At first it was cool / neat / something new..
Now we are discovering that not every server is like ours -
1. First Market Boards: Because I can buy on any server on my datacenter, I now have to use outside websites to see lowest prices to sell anything on my home server Or Visit every server on my datacenter checking the MB for each item. If you don’t and you’re not the lowest nothing will sell.
2. The server I play on is/was nice: Servers spend years building a community that respect each other and plays well together. Making friends and gathering together for Hunts etc. Now what we are finding out is many other servers have a WOW mentality or are gaining one fast and could care less about server etiquette. They come to our home worlds and wait for people to spawn S ranks and kill them before the people who spawn them have a chance to reach them. They come to our servers and run SB Hunt trains and don't announce to any Cross-world LS or any LS on the server they are killing on. They do this because they are watching outside website timers and could care less about the folks on that server or that log on in the evenings and are trying participate in Hunts or other activities on times.
3. Server Lag and such: Massive amounts of people fluctuating to each server causes lag. On Hunts if your machine or internet isn't top notch now the Marks don't even load in before they are dead. We are getting Que times to log into our home servers now.
4. There is no point: What is happening is a total disruption on the Markets and Communities. When someone comes over to my home world and runs a Hunt for example people try to be polite and ask them to announce or even wait for others and they are given rude responses if they get a response at all. I see no benefit to it other then if you are Hunting S ranks and you are willing to sit at the Aetheryte all day jumping servers. I do see a select few people setting up and running Housing server tours – but that is a very select few.
In the end Crossword visiting is doing more harm then good. Its killing peoples game play and fun. People are on the servers they are on because they like the communities and the way things run there. Opening up crossword visiting has made it to where I’m forced to put up with every WOW mentally player from other servers that I never wanted to visit or be apart of in the first place. if I want to get away for toxic servers/datacenters now, I have to transfer to a new datacenter.
If Crossworld visiting is to stay then SE please throw in some control mechanisms to deter the WOW mentality players.
1. Stop Markerboard access/Trading for Wanders.
2. Put a five-minute timer on S Rank Spawns before they can be damaged/Killed.
3. Fix rendering lag/priority on Hunt Marks.
4. Give Home server players logging on/transferring too priority over wanders.
Just my two cents …