Materia - Bismarck - Eastern La Noscea

[TaleraRistain]

If they are able to prioritize zone entry to those from the world itself that would be a good thing, but I'm not sure if that would change anything if the zone is already full.

We periodically see this happen on Jenova when we get hunt trains in and everyone and their brother is doing them and normal Jenova players can't access those zones for our activities. That's brief, though, but it could also be that they're limited on what they could do server side if it's something they can't piecemeal implement on just one server. So something like the afk timer could be like that. We have seen them able to take down specific zones on specific servers for maintenance before so at least that is possible.

I find that unlikely, though, because nobody here is really breaking any rules of the game. They're using DC Travel for the intended purpose. So I don't see SE punishing them by taking the zone down and making them leave. I'm not sure what the solution is and not sure how much is in SE's power versus the community's power to work with the residents of the server.

[ChrysOCE]

Is it DC travel as it was intended? I thought the DC travel was to alleviate congestion on NA/JP/EU worlds and people could come to OCE to do their MSQ/content. Not gather together on a handful of zones and afk/gpose/erp in the hundreds? I dont have a problem with people who come from different DCs and actually help OCE with content - pvp/msq/trials/raids whatever. This is just disruptive and inconsiderate, especially as it isn't just a one off night but ongoing.

[Jeanie]

For those who still don't believe what is occurring with respect to difficulty accessing zones, this is what we're up against. This was essentially 5 minutes of spamming teleport, trying to get to Western Thanalan.

I would imagine your timed node would be dead and gone by the time you get in. As these are only accessible on your home world. It is an 'Obstruction of Duty.' SE needs to own this and rectify it, so all parties can play the game. No one is saying stop the gathering, but as it intends to continue into other events, like Halloween and winter IT NEEDS a solution from SE to make it workable for all.

[Rinoa_353]

This just proves that SE needs to invest more into their largest money maker and expand the capabilities of the servers where they can handle 1000 players or more per zone instead of a few hundred. But this will sadly fall onto deaf ears as SE prefers to waste money on trash games that fail from the start. They also need to improve the login servers too, those are terribly slow.

[ObscuraFi]

Is it DC travel as it was intended?.

Yoshi P spoke on this briefly when he was discussing cross region party/duty finder iirc. They wanted to allow people to travel, but did not want people grouping up in just one location. That was something the playerbase did, so they started shifting restrictions to try to get people to spread out the same way that they lock worlds for character creation when everyone bumrushes 1-2 worlds on a data center.

Their vague description on the lodestone is:
"Additionally, opening travel to Worlds in other data centers affords players the opportunity to share adventures with a wide array of friends and further expand their in-game community."

but it also has

"The World Visit system allows players to temporarily visit other Worlds within the same data center. The Data Center Travel system broadens this range of available destinations to include Worlds of differing logical data centers."
So, they likely didn't plan on people staying there 24/7 for weeks/months like they do on Aether/Balmung.

They also just changed the DC Travel menu to RNG the world name order because they found out a decent chunk of people were just picking the same world at the top and they wanted to spread people out instead of having that happen as well. Square Enix seems fairly consistent on that principle. I believe at some point some people even debated if Square Enix would be better off removing DC Travel from the game and just going back to pre-EW as ShB was perfectly fine community/growth wise, but people looked at it like Square Enix opened a can of worms and would likely receive too much flack if they just undid that.

[Hanzz96]

People on Materia are absoutley wild. They complain non stop that the DC is empty but when its actually popping rather than an empty wasteland OCE players still aren't happy because "its congested"

Yes I'm sure the original idea was for people to come and help OCE with PF and DF content but that isn't going to happen. Players aren't going to come and learn new strats and play on massive ping for no reason, they can just play on their own server.

This shows overall that the materia DC doesn't work and probably needs to merge with Elemental

[SophiaDL]

People on Materia are absoutley wild. They complain non stop that the DC is empty but when its actually popping rather than an empty wasteland OCE players still aren't happy because "its congested"

Yes I'm sure the original idea was for people to come and help OCE with PF and DF content but that isn't going to happen. Players aren't going to come and learn new strats and play on massive ping for no reason, they can just play on their own server.

This shows overall that the materia DC doesn't work and probably needs to merge with Elemental

This screams : "People came over and literally invaded your datacenter, not providing anything at all, no roulettes, no queues, they just sit afk and do gpose/erp/afk all day and are toxic, and you're not happy ?? How dare you ???"

Please get a clue, Materia never asked for the DC to become a trash can for people that want to be toxic and ERP.

[Hanzz96]

This screams : "People came over and literally invaded your datacenter, not providing anything at all, no roulettes, no queues, they just sit afk and do gpose/erp/afk all day and are toxic, and you're not happy ?? How dare you ???"

Please get a clue, Materia never asked for the DC to become a trash can for people that want to be toxic and ERP.

I am Australian and have been on OCE full-time before (NA player) and unfortunately its never going to be a place where people go for content because why would they? They can stay on their own DC and do it. Like I said no one is going to come and do ex, savage or Ultimate on OCE because they have to learn new strats and adjust to ping. They also aren't going to do roulettes because its a hassle to leave their server to go to OCE for a 30 min queue when they could instant pop on Light, Aether or Mana.

Facts are the second OCE opened up to the world it was doomed to be a social hub. A place where people from other DC's can meet up and hang with their friends. That's the only appeal OCE has to non OCE people and even then the low ping isnt enough for some Aussie's and Kiwi's to justify moving to such a low population server

The only thing that will help at this point I honestly think is merging Materia and Elemental which are both struggling with the mass JP speaker migration from Elemental to Mana and OCE migration from Elemental to Materia

[Ajisaii]

Facts are the second OCE opened up to the world it was doomed to be a social hub.

They can close the gate now, we're full.

[Taketori]

The only thing that will help at this point I honestly think is merging Materia and Elemental

Don't be so pessimistic, waiving the sub fee for players who exclusively play characters with home worlds on Materia would definitely help!