Can we talk about Data Center travel?...

[Absurdity]

World travel in general was a mistake, change my mind.

[RyoXander]

I've been gone for a while and this explains why (at least on Crystal) 90% of the PF is all people RPing. Im fine with that but was wondering why nobody was doing anything else lol. I'm not in the business of dealing with extra hassle just to clear content so I guess ill stick to just playing casually again and only sub for new big patches.

[KitaiAryik]

World travel in general was a mistake, change my mind.

not exactly wrong there. think they implemented this feature without thinking about the long term consequences of enabling something like world/DC travel. tho playerbase labeling DCs doesn't help matters but live service games are notorious for players wanting to play where alot of people are. either they never realized that when putting that kind of feature in or vastly underestimated it. either way, it just makes everything worse as it is.

[Jeeqbit]

They acknowledged this suggestion but said it will take time. As someone that understands the subject, I can say it would take time. World Visiting and DC traveling are extremely risky as it is and every time you do it, you're lucky to have not experienced a major character data loss or other bug (this is something SE can be commended for because they had the potential to be very buggy).

While they work on it, we should think of other solutions such as blocking the public High-End category in PF for travelers.

[Amvin]

While they work on it, we should think of other solutions such as blocking the public High-End category in PF for travelers.

I feel like that is easy to say for someone located on Aether.
Public PFs on Dynamis for high end content do not fill. They did when Dynamis was the only DC everyone could travel to, yes. But not anymore. So, where are we supposed to go and find people for our raids then? My raidgroup of 5 friends needs at least 3 others to raid with and sometimes we'll just sit in PF for two hours (on Primal, since Aether is most of the time locked anyway), twiddle thumbs while we wait for the group to fill and then call it a night because it never did. It is what it is, I suppose. But blocking public PF for travelers would not help anyone in my opinion.

[Larirawiel]

The problem is not DC travel, the problem is, that too many players stopped playing the game because DT is not so exciting.




Cheers

[Jeeqbit]

I feel like that is easy to say for someone located on Aether.
Public PFs on Dynamis for high end content do not fill.

They don't fill because people on Dynamis can simply travel to the other 3 DCs and join there instead.

They did when Dynamis was the only DC everyone could travel to, yes.

Which my solution would replicate. People on Dynamis would be unable to travel to other worlds to PUG, so they would be forced to PUG on Dynamis.

[Amvin]

That's not how that works, though. Or rather, it may work for Aether and Primal and even Crystal. But Dynamis would suffer even more. At the beginning of DT our PFs filled because we had so many people from the other DCs visiting Dynamis, and man it was fun and felt really good.

[Toutatis]

The decision to let some players travel but not others was stupid. I was quite happy at the beginning pf DT when they closed all DC travel except to Dynamis and Oceania. PF was back to normal. When they partially reopened DC travel it took a hit. I really dislike that they implemented regional Dc travel without a corresponding regional PF.

[Amvin]

I really dislike that they implemented regional Dc travel without a corresponding regional PF.

Ideally it should have been implemented together. It's good to know that they might be working on a regional PF, but it would really be nice if they gave updates and/or timelines. I'm aware that it will take a long time and the updates can be vague, but at least give us something, lol.