[Feedback] Data Center Travel Changes

[Veladrys]

Just adding my two gil in as someone who owns one venue and helps manage several others, this has us all pretty worried. The open public RP nights in Buscarron's Druthers on Balmung that a few of us have been working to promote had a fraction of its usual population the other day due to the changes. I have the reopening of my fight club venue tonight, and I'm already expecting it's going to be a much lighter crowd than pre-Dawntrail. We have a number of off-DC participants and patrons, and I really don't want them to be excluded because of this.

[BoxyFoxy]

Members of my static also unable to raid with us on Aether, and we can't travel to another server or we get locked in queue for an hour, then when we finally transfer over, we have to spend another hour trying to login because "Servers are congested, Visiting Characters cannot login."

It's single handedly the biggest blunder they've made involving world travel.

I get that it was to prevent too many people on one world, but it's preventing their community from interacting with each other.

[angienessyo]

I understand them trying to keep everyone and their mom from descending upon us on Aether for raiding, but they made it really annoying for everyone with the restrictions. I'm fine with there being some restrictions, but I think they might have made them way too strict. The 1 person in my static that isn't on Aether has to world transfer 7 hours before raid to ensure he doesn't have to fight crowds to get in at prime time.

[Lck0ut]

I understand them trying to keep everyone and their mom from descending upon us on Aether for raiding, but they made it really annoying for everyone with the restrictions. I'm fine with there being some restrictions, but I think they might have made them way too strict. The 1 person in my static that isn't on Aether has to world transfer 7 hours before raid to ensure he doesn't have to fight crowds to get in at prime time.

Inversely, I am the only Aether-dweller in my static, and a majority are on crystal. It is frustrating to no end, as I either cannot access fc buffs, my retainers, or do certain things that SE locked down to people only on their homeworld (Diadem, timed gathering nodes to be precise) for multiple hours each day, or spend 1+ hour trying to get over to crystal right before raid.

[Eskat]

I think what I hate about this most is that it's actively incentivizing us to participate in the behavior they're trying to quell. I'm being far more stubborn about trying to get "my slot" on foreign data centers now. It's not incentivizing me to play on my own world and data center, it's prompting me to hog the space on the desired location for longer than I even intend to use it.

[1313]

I think what I hate about this most is that it's actively incentivizing us to participate in the behavior they're trying to quell. I'm being far more stubborn about trying to get "my slot" on foreign data centers now. It's not incentivizing me to play on my own world and data center, it's prompting me to hog the space on the desired location for longer than I even intend to use it.

I was thinking along these lines myself. I was contemplating going and parking my ass on aether and never logging out. Might do that around 6am when I can actually get over there.

[Andanie]

The wild thing about this is they introduced a system specifically to make it easier to visit friends on other servers then made it hard and frustratating to do so an expansion later. This is such a bad change. It makes it harder for FC's and communities who host events on more populated servers to allow members in those communities interaction. My friends can visit me, but I can't visit the ones on servers like Balmung or Seraph (The two big Rp servers on the Crystal and Dynamis data centers specifically.) Fortunately for me most of my friends are on mateus but it's still so bad.

[skelal]

i was looking forward to attending events on NA DCs again but i guess i'm shit out of luck until they do something about this. i can't see my friends on aether or crystal and they can't come to my world on primal either. raid progs have been canceled because they couldn't get in nor out of dynamis with all other worlds being barred outright. far too many horror stories about people getting booted while waiting and then being unable to log in for hours on end. seriously if this isn't changed soon i'm likely going to drop my NA character entirely. aether is practically perma congested so i can't transfer back there, and there's no point in having an alt if i can't play with my american friends anywhere but materia anyway.

what was the intention behind this change anyway? on NA it looks like it ruined everyone's cross DC statics and only further helped screw over the population of dynamis. if they were trying to fix the "damage" done to each data center's respective party finder then they probably should have taken action sooner and not this long after implementing the system. just seems like a stupid decision they didn't think about at all. like, what's the appeal of transfering to a less populated data center now when you can't even keep playing with the friends that stay behind? why get new friends into the game if they can only create a character on new worlds and you can't even play together? and then there's the cool new feature of even if you manage to travel there's no guarantee you can log in at all. any amount of queue will already bar you from entering entirely when you're a traveler so good luck during peak hours. i just don't see how this positively affects anything.

[Rueby]

Ah so this is collateral damage for like....people having this scuffed hivemind to pile up in one DC? That sucks, I think everyone should enjoy that freedom, then again when given freedom people piled up on Aether/Light and made them the region's 'raid' DCs. I used to see plenty of PFs on Chaos to keep me occupied, but ever since cross DC happened, there was barely any so I stopped doing content. DC travel is tedious to me, I hate losing access to my retainers and buffs.

I don't know that this is the best solution, in an ideal world we'd have the ability to have a cross world PF/DF within the same region so people don't have to run to a certain DC to do content. Then DC travel can be for going there to hang out with friends or for PVE stuff.

[DracotheDragon]

I really don't understand the change, to use the phrase "if it ain't broke don't fix it" the launch of Dawntrail was super smooth and the system worked well as it was. Now you got people unable to leave and unable to return home easily and you (se) turned on automatic house demolition.

Edit: if they are worried about people flooding a dc for raids, they should try to work out that cross DC party finder they mentioned a few years back, maybe use the cloud DC as a instance holder for cross DC parties? I'm sure people wouldn't mind a little loading time if it meant a smoother overall gameplay with more people across the world