Balmung - Seriously need a better system then WORLD IS CLOSED constantly

[Mossclaw]

Which service did you sign up for? They have a basic one that allows for only 1 character per server and then a full service where you can have up to 8 per server. From your description I'd guess the basic.

No, I'm allowed more than one character. I'm on my free time, still, but have set up a subscription for, what?, 8 characters per realm or whatever it is. My Creation screen indicates I can make more characters.

Thank you for checking however.

[Reinha]

Unfortunately they have to try and stop people from going to the most popular servers, or otherwise they become unstable and queue times appear even when there isn't new content. I played a game that allowed everyone to make characters on any server and people always go to the most popular one. Trust me, it's better like this in the long run. Would you rather wait a few days to create your character, or spend hours in queue and suffer extreme lag over the next years to come? SE's way of handling things serves the majority well even though new players are inconvenienced.

Throwing money at the problem won't solve it either as far as I've seen. Increasing the server cap and improving hardware is only a temporary solution, and a costly one too. If players notice that there's room on the big server again, they will quickly fill it up to the new limit. I'd much rather they gave permanent free transfers from big servers, with a small incentive attached (title or something).

For now, if you really want to play with friends on a big server, keep trying to make the character at different times of day and week. Others who don't have real life friends to play with just yet: please try a smaller server. You and your fellow players will be happier that way.

[Mossclaw]

<snip>For now, if you really want to play with friends on a big server, keep trying to make the character at different times of day and week. Others who don't have real life friends to play with just yet: please try a smaller server. You and your fellow players will be happier that way.

I feel as if I'm not explaining myself clearly. Sorry. Let me try again.

My confusion is because I'm on Gilgamesh. If I'm already taking up a spot on the server, why must I pay to transfer a 2nd character there? (Standard account)

Did I make a mistake when I created my 2nd character? Is there a different button? I hear great things about SE, and it doesn't seem in character to make me pay, although of course I will now, because I want to be on my server. :/

Thank you for reading.

[matrim1985]

I feel bad because I baught this game to play it with my friends. Both of their servers are full. If this doesn't change soon, I will be returning this game to steam. Why has 14 not adapted mega servers yet? Server copasity is no longer about hardware, its a software issue that can be fixed with load balancing and server splintering. Honestly, their server set up is five years old and its time to update.

[Niwashi]

Server copasity is no longer about hardware, its a software issue that can be fixed with load balancing and server splintering.

Splintering brings in more problems of its own. Personally, I'm glad SE reserves that for unusually high traffic periods (like now just after an expansion release) and doesn't just give up and settle for splintering the traffic all the time. I do think SE could do more for people with friends on other servers, like allowing cross-server chat and allowing people to form invited parties for cross-server instances (where Duty Finder could put them together anyway). But for open-world content, it's better if you can have everyone on the server be in the same world and not dozens of splintered off fragments of it where you can't even see each other.