[Feedback] Data Center Travel Changes

[PassinLay]

Update: Balmung is at visitor cap even when classified for Standard visitor capacity instead of Reduced. Since traveler cap is the same regardless of individual classification, only difference is creating an alt works, and pre-parking is easier. Traveling in prime time still impossible.

"impossible"

It quite literally is possible lmao, it might take a bit yeah, but it's easily-ish doable. Takes about 20 to 25 mins top, did it myself yesterday before transfers opened.

Also I sincerely hope that you understand them opening balmung isnt the W you seem to think it is to prove your point.

[VoidsentStatus]

"impossible"
Takes about 20 to 25 mins top

My bad, impossible if you don't want to play Placard Housing (Ultimate) that they patched out of the game after years of complaints.

[KazukoHimura]

I did notice that they at least took away locking people out of logging into a world they successfully traveled to, so that's a good sign. Starting to wonder if this is a one-time thing that only happens after expac launches. If that's the case, then I think they need to be more transparent about it, instead of, you know, dropping it on us Day 1 with no notice.

[xanatosdc]

I did notice that they at least took away locking people out of logging into a world they successfully traveled to, so that's a good sign. Starting to wonder if this is a one-time thing that only happens after expac launches. If that's the case, then I think they need to be more transparent about it, instead of, you know, dropping it on us Day 1 with no notice.

A good sign... maybe? But it also makes the problem worse, as people can now just camp without issue. And no, "just camp yourself" is not the answer... It'd just contribute to the problem.

They still made everything worse than it was before.

[VoidsentStatus]

around 9PM or so

what time zone? im assuming west

we have a *lot* of new people so wipes are bound to happen. Not that I blame folks for being new to the game, but it feels like I keep getting volunteered to play Mentor without any of the perks, lol. We also have had more than a few people from A/P/C who act rudely during PVE content because it's obvious they're only here due to log-in congestion, and take their annoyance out on us even though they didn't *need* to come here.

Yep. I got tam-tara hard yesterday and had some wipes due to not soaking circles and a ifrit trial where i had explain tank stance and the nail mechanic. definitely depends on where you land in the roulette whether you get og players or legit sprouts. I was actually looking at some data from a JP guy who runs a survey/data scrape from lodestone on character statistics. Had active players for every data region classified and was thinking about how the devs might've interpretted the numbers for future adjustments.

Credit to Lucky Bancho from Carbuncle:


And this was a Chrome translation of his comments:


It was interesting to see how Seraph is almost nearly a regular world for NA and Hali is borderline almost the same population as a JP world at least. Just the others have been lacking traffic at all. They slowed down Seraph as congested which makes sense now since they don't want that disparity even worse, so the question is if Hali and Kraken might be next to get congested marker after they hit a similar territory if they're the next fastest growing and they want to fill out the other dynamis worlds. But, Dynamis as a whole growing faster than the other DC's on NA is a good sign at least.

Later on he made comparisons to Mana and Aether,


And the last shot I had of JP PF from that evened out bit he talked about had their 4 data centers like this (the 150 dip is Elemental, the primary English DC for JP):


It took Mana on full congestion status of like a year before they reached that and now Mana is finally coming off that recently after Dawntrail. So I'm wondering if that's the goal before Aether opens up, how long it'll take NA to make that adjustment.

[KageTokage]

It's honestly a sad joke how often we've been having random server outages since post-release.

I made the mistake of going to Cuchlainn for a hunt mark and now I'm trapped and can't escape.

[xanatosdc]

It's honestly a sad joke how often we've been having random server outages since post-release.

I made the mistake of going to Cuchlainn for a hunt mark and now I'm trapped and can't escape.

But don't you realise, your experience doesn't count because it's probably somehow your own fault. Should've considered the moon phase before going there. /s

[scatteringmyashes]

I'm very late to this thread and haven't read any of the previous posts, really, but I wanted to put my two cents in as someone who is getting really handicapped by these DC changes. My characters are ALL on Dynamis, with my main on Maduin, and my favorite thing to do in the game is sit and watch PF to see if there's any groups I can join. Specifically, I'm trying to farm the extremes for the wings and I'm progging the savage tier. I also have a static that has members from all NA data centers except Crystal.

Because of the changes, Dynamis PF is usually dead (I'm talking 40 listings on primetime Tuesday, less than 20 on off hours) and, the cherry on top, I can't even go to Aether to get into big parties. I had to go to Crystal which had a few parties, but even on a Saturday afternoon I had to give up after two hours of one or two clear parties disbanding immediately after. I was down to join other parties, but after two hours I couldn't find anything for what I was looking for. It's really killing my motivation to log on because of how much effort you have to put in for such little reward.

I miss when all the NA worlds were closed except for Dynamis, because then at least everyone had to come to the same world. As it is, Aether gets to hang out and do its thing and the rest of us are scrounging for scraps.

[VoidsentStatus]

I miss when all the NA worlds were closed except for Dynamis, because then at least everyone had to come to the same world. As it is, Aether gets to hang out and do its thing and the rest of us are scrounging for scraps.

I was talking to a friend of mine yesterday and one of the things I realized was actually how Dynamis got indirectly screwed over compared to the growth of the other Data Centers when they were created. When worlds got added in the past, when Crystal DC first got created, etc., there was no DC Travel. You made a character there, ran content there. You didn't have this phenominon like Dynamis where people created a character there, and then expected to run content elsewhere. Every other addition in the past got to experience organic growth while Dynamis is always going to be nerfed a bit because people will join for the "wrong" reasons (from a dev standpoint). When I was looking at the numbers from the survey/lodestone datamine, I realized that the ratios are skewed even to reflect that. Crystal, Aether, and Primal all had similar players as home world at around 200k'ish, while Dynamis was at 70k. But you look at the PF and you see Primal at 100-125, Aether at 150, Crystal at 60-80'ish last I was checking. You have 25-200% differences in PF strength even with the same home characters. Crystal was known for RP so a smaller conversion rate of playerbase count->PF makes sense a bit. But you look at Dynamis and it should be 35% of what the others are, and the closest to 35% that we hit is 35% of Crystal, the low end of the main DC spectrum. We don't have the same conversion rate of home world players->PF that Primal and Aether have, we have a similar skew to Crystal who have more character creation bias than the others. Only difference is that Crystal had that organic growth period and started with players naturally from worlds that already existed instead of being empty by default.

On the note of scavenging for raid, I had a friend that cleared M1S on Dynamis, then did M2S and M3S on Primal, Primal didn't have good reclear parties for their time of trying, so they went to Crystal for reclears, Crystal reclears were better but didn't have good M4S parties, so they ended up on Aether to get M4S done. So went through Primal and Crystal PF and still couldn't find as much as what they did on Aether.