The Dynamis Problem and Potential Solutions

[Alicie]

No server is being screwed over by going back to exactly the same situation that worked just fine for a decade. To the contrary, less people will be screwed over when they can play on their home server normally instead of being forced to travel elsewhere. If people want to play with friends on another DC they can make an alt or transfer if it's available. The mountain of issues DC travel is causing is not worth a little convenience.

But it won't be same situation. Player population is not the same as it once was. Dynamis wouldn't even have current 2,5 players if there was no DC travel. People will just naturally trickle to the most populated servers: raiders to Aether, RPers to Crystal. Dynamis will be left in submarine-farming ruins, Primal will probably be middleground where you'll farm like, ex trials and prog savages over 6 months. These who won't be able to transfer to Aether for raiding will unsub. These who won't be able to transfer to Crystall will unsub as well.

[Alicie]

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I already transferred my main out of Dynamis to Aether while it was open. I had to give up my large house and settle for just a small on Aether, but either way it was unused, I couldn't really be there because you kinda have to be on Aether to do content, nobody wanted to come over either, and overall it was just a thing that nobody really needed, neither me nor others. No regrets - no more DC travel, no more inaccessible retainers and FC chest, no more struggling to switch worlds or data centers during prime time.

[CidHeiral]

That's because cheese didn't go anywhere. People just bring level 50-59 jobs into alliance roulette, partying up with such or skipping unlocking of other alliance raids. Crystal tower still dominates roulette while alliance raid roulette pop got decreased because a chunk of people who only did it via cheesing permanently left it because, realistically, if it takes more than 15 minutes it just isn't worth doing.

Most of that is inaccurate and you entirely missed the point of what I was saying.

I think it's very unlikely that they'll remove DC travel at this point, whether it would be the best solution or not (we could probably argue hypotheticals for ages). It's not like the ilvl cheese, something which was never intended in the first place and SE just closed the loophole. It's a feature that was introduced and is widely used, and if SE backpedals on it now, it makes them look bad.

Moving markers during combat was a feature that was introduced and was widely used, then people abused it so it was removed. A good dev is going to do what's ultimately healthiest for the game overall even if that ruffles some feathers and "makes them look bad" to a group of players that don't understand much about the situation. There's an insightful clip on this topic from the Killer Instinct devs that I recommend checking out.

That being said, I agree with you that arguing in circles about hypotheticals won't accomplish much. People who can't see past their own nose are going to argue for whatever benefits them the most and I'm sure there's no changing their mind. Ultimately we're all leaving our opinions to the devs and they're going to do whatever they feel is best, and hopefully they do it soon because the current situation is untenable.