I'm leaving my server for Ridill in hopes of being with a higher FFXI population. I heard that is where most FFXI Veterans are (Since its used to be called Selbina). I'm also going to be joining Triple Spark on Ridill to play with my FFXI buddy Mugen Mugetsu
The server i'm on now has been one of the lowest populations out of all the servers. This has brought about a very weird tension in everyone. If you play on Palamecia you know Everyone practically. Sometimes that is good, but for me it isn't. Our server (Palamecia) is filled with people from random MMO's, time zones, and skill sets. It is so hard to get a good Ifrit/Moogle PT going because there are not enough people who know what the hell their doing (You can only blame lag so many times). A lot of them don't even know how listen to good advice or grow from their mistakes. And the people who are actually halfway decent and know what their doing are elitist and not very friendly. I'm hoping being with more FFXI players will help solve that problem. What I also dislike is because our population is so low on Palamecia, just about everyone is in the same Linkshells. There is no Linkshell loyalty anywhere, people jump ship all the time. I am also afraid of the 2 other Servers being merged with Palamecia too. It's just going to add the same random MMO players together and will still have the same problems. 3 Low pop servers don't make a right!
I'll miss the friends that I've got but I'd also like to see how an established and very populated server will work for FFXIV. I'm sure there will be another transfer available for 2.0's release to make everyone happy. So it wont be so bad if I dislike Ridill.