Quote Originally Posted by Underscore View Post
If they can't make Party Finder cross-DC, another possible solution could be to prevent players from using Party Finder on data centres that aren't their own.

That way, the populations should go back to how they were - assuming people don't start paying for permanent transfers en masse, I guess.
That would be rather extreme but they could start with not being able to create a PF unless you're from the DC. A lot of PF I see on Aether aren't even started by Aether people. SE could monitor the effects of a small change like that first to see if it helps the issue while also not implementing barriers to players wanting to join friends, which was something that SE said DC travel was supposed to help with.