Please be Careful about the Labels used during Server Transfer

[MicahZerrshia]

Perhaps in order to counteract the lag issues, Yoshi-P is thinking about giving the servers physical locations in NA and the EU as well as JP.

It would certainly help EU and NA players to know which servers are closest to them when choosing.

It would be nice to have servers that we located outside Japan, other games have them. Maybe its a cost thing or maybe there is some other reason they dont do it but it something they should consider more strongly. As for the diversified servers idc which way they go, I frankly have no issues with ppl from other areas. Less server lag would be nice but you become accustomed to the extra challance it can bring.

The only good thing is that there would be less need of asking ppl to use auto-trans and frankly it would be easier to get groups. Yrs of xi taught me well that alot of jp players tend to not want to play with non-jp players and when you have a high jp population it makes it tough at times, esp when you are just starting out. We havent really had this issue yet in xiv but I attribute that to the low population, take what you can get, sort of thing. No disrespect of course it was just an issue in xi for alot of eng speaking players. I couldnt imagine how bad it would be for french or german speakers if they had very little english skills.

[Rubicon]

Perhaps in order to counteract the lag issues, Yoshi-P is thinking about giving the servers physical locations in NA and the EU as well as JP.

It would certainly help EU and NA players to know which servers are closest to them when choosing.

THIS. It doesn't need to be segregated by language but by ping. It somewhat kills two birds with one stone and then quell the inevitable "The Japanese got my pop cause their latency is less than mine!!".

[NamudNevets]

I was rly hoping for a merge and not a transfer....... I hope i can get my LS to join the same server as we have PPL from all over the world. This is going to destroy many LSs but i guess what has to b done will b done.

[ninesunz]

SE should try balance the regional IPs for each server.
For instance balance the server with 33%JP 33%NA 33%EU with max players at 2,000. Which would give prime time for said region about 660 players.

When transferring suggest the server the player should transfer to to balance the number, but allow the player to choose any server regardless.

This way the servers will have players at all times of the day without too much dead time. (loading a server with 70% EU players would impact non EU players on said server)

This would protect the server from being language dependent or time zone dependent.

[Answa]

Besaid is a server. It has JP, NA, and EU players. Questions?

[Maxthunder]

What SE needs to do is for now do a forced merger. Players should not that the choice of what server they want to go to. Even when 2.0 comes how SE needs to go back to letting the servers choose what world you will be on. What people dont understand is if it is 1 region that is on that server is that the peak time will be same time everyday vs a global server peak times will vary, and there will always be players to play w no matter the time you come on. Also if SE segragates the servers what dose that actually tell players? I enjoy playing with everyone from all over and to me this option is bad idea. Leave all servers global, do not give players the choice of servers as of yet, that is something best left till the game is a few years old. Take low population servers merge them to one server again no choices. If players still want to go to another server charge them a fee to do this.

[Toxsik]

Yeah NO Server Labels.

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My only concern with server merging is that after 1.19 US prime-time hours were unplayable to me because of ridiculous server lag. Maybe increase server capacity. Example server capacity is 4000 only allow 3500 players on that server would make it way better. (numbers are just for example to show a definite ratio)

[GreyJorildyn]

This thread is a joke right?

Servers should be organized into regions by timezone. There should be servers slotted for JST, GMT, EST, PST, and any other popular ones. This would have the effect of also removing some of the language barrier issues that currently exist.

You can't find players in your timezone all the time because no server encourages people from a certain timezone to create characters there.

This is the same problem the rest of the game's progression aspects have. No direction for new players. They're simply left in the dark about what the difference between Besaid and Figaro server is. If you were a new player trying this game out now, wouldn't you want to know where the most people in your timezone are server-wise? If you answer "no" to this question, you're either in denial or a SE-white knight.

[Xenor]

I wish Yoshi would make another announcement on the matter.