Quote Originally Posted by NekoMataMata View Post
I do think that the population on Dynamis is going to be a bit exaggerated though due to all the alts and new alt accounts being made on it.
Yep, we saw the same thing on Materia. There are long login queues and a wild landgrab for names like "Thancred Waters" "G'raha Tia" and so on during the first day, for the next few weeks a lot of daytime activity still as people get an alt to 30 for the free 1,000,000gil and the once off 15 days free playtime, then it settles right down, and becomes nicer too. All those popular names get bored and head back to their mains in other DCs. Leaving mains and alts who love small server feel (which is awesome for me) and those alts making the most of road-to-80 and get as many classes up as possible.

After the name-grab period ended Materia servers were also 0 limsa for a while, but now 10 months later have built up a population all hours of the day. To the point people de-rez. And yes, materia servers were also 2 parties need a tank in the first few months as I saw on Dynamis, that is now up into the 50s or 60s during peak. Dynamis will get there eventually, a year or 18 months most likely before it starts to feel a bit fuller.

It does take time, all new servers do; Raiden, Alpha and the other 2 in EU have - even spriggan did - but Dynamis has the advantage of DC travel that Materia doesn't yet have. That travel does help make the MB smooth and it lets raiders forced onto the server travel to other places to do their instant copied factory queues that they seem to love so much.