Where will Selbinians go now?

[Sirscapesalot]

I am voting for 5elbina as well. Like Tricksy said might as well start hitting up the community now and do some shouts to get a lot of us that party and play together a chance to follow over to the new. Yoshidas post is currently telling us to work together moving as large groups if we want to keep our familiar community. Vote 5elbina!

~Artemis Clydefrog

[SolArisa]

Triple Spark is still debating where we want to go, and I was wondering where many in Selbina are thinking about going.

I am a leader of a social linkshell on Selbina which is equally distributed between members from the EU, US and about 25% of the members coming from eastern countries. We also have bonds with a german language linkshell, and this means that a lot of stress is heading my way, too. And I spent the last night thinking a lot.

Well, the biggest problem is that the servers have a limit. This collides heavily with many veteran (or "endgame") players, especially those who having nothing left to achieve on the game in its current state, except for leveling crafting maybe. We have many of those people on Selbina, and they are not taking a break until 2.0 like Yoshi-P guesses - they will be back for 1.21, play the new content until for 2 weeks until verything is done here, and then they'll disappear again (oh well, does he really think that people may be paying for 1.x just not to play it? He should cross-check the current subscriber against the logins, but that's another story. Back to the main topic now.)

Well, I will do "linkshell events" for the server merge, develop a strategy for this and repeat this for the time zones. And of course I thought about talking to other linkshell leaders, or maybe even the Selbina community can decide as a whole, to which server to go to (like some french XI linkshells agreed on going to Besaid 1.5 years ago).

But the server limits are a big threat here, because not everyone will be able to migrate from Selbina to the designated new world, probably. And those who are not actively playing for several hours per day (or at least during weekends) during stage 1 will most likely be left behind.

One thing is very likely: Server 01 will be filled up in no time. Probably the same will happen with the server 9, followed by 2, 5, and 8. Maybe the same with 10, but I have my doubts that this will be an effective solution (only few french people speak german well enough, and vice versa - in both countries the kids are learning the english language as a primary foreign language and the bonds to the english communities will be stronger). Server 10 will most likely end up in a mess.

So, as a result, I would focus on server 3, 4, 6, or 7 for the migration of my linkshell, simply there we'll have more time to get things organized than on the other ones which are more likely to be picked by other people.

But only as long as there is no decision made between Selbina citizens to migrate to a specific world, of course.

So, in case this may happen, my proposal for Selbina would be server #6 at the moment.

Reasons:

- Server #1 will be filled up in no time. It's the first on the list and everyone will head there.
- Server 2 will follow next.
- Server 9 will most likely be next, because it's also easy to reach and has an attractive position on the end with the list. Like the markets, the upper instance like Tinkerer's Ward fill up first, then come the last ones, and then the middle ones - Grocer's or Chirurgeon's ward are usually the last ones to be crowded, because they require the most keystrokes and drown between the others on the list.
- Servers 4 and 5 are the ones in the middle. They will follow next.
- This leaves servers 3, 6 and 7. I bet that 3 and 7 will hit the limit after 2 and 8 did, so 6 will have the highest chance to get most Selbina players on it until the end of the merger stages.

So, what do you think? I am really interested in your thoughts, because that's my responsibility as a LS owner. Thanks for input.

Sol

[Leigh]

Good points Sol, it's just I think Gysahl is trying to claim 6 due to 6ysahl. Which would make sense, and regardless, because Selbina is one of the three largest, we will fill up quickest no matter what. 1,2,8,5 will be the most populated, and evidently our choice will be a factor in that.

The thing is, those that really want to be a part of where Selbina is going to migrate to, have a month to hear about this merge. They will be there to choose 5 with us.

Thoughts?

[Xianghua]

I'm wondering if it will be possible for most of the LS leaders to get together and talk about where each is planning to go and attempting to keep majority of us together. (can only assume most people are sticking to their LS's why I say leaders) I know it will be hard and not everyone will agree/want to stay. but honestly I'm very happy with the people on this server. Never see any drama or anything and would like to keep it that way.

Also would be nice if People used http://xivpads.com/?ServerMerge To help us organize.

[Zenaku]

Pandorum linkshell have decided to move to 5 as everyone been saying 5elbina I hope the rest of the linkshell leader and players can agree on this also.

[Murugan]

Originally Posted by Naoki_Yoshida View Post
プロデューサ/ディレクタの吉田です。
Producer/Director Yoshida here,

皆さん、多数のポストありがとうございます。
全リージョンの関連するスレッドにも目を通させて頂いています。
今回の件については、コミュニティ全体に対して、非常に大きな動揺を与えてしまい、申し訳なく思っています。
Thank you for many comments/posts.
I have looked through related threads in all region; I apologize for causing a major stir to the community with this issue.

現状、開発/運営チームでは、非常にフィードバックの多い②案を更に調整し、
④案のメリットも生かしたものにできないか、
皆さんのフィードバックを参考にさせて頂きつつ、検討を重ねています。
技術的な確認事項、スケジュールの確認もあるため、恐縮ではありますが、
このまま週末に突入し、週明けまでお時間を頂けると助かります。
We are currently looking into making it possible to go by plan #2 which received many feadbacks and keep the merit from plan number 4. We need to check and verify the technical side and schedule so please give us until beginning of next week.

トピックスについては、一時取り下げも検討しましたが、
仕様が見えなくなると、話し合いの際に、内容齟齬の可能性があるため、
少なくとも週明けまでは、このままとさせていただきます。
We thought of bringing down the topic on the topics section but if we take it down when people talk about this there might be issue where wrong information is given so we would like to keep it at least till beginning of next week.

繰り返しにはなりますが、現段階で非常に大きな懸念の声を挙げられている方が、
多数いらっしゃる中で、ワールド統合を強行するつもりはありませんので、
その点は重ねてご理解頂けますよう、宜しくお願い致します。
This is repeating what was mentioned before but at current timing there are few saying we are forcing this server merge but please understand that we are not.

Hurray, this thread is moot now!