Please help Dynamis

[Supersnow845]

It won’t really fix the DC travelling problem but they could alleviate it somewhat by just locking all of aether

Right now they are just cycling 2-3 aether worlds that are locked at a time and keeping the other 5 open then repeating it the next time so aether is just constantly inflating without any really stopping mechanism

Jenova is now the third busiest server in the game; jenova used to be known as Aethers sleepy little brother

Aether as a whole needs to be disincentivised for non aether residents because it’s hurting both groups

[Jojoya]

Aether as a whole needs to be disincentivised for non aether residents because it’s hurting both groups

The problem is finding ways to give players incentives to stay on their home worlds or disincentives for traveling to other worlds that will catch their attention. I had brought the subject up earlier in the year but no one could think of a way to do it that others would agree to. No one wants to feel like they're missing out on a benefit or being penalized due to choice of world.

[Ardeth]

The problem is finding ways to give players incentives to stay on their home worlds or disincentives for traveling to other worlds that will catch their attention. I had brought the subject up earlier in the year but no one could think of a way to do it that others would agree to. No one wants to feel like they're missing out on a benefit or being penalized due to choice of world.

I think it’s mainly because time is our most valuable resource. No amount of gil, housing, or exp is going to make up for someone consistently filling queues. The brass tax of it is time. You need players to do conent with, and Aether has most of them. Honestly, no incentives are ever going to work. But if we remove the importance of the server, then we fix the problem. Once it's all linked and I can insta queue on Dynamis or fill a pug on the PF, these threads stop. The reality of it being objectively stupid to play on Dynamis stops. Balls in your court SE. Balls in your court.

And that would fix Primal and Crystal as well. And before someone shouts my server identity, I think you're nuts if you think any of it still exists. On Dynamis right now, the amount of venue spam I get for Crystal is nuts. The amount of foreign players, honestly, just for hunts is nuts. Aether has to feel like New York City in comparison. Brimming with more tourists than locals if you follow me.

[Nayukhuut]

Sad thing is that even if everyone did not move to Aether for content as they currently tend to, we would still be in a worse spot than the other Data Centers due to being stuck at half the servers. I would ask when we would get those other 4 servers, but 4 more servers of people who just leave to queue for content won't help anyway.

I wish we could just get cross Data Center PF and Duty Finder.

[ValkyrieL]

Why this was already a low pop, data center travel was a mistake....Primal suffered the same fate. They should revert it or make it a social aspect only, completely banned PF/queue for travelers

[Swordsman]

We need cross datacenter grouping asap.

Yeah, man that honestly sucks. Just DC travel, lol.

[Eastwall]

We need cross datacenter grouping asap.

Oh boy, that's so dead. Reminds me of the unranked feast match back then. Feels bad

[EorzeaWanderer]

I see some people saying that this is a player-created problem, that if only people stayed on Dynamis to queue, things would work out. I disagree.

SE has set things up the way they are now. These are the current "rules of the game":
- Players are spread across different home data centers
- Players get better DF and PF activity if more players are on the data center they are on
- Players can freely travel among data centers

The obvious, optimal solution to the "game" so to speak, as it is currently designed, is for *all players to try to play on a single data center* because doing so benefits *all* of those players.

This is the current game design from SE. It's not really a "self-fulfilling prophecy" to say that one data center is for raiding. It is the inevitable result of players choosing to play optimally! And we are gamers, of course that's what we are going to try to do.

Asking someone to voluntarily choose to seek DF and PF activity on a non-congregating data center is basically asking them to play suboptimally.

SE are the game designers, and it's a bit concerning if they never thought this through.

I hate what DC travel has done to my PF (Crystal) and my FC chat. All of the announcements around data-center travel that I remember pitched it as being a way to play with your friends. They could have accomplished this by having DF and PF inaccessible to travelers. No party creation, either. Your friends could have invited you to whatever activity, you're good. This would have been enough to keep people on their home DCs and Primal and Crystal would have been just fine, as they were before the change. Not sure about Dynamis, but I guess we'll never know.

The genie's out of the bottle and it's probably going to be awkward to remove free-reign DC travel now that people are using it. The only way out of this is cross-DC matchmaking.