Dynamis low pop, high queue times.

[Kyrj]

You do know that you queue with people from your own datacenter and not world right? Dynamis having 8 worlds wouldn't change much of anything other than maybe make 2nd wave of housing migration.

I don't think its particularly needed to expand the data center right now, but it should definately be done before 7.0 drops.

You do know that there's more to the game than just sitting around in a queue right?

[Oizen]

You do know that there's more to the game than just sitting around in a queue right?

There is?

Cause I mean yeah if you count gathering or spamming fates I guess, but fact of the matter is all the open areas in this game tend to be dead, that isn't dynamis exclusive. Its a game issue

[caffe_macchiato]

Now that I'm on Maduin, I'm finding it nigh impossible to queue into anything except Expert Roulette or Leveling Roulette. In addition to that, the party finder is always empty, save for people a few advertising the ERP club in their basement. This means if I want to get anything done, I have to DC travel. However, doing so locks me out of my retainers, my house, my apartment and my island as well as several functions that can only be accessed in my home server.

So could anything be done to rectify this? I mean if you're going to force Dynamis people to DC to get anything done you could at least make it easier to access the things I mentioned.

Below is a summary of what our arguments are/will be:
1) It's your fault for moving to Dynamis. You knew it would be slow.
2) Give it time. It's a brand new DC and has only been there for six months, which is basically yesterday.
3) We're in a drought, which means no one's really playing right now. You have to wait until 7.0 in 2025 before the DC becomes populated. Why aren't you playing other games?
4) You can just DC travel. Sure it disconnects you from all of your communities, but we all have to do it too, so why can't you?
5) Materia is worse.
6) I have queues just fine. In fact, it takes less than a minute to queue for any roulette (leveling) (class in need only) (only during prime hours) (I only play the game on weekends).

Remember, we're the best MMO right now. WoW has it worse. Did you know they can't even DC travel? I heard they don't even have datacenters. How horrible.

[Myrany]

I play on marilith (Dynamis) daily and have no problems with queue times. Usually under 10 minutes. I had ONE thing I had to DC travel to get done and that was Crystal Tower for MSQ progression.

Really I think people are just impatient. I remember playing many many years ago in another game and waiting up to 3 hours for a simple dungeon to pop. So 10 minutes doesn't bother me at all.

[Jojoya]

If only it was just 30 seconds. It's usually a couple of minutes, but sometimes you run into longer wait times such as 3-5 or occasionally up to 10 such as when things seem to be busiest.

All of that adds up.

We really, really need cross DC queues.

Huh?

I data center travel on my Marilith characters a lot and across all times of the day. My travel times have only exceeded 1 minute during peak hours on a Tuesday or first week of a new patch. With a single exception during a patch week, travel time during peak has been 1-3 minutes.

I also do the majority of my duty queues on Marilith. I don't queue for Alliance raid or PvP since I don't enjoy those and I acknowledge that they're going to have longer queue times on Dynamis. But otherwise the only times I've had problems queuing would be for Storm's Crown and Mount Ordeal to get MSQ done, and even transferring to a different data center I still had a wait for those. That makes sense being the most recent MSQ content many Dynamis players haven't reached yet, not to mention some are taking advantage of the Road to 80 bonus while it lasts so they're more focused on leveling their alts jobs.

As more players reach 90 and get up to date with the MSQ, queue times will go down if players stay on Dynamis instead of immediately data center hopping.

It seems silly to complain about a problem if you're one of those intentionally helping the problem to exist.

[Shinkuno]

Below is a summary of what our arguments are/will be:
1) It's your fault for moving to Dynamis. You knew it would be slow.
2) Give it time. It's a brand new DC and has only been there for six months, which is basically yesterday.
3) We're in a drought, which means no one's really playing right now. You have to wait until 7.0 in 2025 before the DC becomes populated. Why aren't you playing other games?
4) You can just DC travel. Sure it disconnects you from all of your communities, but we all have to do it too, so why can't you?
5) Materia is worse.
6) I have queues just fine. In fact, it takes less than a minute to queue for any roulette (leveling) (class in need only) (only during prime hours) (I only play the game on weekends).

Remember, we're the best MMO right now. WoW has it worse. Did you know they can't even DC travel? I heard they don't even have datacenters. How horrible.

I commend you for keeping up to being a parody of the average ff14 worshipper

[Ath192]

Below is a summary of what our arguments are/will be:
1) It's your fault for moving to Dynamis. You knew it would be slow.
2) Give it time. It's a brand new DC and has only been there for six months, which is basically yesterday.
3) We're in a drought, which means no one's really playing right now. You have to wait until 7.0 in 2025 before the DC becomes populated. Why aren't you playing other games?
4) You can just DC travel. Sure it disconnects you from all of your communities, but we all have to do it too, so why can't you?
5) Materia is worse.
6) I have queues just fine. In fact, it takes less than a minute to queue for any roulette (leveling) (class in need only) (only during prime hours) (I only play the game on weekends).

Remember, we're the best MMO right now. WoW has it worse. Did you know they can't even DC travel? I heard they don't even have datacenters. How horrible.

How do we pin this to the top of the thread?

[NekoMataMata]

Huh?

I data center travel on my Marilith characters a lot and across all times of the day. My travel times have only exceeded 1 minute during peak hours on a Tuesday or first week of a new patch. With a single exception during a patch week, travel time during peak has been 1-3 minutes.

It's funny how you're in the Dynamis DC server where we've had multiple instances of people complaining that at certain times there have been extremely slow DC travel times. I'm not in there any more for valid reasons, but it happens. Guess this is just another case of someone insinuating that because they have never encountered such an issue that the issue in question does not exist.

I don't queue for Alliance raid or PvP since I don't enjoy those and I acknowledge that they're going to have longer queue times on Dynamis.

Minor correction here, but outside of a handful of events, Frontlines does not pop on Dynamis. At all.

But otherwise the only times I've had problems queuing would be for Storm's Crown and Mount Ordeal to get MSQ done, and even transferring to a different data center I still had a wait for those. That makes sense being the most recent MSQ content many Dynamis players haven't reached yet, not to mention some are taking advantage of the Road to 80 bonus while it lasts so they're more focused on leveling their alts jobs.

As more players reach 90 and get up to date with the MSQ, queue times will go down if players stay on Dynamis instead of immediately data center hopping.

I don't really see much of a discussion point on this. This is pretty common knowledge. People sit in queue for the Zodiark MSQ trial as well because Trial Roulettes just doesn't offer that much benefit and there's so few people queueing for it.

I also do the majority of my duty queues on Marilith.

It seems silly to complain about a problem if you're one of those intentionally helping the problem to exist.

That's nice. I also do my daily roulettes on Marilith whenever I can. This usually includes MSQ, Alliance Raids, Levelling, Level X0s, and Alliance, depending on the time of day. I DC travel for Level 90s, Expert, Frontlines almost always though.

Also, is that an accusation? Is that really how far you've fallen to throw out blatant accusations in order to defend against other people's valid points?



Can I ask you a personal question? Are you elderly? You just give off this vibe of being this elderly out of touch person.

You have to realize that it's not just Dynamis that needs cross DC queues. It's incredibly convenient and the general population of the NA servers is slowly deciding on what each DC's purpose is. Actually I think a lot of people had already decided, but now cross DC travel is here and they can actually use each DC. Over time that idea is only going to grow and there is always the potential for it to turn out in a way that if you want PvP you go Primal, if you want content you head to Aether and if you want RP/Venues you head to Crystal.

[CelestiCer]

I data center travel on my Marilith characters a lot and across all times of the day. My travel times have only exceeded 1 minute during peak hours on a Tuesday or first week of a new patch. With a single exception during a patch week, travel time during peak has been 1-3 minutes.

Recently? after patch updates, the queue times were up to 30+ minutes. However... this was a general problem, not just affecting Dynamis. Square did fix this and it's not that big of an issue during off hours or peak hours. So I agree with you mhm.

I should know. I constantly DC travel to buy from other market-boards cause of the overpriced items on Dynamis and Savage raid on several NA DC's. Had to recently go to Aether and Primal to get 10 Eastern Indoor Ponds / 10 Verdant Partitions / 2x Crimson Mat / Flame passion, those are really overpriced here, but a simple DC travel of 1 to 3 minutes at best? was the usual travel time it took and it hasn't really changed.

Players are just impatient, and Square can do better sure. I just never had DC travel in other MMO's I guess... it just would not be available vs FFXIV

[DeNada]

On another note, I hope cross-DC duty/party finders can be implemented in the future.

Already PFs are hollowing out even on established DCs such as Primal and Crystal when it comes to raid content as everyone is travelling to Aether instead (I believe the same thing is happening in EU and JP DCs as well). If this phenomenon is left to continue, it is going to lead to further stratification among the various DCs and congestion whenever there's a new raid patch where everyone would just congregate into a single DC.