Limited Cross Region DC Travel

[Ryvick]

Link to the announcement for the 24th of March:

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...def5ddcd343779

[Jeeqbit]

I'm glad it's happening. The cloud test showed that all the regions can play together and this will be another opportunity to show that.

If it goes well, they could apply the same rules to Dynamis on 7.0 release.

[Larirawiel]

YAAAAY ... i mean ... NOOOOOO! My alts will become unnecessary now. xD




Cheers

[Oizen]

Can't wait for the rest of the planet to be forced to DC travel to Aether just to have an active PF too.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Can't wait for the rest of the planet to be forced to DC travel to Aether just to have an active PF too.

The Aetherial Manipulation of PF is real. This is true Despair... q_q

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/j

[Jojoya]

My concern is whether enough players will travel to Materia to give SE the data they need from the test. With it being an existing data center, some of the craziness that players were able to engage in during the cloud data center test wouldn't be tolerated. That would deter some participation.

I can see some hunters going to Materia to get away from NA hunt congestion. Those with friends on Materia would also have reason to travel. But what would entice other players during the test?

Can't wait for the rest of the planet to be forced to DC travel to Aether just to have an active PF too.

If it goes live, there's always the possibility that SE will set things up to work as they will during the test.

What if players will be able to only travel to designated regions/data centers based on current online populations and return to their home worlds instead of to any region/data center?

I could easily see this happening in an attempt to balance congestion issues. We know that SE can shut down travel to specific worlds/data centers if there is a need. It wouldn't prevent friends from playing with friends - they would just need to meet on a world open to Travelers.

Just like character creation locks, they can rotate which data centers are open to Travelers.

[Ravenblade1979]

Can't wait for the rest of the planet to be forced to DC travel to Aether just to have an active PF too.

We on aether didn't deem is the content DC lol. If people learned to stay away then it would be fine. I want to see the system tweaked so savages, ultimates and latest extremes cant be done off your native data center

[Ravenblade1979]

Link to the announcement for the 24th of March:

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...def5ddcd343779

The cloud data center I think was the true test. Multi regions swarmed it and we had a blast.

This is just not needed. Bring in the cloud data centers and let us have fun that way.

[DrForester]

What an absolute waste of resources.

We don't need cross DC travel*. We need cross DC party finders. Servers going to blow up when Dawntrail raids hit and everyone is overloading 1 DC in each region.

*- Hilarious that the one DC that DOES actually need regional travel (Oceana) is the one DC that can't travel in this test. They should have always let them travel to JPN DCs where they started.

[Supersnow845]

What an absolute waste of resources.

We don't need cross DC travel*. We need cross DC party finders. Servers going to blow up when Dawntrail raids hit and everyone is overloading 1 DC in each region.

*- Hilarious that the one DC that DOES actually need regional travel (Oceana) is the one DC that can't travel in this test. They should have always let them travel to JPN DCs where they started.

This way works better, it encourages people to mingle on OCE (even if you have no interest in OCE itself you can intermingle with people from the other regions together on OCE), letting people from materia travel out of materia (to either aether or elemental) just makes materia an extension of said DC for no benefit like dynamis currently is for aether