[Feedback] Data Center Travel Changes

[Sarevok_Thordin]

Infurating how they are handling it. Now world character status affects being able to simply visit the world. Your friends world congested? You ain't getting to visit them even during off-peak times.

Horrible change and this is affecting me visiting a friend on Dynamis, where everyone went to BECAUSE the other worlds were blocked.

[ObscuraFi]

this is affecting me visiting a friend on Dynamis, where everyone went to BECAUSE the other worlds were blocked.

I'm assuming you were trying to get on Seraph? I was surprised they turned it to congested until I remembered when I went there during prime hours and it was Uldah Balmung 2.0

[Sarevok_Thordin]

I'm assuming you were trying to get on Seraph? I was surprised they turned it to congested until I remembered when I went there during prime hours and it was Uldah Balmung 2.0

Yep, friend chose the world cus they liked the name......didn't expect it to be clogged like no tomorrow.

[ObscuraFi]

Yep, friend chose the world cus they liked the name......didn't expect it to be clogged like no tomorrow.

It was considered the roleplay world on Dynamis. It became the most populated world on release so when Travelers come, they often head there because it already had the expectation of being decent population wise.

[kajv95]

This new feature is buggy at best and intentionally deceitful while causing problems at worst. Quite frankly, if I can log into both the receiving world and home world with a "queue" of 25 at best, neither world is actually congested. EU worlds are not struggling.

[EponaTBHSMH]

is World Travel also affected by these loops/people getting stuck, or is this specific to Datacenter Travel?

[ObscuraFi]

is World Travel also affected by these loops/people getting stuck, or is this specific to Datacenter Travel?

If a world is congested at that moment (logins being higher than a certain value and or too many visitors being on that world) and you try to world visit, you will get stuck in the loading screen prompt in-game, unable to queue for content/teleport, etc. Back during Endwalker, people got stuck in the world visit function for 6-10+ hours having to wait until prime time was over entirely before it let them switch.

[Kit_Lakshmi]

Data center travel is currently garbage and BROKEN. The situation is not merely a matter of keeping servers from being overly congested, the system is broken. There's no way the intention was to allow a player to (1) start the character transfer process, (2) have the server they selected get flagged as congested after they start, (3) wait 30 minutes or more while the game times out and closes over and over, (4) and not be able to play on any other character whatsoever. Players are given no options once they are trapped in this situation.

I have not seen any official recognition by SE that the system is broken. So my guess is that we're gonna have this broken system for a long while and I'm advising all my friends to avoid data center travel particularly during peak hours. There's also ZERO chance that I will create a character on a low population server now and I'm advising potential new players on which low population servers to avoid starting on because who wants to get trapped on those?

[ObscuraFi]

and I'm advising potential new players on which low population servers to avoid starting on because who wants to get trapped on those?

Well, Aether has no new character creation. Half of Primal and Crystal have no new character creation. Aether has no world visit during prime hours. Primal and Crystal become half a data center visitation wise during prime hours with all of the most populated worlds being unaccessible to a new player. 8 worlds visitation wise that have travelers from all 3 main data centers, small medium and large housing with 0 bids for weeks/months, leveling buff, or...a crippled data center for visitation with a bigger marketboard for the moment (which you don't have gil to spend on significantly because you're a sprout) and slightly faster queue's and minimum housing.

[Kit_Lakshmi]

Well, Aether has no new character creation. Half of Primal and Crystal have no new character creation. Aether has no world visit during prime hours. Primal and Crystal become half a data center visitation wise during prime hours with all of the most populated worlds being unaccessible to a new player. 8 worlds visitation wise that have travelers from all 3 main data centers, small medium and large housing with 0 bids for weeks/months, leveling buff, or...a crippled data center for visitation with a bigger marketboard for the moment (which you don't have gil to spend on significantly because you're a sprout) and slightly faster queue's and minimum housing.

Pros and cons to either and different individual experiences to be sure. My friends who have characters on Dynamis had been spending more time on the other data centers because of longer roulette queue times on their Dynamis servers. With the data center transfer mess, they aren't even touching those characters.

I did not mean to imply I intend to make a broad public broadcast to all potential new players to avoid certain less populated servers, I meant my friends and friends of my friends who we will want to play with. Having half of Crystal available is a much better option than dealing with the current data center travel garbage.