DC travel just makes PF raiding harder than it should

[CidHeiral]

If there’s a reason to raid on our home DCs that’s significant enough to be a big deal then it replaces the current problem with the old one we had before DC travel was a thing, where the population of raiders was broken apart.

Except that wasn't a problem. You could raid just fine on every DC before DC travel blew it all up.

[SophiaDL]

Except that wasn't a problem. You could raid just fine on every DC before DC travel blew it all up.

You mean people instead transfered to Aether and had to leave friends/FC/house behind ? True I agree.

[ForteNightshade]

I don't care as I'm an outsider to it. You dipshits created your own problems

You say this yet Aether being congested is entirely artificial because the active population has dropped back to pre-Endwalker levels. Therefore, the servers could handle it as they did before. SE is simply trying to force people away due to having zero plans in place for a problem they created. It's only natural people will go to where the largest demographic that shares their interest resides.

Except that wasn't a problem. You could raid just fine on every DC before DC travel blew it all up.

This is just objectively false. If you were on Primal, sure. Crystal? Not a chance. Even at prime hours they were barely any parties up. You're also disregarding the sheer volume increase. Yes, it's annoying to travel, but for everyone on Aether, be it their main MC or via travel, you have upwards of 100 parties to choice from instead of 20-30. That pool is significant when people's prog points will vary wildly. It's better to have 10 parties up on Aether for phase 2 of M8S than those same 10 parties split across three DCs.

Then there's Dynamis, which would be completely dead without DC travel. And I don't mean a low population like it is now, but completely devoid of life. Nobody would have ever transferred there since there would be zero incentive.

Honestly, they should block travelers from creating party finder listings when not on their home data center. They should still be allowed to join parties, however. Remove this restriction when cross data center party finder is implemented.

So in 4-5 years then? Because it's not even on the horizon yet. Blocking PF wouldn't really accomplish anything since you just need someone from Aether to setup the PF. All it does is mean there will be more waiting around as people will still travel due to the higher raid population being on Aether, but now they have to rely on someone else to make a party for them.

[CidHeiral]

This is just objectively false. If you were on Primal, sure. Crystal? Not a chance. Even at prime hours they were barely any parties up.

Crystal certainly had a smaller raiding scene but to say there were no parties in primetime is untrue.

You're also disregarding the sheer volume increase. Yes, it's annoying to travel, but for everyone on Aether, be it their main MC or via travel, you have upwards of 100 parties to choice from instead of 20-30. That pool is significant when people's prog points will vary wildly. It's better to have 10 parties up on Aether for phase 2 of M8S than those same 10 parties split across three DCs.

This is a non-issue. Everyone cleared just fine with the parties available before DC travel.

Then there's Dynamis, which would be completely dead without DC travel.

DC travel is why Dynamis is dead.

[SophiaDL]

Crystal certainly had a smaller raiding scene but to say there were no parties in primetime is untrue.



This is a non-issue. Everyone cleared just fine with the parties available before DC travel.



DC travel is why Dynamis is dead.

DC travel is why Dynamis is dead

Yet another thing you try to pass as fact that is factually wrong

Dynamis is a dead DC, and there's not enough population for 4 worlds, let alone 8, we are way past the WoW Exodus, the population has gone downhill, not up. Now might be a good time to stop coping that somehow Dynamis is a lively DC and will "eventually" grow to a fully functional DC, meanwhile the population is down to extremely low levels that havent been reached in years, Dynamis is the equal to Materia, and guess why Materia is dead ? Because there's no DC travel, people moved there, saw the population being very low, and went back to Tonberry or other JP servers, because they were stuck on there with barely anyone to play, if anything DC travel saved Dynamis, without DC travel it'd be an absolute ghost town even worse than it is now.