Why Is Dynamis Dead

[Derio]

It will grow over time. It has to establish an identity first.

Crystal is the RP data center
Primal is the casual data center
Aether is the Raiding Data center.

Dynamis is the brand new data center finding its thing.

[Anienai]

My alt is on Halicarnassus!

[Kyrj]

They need to offer something like double exp or tomes for people who DC visit Dynamis and queue for things.

[Axious]

Only DC travel for savage, unreal reclears and new ex trial. PF is nonexistent on Dynamis.

[R041]

DC hopping should not keep your 'Road to 80'. It's weird that they let you keep this so it does incentivize this behavior. It should only be available on the DC you moved to providing the bonus to help keep players there.

[DeNada]

DC hopping should not keep your 'Road to 80'. It's weird that they let you keep this so it does incentivize this behavior. It should only be available on the DC you moved to providing the bonus to help keep players there.

This actually sounds like a pretty decent solution. More upvotes for this please!

[DeNada]

So I've actually been thinking about this.

Given that the new EU worlds, Materia and Dynamis DCs are extremely low pop and sparse, instead of adding new worlds and a new EU DC to make things worse, how about the below as an alternative?

For NA, select a high pop world from each of the existing DCs (eg. Aether - Gilgamesh, Primal - Leviathan, Crystal - Mateus) and regroup them together with Dynamis. That way, this would result in a 7/7/7/7 even split and help populate Dynamis, the existing DC will also be less stressed from a major event such as last year's Endwalker release that have massive queues.

For EU, scrap the new EU DC. There's seriously no need for one given how sparse the 4 new EU worlds are and adding one would just result in a DC deader than Materia even.

For Materia, add cross DC travel to either NA or EU. Preferably NA as the locations are nearer and the ping would be less severe.

Any thoughts?

[angienessyo]

So I've actually been thinking about this.

Given that the new EU worlds, Materia and Dynamis DCs are extremely low pop and sparse, instead of adding new worlds and a new EU DC to make things worse, how about the below as an alternative?

For NA, select a high pop world from each of the existing DCs (eg. Aether - Gilgamesh, Primal - Leviathan, Crystal - Mateus) and regroup them together with Dynamis. That way, this would result in a 7/7/7/7 even split and help populate Dynamis, the existing DC will also be less stressed from a major event such as last year's Endwalker release that have massive queues.

For EU, scrap the new EU DC. There's seriously no need for one given how sparse the 4 new EU worlds are and adding one would just result in a DC deader than Materia even.

For Materia, add cross DC travel to either NA or EU. Preferably NA as the locations are nearer and the ping would be less severe.

Any thoughts?

They did this already and it was just a bandaid. Balmung and Mateus used to be on Aether and they moved them and several other servers to Crystal. And well, Crystal is completely locked to new characters now. Aether also dealt with being locked to character creation for months. Probably the easiest solution would be to just lock Aether/Primal/Crystal for a bit to funnel new players to Dynamis.

[LianaThorne]

So I've actually been thinking about this.

Given that the new EU worlds, Materia and Dynamis DCs are extremely low pop and sparse, instead of adding new worlds and a new EU DC to make things worse, how about the below as an alternative?

For NA, select a high pop world from each of the existing DCs (eg. Aether - Gilgamesh, Primal - Leviathan, Crystal - Mateus) and regroup them together with Dynamis. That way, this would result in a 7/7/7/7 even split and help populate Dynamis, the existing DC will also be less stressed from a major event such as last year's Endwalker release that have massive queues.

For EU, scrap the new EU DC. There's seriously no need for one given how sparse the 4 new EU worlds are and adding one would just result in a DC deader than Materia even.

For Materia, add cross DC travel to either NA or EU. Preferably NA as the locations are nearer and the ping would be less severe.

Any thoughts?

We're already planning to get 4 more servers in Dynamis so I doubt they'd strap other servers on and mess up their 8:8:8:8 plan.

Materia needs cross-DC but that's a whole other beast to deal with considering JP hates the idea of cross-DC and even cross-world while EU doesn't want cross-DC with NA. If they were ever going to put in cross-DC it would require every region being okay with it existing and open to everyone.

[Jojoya]

They did this already and it was just a bandaid. Balmung and Mateus used to be on Aether and they moved them and several other servers to Crystal. And well, Crystal is completely locked to new characters now. Aether also dealt with being locked to character creation for months. Probably the easiest solution would be to just lock Aether/Primal/Crystal for a bit to funnel new players to Dynamis.

But it's taken almost 3 years to get to that point. for several months after the data center reorganization, Crystal was the low pop data center. It was only when Aether and part of Primal were marked congested for a few months after the WoW influx that the Crystal population started growing again.

I do expect SE to mark all of Aether and Primal as congested in addition to Crystal around patch 6.58 (if they follow their normal patch schedule going into 7.0). Right now, the congestion isn't a problem for log ins but it will be come the next expansion launch.

We're already planning to get 4 more servers in Dynamis so I doubt they'd strap other servers on and mess up their 8:8:8:8 plan.

Materia needs cross-DC but that's a whole other beast to deal with considering JP hates the idea of cross-DC and even cross-world while EU doesn't want cross-DC with NA. If they were ever going to put in cross-DC it would require every region being okay with it existing and open to everyone.

As many of us have said before, if JP is that bigoted then leave them out of it. The rest of us would be happy to play with OCE/SEA players.

The 90 day lock is off. Get to transferring.

So far it's only off for those who transferred the first 2 days Dynamis was open. Those who transferred later would need to continue to wait.

Those who came from Crystal or the congested Aether/Primal worlds... well, they're out of luck unless they plan to transfer to an entirely different world.

I still don't understand why so many people transferred to Dynamis just to start complaining about the low population. You don't need to be a rocket scientist to understand that it takes time for new worlds to grow into active communities.