Personality of servers?

[Mikhaill]

General consensus seem to be:

• Aether: Raiding.
• Primal: PvPing.
• Crystal: Roleplaying.

The reality however is:

• Aether: Mind your own business and become the nastiest human being when someone mentions your DPS or inability to do a speed run.
• Primal: Nobody really talks about you, so you're kinda just there.
• Crystal: "Ya'll casuals suck. Learn not to be so bad. I'm transferring to Aether.".

I heard Primal is a mix of both.
Maybe it's just the "We do whatever honestly" server.

I find Crystal lax as everyone else said.
Friendly imo. RPers are actually really nice.

[Gula]

I heard Primal is a mix of both.
Maybe it's just the "We do whatever honestly" server.

I find Crystal lax as everyone else said.
Friendly imo. RPers are actually really nice.

Roleplay is a highly social activity. You're writing with all kinds of strangers and building fun things together. When on Crystal, I find it very easy to meet new people and socialize with people just idling. When I played on other non RP worlds, especially Primal, I feel like I'm interrupting someone and there's usually a different mood around hub areas.

[Ruinfeild]

I think the title is misleading cause I think OP means data centers not servers.

If we go by that, Balmung would be that family member who works the corner even during a family reunion that is going on right behind them and tries to get others to join in either through words or grabbing their wrist and bringing them along (like the Mateus Aunt who always had interest in joining in but never had the courage).

[Doozer]

I don't do a lot of interacting with people outside of duties, and generally there's less tryhards on Crystal, but there's also people that just sit down in duties while everyone else does the work and then they roleplay walk to the exit. They're always actually RPers, too. They seem to have trouble understanding when to chat and when to pay attention to the fight.

[Theodric]

Balmung, at least, used to have a 'big city' vibe to it. There was something for everybody here and although that is still true to an extent the years have not been kind to my server and a lot of people have moved elsewhere.

[DevilsDontFly]

From personal experience, Aether has a more...friendly vibe.

On Aether myself and I wouldn't necessarily say it's a friendly vibe. That, I think it's because you're on Faerie. Playerbase there seems to be just very nice and filled with all the DC's cinnamon rolls. I've had a fair amount of people being unfriendly towards one another ever since ShB was launched.

I talked about this with a couple of friends and I believe because everybody keeps spreading the mindset of "If you wanna raid go to aether", other DCs end up coming off as less skilled or overall less prepared/engaged into endgame activity. There's so many people that go to Aether thinking Party/Duty finder will be the best thing after sliced bread and end up disappointed because it's not what they expected at all. While I do agree that Primal as a more "cold" vibe to it, I'd say it's because people there seem to be very "I mind my own business", while Aether seem to like picking up fights on Alliance Raid with passive aggressiveness for no reason. Just my personal experience from being on both DCs, though.

No idea how Crystal works/is.
Regardless, we can all agree that "Friendly, drama free FC" is a trap and we should all avoid them at all costs.

[Riblet]

I just know Behemoth is the " /Slap a SAM and we disband" server.

[Lynesse]

It should come as a surprise to no one that Ultros, the tentacle server, is a giant meme.

In all seriousness, Primal is great. I've gotten to play with some incredibly talented people. DF is almost always super chill, too.

[Makeda]

I think the different data centers have less difference than people think.

Yes it is true that RPers congregated on Balmung because you need to have others of like mind around you to do RP. But it has also long been a hotspot just because it was big - and so attracted a lot of other types of players as well.

Now that I am on Crystal I have some some extremely hardcore raiding types show up in Party Finder hailing from Crystal. I have also met extreme casuals back when I was on Aether.

I think it really just boils down to whatever server you happen to first find a group of people you can along with on.

[TheGrimace]

I don't think there are really that many differences between the data centers. Like people say, Crystal has Mateus and Balmung for roleplaying, and Aether may have a larger base going after raid content, but largely I feel they're all practically the same.

I don't plan to ever move my main from Excalibur because this server is largely very chill. It's good to see people shooting the shit every so often, though I'd prefer it to happen far more often than it does. Many people playing MMOs these days don't care about the communication aspects promoted.