10+ minute queue time back to Dynamis, 10pm at night

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I think you're right about DC travel load being shared throughout the region. If DC travel time decreases in the future when players drop off, then we know with good certainty that DC travel load is shared across the region.

And yes, there's much more people in Limsa on Marilith now! Hopefully we'll more activities in the party finder soon.

The shame I referred to lies in their reluctance to punish gil buyers and dealing with bots. Maybe make an example of high profile groups? For anyone who don't know what high profile groups refer to, ask around and I'm sure you'll get the answer pretty quickly.
Anyway, as long as SE's not hardware banning, they're not truly fighting bots even though they said they'll take more actions against botting in a new letter they released Oct/Nov last year. I'm still waiting to see a difference, and hopefully I'll see some.

There's bots that SE can't prevent as long as account creation is easy and the game is free to try. I understand that, and that's all cool.
Anyone who's curious can just do a player search with no first name and last name, but set min and max level both to 3. Then you'll see a list of around 100 bots (supposedly clipped underground) ready to make RMT whispers. When one gets banned, the afk bots are ready to take its place. Then you'll realize the "report rmt activity" you can quickly click on doesn't really alleviate the problem. Effectively, that button just gives players the feeling that something is being done. I'm not blaming SE on this one. They're a business, want new players, and letting people try the game for free is fantastic.

The part I mind is them not banning bots that matter and dealing some hurt (crafting and gathering bots for example). Let's say there's no shortage of posts complaining that those bots don't get banned even though players repeatedly reported said bots for months. I still see crafting bots I've reported several times last expansion still happily crafting away in an inn.

It's not even hard for SE to see which characters are most likely bots. Do a database scan. Which characters have only one combat class at 90, and maybe one or two other combat classes under level 10, but botanist and miner at 90 OR all crafters at 90? Oh look, they don't even rest! Hm..the character is in an FC with all other members at level 22, and all the same class?!. Thaat's weird?! And they only have minions and mounts that you get by going through msq and no other. Almost seems not human! It's not hard to figure out, but they won't. In fact, botters not even trying to hide the fact that they're botting tells me how unafraid they are.

And the "Special Task Force" that's supposed to take care of botting is apparently just a three-man team?? for the whole world according to the ending credits in Shadow Bringers.

You can see why I have my doubts about SE. Yes, every single one of those crafting and gathering bots mean sub money; not only basic sub money, but most likely max retainer sub money. Just my two cents