who can solve this problem with the infrastructure they have in place. This isn't a situation where they're being lazy. They want it fixed because it's become a big problem on the JP servers just as much as it is for NA and EU.

Perhaps they can scoop up some ex Blizzard employees...I heard 1,900 just got "let go" (fired) due to corporate incompetence in trying to please the share holder rather then the customers that purchase their games. If they can do this in WoW they can do it here...i'm over thinking that it's just to difficult to accomplish.

[Sqwall]

Last night was another issue that we ran into in discussing weather to take our EX event over to Aether to not waste time. Luckily we had enough interest from our FC and got the last two spots filled. If those spots were healer or tank on crystal PF...then it would again force me back into a role that I ALWAYS have to be....a tank. I want to DPS and get better at it since I have been a main tank for nigh a decade.

I just told the event leader...I don't want to MT or OT thanks. They said that's fine...but we should probably move to aether so we can get some tanks and heals faster. The party literally groaned in discord....no lie.

So we asked the FC one last time for any interest and we got some people that didn't sign up and were going to have to learn the fight.

I didn't care about the learning part, as I have all of my mounts completed for the Endwalker EX's...but I just wanted to get better at DPSing.

Moving a party to aether just to get a couple fills is pretty ridiculous, but one could also say just post in Crystal PF and see what you get.

Either way...we are waiting....the main difference is on Crystal...it's MUCH longer...by like a lot. And we only had a 2 hour event to farm EX's