Balmung and Gilgamesh Crisis

[DamianFatale]

We need to do the thing that nobody wants to do, and we need to talk about it. The server is breaking, and it will probably repeat itself in 5.0 early access, which is probably a few years from now. We have a choice to sit here, suffer, make our excuses, or to voluntarily adjust the congestion ourselves. Excuses such as " I love my friends, and I won't leave them." "How will I roleplay?" "I can't leave, because my free company is here." "I don't want to lose my house." do not matter. The servers in this game were not meant to handle the amount of people that we have. We're playing in a way the developers did not have in mind, and that is the truth. No we don't need server upgrades. We already have several servers that we could be populating, and we didn't. This is our fault. Everything that's happening is our fault. We doomed ourselves, and we're acting selfishly. Instead of caring about the playerbase, we care more about property, when we could move it somewhere else.

[Sayora]

They should've locked it a long time ago then if it's so terribly overburdened. No, locking character creation doesn't work when you can easily just bypass it with a transfer because it should've been locked down awhile ago entirely.

[Rita1989]

What are you talking about the server is fine besides instances which are broken on both Aether and Primal so cant say its our problem.

[Oxmodial]

One thing I've mentioned in-game is that right now there are multiple other servers on NA that are putting an equal load on the servers. The servers all have a max capacity and currently there's a lot of other servers with the exact same amount of players actually logged in. Gilgamesh queue could be 5k but that's just people waiting in a queue. I'm on Cactuar and our queue is 1k atm. Cactuar and Gilgamesh in that sense are putting equal stress on the servers.

I feel like people just want to find any reason to complain about gilgamesh and balmung at this point #deletebalmung

[Rysskoen]

While I do agree Balmung needs to depopulate, you need to keep in mind that the current issues that Aether is having is center-wide. Regardless of Balmung/Gilg, all servers are having the congestion issues, and facing queue times. It's just the worst on Balmung/Gilg for the obvious reason.

That being said, people have /invested/ in those servers and it's unreasonable to expect them to give up their hard work on their airships, their fc houses, their friendships, etc. If it were easy to just disregard those things or there were work arounds, I guarantee you no one on balmung/gilg would be dealing with the queues and would leave. But there is no "FC/House" transfer, and it's a giant pain in the ass to reform.

[Tobuay]

The servers in this game were not meant to handle the amount of people that we have. We're playing in a way the developers did not have in mind, and that is the truth. No we don't neee server upgrades. We already have several servers that we could be populating, and we didn't. This is our fault.

I agree to a point... though your logic is flawed as SE is currently controlling server Balmung and Gilgamesh by preventing new character creation. So point being they could have restricted new characters sooner. just saying

[Tillie]

This is our fault. Everything that's happening is our fault.

they literally watched thousands upon thousands of people drop 18 bucks to transfer into balmung until it became out of control, and only then did they put a transfer restriction up lmao

I'm not saying s.e. is the devil and that we should curse the grandchildren of the devs, but I'm not going to lick the damn ground they tread either.

[DamianFatale]

I agree to a point... though your logic is flawed as SE is currently controlling server Balmung and Gilgamesh by preventing new character creation. So point being they could have restricted new characters sooner. just saying

As if that worked. They're only cleaning up after our mess, which we made.

[Ryel]

We have a choice to sit here, suffer, make our excuses, or to voluntarily adjust the congestion ourselves. Excuses such as " I love my friends, and I won't leave them." "How will I roleplay?" "I can't leave, because my free company is here." "I don't want to lose my house." do not matter.

We doomed ourselves, and we're acting selfishly. Instead of caring about the playerbase, we care more about property, when we could move it somewhere else.

You first.

[StarRosie]

I do have to agree up to a point, I am not really upset about the bottleneck and such, it's the fact that each time I DC when trying to do a job quest or something, I gotta sit through a nearly 4k player queue to get back in to try again. I had enough time while sitting in queue to take a nap today and watch an episode of Ultraman Tiga. I can't do this forever...specially on work nights.

On Balmung, we really are packed in like sardines and even my FC is waiting for the FC transfer details in order to do a mass exodus to a different server. Balmung has been good to me and I'll always have the memories. But I gotta move before the server stress causes a truly terrible bug or something...