Limited Cross Region DC Travel

[ZiraZ]

All paths will end up leading to the same result: Aether Supremacy

[Bonoki]

Oh cool, this will increase the Venue and RP experience in Oceania without actually improving or addressing any of the actual problems the Data Center faces. Why go to Oceania to queue content when we can still go to Aether for a faster experience?

[Nezerius]

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.

Yoshi-P has already mentioned that he wants to figure out how to make cross DC duty finder/party finder work, but that it's gonna require development of a new system to link players from different data centers.

Meanwhile, cross-region travel as a functionality was already included in the overall development for Data Center Travel. Yoshi-P even mentioned that travel between physical data centers was "technically possible" back in January 2022, in the lodestone post confirming the launch date of the Data Center Travel system.
All they're doing with this test is enabling this functionality, with a limit on what physical data center can be traveled to.

*- 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.

It's almost like this is a test, and they're using the least populated datacenter to lessen any possible impact when shit hits the fan.

[Grimr]

ugh this is not the way to fix this dc prob. It really doesn't matter to me to cross dc travel to oceanic. The problem is more i shouldn't have to go to aether for doing content. At the very least before dawntrail you could link the dc pf so i don't have travel over to see it. I would rather do everything on primal like i have been doing.

Now primal is the go to place for hunts so cross server should not be 5min transfer. It should be instantaneous for those not cross dcing. Hunts do not last 5 min. Either the server waits or some dummy pulls it before hand.

Honestly they need to link all na servers together , link eu servers together and then the jpn servers together

[Ayan_Calvesse]

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.

Oh yeah just imagine all the Oceanic alts that people will dump their gil on to suddenly populate the housing districts of Oceania. That's what I foresee happening in EU

[CidHeiral]

They need to delete DC travel, not expand it.

[Abriael]

They need to delete DC travel, not expand it.

Oh yeah, being able to play with your friends anywhere they are without needing to make a new character is such a terrible thing

Imagine thinking we should be confined to our datacenters and regions in 2024.

[littlehobbit13]

Imagine thinking we should be confined to our datacenters and regions in 2024.

Imagine thinking they should be expanding to region travel when they haven't even worked out the problems from their first attempt with DC travel.

I'd much rather see them address the issues with DC travel first, hammer out the details to restore the full play experience to travelers before they take a crack at region travel. Make it first so people have cross-DC comms, or can reach at least the inventory of their retainers, or can access timed nodes or their islands, etc. Don't continue to build on top of a weak foundation. Stabilize what you have, THEN do something bigger.

[GTK0HLK]

Imagine thinking they should be expanding to region travel when they haven't even worked out the problems from their first attempt with DC travel.

Imagine that they can't do both, or the idea that in the end, they do things for what they plan.

It's easy for us as consumers to give the obvious answer, or symptoms that lead to the hidden answer.

Instead of shooting this down, we need to just push "Respectfully" harder on what we want.

[Abriael]

Imagine thinking they should be expanding to region travel when they haven't even worked out the problems from their first attempt with DC travel.

And pray tell, which oh-so-massive problems should they solve that can't be solved with region travel enabled, considering that *it already works* and doesn't need further implementation?

Advocating for artificial borders splitting a MMORPG's community in 2024 is entirely anachronistic. This isn't 1999 (and it was a terrible idea even in 1999).