Server Purpose Weights (RP, PvE, PvP)

[zackbiggs]

maybe on one of the next big patches you could offer a server jump along with the implementation of 'Server Purpose Weights'(working name)

The way I was thinking is instead of having a general Tag like RP, PvE, PvP servers have values that state the overall intended usage of those subjects like have a server out of 10pts 5 Rp 4 Pve and 1 PVP and another with 4Pve 3 PvP and 3RP or something like that. So people can match their preferences to the weights. So hopefully there's no guessing what kind of RP compatibility there is or how willing the average player is to PvP or do endgame. Make it so you don't have to hunt down people on other sites to RP here without adding a whole complicated system to it. Just 'intended usage' and if certain servers get higher traffic announce a change on the heavy server and if need be the near-empty server so players can move accordingly. This kind of system would be best implemented at the start but no reason you guys can't be the first.

[Enkidoh]

Such a system would not work in FFXIV, and that is because PvP in FFXIV is not open-world - here it's a limited, secular event that you need to be a high level to undertake, and it's completely separate from the main game. There is no one-on-one dueling going on, thus no need to designate servers into ones suitable for newbies or so-called 'care bears' who just want to play PvE content and ones for the 'elite'.

Also, really role-playing is up to the player to decide and hence if you want to RP do it - and that an officially designated RP server is just superfluous by this point. Incidentally unofficially Balmung and Gilgamesh have become the de-facto RP servers in the game by circumstance, but that's not official - it's just what the community has done.

[coldreactive]

Yoshida and the rest of the developers have also made it very clear that they do not ever plan to add open world, or anything similar to open world PVP.

[Surian]

Considdering how everything is cross-server anyhow (PVP and Instances alike), there's absolutely zero point to this.

Also, if you happen to be the guy who hates PVP getting stuck on a world designated as PVP-server, why would you be ok with that? It's not like anyone is going to actively care who or what their server's "rules" say.

Current system is fine. If no one is doing PVP on your server or the servers connected to it, it's not because you're on the wrong server, it's because barely anyone likes PVP.