Greenlight NA and EU Travel

[Jojoya]

In the end i am really torn about this tbh, i personally would love region travel to visit friends with my mainchar. I personally think that the price might just be a bit too high for that.

What makes you think the resident troublemakers from every region would end up using cross region travel? Ping issues alone would deter most of them if not all.

SE is also more likely to come down hard on cross region trouble makers because they want players to respect how local communities already operate.

The entire purpose of adding data center travel (including the cross region travel that is on hold) was to allow players to play with friends on other data centers/regions, just as you intend to use it. The best thing to do is let it happen and see if there are specific problems created then make corrections to handle those problems.

That's what they've now done with data center travel. After having 18 months to see how players would utilize it, they've now locked down any worlds that are on the Congested status and extended that to worlds experiencing temporary congestion issues. Last night about 7pm Pacific I wanted to go to Primal to buy something and couldn't because all Primal worlds were marked as temporarily congested. I suspect the reverse would have been true if my character was from Primal and trying to get to Crystal.

This shouldn't lead to the massive problems that some are fearing outside of the first week when a lot of players would want to try out the new feature. We saw the same when world visit was added. We saw the same when data center travel was added. Players rushed to try it out and then things settled down when it was reduced to the legitimate traffic. The PF problem did arise with players flocking to a single data center in each region for raids but ping is going to make the same happening cross region unlikely.

[Reinha]

The PF problem did arise with players flocking to a single data center in each region for raids but ping is going to make the same happening cross region unlikely.

People keep saying this but then turn around and say the ping isn't an issue for raiding. Including the OP.

Agree! I guess he's worried about culture clash which imo shouldn't be a problem with EU and NA considering NA and EU already raid together

Honestly high ping gaming is not all that terrible as someone who always plays with high ping, you just have to adjust around it and figure out when snapshots occur. Xenosysvex already raids with an EU group despite being in NA, and of course people from SEA, middle east, and other parts of Asia or Africa already play with high ping and we manage.

For god sake in the world races i know plenty of EU statics with NA players in them and the same goes for NA statics with EU players in them, the game is perfectly adjustable up to around 150-160ping for most jobs

And no harm to EU players, but a good deal of UK and Irish players that i know of mainly play on NA anyway.

But hey if it's apparently so impossible to raid cross region (despite the opposing statements above) then it won't matter if the devs just disable public categories of the PF from voyagers and let the cross region statics sort themselves out in the passworded private category.