Other than doing what I did (sacrificing days and nights and about a week of vacation time just waiting for a spot to open and I can nab it), what other ways are there to get a chance to get on?

I have a few friends that want to play with the rest of us on Balmung but the whole "NOPE, Balmung's closed! =D" thing that's been going on is keeping it closed. Do we need to install another hamster on the servfer? Maybe a rabbit instead of a hamster?

Or sacrifice Minfilia cosplayers to the Ascians or the other way around?

Or is there some way that SE can see that it is kind of silly to keep Balmung closed up; it is one hell of a popular and friendly server. Can't we do something to allow the population cap up or allow a queue for new people to wait in instead of hoping for RNGesus to bless you with a spot and not miss out by a breath of an ant?

(And suggesting world transfer silly; you pay for a game, then pay for a sub and then you have to pay again just for access to a server?)