When will we have DC travel back...???

[Gortys]

Lmao, that's all I can respond to that comment.



Same situation as OP, I am not going to ask an entire group of people to come over to Dynamis because of a congestion that doesnt exist, it aint their fault that the restrictions are in place and they shouldnt have go to away from their DC to play with me.

Plus, it was more a comeback at them as they are talking about how bad people going away from Dynamis are but yet themselves moved away by transferring before DT, its a bit ironic.

It wasn't much of a comeback when you post the same thing on most threads.

[kajv95]

you guys really do argue about anything and everything.

We have DC Travel in part because the player base blew up and we started needing even more datacenters per region, thus increasing the chances of people not being able to play with others they may find outside the game. The community took this as an opportunity to designate certain DCs as "the ones you go to for PF." This created even more intermingling than they probably intended, and became an unforeseen issue they're going to need to solve.

Until then, the unfortunate reality is that right now they felt like they needed to take the precaution of "socially distancing" the datacenters to prevent them from exploding, and said this measure could be in effect until 7.05 at the latest - so they clearly understand they can't keep the lock on when Savage comes around. I think that's fair, just wish they reminded us that the lock could go as long as 7.05 around 7.01.

I hope they find a better solution regarding DF/PF across DCs for 8.0

[Mcg55ss]

Why did you choose to make a character there?

If your friends are not willing to travel to Dynamis then they are abandoning you. Maybe they aren't really your friends.
It's ironic that you say someone moving to Diabolos is part of the problem while complaining you cannot play on another server.

.....HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA i said the same thing that's makes me die laughing ....you are my new forum friend XD <3

[Derio]

Hope they extend it until 2 weeks after savage launches.

[SophiaDL]

Hope they extend it until 2 weeks after savage launches.

Says the one on Aether that gets to play on 2 DC's while Dynamis can only play on one.

I wont even count Materia because its an absolute ghost town no matter the world.

[KisaiTenshi]

you guys really do argue about anything and everything.

We have DC Travel in part because the player base blew up and we started needing even more datacenters per region,

No, DC travel exists because the NA and JP players originally were in one DC in 1.0, then NA got it's own DC in 2.0, with EU (2015) and Oceania (2022) getting DC's much later.

So the "Cross-DC travel" basically restores functionality that was caused by the 1.0 migration to 2.0 and the splitting of the data centers. Players had to choose between picking servers their friends are on, and picking servers (eg Balmung) where certain activities are. If they ever remove the need to have throw-away characters to join weddings on other servers, we will finally be back to "I only need one character to do everything"

So in an ideal scenario the developers would have refactored how the game works so that all player housing was a separate "server" so to speak so all the places for people to congregate and do fashion shows are on the housing areas that anyone in the DC can visit. Then erase the idea of having "servers" at all by making the marketplaces not need to be tied to servers, but to the housing area so people simply need to have a house to do advanced market board things. Go to the players house and visit their shop or go to the marketboard "artisan alley" in the housing area to just find what's for sale. Then on the individual servers, the retainers no longer act as a marketboard stores but as arbitrage against the marketboard. You go to your retainer when you need an item and how much you want to pay for it, and it will go "okay be right back" and it will go buy that exact quantity off the DC marketboard if you don't have enough in your house, anything you don't use it will put back in your house until you want to sell it, or you can tell it to "sell at best price" which will just put it up for the average selling price and reduce it every day until sold or it would sell at a loss. No house, then the retainer will be limited to it's existing capacity and sell from it's "retainer apartment" in the housing area.

Anyway that is just one thing they could have done. We know they refactored things in a way so that duties would be shared across the DC because it simply lowers the queue time that way. That is where cross-server visiting started and it's been that way since ARR launched IIRC. Extending things to cross-DC basically has to do something like "Copy the character to the target server and mark the home server as -away-, and then when returning, overwrite the away character."

[Mcg55ss]

Says the one on Aether that gets to play on 2 DC's while Dynamis can only play on one.

I wont even count Materia because its an absolute ghost town no matter the world.

you're right as a Dynamis player i hope its permanent. 2 weeks wouldn't be worth it imo.

[CuteBucket]

Forming a new static is less damage to the community than destroying every DC that isn't Aether so I'm not seeing the issue here.

My static has people from every NA DC in it an we've been raiding together ever since cross DC travel became possible and we could finally do end game content together without having to level an alt/not play on our main to raid together. I'm sure there's plenty of raid groups out there with a similar makeup. These aren't just random people I raid with and then never see until next reset day--they are people I hang out with outside of raid who have become my real friends. Suddenly locking down DCs again after opening them would absolutely be damaging to the community.

[CidHeiral]

My static has people from every NA DC in it an we've been raiding together ever since cross DC travel became possible and we could finally do end game content together without having to level an alt/not play on our main to raid together. I'm sure there's plenty of raid groups out there with a similar makeup. These aren't just random people I raid with and then never see until next reset day--they are people I hang out with outside of raid who have become my real friends. Suddenly locking down DCs again after opening them would absolutely be damaging to the community.

I'm sure it would, but as I said in the post you quoted, it would be less damage than DC travel is currently doing to the game. Sorry but I don't find "please destroy every DC that isn't Aether because we're too lazy to level an alt" to be a very compelling argument.

[ConantSivrha]

I'm sure it would, but as I said in the post you quoted, it would be less damage than DC travel is currently doing to the game. Sorry but I don't find "please destroy every DC that isn't Aether because we're too lazy to level an alt" to be a very compelling argument.

Refusing to make an alt in this game is more the result of common sense and basic self-respect than laziness. It’s not the leveling. It’s the decade of MSQ padding they’ll have to dig through to unlock current content. The game shouldn’t be intentionally placing that kind of roadblock in front of players who just want to do some raids with their friends. It’s not reasonable.