Crystal Datacenter Locked

[LianaThorne]

Nothing wrong with Dynamis.

As somebody who played on Materia for 9 miserable months with no access to DC travel, Dynamis is great.

No content? DC travel and do content.

Don't want to DC travel? That's your own problem.

Agreed here as someone who also stayed on Materia for a while.

People who are calling Dynamis dead or a problem really need to go visit Materia and see how actually bad it can get. Dynamis is no where near that level.

I do think they should have locked Aether though compared to Crystal as Aether has a much higher pop AFAIK.

[GTK0HLK]

Well, can be a whole lot worse as others have said, I know for new players/alt rollers(like i) it'll be a pain specially in 7.0 as new, returning, and Fantasia/Alt-Characters will lock/time servers for awhile.(Can only hope the potential influx will even out Dynamis, and give some life to Materia)

[Jojoya]

Check out xivcensus, just google it and you will find the population data.

Balmung actually has the lowest overall population on NA of characters of all levels.

NA realms are all over 20k endgame players (players that have completed the achievement 'endwalker') , with Gilgamesh being just over 25k.

The new servers have much lower populations, so its find that they are locking older DC's and letting people migrate to the new ones, DC travel lets you go anywhere after all.

XIVcensus focuses on max level characters. The all characters data is going to include trial characters and bots as well. Balmung has been on the Congested status the most over the years so it would make sense it would have the lowest overall characters created.

Lucky Bancho's census (he does them roughly quarterly) will track characters over level 60 so while closer to accurate, it still doesn't tell the entire story. It's deliberately focusing on characters over level 60 to remove trial characters from the number (which also eliminates most but not all RMT bots). But it also eliminates low level characters belonging to new players who are subscribed.

XIVCensus (last updated start of January as of this post): https://ffxivcensus.com/

Lucky Bancho's census spreadsheet (most recent update Dec 31st): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...#gid=627409761

For the Lucky Bancho census, the column to pay attention to is Column N ("this time") which is the current number of characters over level 60.

If you sort that column in descending order, all 8 Crystal worlds are at the top of the list. The Congested worlds on Aether and Primal match the top 3 worlds of each respective data center for level 90 characters (last column on the spreadsheet).

Personally, I'm surprised that SE didn't mark all Aether and Primal worlds congested alongside Crystal but then perhaps that was predicted to cause problems by forcing all bots to also be created on the new worlds. Bots on Dynamis are already pretty high profile because of their number compared to the relatively low player population.

I'm also surprised to see that the EU worlds (other than the 4 new ones) have pushed Tonberry out of the top position for non-NA worlds. Tonberry used to have a substantial advantage in population among the non-NA worlds.

[ForteNightshade]

Agreed here as someone who also stayed on Materia for a while.

People who are calling Dynamis dead or a problem really need to go visit Materia and see how actually bad it can get. Dynamis is no where near that level.

I do think they should have locked Aether though compared to Crystal as Aether has a much higher pop AFAIK.

It actually doesn't. According to the recent Lucky Bancho census, Crystal is absolutely killing Aether in terms of population. Literally every single Crystal server has surpassed Aether's. The major difference is Crystal focuses more on casual content, roleplay and venues while Aether focuses on higher end stuff like EX and Savage. Which is why it always seems more popular as people from Crystal, Primal and Dynamis travel over.

At some point, I do wonder if they'll ever consider locking DC travel to try encouraging people not to congregate on one data center. JP has been loudly complaining about it since Mana has essentially become their version of Aether.

[Anienai]

Is this just for the new housing lottery dash? Every world server can't be as jam-packed as Balmung... I'm paying multiple characters on one server and can't make any (that's been an issue on Balmung forever though).

It was me Barry! I locked the Crystal DC.

#ReverseAnie

[VerdeLuck]

They could fix this problem by incentivising roulette or content on your home DC or on underpopulated DCs you'd have less people running to crystal to get content done. I was surprised to find out the road to 80 buff works on all content on all data centers as long as your home server is on Dynamis, which just encourages you to go to another DC where queues aren't half an hour per roulette

[Jybril]

Literally everyone wants to be on Crystal. We are the superior DC.

[Ivtrix]

Literally everyone wants to be on Crystal. We are the superior DC.

Too bad we closed now

[NanaWiloh]

Started on primal still on primal will remain on primal.