Can we please stop destroying Aether DC with party finder? The lag is bad

[Patesaupesto]

No. I want people who are on Primal to stay on Primal so that there are actually parties forming on Primal.

We tried sticking around, for the first few months, with our half static. Then it became harder and harder to fill out a party in a timely manner on Primal.... because anyone willing to join a PF for raiding went to Aether for that.

It got to the point of, "If you can't beat em, join em."

I think if SE forced any given party to have the party leader be a member of the local data center it might solve the issue. People could still move to a data center to be with a static that way, but PF groups would need to have at least one member local to function.

Edit: lolol definitely not a Titanman alt, I'm usually one of the positive rays of sunshine in comparison around here

We have the same issue on Chaos, Chaos players goes to Light for PF, Chaos PF is 90% (e...)RP venues
Asking people to stop moving is.... I have no words for that
Merge both DC PFs, or merge both DC

[AzhreiVahlok]

I understand the reasoning as to why everyone decided to congregate onto a single data center for the purposes of party matching.... but we're choking the life out of Aether's instances.

I kept getting weird lag spikes - I wiped my party at least twice today because it was getting worse and worse and worse. At one point my character straight up stopped moving. At another point everyone swears I wasn't in the stack on their screens, even though it showed up fine on mine (I took a screenshot of my WAR centered on their corpses.)

It's frustrating to execute a near flawless Savage performance, mechanics-wise, and get killed because of lag. (Not a skill issue. I didn't miss a single tank tower all week, because those have enough time for the server to acknowledge the character position.)

I hope that with 7.0 SE does something to force PF to spread back out again. I'm tired of having to data center hop only to end right back up with 7 other people from my original data center, only playing on Aether because we were all convinced we HAD to do it at some point.

I have an idea... everyone stay on their own world then the queues on your world wont' be so bad, cause guess what? They'll actually be people. And you're not even FROM AETHER! You're from Lamia.......

[AzhreiVahlok]

Weird... Idk if it's related but sometimes I've experienced some sort of 'visual lag' on Savage fights and Alliance raids. Basically there's a lag in the animations, telegraphs, etc, but the actual fight timeline is going as intended - even my character 'freezes', but still moves like that. A few seconds later all of the animations fire up all at once.

I don't want to think it's internet lag because if I know where to stand I can do mechanics correctly even though the visual telegraphs aren't showing properly.

That is internet lag.. probably on YOUR end. MY net was so bad it hiccuped and froze alot, if i did't dc it was like u said, everything goes off at once catching up. My net's a lot bette rnow, if i even get the d/c symbol it only lasts a second or two now.

[Catwho]

I have an idea... everyone stay on their own world then the queues on your world wont' be so bad, cause guess what? They'll actually be people. And you're not even FROM AETHER! You're from Lamia.......

That's the point. I'm tired of being told that I have to go to Aether to get in a party finder party. I want to stay on Primal.

And when I try to find a PF party on Lamia , 99% of time it's crickets, BECAUSE EVERYONE WENT TO AETHER

[1313]

Nope
CANT STOP WONT STOP GET IT GET IT
If you think pf listings on Aether cause lag, go to Crystal so the other tab can lag you out and you can be upset about that instead. I've been an Aether player for years without a single issue.

[Catwho]

Nope
CANT STOP WONT STOP GET IT GET IT
If you think pf listings on Aether cause lag, go to Crystal so the other tab can lag you out and you can be upset about that instead. I've been an Aether player for years without a single issue.

The rest of us getting off your DC will improve things for you guys, too.

[1313]

The rest of us getting off your DC will improve things for you guys, too.

Nah. You just need a better device/connection/isp, or something... The game runs flawlessly for me 99.99% of the time. I barely lose fps when I got to Limsa. It's a you thing. So visitors really makes no difference.

[UkcsAlias]

We have the same issue on Chaos, Chaos players goes to Light for PF

Most still stay remain on chaos. There are only a few cases where going to light helps. Chaos might be a bit more emtpy, but its not inactive. For all the EW extremes i had no struggles finding PFs, or getting one to fill in a reasonable time (15mins). Even the unreal is well doable on chaos. And close to the release of savages, even they are easily filled.

Sure, 90% might be RP (i blatantly ignore those as i always filter category anyway). But i wouldnt be surprised if light also has that, but its just burried behind the list of non RP PFs.

Light just has more people, which means more PFs.