Quote Originally Posted by Gurgeh View Post
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Few things to work out kink wise with this suggestion:

1) all the ppl complaining about losing fc buffs and access to retainers will still complain
2) this allows you to force your way onto a given data center that's congested or it'd just be a combination of dynamis/crystal/primal. you could reject applying if its to a congested location, but then everyone hosting pf's is going to flood non-congested worlds just so people can accept the pf and that puts them away from retainers/fc house/buff usage while waiting in PF so problem 1 but the hoster gets added to the issue
3) still adds server stress which is one of the issues I see people forgetting about when they ask for Dynamis to be shifted into the main 3 NA DC's. They don't want to stay with 3 DC's handling the playerbase stress as the population grows over the years.

this one depend on what you meant by "then you have to wait the 50 minutes for that PF to fill, but then saying you don't travel last minute)
4) that lack of communication possible due to chat disabled would also mean that you don't know how long ppl plan to be available in said pf, and you also can't pre-discuss strategy or other matters before the party is filled.

5) From what I'm aware of the process from what others said over the years, the core issue is how they handle character data to begin with. DC Travel isn't actually a movement of your character data, but rather a cloning of it. You need that person's character data on a different server to interact inside of that server fundamentally. Your original data is likely just hidden/inaccessible and becomes updated when returning home. The "this place is taken" section of your idea would need to relay duty unlock, job played as, item level, blacklist status, before even deciding if that place could be taken. The PF itself in text data could be duplicated and sent over likely, but that doesn't loophole needing 2 sets of character data interacting with each other before you're able to join.

6) The question also exists of what does "this place is taken" mean exactly? If it locks that slot in the raid up until I arrive, does that mean that Square Enix is now, not only going to transfer my character, but automatically force me to log in with no cancel option? What happens during expansion release when login queue's are 500-1000+? Could I alternate characters/accounts and troll someone and lock up their 8th slot permanently because they're stuck on waiting for me? What happens if I close the client during the login process? Square Enix said they save your spot in the queue for certain errrors so I would assume if I was crashed or there was some server instability, my spot in the PF wouldn't be at risk would it? Do I just get to play RNG with the PF Host's patience and there's no way for them to blacklist me because my character data is never fully in the party?