Aether Data Center 100% Congested

[JediFirefly]

So what are the chances we will be seeing free server transfers in the near future to try and balance out the population. I for one would take one, I don't really have anything binding me to my server.

Some nights there are so many people on Midgard that I can't see the MB's in Limsa, and it's not even the Aether server with the most people.

[MistakeNot]

So what are the chances we will be seeing free server transfers in the near future to try and balance out the population.

Well, transfers from Congested to Preferred/New servers are free and has been so ever since they introduced the system of Congested/Preferred servers. This together with the bonuses for transfering to a Preferred server is done precisely as an attempt to make the population spread out more.

So in other words - we are already seeing it.

[Zarabeth]

... Until everyone picks on poor Primal. Poor, poor Primal. ;__;

No! Leave us out of it!

[Jojoya]

So what are the chances we will be seeing free server transfers in the near future to try and balance out the population. I for one would take one, I don't really have anything binding me to my server.

Some nights there are so many people on Midgard that I can't see the MB's in Limsa, and it's not even the Aether server with the most people.

Move from a congested world to a new or preferred world and the transfer is free. Feel free to look it up once Lodestone is out of maintenance though the world transfer service is expected to be down until Saturday so you won't be able to transfer until then.

Don't expect to see another free transfer period like we had in May, though. They never work when it comes to reducing server congestion. Just ask anyone who played WoW on a world that had free character migration. The majority of players were expecting others to transfer off so they could stay put. The handful of players that did transfer were never enough to noticeably improve congestion issues.

[Hash_Browns]

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

until Balmung comes knocking =/

This sounds like a threat.
A very horrible threat.

[Jojoya]

This sounds like a threat.
A very horrible threat.

Balmung has to be able to log in before they can make use of world visit.

Really not much to worry about. Either they were smart and logged out on another world before maintenance began - or they're stuck.

[TwistedTea]

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.

You can make serious gil as a level 15 crafter. 2-6 million gil a week on a world like Balmung, for 2hours of daily play.

It comes down to studying the Market Board.

Secondly, if you level DOH/DOLs through the following, you won't be spending so much gil:

Beast Tribes

Collectibles(see what's the cheapest mats/craft depending on the MB)

GC turn-ins. World Visit has made this ridiculously easy. Often you'll get HQ turn ins for less than vendor NQ price

Grinding out cheap low level crafts with FC/GC buffs,manuals and cheap food

Desynth. Often people sell items which can be desynthesized for valuable crafting mats for less than 1000 gil.

Also, I'm using yellow scrip gear for both DOH/DOLs. My observation is that not having crafted pentamelded gear might lock you out of the explosive gil making from the HQ higher tiered star recipes, when at the start of a patch but:

There's plenty of items which are not required to be HQed,non-max level crafts which sell hourly/daily even during content lulls when plenty of people are unsubbed.

Low-medium profits (50~500k) per item/stack but high volume of sales.

[DevilsDontFly]

Pretty sure the majority of the Aether/Primal servers aren't even congested for real, but SE decided to lock them anyways because of the amount of people that will be returning to the game just because of the expansion. It'll go back to normal in a week or two. I'm almost certain they just locked everything to prevent the servers from melting in case numbers spike too high. Not only that but also to try making people populate anything not balmung Crystal.

[CoffeeBuns]

So what are the chances we will be seeing free server transfers in the near future to try and balance out the population. I for one would take one, I don't really have anything binding me to my server.

Some nights there are so many people on Midgard that I can't see the MB's in Limsa, and it's not even the Aether server with the most people.

I transferred from a congested server to Goblin for free, got 10 gold feathers and was able to purchase a house.

[Listrella]

in a little over an hour EVERYTHING is going to be 100% congested.