Can we do something about the congestion on Balmung... please?

[Larirawiel]

It is always a problem when a new content patch comes out. It will be better in a couple of weeks when many players cancel their subs again.


Cheers

[Zer0ofTime]

Whoever's idea it was to tie island sanctuary servers to housing servers should be fired from SE.

[Avoidy]

It is pretty bad, yeah. I remember trying to do my NIN job quests, but since they shared the same map as the moonfaire event, I actually wasn't able to enter that zone at all due to all the wanderers/travelers erping on the beach. Had to go to goblin to get it done. Pretty inconvenient.
Luckily soon there will be more north american datacenters, so people can refuse to go there while it's still new, and the few people who do make characters there can travel to balmung and add to the congestion problem.

[Vrankyl]

I normally love how populated and full that Balmung is because you never have a dull moment here but oh my Lord, I just wanna go inside my FC house. I haven't been able to get in for a stinking week let alone trying to do island shenanigans. Can we do something about this please?

This is not a Balmung specific problem, but a problem on all NA datacenters at the moment due to the Island Sanctuaries. Instance servers are not server specific, but Datacenter specific and the housing, dungeon, and Island Sanctuary servers all share the same set up. There has been noted problems from people just doing dungeons and Raids since the last patch, and those instances get priority. Unfortunately there is nothing that can be done about this until SE is able to get their hands on more servers, which for the NA was pushed back until November iirc.

[Sigma5]

no, let it burn.