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

[Katish]

There is one thing they could do but probably won't, outside just gating it that is, and that would be to provide incentives for playing on said dead or new DC continually...damage buffs, gil, etc. That is one way to grab attention and interest...could be by influx hours too. Just message each DC when there is a low population on a specific DC so people can see and join that dead DC, this would allow queues to go smoother and might also build community given people would flock to said DC just to get the rewards, this would allow you to see familiar faces

[CidHeiral]

They either need to disable DC travel entirely or restrict players from using duty/party finder while on a different DC.

[Chie_M]

They either need to disable DC travel entirely or restrict players from using duty/party finder while on a different DC.

I agree with this. Despite the doomposting and lower overall population, Materia is in a significantly better place than Dynamis. Due to being unable to DC travel, our markets, DF and PF are all livelier than Dynamis, even if we have more empty housing plots.

[Jasott]

While the Dynamis players are just making their own problem by refusing to stay on their own data center "because no one queues for anything there" (just stay put and the queues would naturally happen), since a good majority of them moved their for housing plots, what SE should do is automatically demolish houses if you spend X amount of time away from your home data center. Maybe something like 240 hours over the span of a month (roughly a third). So if they hit that 240 hour mark their house is automatically destroyed. Yes it'd be an extreme, but it would get them to actually use those servers instead of SE wasting resources on them.

[Deo14]

While the Dynamis players are just making their own problem by refusing to stay on their own data center "because no one queues for anything there" (just stay put and the queues would naturally happen), since a good majority of them moved their for housing plots, what SE should do is automatically demolish houses if you spend X amount of time away from your home data center. Maybe something like 240 hours over the span of a month (roughly a third). So if they hit that 240 hour mark their house is automatically destroyed. Yes it'd be an extreme, but it would get them to actually use those servers instead of SE wasting resources on them.

This is not player made issue, they're doing what's more convenient for them, just as they should, and just as devs should expect. Devs are fully responsible for having 00s server infrastructure that seems to only handle 8 servers per DC and DF/PF cannot handle cross DC.

SE wasting resources on them

Mate, those players are the ones getting fucked by SE. Because housing is garbage, players who want house need to go to new server/DC to have any chance of getting one. And as result, they become victim of even more garbage system. Most importantly, they're still paying customers, we shouldn't need to do any of this in a first place.

[Chloe_Saunders]

I only datacenter travel to shop, alliance and normal raid roulette normally. If I stayed on my center I would be sing for 3 hours plus for them. And I did that for 6 days in a roll the waiting for q is exhausting. Don't mind and hour and half,however I legit can't do my job as or msq whilein roulette is the big problem

[MaxCarnage]

I also think they're preparing for the future more than the present. I understand 6.0 also had the WoW exodus to help add fuel to the fire, but I feel as though they are putting in preventative measures to try to ensure there's no repeat of the dumpster fire that was 6.0 release.

[NanaWiloh]

The salt about locked character transfer,creation and dc travel ques when 7.0 drops will be delicious.

[Jojoya]

The salt about locked character transfer,creation and dc travel ques when 7.0 drops will be delicious.

Who will be the salty ones, though?

It will also be interesting to see if the ones complaining in 7.0 about queues will be the same ones that had been complaining when 5.0 released.

[DixieBellOCE]

Now before the mass attack i feel coming let me explain this idea. I seen on these very forums a discussion as to why Dynamis is dead. Then today i got to thinking about different ways to achieve it being lively other then maybe counting on 7.0 to liven it up.

The answer was simple. Set worlds on aether, primal and crystal to congested temporarily thereby funneling newly created characters and players into dynamis.. Now again, before im bombarded. I realize that it takes the freedom of having friends possibly creating new characters on your world or moving over there. also takes away your freedom to say make an alt on primal to join a friend. I get that.

However i suggest closing temp to at least make dynamis more lively. Wouldn't need long. maybe a patch cycle. then the worlds in primal, aether and crystal are changed back to normal. they can even monitor how its going population wise and if they see it needs a bit longer or its been long enough then they can change aether, crystal and primal from all congested to whatever (with balmung being on perma congested).

Just add incentives to play on home DC.

Problem solved.