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

[Deveryn]

Come November, they'll have free transfers again and clean untouched worlds.

[Sotaris]

Can we do something about this please?

Sure! Lock it down and don't open it again. Congestion solved.

[Jojoya]

All of NA is congested. All the worlds need to be locked. It's not just a Balmung problem.

If you want to see how bad it is, take a look at Lucky Bancho's latest unofficial census with data as of August 20th. NA worlds have twice the average active population over level 60 that the JP worlds have.

If congestion is really upsetting you, then follow the advice that others are posting in the thread and take advantage of the free transfers to the new NA worlds as soon as they open (hopefully in November).

[HanWenqing]

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?

We can do something but it requires the participation of the community, we need volunteers to go to another world

We need Heroes ready to leave for the greater good and dear Op I am convinced that if you made the first step by leaving Balmung and giving this beautiful example of sacrifice it will create a chain reaction which will settle this sad problem once and for all

Imagine OP seeing the people of Balmung praising your name! Izanami Oshiga who used the Home World Transfer Service to wash away our sins! Izanami Oshiga the savior of Balmung!

Take the first step Hero of the light and do not forget a true hero acts without thinking about the consequences of his actions

[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.

[Nezerius]

Locking it and keeping it locked until the numbers drop substantially seems like a solution.

Mateus has almost as many characters as Balmung, and I don't see nearly as many complaints about that server. A big issue is all the meme/ERP tourists traveling from other worlds/datacenters to Balmung.
But even then, locking Balmung would mostly be a band-aid solution. The physical NA datacenter has almost the same amount of characters as the JP & EU datacenters combined, across 24 servers. Meanwhile JP & EU have a combined total of 48 servers.

[NekoMataMata]

All of NA is congested. All the worlds need to be locked. It's not just a Balmung problem.

If you want to see how bad it is, take a look at Lucky Bancho's latest unofficial census with data as of August 20th. NA worlds have twice the average active population over level 60 that the JP worlds have.

If congestion is really upsetting you, then follow the advice that others are posting in the thread and take advantage of the free transfers to the new NA worlds as soon as they open (hopefully in November).

I have such a bad feeling that the new NA DC is going to end up delayed.

[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.