Yeah, Balmung best times are normally super early morning, or right before/after Maintenance. I have friends that would like to try to play, but they have things like work and such, so they can't always be up at crazy hours to try to make a character. So it's normally closed out by the time they get the chance to take a look. I know some this is so bad, they actually make characters on other servers then actually pay to transfer to Balmung... which is ridiculous to have to do in the first place.