Choosing a Server - What to consider

[Fleur]

Housing is a fun side thing with some perks. It lets you stable your chocobo to dye it and train it, plus do gardening. However, you can buy a private room in a FC and use their stable if you join one that has a house.

Oh, and about markets, that is another reason I prefer a high pop server. There is much better supply of items on higher pop servers and the prices tend to be lower and items move faster. I personally prefer cheaper market board prices as it makes game-generated gil rewards more useful, but on the flip side, cheaper MB prices makes set costs (repairs, teleports, etc) seem relatively more expensive. And people who make a lot of gil crafting may have a different opinion as well.

MB prices and supply don't only vary by population though, so check out the MB on a specific server if you are curious. For example, I am planning to transfer from my mid pop server to a high pop NA server soon, and found that the MB prices on them are way higher. :/

Also, I think this site is useful for server stat: Lucky Bancho's Character Survey