[Feedback] Data Center Travel Changes

[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.

[Starstriker198]

SE playing with dc travel has affected all worlds. For sake of everyone here. It’s best is to remove limit on congestion worlds for time being and capacity of and once’s with less people expend it widely.

[druidly]

I just want to point out that this new system is even blocking out traveling to Dynamis, supposedly the only non congested server. And no, not just on Seraph. Our raid group is split between Crystal and Primal, so our entire raid time yesterday was spent trying to meet up, at first on Crystal - it was congested even though our world is standard, but we thought okay fine we’ll go to Dynamis instead. NOPE. Spent two hours in queue trying to get into a new/preferred world, with every single one of us being trapped in queue limbo while the game repeatedly crashed. For Two. Hours. This is a terrible system for people trying to get somewhere specific for events or raid groups trying to meet up at a specific time, but even the failsafe of going somewhere less populated doesn’t work. Our entire raid time yesterday was eaten up by queue time so we didn’t even get in to see M1. And none of us are from the problematic, congested raid server Boogeyman Aether, nor were any of us trying to go there. I’m honestly so upset by it that I made an account here just to voice my concern, because this new system frankly, sucks. Longer queue times for Aether and to a lesser extent Crystal I could understand, but constant crashing, being locked into queue for over 2 hours, and not even being able to travel to a supposedly preferred/new world is unacceptable to me.

[horsebirds]

Thank you to everyone who's posted their feedback about the DC travel changes! It's been nice to see what so many other people have to say, and I'm hopeful that this can continue being a place where people share their thoughts about this topic.

I will say that with the way the system works now, not only is it hard to bring my Dynamis character anywhere other than Dynamis, I've also become pretty wary of bringing my Aether character anywhere other than Aether. I don't want him to be unable to return home. After launch, even when the servers were more restricted, that wasn't much of a problem for me. I knew the system was stable enough that I could bring him to Dynamis when Aether was crowded and then send him home without any trouble when things calmed down. And I did so, several times! Without that assurance I feel as though it's smarter to stay put. I feel less inclined to "spread out" than I did before. Now that I've seen others worried about the same, my suspicion is that Dynamis is going to see less visitors after this change, not more.

[RaenBlackMage]

This is exactly the case for me as well. I was using Dynamis as the way around cross-DC travel being mostly shut off during DT launch. It was how I kept seeing my cross-DC friends. Now, even that is gone, or might as well be.

[Ayan_Calvesse]

I am the one and only.


I'm the person primarily responsible for cluster farming on Dynamis. When Diggi first started organized runs of fate farming/castrums for sprouts when Dynamis launched, I was the person that helped them farm for riding maps and extra income. That was a secondary reason I farmed so hard during the old beef with Crystal is because they were pissing off other people from Dynamis in the instance when they tried to deny my clusters or took over the 4th legion spawns. I was in DM's on discord with people happy I tanked Crystal in retaliation because they came to Dynamis acting like they ran things. Same issue happened on OCE from a thread someone made where people were doing hunts in non-primetime hours for natives and screwing them over because they were asleep. Same issue with English people jumping into heavy JP data center raids and not running things their way.

That aside, one of the reasons I liked the data center travel restriction is because it finally got enough people in bozja besides me to run Castrum ever so often and people without essence could brute force fates instead of blaming me for the scaling despite me spawning CE's for them to get the mettle back. Dawntrail was actually kinda lit at the start because the queue time was so long that I couldn't get all my alts in and invited random people to my group to finish the spots for free clusters. That way they could keep up with the trains that were getting ran since instances had 40-60 ppl and I found some people for my linkshell to farm later.

interesting....don't suppose you got queens rests for sale on dyna? lol Kraken.

[KazukoHimura]

Now that I've seen others worried about the same, my suspicion is that Dynamis is going to see less visitors after this change, not more.

I'm honestly in full agreement-and this is from a Dynamis native that would like to see the server flourish. The main reason I was on other servers was for RP purposes. If all my RP friends were on Dynamis I'd have stayed there. But alas, they are not. They're on Crystal and Primal, about 90/10 proportion wise. That's literally all I want is to go see them and RP in their player houses. Please Sqenix, let us do just that.

[localareanetwork]

its really bad..

[Ayan_Calvesse]

I actually liked the idea of Dyanmis being a "borderlands" where all the servers could visit at the start of DT; so much that I made a alt and leveled him up to set up a meeting place on Kraken.

[KazukoHimura]

I actually liked the idea of Dyanmis being a "borderlands" where all the servers could visit at the start of DT; so much that I made a alt and leveled him up to set up a meeting place on Kraken.

While that is a good point and can work for some situation, it can't work for others, say, certain RP groups that use player housing as their settings.