They announced how worlds would be shuffled.

[Jybril]

Getting people more spread out across multiple servers is also helpful.

Guess it wasn't enough because now look lol.

My point wasn't to make a cheap shot, but to prove a point. You don't have to be a big shot raider surrounded by other big shot raiders to have a good time and clear content (in this case raids). Everyone jumping ship is just going to cause the same issues from before, except now even RP'ers are apparently jumping ship. So now we have a full datacenter because no one wants to put forth any effort into making new friends or fostering new groups.

I'm all for people moving to stick with friends, and it sucks for those groups being broken up, but to be this outraged and have this kind of reaction to it is simply hilarious to me.


I'm also probably stirring the pot more than i intent to, im bad at wording things correctly. I will end my comments here.

This game has been out for 5 years.
People have made connections in those 5 years and have played with each other in those 5 years.
To me your comment is like "Oh well, make new friends and move on."
Yeeaaaah. Sorry some people like their friends and I understand the frustrations.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

This game has been out for 5 years.
People have made connections in those 5 years and have played with each other in those 5 years.
To me your comment is like "Oh well, make new friends and move on."
Yeeaaaah. Sorry some people like their friends and I understand the frustrations.

Its been out for 5 years, yet for the first 2 at least of those, maybe 3, i dont remember, you were limited to same server only friends. Maybe thats where the difference in opinion comes into play. I made most of my friends before cross world became a thing.

[Tsukino]

The one thing being that they would even do this without going the extra mile and making sure that players/FCs that decide to transfer are able to keep their housing intact. Of course, this is quite difficult from a programming standpoint, but it is also the number one roadblock preventing people from transferring in the first place. As it currently is, the only people transferring are the people with little to nothing to leave behind. With Balmung being grouped with all of the low end population servers, it's not really going to work out upon further thought. The people in Balmung with little to lose will just move back to an Aether server to reconnect with friends there instead of going to any other Crystal server, and the raiders of all the other Crystal servers (that are probably already well established enough to own a house and everything due to the low population in the first place) that are to be moved to Crystal are basically completely out of luck.

Definitely agree this is the worst part, probably because housing is one of the worst systems in the game in general. The other issues, while frustrating for many people, are not completely insurmountable with planning (moving with your friends, doing the exact same organizing you've done before with all the notice, etc.), but your housing situation is almost guaranteed to suffer no matter what you do and that really sucks.

Would be best if they just fixed the whole system so it wasn't the most difficult asset to recreate or even obtain in the first place, but I don't know if they have any good ideas for it.

If they installed AFK kickers like they did before, we would of never had this problem to start.
The AFK kicker helped tremendously and should do that every time an expansion begins.
They took too long to implement it on SB, like 3 days. Should of done it from the start
if they learned anything from HW launch. Kinda sad because of congestion that people
are forced apart like this when there's a fix for said congestion.

AFK people have very little to do with this. AFK people have an affect on your specific world, not on the entire data center, or more importantly its instance servers.

Kicking AFKers fixes your login queue. It doesn't fix overloaded instance servers.

[Keridwyn]

Personally I'm not hit with this, my friend circle is pretty small and server contained. However, to those of you making the hard choices in the coming move I wish you all the best.

P.S. Crystal it's time to grab your bootstraps, we're all going into this together let's try to keep the queues moving.

[Kiri_Hadaka]

I don't want my server being flooded by people looking to get closer to Balmung...

[NormaBates]

I'd like to see the possibility of FC World Transfer. However they can do it, Leader is able to carry over their FC keeping it's ranking, FC Credits, reimbursed for housing, workshop, etc. understandable that all members would need to be removed before transfer. Players/Members of can relocate with the already established player world transfer incentives and also their FC can too and meet back up on their new destination world.

[MorfineCeres18]

I'd like to see the possibility of FC World Transfer. However they can do it, Leader is able to carry over their FC keeping it's ranking, FC Credits, reimbursed for housing, workshop, etc. understandable that all members would need to be removed before transfer. Players/Members of can relocate with the already established player world transfer incentives and also their FC can too and meet back up on their new destination world.

Yes please!

[InkstainedGwyn]

I'd like to see the possibility of FC World Transfer. However they can do it, Leader is able to carry over their FC keeping it's ranking, FC Credits, reimbursed for housing, workshop, etc. understandable that all members would need to be removed before transfer. Players/Members of can relocate with the already established player world transfer incentives and also their FC can too and meet back up on their new destination world.

I've thought this was something that would be useful, too. It won't solve the housing issue, which is real, but for those who don't want to leave their FC, it would smooth stuff over.

[Frogger2]

Not good. It's not just about the gil. I have a lakeside medium in Lavender Beds, the refund won't help me in getting a new one. So it's basically either my house or my friends.
There's no way I'm giving up the house I searched a year for, so I guess I'll have to make an alt.
Also imagine the queue times off peak hours/for PvP on Chaos.. It already takes over 30 min quite often.
Honestly this could be fixed with cross DC duty finder and linkshells. Pls.

[Barraind]

Being on Coeurl, this is terrible.

I'm losing my static, my potd/hoh teams and everyone I do party finder with that isn't on my server.

Keeping the ERP Hellscape that is the 2 rp servers though! Guess that counts for nothing.

Crystal party finder and raid scene is going to be godawful unless people transfer here.