The Likelihood of Opening Balmung During Events?

[Lilseph]

Their mistake was opening Balmung to new chara creation. They should've left it like it was for a good while for paid transfers only. At the very least, we likely would've seen a lot less bot activity. :\

I think this would be fair vs straight opening the character creation.

[Hakuro89]

The problem with opening Balmung at all, even for brief periods of time, is that the influx of people greatly exceeds the number of people that leave it. That's why it was closed so quickly the last time it opened. Being closed for so long has both helped and hurt. While yes, it kept more people from coming in, it also made a lot of people want to transfer to it BECAUSE it was closed. Drop the gates and there's just going to be another flood of people pouring in followed by a very quick lockout, just like last time.