Shouls i xfer to a higeher or lower pop server?

[CGMidlander]

Gotcha. Thanks! I see you're on Jenova. That's one of the newest servers, yeah?

Yeah. I wouldn't recommend it if you want to do endgame raiding.
Crafting & gathering seems to be picking up, but there's still a lot of low pop problems. (e.g. High prices, low item availability on market board)

[zar]

Don't low pop.

Market Board has inflated prices.
PF has, on average, 4 groups usually consisting of FATE grinding and advertisements. There's an Ex Primal/T6-T8 once every other day.
Endgame is dead. It's composed of cliques who rarely recruit.

The guy on Adamantoise who says they just started T10/T11 PuG runs in PF... That would never happen on my server. The rare T9 group goes unfilled for hours here. I'm willing to bet most players on my server are on T5.
As for the question "lower pop servers will also grow with time", No. People start off here then transfer to better servers for reasons already listed above. Low pop servers are doomed to be low pop.

The community aspect of low pop is nice, but it's not worth it. You are missing so much of the game by being on a low pop server because there isn't enough activity involved in them.

[Songi]

Totally agree. Low pop is plagued by too many problems, it will cause you to quit game fast due to lack of interesting things to do. Even as a crafter Low pop is bad, high end items don't sell but once a week at best. There's a huge supply of crafted items on Low pop but mats are usually in much smaller supply due to the massive amount of crafters and no buyers to speak of thanks to the casual nature of the server.

You'd think reputation matters on a smaller server...it really doesn't thanks to DF and PF to keep yourself relatively self-sufficient from the server. Also endgame groups are usually extremely slow to progress and even slower get started. Very casual nature again.

Closing note: DON'T MOVE TO LAMIA!! (Caps)

[coldreactive]

I was on Masamune before 2.0. Now it's a JP server so im trying to transfer. I was considering leviathan but I'm wondering if there are good reason to go to a newer, lower populated server?

If you're doing it due to queue times, then that's not enough reason to switch worlds alone since the entire data center is at fault if you're having bad queue times. Janhyua made a good point with gil making though.

[Ozreth]

If you're doing it due to queue times, then that's not enough reason to switch worlds alone since the entire data center is at fault if you're having bad queue times. Janhyua made a good point with gil making though.

Nah I guess I just wanted to switch to be on a more English speaking centric server. I went ahead and just witched to Leviathan. Thanks all