[Feedback] Data Center Travel Changes

[CidHeiral]

Sorry, I am not very good at explaining this stuff, and I am not attacking anyone in here. But I just feel like my situation along with many other players are being overlooked by a drastic measure in this thread.

Your post is exactly right. DC travel had far reaching negative effects into every corner of the game, not just PF being dead. One major one was FCs feeling dead because half the members had to be on Aether to get anything done. I've noticed things feeling much more active and alive after the restrictions were put in place just as you described.

Not surprising that all the same people crying about the restrictions immediately turn around and tell anyone who was negatively impacted by DC travel to "just deal with it."

[VoidsentStatus]

I do have a question. Does the server prioritize residential players first and visitors second? Or does it just let in whoever is in line first?

Residential Guests > Finished DC Travel Guests/World Visit people at main menu (cares about population cap) > Starting DC Travel Guests/World Hop Users (cares about population cap & login queue size)

[xanatosdc]

I'm sorry, but Island Sanctuary takes what... 15 minutes/week? That is not... a problem, unless you can't be apart from your friends for 15 minutes/week.

[VoidsentStatus]

Not surprising that all the same people crying about the restrictions immediately turn around and tell anyone who was negatively impacted by DC travel to "just deal with it."

I've been moreso laughing at the volume of people that fall under:

Square Enix: "Don't flood Aether. Don't flood Balmung, Bryn, Coeurl, or Diabolos. Don't flood Behemoth, Excalibur, Levi, or Ultros. Thank you for your understanding."

*players that didn't understand a single word* : "This change is horrible. I can't flood the worlds you just listed for raiding or rp."

Me: "Did you miss where Square Enix didn't list exceptions?"

[xanatosdc]

im still confused there, people do stuff across other worlds and formerly occasionaly other Data Centers but after what they needet to be done they came back after that. If they just "stay" on the other Data Center its on the people that do that not the Datacenter Travel. ^^*
Like nobody forced those people to not return to there data center to hang out.
Its not hard to do.
I myself only would use data center travel to visit friends on other data center and they visiting me, it expands the possibility for that.
I very much looked foreward to intercontinental Datacenter Travels to visit NA Friends

Also the current restrictions encourages to just stay on a Datacenter after arriving there because its so annoying and time consuming to travel.
Which would make your problem worse, no?

Yeah, exactly. I used to just go to a DC, visit the venue / hang with friends, then go back to my own DC. Now... I'm forced to camp there, which just makes everything worse. I don't see how people see anything good in this current dumpster fire.

[Gember]

I'm sorry, but Island Sanctuary takes what... 15 minutes/week? That is not... a problem, unless you can't be apart from your friends for 15 minutes/week.

Island Sanctuary is just an example I use to just explain that there is a lot of gameplay restrictions. This is one of many.

[xanatosdc]

I've been moreso laughing at the volume of people that fall under:

Square Enix: "Don't flood Aether. Don't flood Balmung, Bryn, Coeurl, or Diabolos. Don't flood Behemoth, Excalibur, Levi, or Ultros. Thank you for your understanding."

*players that didn't understand a single word* : "This change is horrible. I can't flood the worlds you just listed for raiding or rp."

Me: "Did you miss where Square Enix didn't list exceptions?"

My friends' venues are where they are. It's not like SE allows you to move them. You are clearly not part of any social scene. Your posts show that clearly.

[xanatosdc]

Island Sanctuary is just an example I use to just explain that there is a lot of gameplay restrictions. This is one of many.

I have friends both on my own DC and Aether, and ... it hasn't been an issue at all to play with either or both. Until the current dumpster fire, that is.

[VoidsentStatus]

I'm forced to camp there

You're forced to camp there because too many of your peers decided to stay there. Thousands of players staying where they're not supposed to be for 4-24 hours a day. You may be doing the right thing, but other people say screw you and your venue, I want to AFK/do content on this world for half a day+ and treat it like my main data center, and therefore ruined it for people like you.

I debated the idea of if Square would ever put a hard timer on how many hours you could be a visitor or traveler per day before kicking your character back to the login queue where you had to log in back to your home world and you were stuck there like a deserter penalty so no 3rd party software would just let you afk mindlessly. And during periods of congestion, Home DC PvE duties will grant a free 20% XP Buff until level 90, 10% XP Buff until level 100, level 100 players get 25% extra tomes until a cap for the day.

[VoidsentStatus]

My friends' venues are where they are. It's not like SE allows you to move them. You are clearly not part of any social scene. Your posts show that clearly.

That's funny considering how many Aether venues have bought housing on Golem, Rafflesia, Kraken, and Cuchu I see everyday in PF. You are clearly just a part of the broke social scenes.