How to reduce congestion in Limsa Lominsa and also reduce RMT a bit

[Jonnycbad]

The sole reason why Limsa Lominsa is extremely congested and popular is due to one simple reason: the Market Board and Summoning Bell is adjacent to the city's main Aetheryte. To wit, this is the only city that has this. Moving forward, if more cities had Market Boards/Summoning Bells adjacent to their main aetheryte, people would spread out more across various cities instead of congregating solely in Limsa, reducing congestion.

As an aside, if new hub cities in future expansions had this, most players would probably idle and hang out here. Compared to Limsa, which is a starting city, a final hub city in 6.0 or 7.0 is gated behind HUNDREDS of hours of gameplay to reach. This means the countless level 1 accounts that shout advertisements for RMT links would not be able to reach these areas. So 1) you create a space players want to be because of its convenience (which is why Limsa is so popular) and 2) you make a city that's difficult for newly-generated RMT accounts to get to. If RMT want to get to these zones to shout their ads, they'd either need to play through the story or pay for story skips (which is a waste of their money because RMT accounts are banned frequently and rapidly).

[Warlyx]

TILL SEA SWALLOWS ALL

[van_arn]

Drop Dalamud 2.0 on it. Limsa was a mistake.

[Roeshel]

As an aside, if new hub cities in future expansions had this, most players would probably idle and hang out here. Compared to Limsa, which is a starting city, a final hub city in 6.0 or 7.0 is gated behind HUNDREDS of hours of gameplay to reach.

Maybe, if we are counting watching cutscenes as gameplay. But if you skip cutscenes you can complete the msq on an alt within a week.

[Puremallace]

Do not change one single thing about Limsa. Noone in the real world talks about making a city less busy by intentionally sabotaging it so why would they do it in an MMO. What would this accomplish honestly? Make Limsa the starting city for a lot of new people feel dead and spread the games population thin?!??!?!

I spend more time sitting in Limsa listening to bards and talking to people then any other activity in this game.

[Seraphor]

Do not change one single thing about Limsa. Noone in the real world talks about making a city less busy by intentionally sabotaging it so why would they do it in an MMO. What would this accomplish honestly? Make Limsa the starting city for a lot of new people feel dead and spread the games population thin?!??!?!

I spend more time sitting in Limsa listening to bards and talking to people then any other activity in this game.

No, don't sabotage Limsa, bring Gridania and Uldah up to scratch.
Original Limsa's Aetheryte was at the aftcastle, outside the inn and the GC, just like the other two starting cities.
Limsa got a QoL improvement by moving the aetheryte, but the other two didn't.

Gridania's main Aetheryte should be where the Leathworkers guild mini aetheryte is.
Uldah's should probably be in the Gold Court, the very center of Steps of Thal, it's a bit further away from the market area but at least it's the same zone.

[RyuDragnier]

No, don't sabotage Limsa, bring Gridania and Uldah up to scratch.
Original Limsa's Aetheryte was at the aftcastle, outside the inn and the GC, just like the other two starting cities.
Limsa got a QoL improvement by moving the aetheryte, but the other two didn't.

Gridania's main Aetheryte should be where the Leathworkers guild mini aetheryte is.
Uldah's should probably be in the Gold Court, the very center of Steps of Thal, it's a bit further away from the market area but at least it's the same zone.

Or perhaps they should add another marketboard near the Gridania and Ul'dah Aetherytes.

[linayar]

Do not change one single thing about Limsa. Noone in the real world talks about making a city less busy by intentionally sabotaging it so why would they do it in an MMO.

The OP doesn't say anything about changing Limsa Lominsa, much less sabotaging it, at least as of the timing of this post.

As for me, I never really had any issue with Limsa Lominsa. Most of my characters have historically either started in Limsa Lominsa and/or joined the Maelstrom.

That said, I also wouldn't mind going with the OP's suggestion.

[jamjeeshoul77]

Idk but they need to do something. The decreased load times last patch were I guess sorta nice if you’re really phobic of the black screen, but they effectively did nothing because it still takes upwards of 60 seconds during peak hours for NPCs to spawn on a standard PS4 lol

[Kes13a]

Idk but they need to do something. The decreased load times last patch were I guess sorta nice if you’re really phobic of the black screen, but they effectively did nothing because it still takes upwards of 60 seconds during peak hours for NPCs to spawn on a standard PS4 lol

given your hardware, I would maybe recommend being pro active on your end and avoid Limsa. I dont like recommending anyone decrease their graphics, but if you insist on hanging out in Limsa, its going to be one or the other.