Make FFXIV More Alt-Friendly... Please??????

[Miste]

No, this isn't a good ideaat all. If SE did this, how would you get yor Alt on Balmung, a server that is damn near perpetually locked against character creation?

Seriously how many thousand more semi-active characters canyou add on locked servers? If SE did allow this, theend result would be to make high population servers even more ridiculously hard to get on.

That's not how the server locking works.

The server locks based on the number of currently online players. Which is why some servers (like mine) unlock in the middle of the night like 1am-8am for example since very few EST/PST players are online late into the night. If you really wanna try and fix servers being locked go yell on Balmung forums for players to not leave their game on AFK for hours or while they sleep, but since it is such a high pop server even removing the AFK's may not open it up for creation idk.

So this semi-active characters thing you mention doesn't exist really, if they aren't actually online in-game on the server the locking mechanism doesn't take that player into account when locking servers.

I have all 8 character slots on my account on Excalibur but only when I am online on one of them am I contributing to the server lock number. Just having 8 there by itself does nothing if I am not currently online, and I can only be online on one of them at a time.