Raid Only Server

[xXRaineXx]

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Auto-kick priority for all AFK's. You can only raid so much in a day and I'm pretty sure that the players who stand around in Shire are 50% afk 100% of the time. Players who like their own community will go back for it and AFK's will just get kicked. Not like you need AFK's anyways.

[o3o]

Auto-kick priority for all AFK's. You can only raid so much in a day and I'm pretty sure that the players who stand around in Shire are 50% afk 100% of the time. Players who like their own community will go back for it and AFK's will just get kicked. Not like you need AFK's anyways.

the problem is thats still a ton of people. and would get unbearably worse every time a new raid released and the hype train to be the first to wipe to the first turn/floor/whatever was chugging on at full speed.

[Gamer3427]

While I like this idea, particularly as it's been near impossible to find good players for my small static that are wanting to raid just to have fun and not take it too seriously, I do have one major question. How exactly would you implement the area as "raiders only"? Auto-kick afk players won't help that, and if it's cross-server and has a MB and Retainer Bell, then a significant chunk of the players in the game will go there simply because they can, thus multiplying the problem stated by "o3o" above. Particularly if you're allowing players to gather there to look for members, and not just go directly into raids. Any methods I can think of that would discourage non-raiding players from entering the area would also discourage raiding players from being there unless they were just about to go into a raid, including players that are searching to fill a static, but don't get players right away. Again, I like the idea greatly, but I just don't think it would realistically work.....

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There will be some barriers to that.

1. Communication. Cross Server Party Chat

2. You cannot see party members in the party list unless they are in the same map as you. So when someone is in a another server, how would you see them? You can see players in the party list when they're not on the same map as you, you just can't actively see their stats, class, ect. And even the class and location you can see when looking at the actual party list from the menu.....

3. Continuing from 2, for raids such as AS, every party member needs to be in the same map to enter. How would one know if everyone is there if everyone was on different servers? Remove that restriction, (I see no real reason for such a thing to exist anyhow), and again, you can see player location from the in menu party list.....

4. This would create a lot of stress on server loads since it would mean to send various information all over the place. I agree it would, but likely not as much as you would think since it is contained within the same data center. We don't have issues as is communicating with other players on the same data center we meet in the DF do we?

5. That's why DF exists, to simplify all of this into a single instance for cross-server play. Except for the fact that for raids and the EX primals, DF isn't an option until they nerf it latter on, (if even then).

[Azazua_azura]

why not do what ppl in ff11 did, make a raid LS. Set up events on the lodestone. why have just a static of 8-24-48 why not just make a LS dedicated to raiding. Or if u up for it. Make a FC dedicated to raiding as that is an option on the fc tags. I don't why ppl just make a small static when they can have a much bigger pool of ppl to do this content with -shruigs- So when ppl are out or family stuff comes up you have someone who can fill in.

I'm all for options, but from my experience these servers don't end well. TRhats what LS/and FC are suppose to be about finding like minded people to play with.

[Apoptic]

I think the problem is less that there aren't enough places to find the people looking to raid, and more a problem of people not wanting to raid because they don't value rewards they currently receive from doing so. People can already go to Idyllshire and spam shout all day; but if there isn't anyone interested in doing the content it's kind of pointless.

You are messing up something you were successful at previously Square. Fix gaem plz.

[Sylkis]

Can just use the coil/alexS lobby room as a cross server instance as a starting point (the one you go into after finishing)

[OmegaFlare]

I would very much welcome this idea if it is possible to be implemented. On my server, there's still only one group that has cleared A3S as of now. In such a casual server like mine, it is almost impossible to find a good raid group. Then when you do land in one and the group has to replace someone, it's really hard to find a good replacement so it holds back the entire raid group. Needless to say, it becomes very difficult to progress in a casual server. Having a dedicated server for each data center for raiding only would allow everyone in the data center to access a much larger pool of raiders. Hence making it much easier to find or replace people. It would make the raiding experience much more enjoyable. As of now, I only log in a few days a week to raid and if that is taken away from me, I have no use for playing this game any longer.

[Jim_Berry]

*SNIP*

A lot of servers are getting more casual players; new players playing this way or veterans slowing down. Might be a waste of server space if 100,000/4,000,000 legit people are there.

[Eul]

It's waste of resource