[Feedback] Data Center Travel Changes

[SophiaDL]

They have a point even if you hate them personally. Alot of people were using DC travel to pile up on one DC and even assigned raid DCs for each region, eventually leading to PF on other DCs to be lacking or dying and forcing people to either go to said DC, or simply not do content. I think something had to be done to discourage this behavior. I do think they might loosen it up on NA since I see alot of people from NA complaining about it but I doubt they'd outright remove it.

I think SE had to step in eventually which is unfortunate, but I'd rather blame those who forced this heavyhanded approach than SE at this point.

This shows we sorely need cross DF/PF to solve the situation where people pile on one DC for content. I made my character on Chaos, I like it here, but once DC travel dropped people decided that Light is where to go for content and eventually our PF died off. I stopped checking or bothering to check it. Alot of my friends became 'residents' of Light, so I'm either forced to leave my DC and deal with restrictions and lose access to my buffs, friends, retainers just to do some extremes.

Ok, and the second Aether will open, because it eventually will, people will pile on Aether again.

So ?

Cross DC PF is not in the work, because it'd require a tiny bit of effort from SE which they dont care to do, so what, do we just lock the DC indefinitely because people will pile up on it ? Where do we draw the line ?

They created DC travel, they created the problem. And this aint the solution, the second Aether eventually opens, it will happen again.

[Rueby]

Ok, and the second Aether will open, because it eventually will, people will pile on Aether again.

So ?

Cross DC PF is not in the work, because it'd require a tiny bit of effort from SE which they dont care to do, so what, do we just lock the DC indefinitely because people will pile up on it ? Where do we draw the line ?

They created DC travel, they created the problem. And this aint the solution, the second Aether eventually opens, it will happen again.

Correct. They created DC travel and as a result caused a problem. I don't support restrictions of any kind, even those on retainers/fc buffs (or storage) even in cross world. Especially for retainers, something that you might be paying extra subscription for- to lose access to it while traveling is awful.

So? I think we might be seeing fluctuations of restrictions.

In my opinion DC travel affects certain aspects of the game and at times negatively ie hunts/PF. I don't enjoy feeling like I'm on the DC that is 'dying', or if I want content I have to inconvenience myself to go elsewhere. Things were fine before DC travel, it's only a problem because they didn't release it alongside cross DC PF/DF.

SE keeps insisting on segregating the playerbase by adding more DC that are dead on arrival. Instead we get resources invested into a half baked graphical update rather than a fix for that. I think until we get a permanent solution we might unfortunately deal with restrictions. Restrictions aren't new, and I agree they suck, I'd be down to DC travel on a new DC if I didn't lose access to something I'm paying monthly for or my buffs.

If it were up to me, I'd work pour resources into making cross DC PF/DF a reality, it'll lessen the load of people flocking to one DC while DC travel's restriction would be lifted, allowing people to travel freely to meet up with friends/do content or organize social events. I think it'd mitigate some of the issues that people are facing currently. That's my opinion anyway.

Restrictions suck. Depending on restrictions people will find ways around it and it might make said restrictions worse.

I hope SE comes up with a solution that makes people on both sides happy, though I have little faith.