Suggestion: Turn Balmung into an Official RP Server

[3Bears1Goldy]

Labeling RP a server that isn't the one where the overwhelming majority of the RP community already resides (and will always reside) actually achieves the opposite effect of fragmenting the RP community and the roleplay.

A very good point. But I suppose still having a server with the 'RP' tag would help with the newer roleplayers that may be joining the game but cannot roll on Balmung for the foreseeable future. Rather than having them spreading out across additional servers, at least having them focus on one additional server that is open for character transfers and character creation is better than being spread out across all the other servers.

[Abriael]

A very good point. But I suppose still having a server with the 'RP' tag would help with the newer roleplayers that may be joining the game but cannot roll on Balmung for the foreseeable future. Rather than having them spreading out across additional servers, at least having them focus on one additional server that is open for character transfers and character creation is better than being spread out across all the other servers.

It possibly would, but I don't really expect a massive influx of new players to come with Stormblood. FFXIV is a mature game, and realistically most of the people interested in playing it, already did at some point. It will bring back a lot of lapsed players that are already on their server of choice.

The point is that by incentivizing (in a tangible and realistic way, not with a thank you and a pat on the back) non-roleplayers to move off Balmung, and using Balmung as what it already is officially, there is the possibility to lighten the load enough to reopen Balmung itself to new roleplayers, keeping the community together, which is IMHO desirable.

But like many have already said, you aren't going to get PvErs to just up and transfers off Balmung with a RP label.

No you're not. Hence the point that it would have to be associated with tangible incentives. Because if those don't come, no one (in numbers sizable enough to make a dent on the problem) will move at all anyway.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

No you're not. Hence the point that it would have to be associated with tangible incentives. Because if those don't come, no one (in numbers sizable enough to make a dent on the problem) will move at all anyway.

Okay. Tell us what you'll offer them. If the supposed free game time and EXP gains SE plans to implement on smaller servers aren't enough. What else can you offer that will incentive either of the two FCs I mentioned to leave?