[Suggestion] Close off Aether, Primal and Crystal to new character creation temp!

[Ranaku]

Or...maybe...just maybe give Dynamis a bit of time or actually try to form a community over there to do stuff with. Dynamis isn't dead, people just expect that a new datacenter is from the start as populated as the old ones. Which is bonkers. It will need a lot of time for Dynamis to get a good population and everyone going there or creating a char there should've known what they sign up for, if you don't like it there is always the option to transfer your character to a more populated datacenter...or just travel.

[Stormpeaks]

Or...maybe...just maybe give Dynamis a bit of time or actually try to form a community over there to do stuff with. Dynamis isn't dead, people just expect that a new datacenter is from the start as populated as the old ones. Which is bonkers. It will need a lot of time for Dynamis to get a good population and everyone going there or creating a char there should've known what they sign up for, if you don't like it there is always the option to transfer your character to a more populated datacenter...or just travel.

"just give it time" lmao

like Materia ? The datacenter that is still an absolute ghost town to this day after a year or more ?

Dynamis is dead, and even the people that decided to move there are 24/7 on other more established datacenters, Seraph is the only world that is sort of "alive", the other 3 are ghost towns and if you look at housing it gives you a good image of that

[Daeriion_Aeradiir]

"just give it time" lmao

like Materia ? The datacenter that is still an absolute ghost town to this day after a year or more ?

Dynamis is dead, and even the people that decided to move there are 24/7 on other more established datacenters, Seraph is the only world that is sort of "alive", the other 3 are ghost towns and if you look at housing it gives you a good image of that

Materia has multiple issues with it that Dynamis doesn't need to deal with though, hence it was a doomed prophecy from the get-go.

Dynamis was never meant to become super populated during 6.X series - it's always been meant to handle 7.0 (technically it was meant for 6.0, but chip shortage for network servers was extremely brutal), where DC travel will become basically impossible due to the massive amounts of returning players causing multi-hour long transfer queues, and where most likely, every single Aether/Crystal/Primal server will be placed on lockdown, force-funneling new characters to Dynamis and effectively forcing them to play on it (also highly suspect they'll force-return every player back to Dynamis thats DC traveling when the game goes for 7.0 maintenance to alleviate queues for other servers from DC travellers). The only reason they added it early was to make sure that the hardware & backend of it was actively operational instead of sticking it in right before 7.0 and having it suffer from failures right before the moment its crucially needed.

[Avoidy]

Would be cool if we had region-wide queues for dailies and things. One thing I see a lot are dynamis players traveling to crystal for the queues so they can get their dailies done. I feel like if we had that, but otherwise put a pause on DC travel in general when a new DC dropped, that would allow the DC to actually breathe and form its own culture and economy without it being ruined by people just traveling to places that were already established. Probably would've helped to have dynamis release with half the worlds it released with, but it was also pretty obvious that dynamis was made to future proof against the anticipated population influx 7.0 could bring, so, eh. It's a bummer. I know people who wanted to go to dynamis to have an all new community experience. They wanted to spearhead initiatives on a new world and be at the forefront of, like, a whole new frontier. Instead 90% of the population bought a house and then dc traveled to crystal. I don't think any new DC will ever get to come into its own ever again now that DC travel exists.

[Stormpeaks]

Would be cool if we had region-wide queues for dailies and things. One thing I see a lot are dynamis players traveling to crystal for the queues so they can get their dailies done. I feel like if we had that, but otherwise put a pause on DC travel in general when a new DC dropped, that would allow the DC to actually breathe and form its own culture and economy without it being ruined by people just traveling to places that were already established. Probably would've helped to have dynamis release with half the worlds it released with, but it was also pretty obvious that dynamis was made to future proof against the anticipated population influx 7.0 could bring, so, eh. It's a bummer. I know people who wanted to go to dynamis to have an all new community experience. They wanted to spearhead initiatives on a new world and be at the forefront of, like, a whole new frontier. Instead 90% of the population bought a house and then dc traveled to crystal. I don't think any new DC will ever get to come into its own ever again now that DC travel exists.

Same will happen with the new EU DC they want to create, the new worlds (Sagi and Raiden) are already barely surviving, the economy is absolutely dead and the population is very tiny, while Phantom and Alpha got quite a few people, but when they release 8 new worlds with the new EU DC, they will just become dead worlds as the EU doesnt have the population to populate a new DC, and yet they seem to be going ahead with that idea no matter the fact that it will make an already tinier community (compared to NA) spread out even more, not only that but also create empty worlds that will end up like Materia,and the daring few that will move there will go back to Light to do content. Same issue, different region, they actually dont have a clue what they are doing and it shows.

[Hasrat]

Same will happen with the new EU DC they want to create, the new worlds (Sagi and Raiden) are already barely surviving, the economy is absolutely dead and the population is very tiny, while Phantom and Alpha got quite a few people, but when they release 8 new worlds with the new EU DC, they will just become dead worlds as the EU doesnt have the population to populate a new DC, and yet they seem to be going ahead with that idea no matter the fact that it will make an already tinier community (compared to NA) spread out even more, not only that but also create empty worlds that will end up like Materia,and the daring few that will move there will go back to Light to do content. Same issue, different region, they actually dont have a clue what they are doing and it shows.

Yeahhh... they said the same thing the last time EU got an entire new data center. "Just merge all these empty servers back." "EU servers are so dead."

And by 6.0, they're clamoring for more worlds because they're absolutely packed.

[Stormpeaks]

Yeahhh... they said the same thing the last time EU got an entire new data center. "Just merge all these empty servers back." "EU servers are so dead."

And by 6.0, they're clamoring for more worlds because they're absolutely packed.

They were packed after the massive WoW "exodus", but a lot of people stopped playing the game, went back to WoW, or are playing both games, we are not in that phase anymore, the "packed servers" phase is gone, Sagittarius and Raiden are good evidences of that, there's really not that many people there, and even the other worlds dont have that many queues except when all the bots that are under Limsa decide to log in (there's hundreds of them under there, and it goes for new gridania as well and uldah)

[littlehobbit13]

One thing I see a lot are dynamis players traveling to crystal for the queues so they can get their dailies done. I feel like if we had that, but otherwise put a pause on DC travel in general when a new DC dropped, that would allow the DC to actually breathe and form its own culture and economy without it being ruined by people just traveling to places that were already established. [...] I don't think any new DC will ever get to come into its own ever again now that DC travel exists.

Yeah, I think outside of temporarily disabling DC travel whenever they stand up a new DC/server, the only way to help force life into it would be through rewarding or punitive measures. Like, you get Road to 80 from the new world, but you only get to benefit from it while you're on the world that granted it. That would discourage people from DC traveling for dailies. Or maybe the daily roulettes grant extra tomes if you run them on a new world. That would encourage people from established DCs to travel TO the new worlds. I think DC travel has been great, but they definitely need to offer something that counteracts it to give new worlds a chance at developing.

[Starshower]

Yeah, I think outside of temporarily disabling DC travel whenever they stand up a new DC/server, the only way to help force life into it would be through rewarding or punitive measures. Like, you get Road to 80 from the new world, but you only get to benefit from it while you're on the world that granted it. That would discourage people from DC traveling for dailies. Or maybe the daily roulettes grant extra tomes if you run them on a new world. That would encourage people from established DCs to travel TO the new worlds. I think DC travel has been great, but they definitely need to offer something that counteracts it to give new worlds a chance at developing.

This makes a lot of sense. Since road to 80 is there to incentivise server growth it shouldn't be an active buff while world traveling.

[Ravenblade1979]

now i seen region wide queues mentioned. while this would be cool. they would essentially be programming it into the dc travel system i would believe. which might end up being complicated because you are essentially pulling characters from different dc's into one location. its temp travel but with how the system is designed. would need a total rework