Generally if anyone intends to introduce friends to the game, you may as well forget it if you want to do everything (inc solo stuff) with them but have no intention to transfer off Balmung. There is a reason it is locked and has been for so long (aside from the brief period of it being open), and yes it can be hard to leave when you have established a life on there but you have to compromise somewhere. SE really needs to offer more incentive to transfer from a locked world like Balmung, otherwise it'll just stay a big population for a long time with a lot of other people stating they have life/friends/house etc there. Opening Balmung is the complete opposite of balancing...