[Feedback] Data Center Travel Changes

[Shinku_Tachi]

Exactly, it won't. If they wanted more even player distribution, they should have left things as they were, possibly merged Dynamis into the rest of the DCs.

Dynamis is necessary now for the same reason Crystal was necessary in 2019. The game needed the additional data center. That's why it was added.

But sure, let's dump all of Dynamis onto Primal and Crystal, so all the players can enjoy the Aether problem.

[KazukoHimura]

Dynamis is necessary now for the same reason Crystal was necessary in 2019. The game needed the additional data center. That's why it was added.

But sure, let's dump all of Dynamis onto Primal and Crystal, so all the players can enjoy the Aether problem.

Ah, you have a very solid point. Then perhaps Dynamis just needs its own draw, like how Crystal tends to be the RP server and Aether tends to be the raiding server.

[Shinku_Tachi]

Ah, you have a very solid point. Then perhaps Dynamis just needs its own draw, like how Crystal tends to be the RP server and Aether tends to be the raiding server.

That's a great idea! For now, the only thing we have on this side, as far as I know, is the road to 90 buff (though I don't think that's available on Seraph now) and an easier go at housing.

[KazukoHimura]

That's a great idea! For now, the only thing we have on this side, as far as I know, is the road to 90 buff (though I don't think that's available on Seraph now) and an easier go at housing.

I'm a Dynamis native (moved from Aether last year), and that's pretty much it. And yeah, last I checked, the buff vanished on Seraph since it's the one congested world on Dynamis.

I'll be honest, I'm not even trying to get to Aether. All my friends are on Crystal and Primal. Typically am on Coeurl or Malboro in the case of Crystal, occasionally Balmung or Mateus if a person's house is there. Famfrit and Hyperion for Primal servers. And tbh for my own stuff RN it's mainly just Hyperion I'd like to get to, since my next RP scene is at a player house there.

[Shinku_Tachi]

I'm a Dynamis native (moved from Aether last year), and that's pretty much it. And yeah, last I checked, the buff vanished on Seraph since it's the one congested world on Dynamis.

I'll be honest, I'm not even trying to get to Aether. All my friends are on Crystal and Primal. Typically am on Coeurl or Malboro in the case of Crystal, occasionally Balmung or Mateus if a person's house is there. Famfrit and Hyperion for Primal servers. And tbh for my own stuff RN it's mainly just Hyperion I'd like to get to, since my next RP scene is at a player house there.

Nice to meet you! I'm more of a recent Dynamis arrival myself. I came back from a break saw we had a server named Seraph, and I was feeling nostalgic since I was on Seraph in FFXI, so I jumped the day before the game went down for the Dawntrail patch.

If it's Primal and Crystal you're trying to get to, you should be able to get around there pretty easily (I went through them all shopping yesterday). I could pretty much touch all the servers on those two DCs, including Hyperion. The only problem being Balmung. I got there once, then world jumped to check a price elsewhere, and when I made it back around to Balmung, I couldn't get back in.

[KazukoHimura]

Nice to meet you! I'm more of a recent Dynamis arrival myself. I came back from a break saw we had a server named Seraph, and I was feeling nostalgic since I was on Seraph in FFXI, so I jumped the day before the game went down for the Dawntrail patch.

If it's Primal and Crystal you're trying to get to, you should be able to get around there pretty easily (I went through them all shopping yesterday). I could pretty much touch all the servers on those two DCs, including Hyperion. The only problem being Balmung. I got there once, then world jumped to check a price elsewhere, and when I made it back around to Balmung, I couldn't get back in.

Nice to meet you too! Actually on Halicarnassus since I wanted to kind of do my own thing and most people I knew were on the other three (Moved prior to the additional four servers being put in)

Balmung and Mateus are lower priority compared to the other two on Crystal (and the two on Primal). Coeurl is where the house my character lives in is (my actual owned house belongs to her parents, and actual owned apartment is a tiny adventuring HQ. Most of the time that one can be worked around). Malboro and Famfrit are the home servers for two of my predominant RP partners. Third one is on Hyperion, but he typically comes to me. Another partner is on Balmung, but like the Hyperion one, they often come to me as well. I do have an RP partner on Faerie, but due to timezone differences, we pretty much RP on Discord exclusively, so the only real issue there would be if we wanna do a Gpose in his house.

Though in all honesty, a lot of my issues were because I've had some crashing issues for a while, but I have tried something to fix them (Note: Found out that apparently my initial BIOS settings had my CPU set up to overclock, and I know FFXIV doesn't really like those.) So even though I'll still be active in this topic and ones like it because a lot of more public RP scenes or events require DC travel to be more stable and to be at specific places, I probably can work around stuff.

[Toutatis]

Dynamis is necessary now for the same reason Crystal was necessary in 2019. The game needed the additional data center. That's why it was added.

But sure, let's dump all of Dynamis onto Primal and Crystal, so all the players can enjoy the Aether problem.

the problem with Dynamis is that it has been added at the worst possible time not very long after the introduction of DC travel. It also had a lot of housing. Many people created characters or moved there with the intent of getting a house while continuing to play with their friends on other DCs. Since the queues were awfully long, people just DC travelled making the problem even worse and the DC never had the chance to build a community to fill df/pf.

SE should work on making PF/DF regional. It’s the only way to solve the annoying issue of people converging to a single DC and having near empty PF on other DCs (DF remained healthy of Primal).

[VoidsentStatus]

SE should work on making PF/DF regional. It’s the only way to solve the annoying issue of people converging to a single DC and having near empty PF on other DCs (DF remained healthy of Primal).

Yoshi P already said this is 3 years of full force work if it's even possible. This is not on the table realistically from a business perspective. You are not going to spend that much development time and money on something when you can shut off what caused the problem to begin with. This is only after everything else has failed.

[SophiaDL]

Yoshi P already said this is 3 years of full force work if it's even possible. This is not on the table realistically from a business perspective. You are not going to spend that much development time and money on something when you can shut off what caused the problem to begin with. This is only after everything else has failed.

"Everything else"

They tried nothing though ? lmao

If you really think giving a mediocre mount for transferring is an incentive, I dont know what to tell you

[VoidsentStatus]

"Everything else"

They tried nothing though ? lmao

If you really think giving a mediocre mount for transferring is an incentive, I dont know what to tell you

Transferring to the data center is not the solution to the problem. The problem is people travelling in itself, their home world doesn't matter. Yoshi P said he wanted to get rid of disparities between different data centers so he doesn't want a large population being or interacting on any given data center at all. If people traveled and spread out, we wouldn't have this problem, but everyone chooses to dogpile one place consistently. No amount of reward for being on a data center is going to unincentivize travel to other data centers that often have staple community aspects that aren't easily challenged by a new data center. Square can't do anything that makes raiding more popular on Dynamis than raiding on Aether. Square can't do anything that makes roleplaying on Dynamis more popular than roleplaying on Crystal. incetivizing isn't the route to take because anything they even try to create is going to just a new create dogpile to replace the old one. They need people to stop travelling at all, or to only allow a small amount of travel that doesn't cause giant economic/gameplay polarizations between data centers.