Quote Originally Posted by Yarukiba View Post
Hello,

It's just about Omega and the transfers being locked ; why ? Why transfers but not creation ? What is the point ?

This is the part that I don't understand, why is it possible to create a new character when you can't transfer other characters from another server ?
It just doesn't make any sense (in my eyes). I did create a character on Omega and there is a load of new players everywhere, so it's not "lacking" newbies, even older servers are actually lacking new players way more.
I keep waiting without any idea of when I will be able to move and not understanding why I should be forced to create a new character, start from scratches all over again, when I already have a character I've been playing with for more than 3 years.
The only server facing a similar situation is Balmung, but Balmung is waaay more populated (And you could not create, you could only transfer, for a very long time)
They stopped transfers to Omega because the server was filling up very quickly, almost to the point of being declared congested.
Several servers (not only Balmung) are officially congested, which means you cannot transfer to them, and you cannot create new characters there.

All servers can be temporarily closed for character creation if there are too many logged in there at once - this is done in a dynamic way and the status can change at any time. What used to be special about Balmung was that it was closed in this manner almost all the time.


The real interesting question is: Why have transfers to Omega not yet opened up again? It is no longer considered a new world and thus there is less incentive to transfer to it.
The answer is likely based on the active population, but since we do not have the actual numbers we can only guess.