Time to address long queue times for low level players

[Rekujin]

Hi,

Queue times at 50 aren't so bad, I can get into an expert as DPS in roughly 15-20 minutes...

That being said, I've been trying to level up my Arcanist and Black Mage, the queue times for low level roulette is roughly 30-40 minutes on a rough day, and queuing with another dps buddy for dungeons like Haukke and Brayflox is easily in the 30-40 minute mark, in fact I waited 62 minutes for a Cutters Cry the other day...

I think Square-Enix should merge NA/EU Data Centres with the Japanese ones, we have an auto-translation tool for a reason and we also have language selection aswell, if people don't want to play with Japanese players for communication reasons, they can simply not select the JP button. For those of us who don't mind using translation tool for shorter queues, we have the JP language selection available.

TLDR: Merge all data centres together for the Duty Finder, queue times are becoming a huge problem for DPS players, especially those of us playing during off-peak American hours (Oceanic players)

[DracotheDragon]

the issue with megaservers is the stress it would put on them, as well as the limit that would have to be in place to restrict logging in with a log in queue, which for a subscription game is suicide, look at (can't say proper name umm) WURDSTURR, (yea that will work) they are a competitor with FFXIV, and the mega servers have only brought bad blood between players and the company, it is why the data centres were created in the first place, since the creation of the data centres loading times has almost become one tenth of what it used to be, :3

[SecretCrowds]

It's not the language barrier that is the problem when it comes to a cross data centre duty finder or a megaserver for all the regions.

[MaethusXion]

The biggest issue is that it's something like a 1:4:10 Tank:HealerPS population ratio. The Data Centers themselves are already Duty Finder merged between their worlds(ie Chaos Center plays with anyone else on that Center). The Data Centers themselves are located in different places as attempts to reduce lag for players of those regions, among other reasons.

For this to work it'd be easier if there was only one Data Center, like back in the 1.0 days, but we have 2(soon to be 3 with EU getting theirs sometime before 4.0). Since there are multiple Data Centers, they'd have to choose a 'Host' Center, which would end up lagging players NOT from that Center.

[Rekujin]

If this request is too problematic (don't see why? WoW manages fine with cross-realm server technology) but regardless, what other solutions do they have? the queue times are insanely bad right now, 62 minutes for a Cutters just to level my Black Mage or do my Grand Company seals is not a good look for the game, especially if the tank or healer leave...

[SecretCrowds]

If this request is too problematic (don't see why? WoW manages fine with cross-realm server technology) but regardless, what other solutions do they have? the queue times are insanely bad right now, 62 minutes for a Cutters just to level my Black Mage or do my Grand Company seals is not a good look for the game, especially if the tank or healer leave...

WoW does it but with lots of problems. If all the data centres are close to each other, sure. But you are asking for a cross data centre between NA and JP data centres. That would give you a higher latency than connecting directly to those data centre. That's the problem faced by the WoW Aus data centre players.

Let's say someone playing in an NA datacentre has 90 ping. Then, he has to add an additional 300 ping to connect from the NA datacentre to the JP one. That would give a total of 390 ping. This is the same problem faced by those WoW players. The current Aus players are getting higher ping connecting to the NA data centres through the AUS data centres than they would if they connected to the NA data centres directly.

It would be worse for the EU players right now (assuming the EU data centre isn't up). They have to connect to the NA data centre and then from there connect to the JP one.

[myahele]

They can make it so the next relic quest will involve having to do low-level roulette daily to get whatever item needed for the update.

I think they can also make it so low level dungeons can occasionally bring forth bright light or whatever

[SarcasmMisser]

Maths question.

If A data center has a 3:1:1 dps healer tank ratio and B data center also has 3:1:1, what is the ratio if you merge those servers? What effect would this have on DPS times?

[Rufalus]

There are plans to just let you bring an NPC party from your grand company so you don't need to rely on other players for old content. I would say that is preferable over forcing high level players into content they don't want to play for rewards such as relic weapon enhancement. And the overseas data center merging would likely not be technically viable as people have said.

[Rekujin]

I think the 3 AI NPC's would be perfect, Guild Wars did this and it worked perfectly fine.