Different worlds community, how to know?

[sarehptar]

lol @ the people on this thread selling Coeurl as a bird and pony farm server... Please spare me some of your luck if you haven't come across the infamous "Coeurl farm," in which everyone in the party confirms they have the fight on farm... and then 80% of them die to the first mechanic--repeat until enough time has passed to vote abandon. Every time I see a "Ravana birb farm" in the PF, my first thought is "How willing am I to wipe due to others today?"

Coeurl, to me at least, seems divided pretty strongly between the raiders and everyone else: if you have a decent static on Coeurl, you can raid here as well and happily as on any server, but for new people coming here, getting into a good, dedicated group is extremely difficult. Casual players can definitely enjoy Coeurl (there's a strong "we'll get there eventually" mentality), but this server is very hard on middle-of-the-road players, which is where I'd put myself and most of my FC: good enough to progress, but not driven enough to become hardcore raiders; there aren't many options for this group on Coeurl. Trying to PF PUG one or two people to flesh out a raid party is almost always disastrous or your party may take hours to fill, and the population of the server is very low, so forming new groups and convincing really good new players to stick around is nightmarish.

Coeurl's economy is hideous as well, mostly due to the fact that the population is so low, the number of master crafters we have is equally low and supply can't keep up with demand. I hope you like sinking 5+ million into one phase of your new relic... I also suspect there are a crap ton of people on this server buying gil (judging by the literally relentless RMTs), causing further inflation.

Of course, because the population is low, there is some housing available. Mansions are hard to come by (only one available currently, at 55-ish mil, and it will be gone before it hits 45 mil) but there are some medium and small houses still available, at least one in each area, I would say. I would not suggest moving to Coeurl just for housing though. Not worth.

People are generally nice here, but not really nicer than any other given server? I think if you put in the effort, you can probably make good friends with like-minded people on any server you go to.

My summary of Coeurl is basically: "Well, I'm sure there's a worse server... somewhere..." Like someone else said, the primary thought process often boils down to "I should go somewhere else... but I like my FC too much."

You can have a positive experience on Coeurl (I do, most days)--but you could likely have a better experience elsewhere.

[LadyVal]

Your assumption is correct as far as I know. All plots are taken. Will just have to dig a bit more n hope I end up with a housing transaction on my next server in the not too far future . Speaking of, ? to all. Anyone know what the rough selling price would be for a furnished small house with a rank 8 FC, rank 36 airship and most of everything else common that would be with it?

The price for selling that roughly works out to... an official warning on your account or a ban.

[Melixy]

anyone got Input on Leviathan? I'm thinking of transferring there maybe, I'm stuck on Behemoth atm

I'm on Leviathan right now, and thus far I've had a good time here. I transferred here right before 3.2. There seems to be a good blend here-- I see people advertising for endgame statics almost 24/7 as well as just fun stuff like birb farms. I know people have had issues making new characters because of how many people are transferring. A lot of people in my FC/LSes are not native to the server, but have transferred as well to do endgame content (not necessarily hardcore either). Housing is pretty booked-- didn't see any free lots the last time I checked. Lemme know if you transfer here!

Siren-- I was on Siren for over a year. It has changed a lot since I transferred there. Originally, it had quite a bit of an endgame scene-- like 4-5 really hardcore FCs that all were impressive in size and people pugging Coil clears each week (with success, too). Over the last year, though, it's dwindled down in population and activity. PF usually has about 7 advertisements at most. There's a lot of casual players there, and a substantial RP community. Not much endgame left except a very small community.

Midgardsormr-- I was on Midgard for a few months before I transferred to Siren. I can't say much about the community because at the time, I was still a fairly shy player and didn't talk much. From what I experienced, you could pug things like SCoB (back when it was the newest raid) pretty easily early in the week. There seemed to be more of a push for raiding there, but that was at least 2 years ago now, so Idk how it is now.

[Aivi_lo]

Hyperion is quite nice. Hard to find capable end game pf groups and nearly impossible to find a house (you have to be really lucky) however it's quite friendly and doesn't feel empty