New Shadow DC in the EU.

[LaylaTsarra]

https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...36c73ad1bad7ba

Coming on Tuesday May 7th the DC will be added but not accessible. Should be interesting to see how this fills when they actually open it. Only 3 new worlds doesn't sound like it's going to reach a critical mass quick as a functioning DC.

[Dagget]

I'm going to take this as confirmation that duty queues will become region-wide with the launch of Dawntrail. Otherwise, a datacenter with only 3 worlds will have issues queueing for 24 and 8-man content just as Dynamis has (despite it's worlds being well populated).

[sindriiisgaming]

I'm going to take this as confirmation that duty queues will become region-wide with the launch of Dawntrail. Otherwise, a datacenter with only 3 worlds will have issues queueing for 24 and 8-man content just as Dynamis has (despite it's worlds being well populated).

he said in his interview with meoni that it is logistically impossible to merge the df and pf

[Minali]

he said in his interview with meoni that it is logistically impossible to merge the df and pf

That's a bit short for a summary and leaving out some crucial details. He said it's impossible at the moment and the rework of the system in a way making this possible would take 2-3 years. They are however aware there is an issue with people travelling to a few DCs for content, leaving others empty, and they're trying to look into solutions that don't take 2-3 years. If they are implementing a short term solution while working at the "proper" one in the back until 8.0 was not mentioned, they have to ponder about this issue for a while and come up with a plan.

[Rehayem]

That's a bit short for a summary and leaving out some crucial details. He said it's impossible at the moment and the rework of the system in a way making this possible would take 2-3 years. They are however aware there is an issue with people travelling to a few DCs for content, leaving others empty, and they're trying to look into solutions that don't take 2-3 years. If they are implementing a short term solution while working at the "proper" one in the back until 8.0 was not mentioned, they have to ponder about this issue for a while and come up with a plan.

One short term solution would be to disable cross DC travel until the implement those DF/PF changes no?

[Minali]

One short term solution would be to disable cross DC travel until the implement those DF/PF changes no?

Technically, yes, but I guess people would riot because Square "rips apart their statics" or something...
That aside, with the upcoming expansion it is a good idea to have extra space for people to avoid congestion. That's why Shadow is being opened the way it is after all, and I suppose that's why they added new servers to Dynamis as well, despite the DC being fairly new. (My partner and I will certainly try hopping over to Shadow, should stuff get dire again.)

I could imagine them turning it off half a year or so after Dawntrail dropped though, when congestion is less of an issue. That said, I think this will be the last desperate step when nothing else works regardless. Media tour gave them some other ideas on how to handle it, like giving extra rewards or so for going to a specific DC and rotating or adding a bonus for queueing in your own DC or something. We'll have to wait and see what they'll come up with based on this.

[Minali]

Unless this comes with a regional party finder, I doubt a lot of people will join there, stay there and play all the things there. From what I hear it's not as bad as in NA but just like everyone is DC travelling to Aether in NA, plenty of Chaos players seem to DC travel to Light nowadays. (I am playing on Light, so I have no first hand experience of things getting worse ofc.) Maybe opening it when or shortly before Dawntrail drops might give it a bit of a head start, who knows, but it will have a tough time developing a good stable player base over there.

[Reinha]

It's main uses will be to dump congestion during content launches, to offer people a way to do extra hunt trains and S rank spawns and to be a new source of medium and large houses (if they even open the wards on these servers).

[Larirawiel]

The biggest problem regards of servers is the login servercluster because there is only one login servercluster each DC. And if those servers get full then you get those long login queues. Adding a new DC will increase the login servercluster count from 2 to 3.

But i doubt, that 3 servers are healthy for a DC. But maybe they found a way to decouple the content queues from DCs.


Cheers

[LillyWandsworth]

I don't really get it, if the reason is to ease congestion then what was the purpose of letting us DC travel to OCE, I don't think I need to tell you about how dead Chaos is already.
I'm just really confused about the purpose.