Quote Originally Posted by Paladinleeds View Post
Given the heavy-handed approach SE seem to take, I feel if that were the case, all Aether/Primal servers would be marked as congested. That way you can't even use transfers/wee-hours character creations to get around it.
That's why I said new players. Aether and Primal are on a 24 hours lock for character creation, with 3 servers each allowing transfers. Either way new players will be forced to go to Crystal, and then attempt a transfer afterwards if the game allows it. And I'm assuming that's exactly what happened to a lot of people on Crystal, because a couple of days after they tagged Primal and Aether worlds as congested outside Gilgamesh/Leviathan, some of the Crystal servers that used to have character creation locks during peak hours are no longer having that issue. I guess there's an influx of people transferring out of Crystal at the moment. Which might lead to a perma-lock of Aether/Primal after the Early Access maintenance.