Congested Worlds: SE You need to fix things

[Indicative]

1. ADVANCED NOTIFICATION: It's really not hard to put up a notice saying that you're going to lock the servers. Closing a server like this is pretty huge and quite honestly will always be negatively received with positive comments generally being memes and jokes. However an advanced notification would probably curb this quite a bit. SUDDENLY closing the server down like this without any actual notification is really stupid.
2. Big Cities will Always be Big Cities: You're never going to really make a big city smaller. Balmung in this instance is also pretty unique because it's known as the RP server. It's always gonna be big server.
3. ALTERNATIVE SOLUTIONS: You know seeing a lot of bots pop up on Balmung as a result of the server unlocked does send a lot of messages. Including them as active players really isn't fair when it's completely your fault for letting them go through in the first place. The game doesn't have an cheat detection at all and you're literally punishing players that don't bot because these guys are literally padding server numbers and you guys really need to think of a better idea. Between specifically making the servers that larger communities stronger to sufficiently hold a larger playerbase to installing a cheat engine to curb bots, there are a number of different things than just outright locking servers down.

[MuseTraveller]

I think that if they put a notice, even more people would have transferred contributing further to the congestion.

[KaivaC]

I'm pretty sure that everyone who has been here for a while knew that Balmung was going to be closed pretty quickly. The problem with your advanced notice suggestion is that if they do give an advanced notice, they run a risk of getting a huge influx of players and run the risk of making the congested server even worse. Honestly, while the devs do take some flak for this situation, this is a problem that the community brought on themselves as well.

[347SPECTRE]

It was bound to happen eventually, so I'm not surprised. Especially considering all the new faces I've seen around.

[Keridwyn]

Wasn't Balmung locked back up before the first day was over? Let's be real here we all saw this. If you didn't create your character or transfer within hours of maintenence that first day it wasn't happening. I know folks that spent days trying to get on there starting six hours after maintenence and never found a time when it was unlocked.

[Mahrze]

Just delete balmung, the diaspora of people moving to different servers will fix things.

[Kewitt]

Balmung shouldn't have been reopened
Yes it is nice we got a few new members in our 50 plus active members fc but still.
I think it was just a cash grab I don't care for the logon queues.
I didn't pick balmung its where my 1. X character was moved to and unless they actively spilt balmung. Ie you log on and you pick balmung 1 or balmung 2 the issue will not resolve.

Honestly I think that is where se should move to I pick my character then I pick the world I wish to log into.
Our discord is already cross world and we have cross world parties let me just log into a different world.

[Derio]

Honestly I am surprised it lasted this long.

[Kurando]

Well it's no different to real life. You open a store but suddenly get more customers than you have stocked for and at some point you would say, oops sorry we are closed. It's quite often for something to close at the last minute and Balmung is no exception. Everyone kinda new it was the most congested even before it was made open, so it should of been expected to get locked again.

[Fhaerron]

I'm pretty sure that everyone who has been here for a while knew that Balmung was going to be closed pretty quickly. The problem with your advanced notice suggestion is that if they do give an advanced notice, they run a risk of getting a huge influx of players and run the risk of making the congested server even worse. Honestly, while the devs do take some flak for this situation, this is a problem that the community brought on themselves as well.

Aaand the first thread is in, I'll bring the drinks, you'll bring the popcorn?