Greenlight NA and EU Travel

[jomas_45]

Added to that, if you don't need to meet up in Materia, we lose a good chunk of our new friends who are filling pfs and roulettes. Not to mention no one will run content on Materia. Most of us still have links to our home servers in EU, JP or NA. So many people will just be here for housing.

So there are gripes, but also huge positives for us.

[Jeeqbit]

As an Oceania player, boy are there some culture clashes, like with hunts being pulled before we have time to broadcast

That isn't a culture clash. It happens in absolutely all regions by trolls. There is no "culture" where that's actually accepted by people; the people who do it are generally blacklisted and kicked from shared spaces, in all regions. The 99.99% of people don't do it in all regions; it's just the 0.01% of people, much like is the case in real life crime.

people not waiting for cut scenes to end before pulling last boss

In my experience, this is usually due to people not looking at the party list. It's a sort of concentration issue that people have. They just go and pull the boss out of habit and then if they realize, then it's too late. Fortunately, most last bosses don't have lengthy cut scenes.

Added to that, if you don't need to meet up in Materia, we lose a good chunk of our new friends who are filling pfs and roulettes. Not to mention no one will run content on Materia. Most of us still have links to our home servers in EU, JP or NA. So many people will just be here for housing.

If people are routinely going there who are from NA and EU then that's brave of them to endure that ping and quite surprising. I would think the ones that mostly keep going are actually getting favorable ping or alternatively benefit from the lower population ie. avoiding DDoS attacks.

[SalamanderIX]

You don't seem to understand the purpose of this post. It has nothing to do with making a "everyone goes to Aether to raid" situation worse.

It is as simple as an EU player on an NA world wants to stay with their friends on NA, but then travel to EU for better ping when raiding. Or vice versa. NA players in the EU region travel to NA when raiding.

It's really as simple as that and there isn't a good reason to be against this. It's just not nice to ask people to endure bad ping like that when raiding when SE can solve that issue.

Good sense would mean we wouldn't all clog into one data center for raiding, and not cause the current issues. But yet we do.

And I don't think bad ping is going to stop some people. Many people from OCE and Europe and all over the world already chose to raid in NA. This is a 333 ms tick game with some extra time for every mechanic to top it off. EU *will* lose some raiders to Aether, and it'll be enough to made the raid scene there a bit more empty.

[Jeeqbit]

EU *will* lose some raiders to Aether, and it'll be enough to made the raid scene there a bit more empty.

Let's say that actually happens. It'll probably be made up for (and more) by the amount of people traveling from Aether and other NA data centers, to raid in EU with the better ping.

[jomas_45]

That isn't a culture clash. It happens in absolutely all regions by trolls. There is no "culture" where that's actually accepted by people; the people who do it are generally blacklisted and kicked from shared spaces, in all regions. The 99.99% of people don't do it in all regions; it's just the 0.01% of people, much like is the case in real life crime.

It's possible we're getting all the blacklisted players from overseas and have to weed them out ourselves.

In my experience, this is usually due to people not looking at the party list. It's a sort of concentration issue that people have. They just go and pull the boss out of habit and then if they realize, then it's too late. Fortunately, most last bosses don't have lengthy cut scenes.

Unfortunately, the kill time on last bosses has become almost negligible, and even a short cut scene can mean no boss. This game's balancing is terrible. People are also a lot less apologetic about it. I've seen an Alliance Raid jump off the sides because they pulled too early.

If people are routinely going there who are from NA and EU then that's brave of them to endure that ping and quite surprising. I would think the ones that mostly keep going are actually getting favorable ping or alternatively benefit from the lower population ie. avoiding DDoS attacks.

We do notice the population rise during DDOS. But I think a lot of Voyagers are here for non Logical DC friends, or to do content that may not be easy to get into on their servers eg hunt trains and Chaotic.

[Jeeqbit]

It's possible we're getting all the blacklisted players from overseas and have to weed them out ourselves.

I do vaguely remember at Dawntrail release that the issues happened during OCE peak hours, which shows that people from the OCE region can do these things.

[ACE135]

That isn't a culture clash. It happens in absolutely all regions by trolls. There is no "culture" where that's actually accepted by people; the people who do it are generally blacklisted and kicked from shared spaces, in all regions. The 99.99% of people don't do it in all regions; it's just the 0.01% of people, much like is the case in real life crime.

So you are equating people who "early pull", which doesn't exist, and are in there full right to engage with hunts whenever they want, with criminals?

[jomas_45]

So you are equating people who "early pull", which doesn't exist, and are in there full right to engage with hunts whenever they want, with criminals?

Not criminals, but it's f-ing horrible when you pull something early that someone has spent 4 days prepping. I have nearly missed out on marks I have prepped because someone went "Oooo, S Rank, yup, nobody else would want to fight that."

[jomas_45]

I do vaguely remember at Dawntrail release that the issues happened during OCE peak hours, which shows that people from the OCE region can do these things.

Of course they can. But they don't get info from websites, and it's become more prevalent since DT.

[ShimAoki]

Please reconsider this feature for 8.x, I would transfer from NA to EU in a heartbeat to play the game with good ping but still have the ability to travel for my NA raidgroup. This would make my evercold experience amazing! Also it would allow people to enjoy content at all hours, also you might find east coast players playing on eu more because of server stability and so forth. It'll also make peak play times more wide, when EU is dead, go to one of the quiet NA DC's to raid/queue for content and vice versa.

PLEASE SQUARE ENIX !!!!