[Feedback] Data Center Travel Changes

[kajv95]

All things considered, Chaos isn't that bad right now, but it's certainly not recovering from 2 years of having people transfer over to get rid of inconveniences like no retainer access, no fc buffs etc for doing raids and such.

However, neither side is congested. If it were *actually* congested at any point in the last 6 weeks, then maybe Shadow would've actually seen some use. With this being week 1, it's just gonna drop off from here.
Shadow has no own population to speak of, so it's actually impossible to go there if you want to do anything as a split group. It's functionally pointless.

[NanaWiloh]

All things considered, Chaos isn't that bad right now, but it's certainly not recovering from 2 years of having people transfer over to get rid of inconveniences like no retainer access, no fc buffs etc for doing raids and such.

However, neither side is congested. If it were *actually* congested at any point in the last 6 weeks, then maybe Shadow would've actually seen some use. With this being week 1, it's just gonna drop off from here.
Shadow has no own population to speak of, so it's actually impossible to go there if you want to do anything as a split group. It's functionally pointless.

Log in server is set to say a world is congested if enough peole are in que. Even if the world itself is not, I am on lamia its status is standard yet I still get the message.

[kajv95]

Log in server is set to say a world is congested if enough peole are in que. Even if the world itself is not, I am on lamia its status is standard yet I still get the message.

I know that. That's what I mean. Logging in is perfectly fine on both sides. Yet strangely I couldn't get players on Light to come to Omega on Chaos, with one of them getting stuck in loading for 20 minutes before the game finally decided to give him the boot.
It's not exactly fixing the woes of "dead pf" either because a large chunk of pfers ended up riding out to Light in the last 2 years. To illustrate my point, if you're willing to go with The Goblet or Empyreum, practically ANYONE can get a house here. We have hundreds available.

The playerbase does not reside here, but Light players *still* have trouble getting into populated but not nearly full worlds. It's frankly hilarious.

I don't mind if the system actually properly balanced things out, but either the parameters are far, far too low, or this system actually believes the server is currently congested which... well we get routinely told our Limsa seems quiet, so take that how you will :')

(I should mention my main isn't Lilia, but I like my femroths vibe so)

[KazukoHimura]

I pray they fix this with the hotfixes...

[xanatosdc]

I will bet money that they won't

[LianaThorne]

If Aerhers congestion gets worse it will suffer a Balmung style lockdown. No dc travel into the dc for visitors only dc travel out. Aether players should come before visitors for logging into Aether end of story.

This is already the prequel to that with the restrictions. If people keep flooding one DC even now, yeah I wouldn't be shocked if the devs actually put their foot down and lock Aether to everyone except Aether natives.

They clearly want DC travel to exist while also having the individual DCs be able to function even with people going to Aether or the other region equivalents. This feature was never meant to just allow for the congregation of people in one place or for non-natives to live on the traveled to DC, it was meant for people to visit their friends or for friends to visit you and do some content together. That's it.

[Rueby]

All things considered, Chaos isn't that bad right now, but it's certainly not recovering from 2 years of having people transfer over to get rid of inconveniences like no retainer access, no fc buffs etc for doing raids and such.

However, neither side is congested. If it were *actually* congested at any point in the last 6 weeks, then maybe Shadow would've actually seen some use. With this being week 1, it's just gonna drop off from here.
Shadow has no own population to speak of, so it's actually impossible to go there if you want to do anything as a split group. It's functionally pointless.

It's kinda sad to see that Light is almost double Chaos' PF numbers, but hey at least we have some content on our DC rather than have everyone flock to Light. I think assigning Light as the raid DC is really stupid and I reckon this kind of behavior is what caused SE to implement more limits to DC travel.

I don't know why SE insists on segregating its population. In an ideal world we'd be either a megaserver or we'd have cross DC PF/DF in the same region and save DC travel for cross region. I'm guessing there's technical limitations somehow but I hope they implement it...

[HighlanderClone]

Atrocious is the only way to describe this. My static lost 4 hours because of DC travel shenanigans on day 1.

[strigiformes]

For the record, the RP community on Crystal is still having problems with this system a week later. Even on a Crystal native character, it was nearly impossible to get to a regularly scheduled event on Balmung last night. This could be chalked up to reset day crowds, except that the same issue came up Monday as well.

I say "nearly impossible" because while World Visit eventually let me in, it wasn't without some serious stubbornness. Initially I tried going to this event on my DC traveling character, gave up, and then switched to my character on Mateus. Since this is World Visit and not DC travel-specific, the system is "working as intended" here.



It's too early to say how the crowd dying down over a patch cycle will impact us, but I argue that social activities shouldn't revolve around a patch cycle in the first place.

[SophiaDL]

For the record, the RP community on Crystal is still having problems with this system a week later. Even on a Crystal native character, it was nearly impossible to get to a regularly scheduled event on Balmung last night. This could be chalked up to reset day crowds, except that the same issue came up Monday as well.

I say "nearly impossible" because while World Visit eventually let me in, it wasn't without some serious stubbornness. Initially I tried going to this event on my DC traveling character, gave up, and then switched to my character on Mateus. Since this is World Visit and not DC travel-specific, the system is "working as intended" here.



It's too early to say how the crowd dying down over a patch cycle will impact us, but I argue that social activities shouldn't revolve around a patch cycle in the first place.

This isnt getting removed anytime soon, people are just taking the restrictions and sitting happy being restricted, 150 PF's on Primal for raiding last night says enough, I really do wish people had some backbone and would complain (as they should) for the restriction of a feature that has been in the game for quite a while now, but nah, as per usual with this community, people just sit happy and take anything SE throws at them. The community will one day be this game's downfall, might be in a few years, might be in 10 years, but in more ways than one, the community will be at fault.

No matter what happens, people just sit and take it, and are grateful for it, it has reached pathetic levels at this point that anything bad that happens just gets complained about for a day, then just gets dropped as if nothing happened.