Lodestone census march 2017

[NolLacnala]

o.O

I'm playing on Balmung from germany and only have 130-150... wtf?

Servers are currently located in Montreal, to serve both NA and EU originally. Having moved EU servers to an EU based datacenter, NA still suffers awful latency due to location. When they move the datacenter, our connectivity will improve drastically, while yours will jump to 500+

Edit: Also, lol@Cactuar, I thought this was a midcore server

[Zojha]

Servers are currently located in Montreal, to serve both NA and EU originally.

Well yes - I'm just saying it's 6k kilometres away, from where are people connecting to get 500+ MS? Even New Zealand over in Australia is only 14k kilometres away and should proportionally offer around 300-400 MS.

Actually I just tried - I can connect to Sydney at around 300 MS latency, that's 16k kilometres distance! Gee, I'm inclined to believe the routing horror stories in the US net now.

[thegreatonemal]

NA/EU servers tend to relies on statics to do anything which means you have to find 8 people who play the roles and set aside a few hours a week to meet with em which creates the hardest part of raiding getting into the raid. JP servers are able to pug for the most part and unlike us who have like 4 different youtubers with 4 different starts and people who been in statics make up there own custom strats. so when all of that tries to pug it becomes a nightmare because no one is on the same page.

[Kit-Kat]

NA/EU servers tend to relies on statics to do anything which means you have to find 8 people who play the roles and set aside a few hours a week to meet with em which creates the hardest part of raiding getting into the raid. JP servers are able to pug for the most part and unlike us who have like 4 different youtubers with 4 different starts and people who been in statics make up there own custom strats. so when all of that tries to pug it becomes a nightmare because no one is on the same page.

Not only that, but the average NA/EU player are casual, raid rates will always be lower. There's nothing wrong with that but these statistics are not surprising lol.

[BigRed5392]

NA/EU servers tend to relies on statics to do anything which means you have to find 8 people who play the roles and set aside a few hours a week to meet with em which creates the hardest part of raiding getting into the raid. JP servers are able to pug for the most part and unlike us who have like 4 different youtubers with 4 different starts and people who been in statics make up there own custom strats. so when all of that tries to pug it becomes a nightmare because no one is on the same page.

jp does statics too. pf for practice df for clear is how they do things. and 24 man is set up where group b main tanks while a and c do adds/mechanics. for us we just do w.e and not that organised.

[bswpayton]

Judging from what I've seen from what the jp servers post compared to us is the have more of a community approach. Where as people use their raid clears here as a symbol of elitism. And I'm pretty sure everyone of there party finders don't have no bonus on them

[KarstenS]

And I'm pretty sure everyone of there party finders don't have no bonus on them

And the reason is: people join parties, that fit to them. No need to write "no bonus".

[Misutoraru]

Judging from what I've seen from what the jp servers post compared to us is the have more of a community approach. Where as people use their raid clears here as a symbol of elitism. And I'm pretty sure everyone of there party finders don't have no bonus on them

I came from JP center, now I m in EU center
I dont do raid much back in JP center, but I have to agree back in JP center the PF is slightly more newbie friendly, alot of practice groups and they are usually very patience
I try making practice in EU, but it usually took 30min+ to fill all role, and it usually disband after 2-3 wipe despite I clearly say it is practice group
I could not represent the whole EU/JP data center, but I would not disagree my experience in EU data center is abit discouraging in doing more raid

[loreleidiangelo]

Any values on the total number of active characters per region? Too lazy to maths right now.

[Zojha]

Any values on the total number of active characters per region? Too lazy to maths right now.

That would be this, I think. Can't offer a translation, but it looks like the statistics he usually does on active characters and MSQ progression.