[Balmung] Server Issues, safety, and overcrowding

[Bourne_Endeavor]

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What incentive is there for Balmung players to transfer? Even setting aside the fee, you'll potentially lose gil and your house all to move to another server without a fraction of the population. Although I actually do RP on occasion, it's the sheer social interaction that keeps me on heavily populated servers. The only other one I'd consider is Gilgamesh-- the second larger server. I don't want to be passing through major cities in-game only to scarcely bump into anyone. And what issues does Balmung have over Greg? Both are fairly close in population. The only difference is their respective mentalities. Nevertheless, SE has no real way of forcing people into lower pop servers. If they did close Balmung and Gilgamesh, it restricts people from those servers convincing friends to play.

I have to say to this there are a lot of social problems on Balmung. I for one have experienced them myself in the form of people judging me based on my personal beliefs and worse by heresay.

And on Gilgamesh, you would be judged on your FFlog parses. Larger communities simply attract those kinds of people. Due to its social and RP appeal, Balmung has more than a few from tumblr, which brings in its own... opinions to put things politely. You're always going to have someone judge you for superficial things. It just seems more commonplace on Balmung because the server population is massive compared to one half.

[Rokke]

Gilgamesh is a highly populated server too, but it somehow manages to exist without the issues that Balmung has.

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Buying a house on Gilgamesh is difficult. Longer lockout times are making getting a character on Gilgamesh more difficult. I don't really do hunts on my alts, but I'm sure they drop quickly too.

You trade erp drama for raiding drama I guess, but overall I see the same problems on a slightly smaller scale.

[Grimmel]

What incentive is there for Balmung players to transfer? Even setting aside the fee, you'll potentially lose gil and your house all to move to another server without a fraction of the population.

There is incentive. If free transfers became available to low pop servers off of Balmung, If you get your entire FC to transfer to a low pop server that has multitudes of housing available and a decent economy, you can buy up stock on balmung and sell on your new server and be able to purchase back that house you had. It's not rocket science.

[Bixillarla]

T rating is just for the game content done by Square Enix not the online ineteractions with players. For online games there is always the caveat that online interactions are not rated. You cannot control what people do online in a MMO.

[Kosmos992k]

T rating is just for the game content done by Square Enix not the online ineteractions with players. For online games there is always the caveat that online interactions are not rated. You cannot control what people do online in a MMO.

You can control the content of public chat channels, as Grimmel pointed out, explicit and obscene content in public chat is highly reportable by anyone who feels offended or harassed by such stuff. RP is perfectly fine, anything goes - among consenting adults - so to speak. but when you use a public chat channel, there is no consent given by others, and any RP is potentially imposing on others. Explicit and/or obscene talk needs to be kept to party, FC (within FC rules) or LS chat streams, not public chat. People should report this kind of behavior, imposing your RP on others in such a manner will no doubt earn the RP community in general and quite possibly the server itself, a poor reputation.

[TaranTatsuuchi]

I really wish it were possible to freely move between servers. I came to Balmung (originally Besaid) as I liked the RP community. However, I also want to be able to play with newer friends who join the game. Sure I can have them join another Aether data center world and do cross-server PF with them, but it'd be nice to be in an FC or linkshell with them, help them with crafting, or even just hang out in the world.

There's been a suggestion before...

If someone uses your recruit a friend code, they could be allowed to create a character on the same server as yours regardless of normal restrictions...



While it doesn't solve all the problems, and possibly creates some of its own, there it is.

[LunarEmerald]

There's been a suggestion before...

If someone uses your recruit a friend code, they could be allowed to create a character on the same server as yours regardless of normal restrictions...



While it doesn't solve all the problems, and possibly creates some of its own, there it is.

This is a terrible idea and would only serve to bloat specific servers even more.

[Celef]

You can control the content of public chat channels, as Grimmel pointed out, explicit and obscene content in public chat is highly reportable by anyone who feels offended or harassed by such stuff.

Yep and nop, as stated on other threads, GM won't do anything if you report content on public tchat cause your not the one targeted :/

[Kosmos992k]

Yep and nop, as stated on other threads, GM won't do anything if you report content on public tchat cause your not the one targeted :/

Yep and nope, as far as I know, GMs can and should act on such complaints, but it's an area where they apply their own judgement to the situation. I think I am right in saying that strictly speaking, abusing a public chat channel to the extent that other players must block that channel is interfering with their play and can be acted upon. But as you say, it may not be acted upon, depending on the GM's judgement. IIRC though, the terms and conditions of service we all agree to layout the grounds that a GM could use to take action, even if it is merely a word of warning to the folks needlessly imposing their RP on others.

[Urthdigger]

I really wish it were possible to freely move between servers. I came to Balmung (originally Besaid) as I liked the RP community. However, I also want to be able to play with newer friends who join the game. Sure I can have them join another Aether data center world and do cross-server PF with them, but it'd be nice to be in an FC or linkshell with them, help them with crafting, or even just hang out in the world.