Quote Originally Posted by Urthdigger View Post
Why do you want the most populated server anyway? That leads to issues with things like overcrowding and mass competition for mobs, and folks flocking to those servers also means others become underpopulated, with known issues. As it stands currently, I don't think you'll have an issue finding a free company to join and folks to run FATEs with (And those are the main two benefits of a population on a server) on any server, so just pick one at random.

Oh, and I believe all the NA/EU servers are PST actually. There's just the two data centers.
Actually some of the servers are already surprisingly underpopulated at certain times (or all the time comparatively), and can be fairly hard to find groups to run with. But like I said in my answer, I do think that having a good group is more important than the specific server overall. If you have a lot of people in a group, then even if the overall server is low population, it can still be a good place for you.

I agree on the population problems though, and I do think more people should spread out more, but I understand why they don't or are worried.

The timezone question is because of finding people to run with... I understand this. I had a character on a world that never had anyone running during hours I was on. I would literally find myself soloing most fates. I ultimately stopped logging in to that character.