Thread: will they update the congested servers in 6.3?

Originally Posted by Atelier-Bagur

Are you sure? I clearly remember wanting to create an alt on a congested server and had to wait late at night to be able to make it.

Then your memory is wrong.
If a server is Congested you can't create any characters on it, nor transfer any characters to it. No exceptions.
Character creation can be temporarily disabled on non-Congested servers too, and then it often works to wait until late at night or otherwise slow periods.

The status of servers (New, Preferred, Standard, Congested) is reviewed on a regular basis, and changed when the population has changed enough to warrant a change in status.
Changes in server status always happen in conjunction with a maintenance (but not all maintenances result in a change) and are accompanied by a note in the launcher and on Lodestone that they have changed.

To answer the OP - it is likely that server statuses will change when 6.3 is released, but there is no guarantee it will.

Originally Posted by MistakeNot

Then your memory is wrong.
If a server is Congested you can't create any characters on it, nor transfer any characters to it. No exceptions.
Character creation can be temporarily disabled on non-Congested servers too, and then it often works to wait until late at night or otherwise slow periods.

The status of servers (New, Preferred, Standard, Congested) is reviewed on a regular basis, and changed when the population has changed enough to warrant a change in status.
Changes in server status always happen in conjunction with a maintenance (but not all maintenances result in a change) and are accompanied by a note in the launcher and on Lodestone that they have changed.

To answer the OP - it is likely that server statuses will change when 6.3 is released, but there is no guarantee it will.

Cannot create a new character.

if you have an existing character on a congested world you can still create a new one there late at night, done it on Tonberry several times

Originally Posted by DixieBellOCE

Cannot create a new character.

if you have an existing character on a congested world you can still create a new one there late at night, done it on Tonberry several times

Nope. No character creation on a Congested world. No exceptions. Not even late at night, or if you already have a character there.

Originally Posted by MistakeNot

Nope. No character creation on a Congested world. No exceptions. Not even late at night, or if you already have a character there.

Correct! Can't make an alt on a congested server even if you have one there. It would be nice given you can only log in with one at a time but nope they don't allow it.

Server statuses change multiple times per day. It only takes bringing up the status page on the lodestone and hitting reload every two hours or so to see changes.

Originally Posted by Floortank

Server statuses change multiple times per day. It only takes bringing up the status page on the lodestone and hitting reload every two hours or so to see changes.

I said it in a similar thread, but: small-c congested is normal, everyday Prime Time congestion. Making a character before or after Prime Time is always possible, and if you're super impatient, you can server transfer to the server in question, it is not locked.

Big-C Congested as Balmung and all of Crystal are is not one that will go away after Prime Time, they are locked completely from new characters being created and you cannot transfer to them. You're on Balmung, you'll see the same "Balmung is categorized as a Congested World. Please see this Lodestone article for incentives for transferring to a new world" when you log in that I do because it's Big-C Congested and they want people off. The current list of Congested worlds was made after the patch and can be viewed here. Once enough people have migrated from Crystal and most of Aether on to Dynamis, they'll lift the lock in a few months, most likely.

FC mate made an alt after a certain time. Maybe that's a little different.

Originally Posted by kevin_satron

have a friend that want to decorate my house, but dont have character in my server world. and can't create char neither because it's still congested.

They'll do updates to world status with the patch but whether your world will be changed from Congested to Standard can't be predicted. That will depend on changes to world population distribution for your data center/region.

For those getting confused by the conversation in the rest of the thread, there are worlds that are on the Congested status. There is no character creation allowed at all on these worlds, nor can you transfer a character to them.

Then there are Standard/Preferred worlds experiencing high player traffic that are temporarily locked to new character creation/transfers. The locks are usually removed during off peak hours then enabled again during peak hours.

In the OP's case, the world is on the Congested status and not just temporarily locked to character creation. Unless SE changes the world's status back to Standard, the OP's friend will be unable to create a character on that world.

Originally Posted by MistakeNot

Then your memory is wrong.
If a server is Congested you can't create any characters on it, nor transfer any characters to it. No exceptions.
Character creation can be temporarily disabled on non-Congested servers too, and then it often works to wait until late at night or otherwise slow periods.

The status of servers (New, Preferred, Standard, Congested) is reviewed on a regular basis, and changed when the population has changed enough to warrant a change in status.
Changes in server status always happen in conjunction with a maintenance (but not all maintenances result in a change) and are accompanied by a note in the launcher and on Lodestone that they have changed.

To answer the OP - it is likely that server statuses will change when 6.3 is released, but there is no guarantee it will.

Thats literally what I just said though. I had to wait till later in the day when the server was not congested anymore to create a character in that server.