Quote Originally Posted by Raist View Post
It has always been and continues to be about load balancing. All of this data is hosted on clustered servers. Basically, they are trying to keep things spread out as best as they can for stability and such. You can go all the way back to Beta4 and pre-launch and find notices about it:

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...68581b416c19ad
After reading this post, I guess I can assume that it is the massive amount of RPers hanging around in the cities that are causing Balmung to constantly be locked, though I do also disagree with the notion of Gilgamesh is more populated than Balmung. I checked Gilgamesh recently and there were probably a little more people scattered around all three cities in total than you will see hanging around in Ul'dah on Balmung.