We need a Cross-Data Center Party Finder

[Oizen]

So I'm sure I'm not the only one whos noticed how the advent of DC travel has basically siphoned all life out of party finder on some data centers.

I cleared the Asphodelos raid tier on Crystal no problem, but that doesn't even seem like its possible now, like there aren't even parties for it, everyone is just slowly being conditioned to go to Aether for literally everything. I've even noticed that Primal's PF has slowly diminished since people got used to it.

It be really nice if something was done about this so we don't have to always travel to aether for anything that is extreme level or higher. Maybe a unified Party finder across all the data centers perhaps?

[Ransu]

Short of getting rid of the concept of data centers, what you propose is literally impossible. There's a reason why you have to data center travel before your character logs in.

[Oizen]

Short of getting rid of the concept of data centers, what you propose is literally impossible. There's a reason why you have to data center travel before your character logs in.

Until the devs say its impossible I see no reason to see why it is.

[CaptainLagbeard]

Until the devs say its impossible I see no reason to see why it is.

The Data Centers are the main server computers. Each of them are running multiple Worlds. Going between Wrolds on the same Data Center is easy because they exist on the same physical machine.

When you travel between Data Centers, the server needs to send your character's data over the other server. Which is why there's that wait of varying length when you do it.

Unless you'd be willing to wait for the length of time it takes to jump between all Data Centers in your region (which can at any point in time slow down drastically due to traffic), before you can join a party, it isn't physically possible to do.

[Ransu]

Until the devs say its impossible I see no reason to see why it is.

Don't really need the devs to say anything. Data centers are physically separated from each other which is why you can't data travel while logged in. They have to copy your data completely and move it to a different physical server, unlike world transfers were everything is in the same server cluster. At best they could probably set up a system that allows you to search party finder lists on other data centers, but joining them and chatting with party members seamlessly would probably be insanely difficult. The "solution" would probably be for the system to send a request to hold the slot and then having you log off to copy your character over.

[Remolia]

Until the devs say its impossible I see no reason to see why it is.

Its the only way to keep game cheap as possible to maintain. One datacenter costs way more.

[ThaCa]

Regional Cross DC queue's and PF would be great.

[VelKallor]

OCE has been asking for this for ages.

[NekoMataMata]

Absolutely not. For all the good it'll do, we'll all likely end up with multiple pages worth of ads.

And I say this despite how much it can benefit me being on Dynamis, since it would help a lot knowing which DCs might have PFs I'm interested in before I travel.

[Themarvin]

Would have alot of lag in it too as people from down under or up above ping differences could inflict problems with multiple mechanics.