The restrictions on Data Center Travel are unnecessary

[SophiaDL]

For a while when DT dropped Aether was totally isolated, other than a little in the wee hours. Then it got better and more accessible. Now it's back to "unless you're trying to DC travel there in the wee hours of the night or very early morning, it's blocked off again"---because of the patch release? Is this now going to be the standard, that every time some new content drops, Aether becomes unavailable for DC travel? Kind of feels that way.

I wasn't aware of the fighting queue issues, but I'd heard that a lot of streamers initially joined on Aether, and then their fans joined on Aether, so that made it more crowded? (Don't know if that's correct, btw.)

But I will say, from what I've heard about worlds on low-population Data Centers not completing the build "Fates" for Cosmic Exploration and then getting shut out of both Red Alerts and Mech Ops for 8 hours until their next build attempt opens, apparently because the Build Fate alert stays in place and prevents Red Alerts and Mech Op Alerts from showing... something seriously needs to be done to help with both worlds/DCs that have low populations for things that require lots of people, and for ones with high populations that no one can travel to visit. And that "something" should NOT be "Just move your character to another world." Part of the FUN in this game is building relationships with people on your home-world, especially when you've also joined with real life friends/family to play together.

Someone above mentioned making duty queues span more worlds/DCs... that might help, especially with stuff that's older-content fights that require a certain number of people. Sitting around for hours waiting on a queue to pop... ugh.

At least if there's a Duty Support/Trust option, someone who's stuck behind a fight before progressing can at least go at it, but they're still catching up on providing that as an option for all the required fights... and currently it only works for a single player: you can't party up with a friend or two and then tap Duty Support to "fill in" the party. Sigh.

Is this now going to be the standard, that every time some new content drops, Aether becomes unavailable for DC travel? Kind of feels that way.

The funny thing with that is that right before new content arrives, they open Aether for world transfer so people can transfer there, funny how that works isnt it? Almost like this is all for money, the servers arent even full at all, not anywhere near capacity, but people know Aether will close for DC travel when content arrives, so they all transfer in droves there to be able to do content, which is easy money for SE, but hey lets keep pretending the game is booming with players, that's the narrative SE is trying to go with, even though genuinely no one believes it.

The worst parts of MSQ blocking are trials and the Crystal Tower where there's not only no Duty Support/Trust options, but several trials are literally impossible to solo due to the mechanics, and Crystal Tower requiring a minimum of 3 to 12 people.

For people on Aether/Primal/Crystal it's probably no big deal, but it's a frequent occurrence on Dynamis to see some poor sprout in PF begging for some to come clear a MSQ trial/Crystal Tower for them because they're been waiting in the queue for hours. And this is just them trying to get out of ARR.

As someone who used to be on Dynamis (this is an alt), just leave the DC, it's never going to improve or grow to a fully working DC, the playerbase at this point with how low it's gotten cannot even make it lively even if it tried to, the argument a lot of Dynamis people use is "SE will get my money for putting me in this position if I transfer", the only person you're punishing is yourself, it's better to pay once and be at peace for the rest of your time in the game, instead of being stuck on a graveyard DC, that's just my opinion though, if you are on Dynamis and refuse to move, you are doing it to yourself, the blame itself is on SE, but staying on a dead DC is people's own decisions, all the signs are there that it wont ever get better.