Balmung is locked again

[Vivi_Bushido]

I'd sooner blame the bots, myself.

I wanted to say I agree but the bots aren't getting lower populated servers locked now are they? Bots also don't pay for transfers.

[alimdia]

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...march_11_2018/

1500 people transferred to balmung after it was unlocked, in just 20 days.

[Hasrat]

The irony being all those alts players created while they could boosted the perceived population, while the actual population may not have significantly changed. GG, Balmung, for facilitating your own perception of a "dead" server.

[Rita1989]

The irony being all those alts players created while they could boosted the perceived population, while the actual population may not have significantly changed. GG, Balmung, for facilitating your own perception of a "dead" server.

I doubt inactive alts of people on other servers or alts from people who were already on the server had much to do with anything.

It's the bots + people transferring mains that likely caused it to be locked as that's what causes server stress

[Skivvy]

That's the reason Balmung got locked again. Each alt that enters the server regardless of where the creator is from is considered "+1" to it's grand population. For every alt that someone within got onto the server, is an added additional "+1" to it's total server population. This means that a single service account can make up a total of plus eight of the population. For every player that took advantage of the situation and created alts, that made Balmung's total population sky rocket. This made Balmung more congested than it originally was having already been the most population server in the game, is now even bigger since players felt they needed more alts on the server.

Looking at the census, Balmung actually has one of the lowest total number of characters created, we just happen to have the largest active playerbase https://ffxivcensus.com/

I could obviously be very wrong, but looking at the census, it doesn't appear that the total number of created characters is really that much of a concern. Even if a person has 8 characters on a single world (on one account), they can still only log in one at a time.

[AngelCheese77]

I knew it wouldn't last.

*plays Taps on a bugle in respect*

[xxvaynxx]

Damn bots.

[KaivaC]

*sighs*

And now, to wait for the inevitable stampede of posts about unlocking it and how it isn't fair, and how locking Balmung is ruining the RP community...

*grabs popcorn* Wanna share with me?

[Fhaerron]

*sighs*

And now, to wait for the inevitable stampede of posts about unlocking it and how it isn't fair, and how locking Balmung is ruining the RP community...

*grabs popcorn* Wanna share with me?

Can I have some, I'm out of pocorn, I'll bring drinks though!

[NanaWiloh]

*sighs*

And now, to wait for the inevitable stampede of posts about unlocking it and how it isn't fair, and how locking Balmung is ruining the RP community...

*grabs popcorn* Wanna share with me?

Its already begun somone has already posted complaining about the lock