Regret transfer from congested world

[RachelM]

I was on Jenova. It became a congested world so I figured I'd be nice, take advantage of the free transfer, and put my four top toons on Mateus. Just shoot me now. Now there's log in and grind-to-a-halt lag, immediately followed by 90006 disconnects. None of these occurred on the so-called "congested" world, mind you. Of course I can't transfer back because it's a "congested world". If you are on a congested world but having zero issues....DO NOT TRANSFER. The lure of a toy to do so isn't worth it.

[TwistedTea]

I was on Jenova. It became a congested world so I figured I'd be nice, take advantage of the free transfer, and put my four top toons on Mateus. Just shoot me now. Now there's log in and grind-to-a-halt lag, immediately followed by 90006 disconnects. None of these occurred on the so-called "congested" world, mind you. Of course I can't transfer back because it's a "congested world". If you are on a congested world but having zero issues....DO NOT TRANSFER. The lure of a toy to do so isn't worth it.

You transferred to Balmung 2.

The rest of Crystal is not that bad.

Also not sure why SE did not label Balmung/Mateus as Congested or Standard.

Making them preferred was a huge mistake especially if players who transfer are thinking of getting ward housing.

[Shougun]

Making them preferred was a huge mistake especially if players who transfer are thinking of getting ward housing.

Even getting an apartment on Balmung can be a challenge some days lol.

[Kolaina]

I recently transferred off aether as well to crystal. My regret though is how the content is tackled. In my experience thus far being on crystal, there is a huge skill gap compared to aether. Everything feels slower now. People don’t seem to try as often. Its hard to explain unless you’ve played on both datacenters

[Kes13a]

never had any problems with "skill gap"

guess I must be unskilled and just dont know it

[TaleraRistain]

Yeah Aether is completely shut down but Jenova's been congested most of the time for months and all we have is the occasional 100ish login queue that's gone in a couple minutes. So I don't know that many on this server even noticed a difference.

[MPK]

Why would you transfer to crystal? Do you not like raiding?

[Lexis]

I made a character on Leviathan (Primal) and got a job to 80 with it, then started playing my old Zalera(Crystal) character and it does feel like the overall group quality in duty finder is lower on Crystal. People do seem friendlier though so I'm currently debating which server to play on come Endwalker. I'd like to try my hand at Savage raiding, is it really impossible to find groups on Crystal?

Queue times are the exact same on both servers and I've yet to experience any form of lag so that's not a factor.

[Moonfish]

I recently transferred off aether as well to crystal. My regret though is how the content is tackled. In my experience thus far being on crystal, there is a huge skill gap compared to aether. Everything feels slower now. People don’t seem to try as often. Its hard to explain unless you’ve played on both datacenters

I transferred from aether to crystal a while ago and you’re definitely right. Crystal is a carebear data center and isn’t for everyone.

[Jeeqbit]

The quality of casual content isn't different on aether really, because most people doing that content are new or returning to the game and don't know what they are doing.

I'd like to try my hand at Savage raiding, is it really impossible to find groups on Crystal?

It's perfectly possible. People farm extreme and savage on there too. There may be less people interested in it overall but that doesn't mean nobody is, it does not mean that there are no parties and it does not mean that they aren't good enough to clear.