New character creation restrictions

[savageink]

I"Oh but if your buddies are on a Congested world and you on a Preferred world, they can switch to come to you!" Not necessarily. Maybe your friends created their characters recently, while their congested world was considered PREFERRED, meaning they fall under the same aggressive restriction.

Not really. (Ignoring the times when all servers are closed to character creation, which I agree is stupid.) As long as you are on the same data center you can go to any main city Aetherite and switch to their world or vice versa to play together. The caveat to that is if you made your character on Aether. Aether is currently completely closed for character creation until at least the next time they adjust the server standings, that happens at most once a week (or so). all aether worlds are listed as congested. However if you are on Primal or Crystal there are worlds that are listed as standard or preferred, and those character creation restrictions are adjusted every few hours.