FF14 has a great community!

[SolaceX]

I feel the same way. I made a tab just for /tells and turned the sound off, and I occasionally check it to see if an actual player sent me anything. I'm on Adamantoise, and I do infrequently receive messages from people. More often than not, it's just RMT. For smaller servers, you might just want to turn off /tells entirely. At least, that was my experience.

I find the maintenance times to be annoying. They're normally at 2am for me, but I'm a nighthawk and those are my active hours, so I'm normally rushing to get things done before getting booted. We seem to get it about every 3 days. Makes me wonder what they're doing, exactly.

LOL! I love your SIG!

[StrejdaTom]

I never was in busy mode and I probably never will be, because of all nice random interactions I had.
Here is your answer. xD

[Fendred]

Balmung is pretty good. It is the unofficial RP legacy server, after all.

[Ashkendor]

I've had some nice interactions with people that pm'ed me to compliment my character/glamour, ask how I got my Kirin mount, or tell me that they think my chocobo is funny. I've seen and/or participated in some pretty fun shout conversations as well. Quite honestly though, I got so tired of the RMT tell spam that I installed Guildworks for the sole purpose of blocking it. I'm really glad trial accounts can't send friend requests anymore. That was a great move on SE's part; I haven't had a friend request from RMT since 3.0 rolled out.

There are a few people on my server I dislike for various reasons, but I just blacklist and move on.

[AskaRay]

I had an RMT message during the first day of the event... however that was essentially the first message I had got in MONTHS on Lich.
And since HW I've gotten a total of 0 friend requests from RMT.

Overall I also really like this community...sure there are always the bad eggs and of course a few disagreements here and there but overall my experience has been very positive.