Dynamis DC needs help.

[RyoXander]

Hello from EU,..

I'm keeping it short.

Its unbearable to play on Dynamis.
All Duty Roulettes take ages to pop. Frontline doesnt pop, Maps except Limsa seem dead.
MSQ Trials and Ally-Raids can pretty much only be done unsync via the PF unless you want to wait 2 hours for the queue to pop. No point in trying to open a PF for Savage or Ultimate fights. I could continue this list for hours.




Some possible solutions..
DC Travel via aetherytes without logging off.
Small Duty Roulette EXP Bonuses for Travelers that come over to Dynamis
Better bonuses for players transferring to Dynamis. Not only EXP Bonuses.
Deleting the DC to invest in better servers and more worlds on the other DC's(?)

SE please wake up!

Forgive my ignorance but if you're from EU, why are you on an NA DC? Are the EU ones bad?

[OliverQ]

Considering how I've seen no response from Sqenix or CBU3, I can only assume they don't care about Dynamis.

[SalamanderIX]

Oh they care about it, But their solution isn't great. It's known as "World Population Balancing Incentives" They just shut down half of the servers on Aether/Crystal/Primal every patch and give them "congested" status. So if somebody wants to move or create a character on a particular server they are SOL. To go one step further, they have travel restriction, which means you can't travel to certain servers if they are "too busy" at a given time.

Newer players should mind, this didn't used to exist. In Shadowbringers and early Endwalker no server was closed entirely. If it was too busy at a time you couldn't create a character, but they were not outright locked it arbitrarily for a patch.

The plus side is the "Preferred+" status of most Dynamis servers. You get a million gil on a new character, once per account. People transfering to one get to have their house refunded, they also get to transfer for free. Back in Stormblood they had an even better system... They let people relocate their houses outright. Since there's a lottery now though, they do the housing refund instead.

It's obviously not enough, because Data Center travel exists now, and because Dawntrail lacks the numbers. If Data Travel didn't exist, and if Dawntrail was successful - Then I have no doubt Dynamis would be thriving. At the moment it's mostly a hub for Aether venues, because the venue system on that data center got broken since nobody could get to a Aether server. Data Center travel messed up a number of things, such as hollowing out Primal and Crystal for party finder, with Aether being the "mega datacenter". They did not antipate the problem and any real solutions may be over a year from now. The solutions may not be pretty either.

[Vespar]

I have an alt on Dynamis, and its been excellent for playing through the MSQ, with the sole exception of TRIALS. I had this same issue with trials on Crystal - though not as bad as on dynamis. Trials take an AGE to get into no matter what data center you seem to be on (unless of course those trials have Duty Support).
As soon as I reach a trial that does not have Duty Support, I have to log out and swap data centers. Now granted, my use-case scenario is a far cry from the norm that others have who want to run Extremes and Endgame content. I can see that being an ABSOLUTE NIGHTMARE.

I do think that Dynamis needs assistance. Perhaps merging some of its servers together or better yet, change the way Data Center travel works to be in-line with how World Visit works. Blend the Data Center regions together for example (ie. All of America, or All of Europe, able to world visit and run content together without logging in/out to change centers, etc). Granted, I understand the execution to make that a reality is likely not so simple an undertaking.

[Alicie]

The problem is that a bunch of people went to Dynamis for the housing, bought a house, and did nothing with it, then travel off Dynamis.

My solution, that no one would like, is to block folks from leaving the DC, but allow anyone to travel in, similar to OCE. Given them a bonus when they come over for doing content on Dynamis, too.

This will just result in people permanently transferring to Aether and Dynamis will still be empty.
SE needs to bite the bullet and invest into creating seamless cross-dc party and duty finder (and maybe even cross-region, considering how much issues there is with population nowadays).

[Batbrat]

Dissolve Dynamis, and redistribute it's servers amongst the other NA DC's.
2 for Crystal, 2 for Primal, 4 for Aether (since we're always """full""" and everyone's always running over here anyway)
Dibs on; Seraph, Marilith, Rafflesia, and Halicarnassus for Aether, thanks

[Oizen]

Server merge when

[Poporito_Popoto]

I'm on Dynamis.

I switch servers when needed, don't have to worry about fighting for limited resources, and still make millions of gil on the market board.

Dynamis is great.

[Alicie]

Dissolve Dynamis, and redistribute it's servers amongst the other NA DC's.
2 for Crystal, 2 for Primal, 4 for Aether (since we're always """full""" and everyone's always running over here anyway)
Dibs on; Seraph, Marilith, Rafflesia, and Halicarnassus for Aether, thanks

They already did the opposite thing on Japan because their servers couldn't handle 10 worlds per data center.

[CCheshire]

I'm on Dynamis.

I switch servers when needed, don't have to worry about fighting for limited resources, and still make millions of gil on the market board.

Dynamis is great.

tbh I'm not on Dynamis, but it let others have good house plots w/o much competition, so it's fine with me. I think it exists fine as an overflow DC for the future upcoming expansion, so it's working as intended for SE along w/for all the new xbox players.

Also, yeah, they split the past DC into smaller servers since it wasn't working well for Japan and everyone too, so no reason they would want to add it back to the main NA other DC along w/reducing waiting times during big updates.

Finally, if you want to raid more or RP it's a personal choice if paying for the DC transfer is worth losing the M or L house in the process for a bigger PF.