DC Travel Fees & Congestion Pricing

[JimCasey_RF6]

Help, my sweet sweet Gilgameshu is becoming way too crowded with all the DC travelers coming here to raid. Please implement a fee system to use the DC travel feature, one which incorporates congestion pricing / surge pricing during peak hours. It would help act as a gil sink and to ensure players are only traveling when they really need to.

[Basteala]

Really, really, REALLY bad idea.

[Rinoa_353]

Help, my sweet sweet Gilgameshu is becoming way too crowded with all the DC travelers coming here to raid. Please implement a fee system to use the DC travel feature, one which incorporates congestion pricing / surge pricing during peak hours. It would help act as a gil sink and to ensure players are only traveling when they really need to.

You must not live in Northern Virginia like I do where they have I-95 Express Lanes that charge that way. To drive from Springfield to Woodbridge which is about 9 miles can cost up to $44 dollars at times during rush hour. They used to be free with with the only limit is having three people or more per vehicle including trucks and motorcycles. The locals call them Lexus Lanes and I DON'T want that in this game like Basteala says.



I actually kind of miss when Dynamis was the only DC everyone could travel to. I think they should lock down all DC traveling except to Dynamis for an entire patch cycle so that it also encourages people to move and fill those world's that have thousands of mediums and hundreds of mansions still for people that want housing. Dynamis allowed and had the capacity to have everyone arrive and play together whether it's raids to rp clubbing and more.

[LaylaTsarra]

Help, my sweet sweet Gilgameshu is becoming way too crowded with all the DC travelers coming here to raid. Please implement a fee system to use the DC travel feature, one which incorporates congestion pricing / surge pricing during peak hours. It would help act as a gil sink and to ensure players are only traveling when they really need to.

Yes they should charge Gilga residents for having others help them. I think an added sub fee for all those on Gilga would do nicely.

[Kaurhz]

A Gil fee to go to another DC?

Nah, instead of this absurd idea they should actually work on facilitating things in-game that wouldn't actually require them to leave their native DC, e.g., cross-DC PF/DF.

[Akamadoshi]

Help, my sweet sweet Gilgameshu is becoming way too crowded with all the DC travelers coming here to raid. Please implement a fee system to use the DC travel feature, one which incorporates congestion pricing / surge pricing during peak hours. It would help act as a gil sink and to ensure players are only traveling when they really need to.

Oh the horror of living in a raid DC!! the privilege is asstounding

[Menriq]

A Gil fee to go to another DC?

Nah, instead of this absurd idea they should actually work on facilitating things in-game that wouldn't actually require them to leave their native DC, e.g., cross-DC PF/DF.

They are already doing working on that.

[Gaiinahat]

I actually kind of miss when Dynamis was the only DC everyone could travel to. I think they should lock down all DC traveling except to Dynamis for an entire patch cycle so that it also encourages people to move and fill those world's that have thousands of mediums and hundreds of mansions still for people that want housing. Dynamis allowed and had the capacity to have everyone arrive and play together whether it's raids to rp clubbing and more.

One result of that was the PVP scene taking a nosedive off a cliff when a lot of the Premades from other DCs rolled in and completely ruined the experience. I would care not to have to go through that again with what remaining content we have left.

[CVXIV]

how much gil would you expect it to be if you had your way
teleport fees for instance, are pretty inconsiquential though it does add up and you can get tickets to get rid of that cost entirely
but you need to be careful because if it's too much then that locks out a lot of players and causes backlash, and if it's too little then it doesn't help the problem you are describing at all

[JimCasey_RF6]

how much gil would you expect it to be if you had your way
teleport fees for instance, are pretty inconsiquential though it does add up and you can get tickets to get rid of that cost entirely
but you need to be careful because if it's too much then that locks out a lot of players and causes backlash, and if it's too little then it doesn't help the problem you are describing at all

I think a fair baseline amount would be 25k gil to DC travel and 5k gil to world visit between servers on the same DC. If congestion pricing were implemented, the cost to DC travel / world visit during primetime could be doubled to 50k and 10k, respectively.

Yes they should charge Gilga residents for having others help them. I think an added sub fee for all those on Gilga would do nicely.

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