Housing Solution Proposals

[Divinemights]

Why should new players be forced to pick other worlds if they'd rather play on Balmung (short of SE placing Balmung back on a Congested status)?

Most players don't think much about starting worlds at all (unless they've previously played other MMOs with server congestion problems). If they do, they're usually looking for worlds for one of 3 reasons: strong raiding community, strong RP community, or getting the heck away from both. Otherwise they'll either let the game pick for them or pick a world on some other factor, like they like the name.

Fun fact: last fall I made a new alt. What world did the game suggest for that alt as a starting world? Balmung.

All of NA is technically congested at this point. We're waiting on the new worlds this summer to thin things out a little (we're still not going to drop to JP levels even after the other 4 worlds are added next year). The only drawback to Balmung at this point is the housing situation due to high RP demand, and few new players are going be thinking about specifics of the housing system when first starting the game.

All NA is congested, but Balmung abnormally host much larger population than other servers
Most of NA servers apartment are empty
Now give me a good reason why you need to stay or play Balmung when there is now cross world links hell and world visits?
You don’t have a house but you want an apartment at least, at what reason one would be M enough yo stay or play there.?

Am I going to see people still going to use RP again?
Isn’t there a world visit and incoming data center travel?
It is more logic to just find a new server than expecting SE to do something on a problem that only exist to one server
It is clearly SE is passively trying to flush people off Balmung