Petition to Lift Balmung Server Lock / Impact of Server Lock on FFXIV RP Community

[Nezerius]

Here's the thing: if they unlock balmung, it'll get swarmed with transfers and effectively have wasted the past year.

Unlocking Balmung doesn't necessarily mean that everything has to be unlocked. They can lock transfers, and limit character creation (like they already do on some of the other big servers).

And even then, unlocking it doesn't mean that everyone will swarm back to the server, considering that didn't happen when Gilgamesh was unlocked.

Except maybe the recent census that was just posted showing balmung at 22k active players. The closest server to that IIRC is 16k.(sure its not by SE, but if your "facts" are legit then so is the census"

Yea, im thinking balmung needs to stay locked.

You're looking at the wrong column in the recent census. The 22,562 numbers is from the previous census. The current top 5 is Balmung (21,507), Leviathan (19,250), Cactuar (18,339), Omega (17,863), and Louisoix (17,733).
However, if you look at the amount of characters at lvl 70, Balmung and Leviathan are even closer, at 12,857 to 12,031 characters.

If the net change stays the same, with Balmung losing just over 1k players between the most recent, and the previous census, it should probably be within range of a character creation unlock in the first half of 2018.

Someone Necro'd this thread?? Not against bringing it back but so everyone knows its highly unlikely the OP will respond if even look at this thread. They don't like forums cause to put it balantly they dont like people disagreeing with them.

A thread's discussion can continue without interaction from the OP. It's better to have a single thread talking about the Balmung server lock, than having a new thread about it every week.

[SomeRandomHuman]

Unlocking Balmung doesn't necessarily mean that everything has to be unlocked. They can lock transfers, and limit character creation (like they already do on some of the other big servers).

And even then, unlocking it doesn't mean that everyone will swarm back to the server, considering that didn't happen when Gilgamesh was unlocked.

So you're saying if balmung even partially opened, you wouldn't be telling friends to who left to sneak back in? Or to those that left to sneak back in? This is the biggest rp community in the game we're talking here. Gilgamesh is the reddit server and some shady stuff happens on that server that can't be explained. At least we can fathom reasons behind ERPers.

[Nezerius]

So you're saying if balmung even partially opened, you wouldn't be telling friends to who left to sneak back in? Or to those that left to sneak back in?

Balmung being partially opened would be something that'd get announced on the lodestone. There wouldn't be any "sneaking". How would they even be "sneaking" back in without server transfers?

This is the biggest rp community in the game we're talking here.

Isn't Mateus supposed to have a decently sized RP community by now?

Gilgamesh is the reddit server and some shady stuff happens on that server that can't be explained. At least we can fathom reasons behind ERPers.

I'm not even sure what you're trying to say here. Gilgamesh was the server with a high amount of hardcore raiding going on, which caused those type of players to gravitate towards that, causing it to become too populated, and be locked. Now that it has been unlocked, it's population hasn't suddenly surged back to where it was previously.