Square, I beg you. I've lost a dozen friends signing up already. Please open Balmung.

[AvalonBright]

I know this will probably fall on deaf ears, but after turning away another friend this evening I broke down and came to make a hopeful thread. Over the past several months I have had more than a few friends eager to play the game and yet they inevitably turn away because Balmung is never. Open.

No matter what time of day I've looked, no matter when THEY'VE looked, never open. And we're adults, with responsibilities and jobs and so on. None of us can sit around all day hoping to catch the 20 minute window the server might actually unlock for, if it even DOES anymore.

As far as I know we're not even the most populated server anymore, not by half. Of course we are fairly active which plays a part in things but STILL.

Why don't I just leave? Because I'm a roleplayer, and many of my friends are roleplayers. We want to stay where the RP is. I also have a FC and a Linkshell here that I enjoy very much. They have become my friends as well. I am not going to just up and leave server because I haven't known them as long as I have other friends.

Just, please, Square. I'm begging you here, stop leaving Balmung under permanent lockdown, it's ridiculous. ESPECIALLY when you aren't even decent enough to tie the server limits to accounts instead of characters. God forbid any of them ever want to make an alt in the future...

[Ilenya]

I just made a new person on Balmung not three days ago. Granted, I tend to look in the early morning my time (Central Time, 5-6 hours from the time of this post).

Simplest option, really, is to just try and look at times where people aren't often on, like early morning US time.

[AvalonBright]

I just made a new person on Balmung not three days ago. Granted, I tend to look in the early morning my time (Central Time, 5-6 hours from the time of this post).

Simplest option, really, is to just try and look at times where people aren't often on, like early morning US time.

Fortunately this recent attempt is a friend in Europe, so trying at 3am EST was no big deal for him. ... Except in the span of 20 minutes when he first looked and the time it took to make his character, it closed again. It's not like he even missed the end of a window, it literally opened and closed in the span of 20-30 minutes. It's ridiculous. :\

[Souljacker]

Fortunately this recent attempt is a friend in Europe, so trying at 3am EST was no big deal for him. ... Except in the span of 20 minutes when he first looked and the time it took to make his character, it closed again. It's not like he even missed the end of a window, it literally opened and closed in the span of 20-30 minutes. It's ridiculous. :\

The solution to that is save your character's appearance. It shouldn't take 20 minutes to select your patron diety and class - so have him create the look he wants now, save the appearance, and then load it when he goes online the next day. Balmung has always been open at around 6am EST.

[LunaHoshino]

Balmung has always been open at around 6am EST.

It's 6:15 AM EST right now and it's closed. :\ I've been trying since 3 AM.

[Hyunckel]

I just made a new person on Balmung not three days ago. Granted, I tend to look in the early morning my time (Central Time, 5-6 hours from the time of this post).

Simplest option, really, is to just try and look at times where people aren't often on, like early morning US time.

This.

I had to wait till 4 am local time to be able to create a new character on Odin server on "EU" Chaos DataCenter. It was closed the rest of the time (I think at about 8 am it's already closed again).

Albeit Ragnarok Legacy server seems to NEVER be open at all.

Is Balmung a Legacy server?

[Sakuraluna]

Pretty sure that for the busier servers, new players can just wake up a bit early to create a new character on that server before going to school or work. Maybe see if they could try between about 6-8am server time, idk otherwise.

[Anarnee]

I made a character on Balmung not too long ago~ You just need to have them be on at the right time XD Believe me, it took a long time to get a character there, but it is not PERMANENT. XD It was about 5-6am CST

[Korilynn]

Have they tried making a character on another server and then transferring them over to Balmung? When my friend started again, she was on Balmung, I was on Cactaur. I tried to make on on Balmung, it said it was full, so I xfered my original character and I was in.

[AiChyan]

Balmung is almost always open at 11 am GMT.