So is Balmung forever locked?

[Jojoya]

Genuine question. Balmung is locked because there are too many people there. But people just make a character on Dynamis and then DC travel to balmung. So now they're a character taking up space in balmung anyway. How is this any different than just letting people make characters here? Wanderers and Travelers come here and literally never leave anyway. Does the server not mind if the people taking up space traveled here from somewhere else first?

Not every character that has Balmung as a home world is online at the same time. Most of the time, the world server is fine handling those actually logged in with room to accommodate visiting players.

If Balmung did hit concurrent online capacity, genuine queues to log in to Balmung would start up (not the usual 50-100 player queues that last all of a minute that we normally see but those 5000+ player queues that would last 4-6 hours we saw at the start of Endwalker). SE would also have the ability to lock Balmung to data center travel and world visit if necessary.

The Congested status works more to redirect new character population elsewhere so Balmung is unlikely to hit that concurrent player limit and to help the log-in servers function better. If I remember correctly, characters in the process of being created are using up log-in server space. If they can't be created, then the log in servers only need to process those actually trying to log in.

Now we just need Crystal DC locked to itself so they can stop coming over to Dynamis and filling the entire PF window with advertisements for ERP clubs.

I see more club spam for Aether and Primal venues than I do for Crystal venues but then I don't live in Limsa so it could just be the timing of when I'm passing through.

[NekoMataMata]

Not every character that has Balmung as a home world is online at the same time. Most of the time, the world server is fine handling those actually logged in with room to accommodate visiting players.

If Balmung did hit concurrent online capacity, genuine queues to log in to Balmung would start up (not the usual 50-100 player queues that last all of a minute that we normally see but those 5000+ player queues that would last 4-6 hours we saw at the start of Endwalker). SE would also have the ability to lock Balmung to data center travel and world visit if necessary.

The Congested status works more to redirect new character population elsewhere so Balmung is unlikely to hit that concurrent player limit and to help the log-in servers function better. If I remember correctly, characters in the process of being created are using up log-in server space. If they can't be created, then the log in servers only need to process those actually trying to log in.


I see more club spam for Aether and Primal venues than I do for Crystal venues but then I don't live in Limsa so it could just be the timing of when I'm passing through.

It's probably both. I see more spam in PF from people on Crystal(with our one page PF having 2-3 of the same ads), while the shouting is from every DC.

[Soge01]

Its been quarantined. The contagion must be held at bay. But for how long? We might need similar solution like how we dealt with Racoon City all those years ago. :3

[Vahlnir]

Its been quarantined. The contagion must be held at bay. But for how long? We might need similar solution like how we dealt with Racoon City all those years ago. :3

It's too late. It has spread too far. The only solution is another Dalamud-like summoning. Maybe a few hundred of them to be 100% sure.

[RitsukoSonoda]

Balmung will unlock when ppl buy enough copies of Forspoken to make it game of the year... >.>

[CatStarPrime]

Y'can always try the traditional scheme of waiting until right after a Tuesday maintenance completes. That used to work for new characters and for homeworld transfers. Admittedly I haven't tried to do that in a while.

[MistakeNot]

Y'can always try the traditional scheme of waiting until right after a Tuesday maintenance completes. That used to work for new characters and for homeworld transfers. Admittedly I haven't tried to do that in a while.

Doesn't help at all when a server has the Congested status, and never had any effect on homeworld transfers.

[Remish]

Most people on Balmung are alts anyway. From my experience, most people who have leveled characters there do for role play reasons but then have raid mains on other servers like Jenova.

[Valkyrie85]

Best part is, if you look at the census statistics for servers. Balmung's number of characters on server is less than half of most other NA servers. Yet we're the ones constantly being locked. Logic at its finest; tbh its probably all the visitors causing us to get locked...

[Jojoya]

Best part is, if you look at the census statistics for servers. Balmung's number of characters on server is less than half of most other NA servers. Yet we're the ones constantly being locked. Logic at its finest; tbh its probably all the visitors causing us to get locked...

Which census and which statistic are you looking at?

If you're looking at XIVCensus characters created for all time, Balmung has half the characters because Balmung has been locked as Congested half the time since the game was "reborn". Harder to have a character on Balmung when characters usually can't be created there.

Lucky Bancho's census is more accurate (though not completely accurate) because it's filtered to characters over level 60 that had changes appear in their Lodestone profiles since the last Lucky Bancho census (indicating they've been active in that time period).

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...#gid=627409761

Current active population over level 60 is Column N. So no surprise, Mateus and Balmung are on top (they tend to trade top spot). Both are currently locked for Congestion. Top 3 on Aether match the 3 Aether worlds currently locked for Congestion. Top Primal world is also locked for Congestion (not sure what prompted SE to lock Behemoth - sudden population surge maybe?).