Lodestone: Preventing Congestion on High Population Worlds

[Braggaman]

My friend was going to transfer to Balmung after the maintenance. I guess we can't play together now?

[magnanimousCynic]

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Unfortunately no, but honestly Balmung, and Gilgamesh to a lesser degree, needed a transfer lock for a long time. They're too big for their own good.

[savageink]

My friend was going to transfer to Balmung after the maintenance. I guess we can't play together now?

Come to Mal....we have pie.

[Braggaman]

Come to Mal....we have pie.

I have a lot of friends on Balmung. We have events planned out for the next several months... We were even planning something to welcome my friend. ; ;

[Zaine_Lionheart]

My friend was going to transfer to Balmung after the maintenance. I guess we can't play together now?

This isnt to poor salt on the wound, however you joined a year ago o_o why wait till now to move if you had so many friends over there? I mean Ive seen this in a few places people upset they cant move NOW when they really should have done so much sooner if they really wanted to do so.

[Shougun]

All of this reads excellently, like I was thinking about clapping to myself like an idiot.

Unfortunately due to the nature that draws people to Balmung it'll probably always have housing issues and for other reasons (creative control/limit capacity) I'll probably still cry and beg for instanced forms ala WS/EQ/Rift/GW2/WoW but.. all of this still looks great regardless. I like the mindfulness with reward to move and compensations.

Seriously SE, if you have to do these provision shouldn't you offer free world transfer from high to low worlds on Gaia, Aether, and Mana data centers?

Now I may be interpreting this wrong but I don't think it's just EU stuff, the notice is just put w/ EU stuff. At least to me it reads there will be a list of servers that will reward you if you transfer to them and they could have easily said EU servers but they didn't - rather they said "Designated Servers". To me this means that some server like Balmung or Gilgamesh will definitely not be a free transfer/reward server, but perhaps other servers on Aether, Mana, and Gaia would be (for "Improvements to Population Distribution").

[magnanimousCynic]

I do wish that Aether also got the free transfers from high pop servers to low pop servers. It feels like 50% of Aether players are basically on Balmung/Gilgamesh. We're home to some of the emptiest servers like Mateus, which may not actually exist according to player-made censuses.

[Hasrat]

We're home to some of the emptiest servers like Mateus, which may not actually exist according to player-made censuses.

It actually feels a lot more populated than when I first started, in my opinion.

Which isn't saying a whole lot. But it is a little harder to go long without seeing anyone.

[Hasrat]

From the sound of it though, these restrictions are only going into place in June. So, get those transfers in now?