I'm an Aether native but my static spans most of NA, and we haven't been able to meet up on Aether at all this tier. That's been a major problem whenever we need PF subs since we start raiding past midnight and overall player counts are slim. The sad part is that this is something that DC travel used to fix and we're regressing.

Also being unable to world travel on another DC during restrictions is needlessly frustrating. Stopping direct cross DC travel to a single congested world is one thing but if people are trying to transfer while already on that DC there's nearly always a very specific reason for it and people won't simply stop trying to get there. I can sorta understand Balmung getting locked when S ranks spawn there but Seraph? Dynamis already has problems with minions they need all the people they can get. I hear it's even worse for people travelling to Aether where there's the risk of getting stuck on a world that has high MB prices or insufficient hunts/fate parties.

Honestly at this point I'm not sure why the devs haven't outright artificially designated Dyna as the raid server through rewards or restrictions or something. The whole point of travelling to Aether is to reach critical mass and doing so makes the most sense when people can actually get to their destination.