Split Balmung into 2 separate servers

[Arutan]

Back in 1.0 there were several server mergers. A lot of the servers we have now didn't exist by the names they have now. The original server I was on was Rabanastre which got turned into Durandal and then Durandal got split in half to form Hyperion.

I was just thinking of the merge of an FFIV city with an FFX city to make a weapon.

[birdy_reene]

they clearly don't seem to care about how their servers arnt allowing people to connect and the que times for logging in on large servers sucks, the servers ability to allow people to stay connected sucks, instance servers suck. They need more backbone servers for sure, as far as congested worlds, their PR is so bad right now, I wouldn't be shocked If they tried the united airlines method, if you don't wanna leave a overbooked server, draw a lottery and throw random people onto less populated ones. XD

[Lexia]

How about anyone that joined or transferred to Balmung after certain time are the ones the get split to a different server.

[KisaiTenshi]

There is no way for a server split to work without extreme customer backlash. If people couldn't handle two days of Raubhan savage and Pipin extreme, gods help ya if you try to force a move on them. That said, it's a shame that this is the case. A forced split from the existing serfvers--essentially social dynamite--is the only way I think we have hope of seeing any real improvement.

1. Message all players who have characters on the servers that are to be terminated both via e-mail, on mogstation and in game.

2. Give 30 / 60 / 90 days for them to select where to transfer their character(s) among a selection of pre-determined worlds. This would give people time to plan for the move and would hopefully help large communities not get shattered.

3. Offer some form of compensation or transfer for things like housing, apartments, airships, etc.

4. Grant all players who actively take part in the move--i.e. selecting a new world for their character(s) with worthwhile compensation for positively and actively taking part in resolving this problem.

6. Move unclaimed / unselected characters to whichever world SE desires since their player did not actively choose to take responsibility for them.

...And there you have it. The huge servers are dispersed, people have enough time to sort things with friends / fc / community, people get compensated for the annoyances of these actions and rewarded for actively taking part.

Yeah, that wouldn't work. Certain servers are considered "official" by outside communities. Gilgamesh for example is reddits' official server unless you're on legacy, than it's Balmung.

So splitting them up won't happen, as one server will get designated official by the community again, and thus nothing gets solved.

The better solution is to just offer a bigger carrot and don't allow character creation, housing, new retainers or FC's until congestion goes down. Literately SE can reach out to the largest FC's and ask them if they want to move and give some benefits to them for volunteering to do so. Have all the characters in that FC, their accounts, and their retainers on that server get moved in one shot if the FC members confirm being moved. If they don't confirm, they get dropped from the FC.

But short of that, any solution that is involuntary is going just result in backlash. The last thing you want is SE to just to arbitrarily divide the server by giving everyone a number, either a "1" or a "2" and let them freely trade 1's and 2's for 7 days before anyone holding a "1" gets dropped onto the new server, and anyone holding a "2" is left behind. Lose the ticket and you get sent to whichever one is needed to make up the balance.

[MistakeNot]

How about anyone that joined or transferred to Balmung after certain time are the ones the get split to a different server.

How about no? That is a bad idea. As is all other variants of forced server-splits.

[Hyperia]

As long as there are free transfers, the super long queue times will do the job on their own. The problem will resolve itself when those who do not want to wait leave for another server.

[Lexia]

How about no? That is a bad idea. As is all other variants of forced server-splits.

How about people shut up and deal with the queue, while SE did allow this too long it the player base that created the problem.

[CrystalRainbow]

I would think they just need Free transfer away from Balmung and Gilgamesh Same with the over populated JP servers. Then depending on which server they move to give them 1-2 Months Free.

IE if someone on Balmung moves to the lowest 2 populated servers give a person transferring 2 months free along with a free transfer away. If they move to 3-4 least populated server 1 months free. If they move to any other server no free months just free transfer away.

I think that is the only way you will get enough people to make a move to make a difference.

Also, my wife doesn't care she is in the hospital with 2 broken legs, will October in which case all this craziness will be over with. On that note in this time I am playing and will get a head of her which means I'm not in a supper big rush to do, so the queue don't bug me but not being able to do the 1st instance in SB was a little bit of an issue.

[Dezee]

Was SEnix offering a guild move like seriously who cares what world you are on as long as you have your friends to play with that's all that matters I say wait to see if they offer the guild move and if they are just do that people.

The guild transfer should be free if you wanna go solo just pay everyone knew what it was before SB launched.

[Noahlimits]

How about anyone that joined or transferred to Balmung after certain time are the ones the get split to a different server.

So people who paid money to transfer should get the boot? Wut?