How do you actually -get- on Balmung

[Shellasaurus]

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?)

[Eidolon]

Try to make a character directly after a maintenence. There's usually room on the server at that time, and it's how we make our alts here.

The alternative is to transfer, but you already siad you're not interested in that - and with good reason.

[Nomad-phx]

Ohhhhh that's why it's always full, mass amounts of alts lol

[Eidolon]

Ohhhhh that's why it's always full, mass amounts of alts lol

Do Alts fill up a server? I thought it was just the # of active players we have at any time.

[Risvertasashi]

4am-ish on monday, tuesday, wednesday, or thursday. As long as none of the above are a holiday or next to one. Or, as someone mentioned, near maintenance beginning/end.

But... can we skip the cosplayers and just sacrifice minfilia?

[Shellasaurus]

4am-ish on monday, tuesday, wednesday, or thursday. As long as none of the above are a holiday or next to one. Or, as someone mentioned, near maintenance beginning/end.

But... can we skip the cosplayers and just sacrifice minfilia?

I swear to the twelve and the nine hells; first few times I heard them call her Manfilia.

And yes. I say we sacrifice the lot of them to the one true lord and saviour, bacon.

But in all honesty and seriousness; can't they upgrade the server for Balmung?

[RinManako]

I swear to the twelve and the nine hells; first few times I heard them call her Manfilia.

And yes. I say we sacrifice the lot of them to the one true lord and saviour, bacon.

But in all honesty and seriousness; can't they upgrade the server for Balmung?

I have on a few occasions called her Milfilia

[Shellasaurus]

SE won't upgrade just one server. And they probably won't upgrade any servers because it saves them money and lets them put more resources into the cash shop

-cue a lot of annoyed muttering and mild censored swearing- That is rather annoying. Makes me wonder how they've set up the servers; doubt it is anything as big as an actual datacenter; more likely to be a few server racks or such. If it is not, and they can allocate server resources dynamically...then I shall have to tear out my hair in frustration.

Still; I would be quite interested to see the how and what. Aether is one of the older, if not the oldest data center out there, right? Would it not be good for their customer support to have a faster and more stable world/worlds together with lower costs because they can run more worlds on one rack or blade? (Gah, I've been out of the backend world for too long. D: )

[Shellasaurus]

I have on a few occasions called her Milfilia

>o> Iunno; I've always wanted to plant my boot in her face. Something about her is fishy...also, I shall shake a fish at SE for 1000 character limit per post. What in feck. DX

[Eidolon]

But in all honesty and seriousness; can't they upgrade the server for Balmung?

SE won't upgrade just one server. And they probably won't upgrade any servers because it saves them money and lets them put more resources into the cash shop