Aether Data Center 100% Congested

[Mistyregions]

Yeah, the congestion kind of followed Aether, because (1) People fear that RP will take over Crystal (2) That RPers can't raid-- for some reason???? (3) Then these false rumors spread to the new people coming in who are being misinformed.

I am sure there are other reasons, but that is the biggest ones I've heard.

Duh RPers cant raid, they spend all their attribute points on speech. Get with it bruh.

[Enla]

Duh RPers cant raid, they spend all their attribute points on speech. Get with it bruh.

No need to kill the boss when you can talk them into dying. Now would you all kindly give me your spot in the queue tomorrow?

[Mistyregions]

I bet half of the congestion is all the bot farms making characters because there are so many pathetic people who buy gil in this game.

I have a question, do you sell stuff on the market board? If you do, how do you price it? Do you over value your time and experience? Do you make it obtainable by 70% of your server? Are progression items available at a price a sprout with zero experience can obtain?

If you price out sprouts and casuals, the option to buy RMT goes higher, then they buy it and you end up being part of the problem. You then also believe you should get 20k a pop for these items and continue the self feeding loop. End game crafting gear comes to mind.

[xxvaynxx]

Yeah, the congestion kind of followed Aether, because (1) People fear that RP will take over Crystal (2) That RPers can't raid-- for some reason???? (3) Then these false rumors spread to the new people coming in who are being misinformed.

I am sure there are other reasons, but that is the biggest ones I've heard.

This. To new players that don't RP, they hear too many meme's about balmung or rather now crystal as a whole as the RP server and with that, people automatically assume people don't raid.
So with that misinformation, new players or people that believe everything they read head to aether.
While true aether is more raid focused, crystal isn't all RP and only rp. Its just balmung, honestly anywhere else you won't see any RP.

[Endeleon]

I have a question, do you sell stuff on the market board? If you do, how do you price it? Do you over value your time and experience? Do you make it obtainable by 70% of your server? Are progression items available at a price a sprout with zero experience can obtain?

If you price out sprouts and casuals, the option to buy RMT goes higher, then they buy it and you end up being part of the problem. You then also believe you should get 20k a pop for these items and continue the self feeding loop. End game crafting gear comes to mind.

Are you seriously approving the use of RMT right now? And on the official forums no less? Your point is completely worthless anyway because there is nearly 0 reason to buy anything as a new player in this game. Everything is received from tomes and dungeons and the MSQ.

And... did you just say... end game crafting gear? Why in the entire world would a new player need that? You realize there is yellow scrip gear you can earn for 0(zero) gil right? And by the time you are level 70 crafters you should have made enough gil from it to buy them if you are too lazy to make it for yourself. I see we've spotted a gil buyer who wants everything handed to them...

[MPK]

It wouldn't surprise me if they've lowered the threshold on a server becoming congested, in preparation for the launch of Shadowbringers.
The most recent LuckyBancho census (13th of June) shows the population of Crystal, Aether, and Primal at 161,839, 154,954, and 150,251 respectively (although the amount of players who have completed the 4.1 MSQ is much lower on Crystal.)
While this census is obviously unofficial, and should be taken with a grain of salt (although the results are taken directly from the lodestone), it's still an indication on possible server load for each of the datacenters at launch.

That, or there's been a massive exodus from Crystal to Aether/Primal between the 13th and the 27th, although I find that a bit less believable.


It probably won't help, since it's ridiculously easy to circumvent the auto-kick.

It shows crystal as larger probably because people made alts on crystal

[DarkEiraStar]

Are you seriously approving the use of RMT right now? And on the official forums no less? Your point is completely worthless anyway because there is nearly 0 reason to buy anything as a new player in this game. Everything is received from tomes and dungeons and the MSQ.

And... did you just say... end game crafting gear? Why in the entire world would a new player need that? You realize there is yellow scrip gear you can earn for 0(zero) gil right? And by the time you are level 70 crafters you should have made enough gil from it to buy them if you are too lazy to make it for yourself. I see we've spotted a gil buyer who wants everything handed to them...

I don't think that's what Mistyregions was saying. The idea that new players don't need anything off the market board is pretty short sighted. Yes the game gives you gear from quests, that you quickly can out level and leave behind. Which makes for buying gear more likely, especially in the ARR content.

I don't know anyone that made money from leveling crafters, if anything they spent gil to level. If you were able to get to 70 on all crafters while amassing a small fortune good on you, but that isn't the case for every person. And as I found out, the end game script gear isn't the best crafting gear because you can't put materia into it.

[Endeleon]

I don't think that's what Mistyregions was saying. The idea that new players don't need anything off the market board is pretty short sighted. Yes the game gives you gear from quests, that you quickly can out level and leave behind. Which makes for buying gear more likely, especially in the ARR content.

I don't know anyone that made money from leveling crafters, if anything they spent gil to level. If you were able to get to 70 on all crafters while amassing a small fortune good on you, but that isn't the case for every person. And as I found out, the end game script gear isn't the best crafting gear because you can't put materia into it.

So? Yellow scrip gear perfectly adequate for a "casual" crafter as mistyregions put it. There's no need at all for BiS crafter gear if you barely even do anything. And honestly, the MSQ gives you 300k gil just to ARR. I'd like to know what a sub 50 player needs to be buying thats more than that, and if you bring up glamour, that is completely not a necessity and absolutely not acceptable to buy gil for(not that anything is). You are making up hardships that don't actually exist.

[Sarevok_Thordin]

All the doomsaying over crystal is hilarious now Aether is completely locked and you know they won't let any of those servers become standard again till people move out.

Gonna be fun actually being able to login on release!

[Anselmet]

All the doomsaying over crystal is hilarious now Aether is completely locked and you know they won't let any of those servers become standard again till people move out.

Gonna be fun actually being able to login on release!

Those of us on Zalera and Brynhildr are truly gonna be living it up with our smaller queues... until Balmung comes knocking =/