Quote Originally Posted by Colt47 View Post
It makes sense that people all go to one point to do the raiding: The entire point of sitting down when the player gets home and loads into the game is to get into doing something as quickly as possible so they're playing the game. [...] Also, I feel like aether is kind of pushing this game a bit too much towards the "sweat" category vs being about "fun".
I would almost say that's the very problem with "people all go to one point to do the raiding". A single DC now gets to set the culture for how things work now. Crystal and Primal now either get in line with what Aether is doing or they just don't really get to have a PF experience at all. If Aether has decided "sweat" is more important than "fun", then that's how things work now. Nobody else gets a say.

I do take issue with the rewriting of PF history I see people slowly doing though. Many are starting to paint it up like Crystal/Primal NEVER had a functional PF before DC travel, so that it was some kind of salvation for them, and that simply isn't true. You didn't have to wait long to fill a party on Crystal during normal play hours. "Get into content as quickly as possible" was already possible. People didn't go to Aether because of a dead PF; they went to Aether because it was known as "the raiding DC" and that's it.

If anything, for me personally, I now feel like having to go to Aether works against that goal. I can't just "get into content". I have to plan my night out. I can't just do things as I want to do them. Instead, I go to Aether for functional PF and I sit around with nothing else to planning out all the things I need to remember to do when I get "home" since I can't do any of them off-world. It's very much the opposite of getting to do content as quickly as possible.

Quote Originally Posted by LianaThorne View Post
at the very least there should be something in place so that people who want to do things on the DC they picked can actually do them lol. That's not asking for a lot.
Co-signed, fully agree. I don't care if everyone else wants to go to Aether. I care that I now no longer have the same game experience purely because I chose to homeworld on Crystal pre-DC travel and don't want to uproot my whole game life for a single piece of content (raiding). Square needs to provide a way for people who want to stay on their home DC to still have a full game experience.