[Feedback] Data Center Travel Changes

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Or people friends can stop being lazy and leave their dc's for a change.

lmfao that's not even reliably possible or it would've hapopened already but yeah alright lemme ring up 150 players off diabolos and ask them to all come visit me. /clap

maybe you should just not ... lol

[NanaWiloh]

Keep making excuses one community in this game proved long ago what I said can be done.

[SophiaDL]

Keep making excuses one community in this game proved long ago what I said can be done.

alright buddy

[NanaWiloh]

lmfao that's not even reliably possible or it would've hapopened already but yeah alright lemme ring up 150 players off diabolos and ask them to all come visit me. /clap

maybe you should just not ... lol

Someone needs a history lesson...

[AngelicDeath]

How about no lmao I done that for many years no thank you to the person who keeps dissing the whole dc travel om how we should just stay on our home dc how about you go chill on your homeworld and let us enjoy the enjoyment we had with the travel

[Vandi]

What in tarnation are you mortals making sooo much noise about? Data center travel? Balmung’s horny nightlife culture is still 100% accessible, so all is well. As such, cease this ceaseless whining, you common peasants! (No, no no no I’m sooo kidding…my heart goes out to you if your rp scene has been affected by this.)

[NanaWiloh]

What in tarnation are you mortals making sooo much noise about? Data center travel? Balmung’s horny nightlife culture is still 100% accessible, so all is well. As such, cease this ceaseless whining, you common peasants! (No, no no no I’m sooo kidding…my heart goes out to you if your rp scene has been affected by this.)

Sounds more like the raid community and not so much the rp community being as they have weathered this kind of congestion in the past and came out stronger from it.

[VoidsentStatus]

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1) Why do you keep on responding and we already established you don't even know what Congestion actually is.

2) I'm not even going to write a wall of text to respond to the middle three sections when it's clear you have no idea about how Bozja or the botting world works. There's so many things that I'm literally chuckling at, that would have to exist to even remotely do what you accused me of, nothing less than $5000-10000 in custom build/optimized PC power, and paying $600+ monthly for the game and I spend half my day RP'ing, doing PvP, and talking to Gposers xDD Like, it's so oblivious, I can't lol Man said I'm paying 2 car notes a month to do fates and have a MLG tournament PC setup xD Man said Optic and Faze could run scrims at my house, but I'm busy arguing with a level 80 job skip character that doesn't even play the game and has no MSQ progress, clearly being bot-liked by their friends LMFAO

[VoidsentStatus]

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That's the misunderstanding. You're not supposed to be able to go to Dynamis reliably anymore. If you could, that would just shift the problem. You aren't supposed to be going anywhere consistently and for a long time period because that is what causes problems wherever you go, even outside of running content. That severely impedes cross-DC interactions is because that very activity impeded home-DC interactions that people had enjoyed for 5-10+ years compared to the 3 for DC Travel. This happened because that new interaction is not top of the priority list.

"quietly being worked on" -> Agreed. Because we have no idea what the traveler or visitor limit is, and they get to set it anytime they want, and we don't even know if they need a maintenance to change it. The only thing they posted is relativity notes on the worlds in terms of "decreased or "increased", but not what the "Normal" amount is that can be shifted at any time. We don't even know if "Normal" exists per Data Center or is it shared per Region, or is Normal for that world. There's a lot of assumptions we have to make, but the one assumption I won't make is that they're going to backpeddle and make things easier because of complaints that could've been predicted by a 3-year old.

[NanaWiloh]

One week later and this is the impact of the new data center travel system on my friends and me:

Those of us who are not on Aether, log into Aether in the morning before the rush. Most members are on Aether and we will not risk trying to have everyone log into Dynamis because we got burned real bad a week ago. An entire night was lost. No gaming at all. We are fully aware of the longstanding congestion problems on Aether because most are Aether natives. But friends are friends and having a common time to play together is limited and precious. We will continue to log into Aether under the current data center transfer system until there are changes. This is human nature, sticking with friends in familiar places and minimizing risks. It goes against human nature to start new and risk leaving friends. The current data center transfer system creates pressure to do the latter, it goes against human nature, and so it will have limited success.

I am currently babysitting a connection on Aether for eight hours so I can play with friends tonight. I am fully aware this is not what SE wants players to do. But they are my friends. We have limited time to play together. I will continue to do this.

I am also getting the impression that it's getting harder to data center transfer into Aether. I suspect this is because an increasing number of players are using plugins to stay logged in. I don't blame them. It's human nature to stick with friends in familiar places with years of investment and less risk of an obliterated gaming night for all friends. This is just my speculation about an increasing impact of the current data center transfer system.

Maybe Aether will become impossible to transfer into all day long all week long. Maybe Aether will officially go on complete lockdown. Maybe the same will happen to other specific world servers. I hope Dynamis will be ready to serve as a reliable data center transfer for NA. My friends and I were ok with doing gaming nights on Dynamis before the mess of the current system. We would change our behavior and return to playing on Dynamis if it went back to being... RELIABLE.

How about an official announcement recognizing these concerns, SE? Or — real talk — we can just keep doing what humans do, ToS be damned.

SE has come down hard on congestion like this before just at a smaller scale and they didn't budge despite community backlash so I wouldn't hold your breathe on them changing their stance. More to the point players responded the same way you and many others have. In the end SE got what it wanted less congestion as Void said earlier if it continues to get worse SE could forcibly move players back to their Home DC/worlds.