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Thank you so much for this, I'm not tech savvy at all and I'm prone to sometimes getting upset/frustrated and 'why can't they just do it'. I appreciate the time it took you to write this.

I'm curious, is it wrong to assume that let's say (bogus hypothetical number)
100,000 capacity for native players
5,000 travellers

Could this be how this is handled? It'd explain why congested worlds are actually open to transfer, right? I'm not knowledgable at all so I'm winging it essentially.
It does make sense that a restriction is in place either to make sure that the servers aren't overloaded beyond their capacity but also allow players to spread out abit...

For example in EU, we're not really feeling the restriction, we can come and go freely (which has killed chaos PF, but DF seems ok), but I noticed alot of the complaints are from NA. I think NA and JP is relatively larger than EU (I don't have the numbers, but I guess OCE is smallest of the regions).

I thought maybe we could have some kind of region lobby server? I'm not sure if that's possible, think as a raid waiting room, but I'm not sure how you'd keep access to stuff like retainers/FC buffs, etc. I don't know how our characters can even hop between data centers and remain intact (I think that's really amazing tho I don't understand it). Perhaps it's easier to only have to deal with data that's on you? Rather than have to deal with more information like retainer/FC chest/buffs.

Sorry I rambled abit, I'm just curious.