Any recent updates for server "balancing"?

[Hakuro89]

I imagine if the incentives for leaving weren't so half-assed people would be far more inclined to transfer to less-populated servers. As it is now, they don't really offer anything to gain, and rather just offer ways to limit what you would lose. They can reimburse you for your house and its furnishings to a "reasonable" extent, remove the limitation on how much gil you can bring with you, but you still lose the connections you made with the people you met and played with there. This is the part they should be looking into additional compensation for, perhaps in the form of a legitimately considerable gil payment, maybe some kind of items, tomes, an exp boost for anything not at 70, or even a discount on your monthly subscription for a set period of time. Something practical that people get a lot of use out of, rather than just saying 'we'll see to it your losses from transferring are kept to a minimum'. Because that's not an incentive.
Another option would be to somehow reward a large number of people (like an FC) for moving from Balmung to another server. A larger incentive for a large group of people moving, since forfeiting your FC & friends seems to be the biggest reason one would not want to leave Balmung. It's certainly the primary reason I'm sticking around. If I didn't love the FC I'm in, I would've been gone ages ago.