Character Creation Restrictions

[Gotsugo]

Servers can handle retrospectively infinite amounts of players than the character creation allows. It feels like character creation is locks when there are 2K players but on the Heavensward launch week the servers could handle 150K+ players per server. That seems like a meaningless mechanic.

But my biggest problem is this. http://i.imgur.com/hIvstSL.png

Every time the creation restriction lifts spam bots take all of the space immediately.

If the restriction is made to stop these bots the system isn't good enough, and since they can just flood in it only stops players from joining servers or making alts. And worst case scenario forces new players to pay $18 to join the populated servers with their friends.

[Gotsugo]

Square Enix needs to find a better way to stop gil-bots and let players be free to make characters on whatever server they want. With 300K dailyplayers each paying $15 a month the FFXIV technical staff SE for more funding to get security against bots. Or a small group of people that can handle a "Spam Bot" report ticket the second they pop in.

[Knahli]

I thought they should give experienced players the ability to "mark" suspected bots. I mean, since the game doesn't seem to be doing any specific checks to detect illicit behaviour with great success, I figured that it would be less strenuous on the servers if players could basically report a targeted PC at the click of a button, and once the count reaches a significant amount(let's say 10), then the server can use more strict detection procedures at more frequent intervals on the reported target and surely pick up the fact they are bots. People who successfully report bots whom are later banned can be awarded more trust and permitted to report targets more frequently and have their reports account for more than just a single tick.

That was just my random idea though. I certainly dislike seeing it too and it put me through a lot of hardship since I am an alt-aholic with eight characters on Balmung(and sincerely hoping I may one day be able to make more if they lift the 8 character limit), but at the same time I can understand their desire to want to more evenly distribute the player base across the more sparsely-populated servers.

[Gotsugo]

I thought they should give experienced players the ability to "mark" suspected bots. I mean, since the game doesn't seem to be doing any specific checks to detect illicit behaviour with great success.

Flagging bots is just one way to stop them from roaming around, the issue is still that they force SE to bottleneck the players allowed to enter a server at a time and bots instantly fill the new slots available, which makes it tough for alts or new players to get in and play where they want. I did think of either a system where you queue up a character to be entered into the server eventually or that games recently purchased can get a free server transfer within the first few weeks to help new players get onto the servers with their friends.

[Kotosar]

If they were to lock the ability to send/receive /tell's for the free trial that would greatly reduce the number IMO.

[KingXRay]

If they were to lock the ability to send/receive /tell's for the free trial that would greatly reduce the number IMO.

free trials already cant use those since release