What if everyone chose the same server?

[Catharsis]

Theoretically speaking, what would Square-Enix decide to do if the entire population of FF14 decided to dogpile into a single server, say Server #1?

I realise this is highly improbable outside of agitated people trying to initiate some kind of misguided activism, but I'd like to know what Square-Enix's contingency plan would be if this happened.

[Mychael]

Sadly, they're capping the population. So after X amount of people joined, it would be locked unless someone left.

[CrystalWeapon]

They stated the servers get locked once they reach a certain number of players.

[Antipika]

First come first serve basis ? You have to apply first anyway so, when it's full, you won't be able to apply for that one world?

[Shneibel]

First come first serve basis ? You have to apply first anyway so, when it's full, you won't be able to apply for that one world?

you got that right, so if you lucky meet ppl from same time zone then it ll be fun, else you re screw

[Catharsis]

So in other words - there's a chance that you might not be able to get onto the same server as your friends, but it's all okay since we can vicariously follow each other on Lodestone?

Would it be possible to add a LS shift option or something? Just let people pick a primary Linkshell and shift the entire linkshell as one tetris-block-sized group.

[Niqote]

Right now your best bet is to organize with your linkshell leaders to pick a server number, or to join server movements such as Trabia > 7rabia, Besaid > 8esaid.

But as you can see the forums are on fire with the topic and I would not be surprised (Actually I'd be delighted) if they do release names of the servers after the backlash.

[Jinko]

Agree the community devs need to get us some names so that people can try to stay together.

I have no reason to leave Lindblum.

[Quesse]

So in other words - there's a chance that you might not be able to get onto the same server as your friends, but it's all okay since we can vicariously follow each other on Lodestone?

NO. Since the timeframe for the move is so long, if a server fills up and not everybody can make it in, just choose another server. Its not like the move is happening in an instant. There will be many days for in game discussion and follow up for those linkshells/groups that want to make the move together.

[Catharsis]

Yes, well, I'm not really interested in participating in the forum drama, all I really care about is being able to maintain my play experience.

What I'm primarily concerned by is having my group of friends all transfer one-by-one might mean that the server would fill up prematurely thanks to some Kevin Bacon-esque rule and the last few people would be left out. Obviously, my group of friends would then naturally choose another server (and this issue might happen again), but this frankly sounds annoying and it'd be nice if they could just move entire blocks of people simultaneously and make life easier for us.

Actually, I lie. The more realistic thing that would happen would be that everyone on the new server would just wait for you to keep trying until you managed to get in (because people are fundamentally apathetic). Would it be possible for us to have reservation lists if a server is full? As in - "Your character will be added to this server once a space frees up even though it is at maximum capacity". It'd be a lot more convenient than trying to refresh the server every few seconds, desperately hoping that a vacancy has appeared

The only reason this troubles me is because this is exactly what happened for some of my friends when FF14 first opened and I'm very worried of history repeating itself. They had to play whack-a-mole with the server acceptance list and some of my FF11 friends even ended up going to other servers as a result.

@Quesse: Ah, so the onus is on us, so to speak (Just a little word play). Such an elegant solution - just make it Somebody Else's Problem, and if something goes wrong, it becomes our fault.

I kid, S-E will probably do better this time.