Selecting World on Recruit Friend

[Merisah]

Hello

Can someone please explain why after I have accepted a recruit a friend request I cannot pick the world my friends play on?

Is the point of recruit a friend not to allow this?

Now I cannot join them.

Please help.

Looking at Cerebus, Chaos

[EveK]

Welcome to Eorzea!

The Recruit a Friend campaign is completely separate from the actual character creation process; it does not grant any special privilege to bypass character creation restrictions on any particular world.

You can keep trying to create a character on the desired world, especially during off peak times. Or you can use the paid transfer feature once your character is at least three days old.

[Teiren]

The character creation restrictions update frequently as shown here, http://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...23e07acb3d22f6. I recommend you to ask your friend to also check for you when Cerberus opens. Coincidentally, it's open at the time of this post.

[Merisah]

Many Thanks for the advice.

see you around

[Niwashi]

The character creation restriction is fairly simplistic in that it just looks at how many players are currently logged in on the world you're attempting to join, and if that's above some threshold, then you can't create a new character there. Since that's continually changing as people log in and out, the restriction can start or stop at any time, but picking a low-traffic time (like early morning weekdays) gives you a better chance than trying during peak hours.

(I've heard that Balmung is so overcrowded that this doesn't work there anymore. It's basically always full at any hour of the day or night. But I think any other server should still open up periodically. So a bit of persistence should be able to get you a character on Cerberus.)

[LunaFaye]

(I've heard that Balmung is so overcrowded that this doesn't work there anymore. It's basically always full at any hour of the day or night. But I think any other server should still open up periodically. So a bit of persistence should be able to get you a character on Cerberus.)

That's true on weekends and reset day (monday night/tuesday mornings without maintenance) but other than that, you can mostly create a character on balmung between 2:30 - 5 am PDT during the week without any problems.