Recruit a Friend . . . so he can play on another server!

[h0tNstilettos]

Every time someone posts a thread like this, they're from Balmung server. I check server next to their forum avatar every time I see a thread like this.

You would think these people are new to MMOs. In most MMOs you cannot make a new character on overcrowded popular servers, even if it's in the dead hours around 4 am. If you want to play with your friend, have him make a character on a medium populated server and transfer your character to that server. The server I'm on, Leviathan, is somewhere between high and medium as we use to be the 5th most populated server. Any server medium population, give or take a little, is good. However, if you refuse to transfer for whatever reason, maybe due to friends and/or FC you already have on Balmung, then you might have to face the fact that you won't be able to play on the same servers. Another option is to make an alt and play on his server. Maybe he'll get lucky and by some miracle be able to create a character on Balmung.

Server limits exist for a reason. A server cannot have an infinite amount of players for technical reasons.

[MageBlack]

What if I told you, not everyone on Balmung came here when it was crowded? I know I came here as a server merger from Fabul to Balmung and I've been here ever since. I'm not about to pack up shop and move when I would take a huge hit in Gil, lose the community we built, etc. You want to know why Balmung is full? Google "FFXIV RP server." If SE had officially labeled a few servers per database as "RP" then this could have been avoided.

But nevermind that, its easier to blame the victim in this, the players. "If you are on Balmung, you are askin for it!"

[Chihaya]

Just from the title, I knew it was a Balmung thread

EDIT: Hey OP, I think your FC name describes the state of Balmung server very well.

[NorthernLadMSP]

I mean if you are having a campaign to recruit people they should be able to play once you recruit them. I understand Balmung is a heavily populated server but obviously more recruitments are going to come from servers where there are more people to recruit friends.

Oh, so just because SE is having a recruit a friend campaign, that equates to said person automatically being entitled to start on any server they choose, even when said server is constantly at capacity?

[Nadirah]

We need a forum for all the people on overpopulated servers to complain about being unable to make new characters on or get new people onto the server.

Didnt even need to click the thread to know op was on balmung. If all the people with this problem went to a lower population server a lot of population issues would be solved

imo if you have characters on the server you should be able to make new ones whenever. It's not adding to the load when you can only log in one character per account at a time.

To all of you that are telling me: "You should have known . . .", you realize that you are basically saying that we should be content not being able to invite any new friends to the server right, and you think this is ok?

Yes. You can invite people. *I* invited people. I also told them that they need to be online at 1pm their time to make characters because the server is full otherwise. I myself was up at 4 to do it.

[Rampage]

EDIT: Hey OP, I think your FC name describes the state of Balmung server very well.

Hahahah this made me laugh, thumbs up!

My friend was up at 2:50am last night after maintenance and still no luck. So I guess Im coughing up 18$ to get him over here, hope that works. But Im not happy about it!

@ NorthernLadMSP: Yes if SE is having a campaign to recruit friends I think that entitles you to play with the friend you recruit lol. I dont know why this is such a CRAZY concept. I understand there are technical limitations to the servers, and as Reinha pointed out adding more capacity would just make the server full again (although it would make allot of people happy). So I think the solution here would be to have an incentive for world transfer out of overpopulated servers, not a monetary barrier like what we have now in addition to what you lose in game when you transfer.