Different worlds community, how to know?

[Deerwalker]

I've been looking all around trying find (hopefully) a general listing of how each world's community is. For say, such'n'such world is primarily end gamers & elitists, but this'n'that is full of arsfarts & numbnuts. Trying to find a world that my wife n I will fit in and connect with without too many, you know. Though, I do understand that every world is gonna have that 1 (or more) guy! Any help, info, opinions and thoughts would be quite helpful. Thx.

Also, how's the housing situation on your servers? Fairly nice turnover or "good luck gettin a place"?

[MaethusXion]

Aside from the "unofficials", ie Balmung (and I wanna say Gilgamesh) being the unofficial RP server(s), and there was a thread not too long ago about the unofficial SE Asia and Oceania server, there's no general listing of what type of community there is on each server. At least not to my knowledge...

[Deerwalker]

Thank you for all the info everyone. I really appreciate all your thoughts and views.

[Jetstream_Fox]

Jenova is very hard to classify, we have very little raiders, elitist here and there, farm groups almost all times of the day, some rp, nice chuck of solo players, very little crafters and gatherers. It's not a very helpful server in my book, everyone wants Gil for helping one another, we've had a few people that were very helpful and wanted the community to grow but they couldn't put a dent into the world. I guess it's more a make it what you want kinda server, if I didn't own a house with two friends, I'd of paid to leave this server as my alts on other servers have turned out to be much better experiences.

[CGMidlander]

Jenova is very hard to classify, we have very little raiders, elitist here and there, farm groups almost all times of the day, some rp, nice chuck of solo players, very little crafters and gatherers. It's not a very helpful server in my book, everyone wants Gil for helping one another, we've had a few people that were very helpful and wanted the community to grow but they couldn't put a dent into the world. I guess it's more a make it what you want kinda server, if I didn't own a house with two friends, I'd of paid to leave this server as my alts on other servers have turned out to be much better experiences.

There aren't very many raiders, but there is decent gatherer activity. As for crafters, the ones that do exist are generally quite accommodating if you talk to them. (And you probably should, since their MB listing prices are pretty bad.)

I'm not sure what you mean by "everyone wants gil for helping one another" when there hasn't been any run sales in months (Speaking as a run seller here, the demand has been pretty dry; the last sale run I've been in was for A1S back in January. Demand is dry because PF parties are more popular, albeit with varying success rates.) and there are people offering free melds in the PF every day. Nobody's charging for help in the Novice Network either. Can you clarify your statement?

[NorthernLadMSP]

Jenova is very hard to classify, we have very little raiders, elitist here and there, farm groups almost all times of the day, some rp, nice chuck of solo players, very little crafters and gatherers. It's not a very helpful server in my book, everyone wants Gil for helping one another, we've had a few people that were very helpful and wanted the community to grow but they couldn't put a dent into the world.

That's kinda sad. When I moved to Gilgamesh, I was fully expecting this, but I have honestly found a lot of the opposite. There's people all over that are helpful just for the sake of being helpful. There's always crafters in PF offering free melds for others who don't have crafters leveled. In addition, I've met some awesome people that have helped me by crafting items that are beyond my stat level, and never demanded huge amounts of gil for their time. These are the people that I go out of my way to tip very, very nicely.

[Averax]

That's kinda sad. When I moved to Gilgamesh, I was fully expecting this, but I have honestly found a lot of the opposite. There's people all over that are helpful just for the sake of being helpful. There's always crafters in PF offering free melds for others who don't have crafters leveled. In addition, I've met some awesome people that have helped me by crafting items that are beyond my stat level, and never demanded huge amounts of gil for their time. These are the people that I go out of my way to tip very, very nicely.

I really need to get on that server, Coeurl is like 4th from the bottom in terms of population, and we don't do much other than bird farms. I like my FC mates too much to leave em though.

[Anienai]

Balmung is an unofficial RP server. Exodus is the unofficial dead server.

[Ovenmitts]

As a denizen of Coeurl, I can tell you with a straight face that we are pretty far removed from hardcore. There are a few out there that do progression, but mostly we are the pony and BURB farmers that like to have a good time.

[Kacho_Nacho]

As a denizen of Coeurl, I can tell you with a straight face that we are pretty far removed from hardcore. There are a few out there that do progression, but mostly we are the pony and BURB farmers that like to have a good time.

Very true. Coeurl is a wonderfully, laid back server full of nice people. Sort of a Key Largo-like server.