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

[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

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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)

[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.

[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.

[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.