Please, PLEASE lock Balmung's access to Wanderers and Travelers.

[SeiyaSoiya]

In my experience the ERPers are fine. Fairly quiet people that keep to themselves.

It's the people in shout chat that need to be hosed down.

they are breaking the rules
I know a ton of raiders who use 3rd party tools who are fine people, and keep it quiet to themselves
that doesn't mean they don't deserve to have their accounts permabanned for breaking the rules

[hydralus]

they are breaking the rules
I know a ton of raiders who use 3rd party tools who are fine people, and keep it quiet to themselves
that doesn't mean they don't deserve to have their accounts permabanned for breaking the rules

If they're breaking the rules then yeah, sure. But if things are kept between consenting parties in private then they're not breaking any rules. Even if they're standing around in smallclothes. I mean I guess you can still try and report them as a third party observer but I don't see anything in the article about prohibited activities that would justify that. It's not even relevant to your example because even if people who use third party tools admit to doing it, they will be banned regardless if everyone involved consented.

[Eien713]

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This was exactly what immediately came to my mind when I read the title XD

[Larirawiel]

1) The horrendous queue times, even at dead hours

I have never experienced it on Balmung.

2) Ul'dah and Limsa Lominsa (and soon Gridania!) being congested due to the amount of people server hopping
3) Latency issues when so many players congregate in the main cities
Please do something about it, I know Square Enix has locked Firmament's access to Wanderers and Travelers, I'm sure you can lock a whole server as well.

You need good latency in a city like Limsa? Seriously?

Nevertheless, your demands should be rejected. Because it would be impossible for me to visit the Rain nightclub.


Cheers

[Jeeqbit]

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Most people from Balmung have no reason to want to go to your server. A lot of people want to go to Balmung. When World Visit was released, everyone visited Balmung to see if the quicksand rumors were true, but they weren't so they got bored. It's reasonable to expect the same thing to happen with Data Center Travel. People will go there to see if the quicksand thing is actually true.

[LianaThorne]

Most people from Balmung have no reason to want to go to your server. A lot of people want to go to Balmung. When World Visit was released, everyone visited Balmung to see if the quicksand rumors were true, but they weren't so they got bored. It's reasonable to expect the same thing to happen with Data Center Travel. People will go there to see if the quicksand thing is actually true.

So gotta wait for them to get bored again. Ya'll know the rep Balmung has and asking for special treatment isn't going to happen. It would be like asking for whatever servers the big streamers are on to be locked down so people can't flood those when they're live. Just gotta deal or move to a less popular server if you can't. Eventually it'll die down.

[Ravenwatch]

I haven't seen one erp message on Balmung aside from club advertisements, and those clubs are hosted on plots on other servers. Outside of the quicksands, it is similar to other servers on the datacenter.

That being said, I'm sure experiences vary. That's just what I've personally observed.

[rainichan]

Yeah, all the poor players on balmung just doing it on the streets and all over the quicksand with whoever is desperate enough to come even close to that cursed place deserve some peace! And hey that even with minors! Daily! All the time.

I am actually glad that you can't create new characters there most of the time, imagine a sprout just starting in Ul'dah and the first thing they see is hundreds of players in skimpy outfits emoting on each other in the streets...lovely first impression of this proud server.

Lets be real for a second, Balmung is only so congested cause it is the Tinder of Eorzea, maybe that is something that should be fixed.

Incorrect, but that's a lot of words to say "I don't actually know what Balmung is like but I'll regurgitate what I hear on reddit".

Characters in skimpy outfits exist everywhere.

Plenty of people erp on every server, including yours

No one will erp with minors. General rp is whatever, but no erp will happen with minors. If it does, either the minor is lying about their age (which happens) or it is one rando out of all of them who doesn't care while the rest do. Contrary to popular belief, a large majority of roleplayers have rules and morals they follow.

Hope y'all get bored with our server quickly, we just have crapposting in shoutchat like every other server and we all get very, very tired of every wanderer and now traveler who comes on to our server going "hur hur where's all the erp in shout chat" because that gets OLD VERY QUICKLY.

[LaylaTsarra]

I haven't seen one erp message on Balmung aside from club advertisements, and those clubs are hosted on plots on other servers. Outside of the quicksands, it is similar to other servers on the datacenter.

That being said, I'm sure experiences vary. That's just what I've personally observed.

It's interesting that ERP isn't specifically mentioned in Balmung/Crystal party finders for club venues but it is explicitly mentioned in PF's on other data centers. I have a number of alts on Balmung and I check PF all the time for duties and for RP venues in the evening.

[Cylla]

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Logged into forums just to up vote this lol you sir, win.