Data Center Travel Changes Have Made Raiding Impossible, Where is the Fix?!?

[CidHeiral]

It was a great community idea

Yeah it was a super great idea to annihilate every DC that wasn't Aether.

[YonaAkatsuki]

Yeah it was a super great idea to annihilate every DC that wasn't Aether.

Queues are still popping, and the non-raiding scenes are still great. Heck, extremes and other easier content can still fill well. But for less populated content like savage and above, I'd prefer to have more people fill parties faster than be able to use my retainers.

[YonaAkatsuki]

Maybe on Crystal, but Dynamis is another story entirely. PVP if any kind if pretty much non-existent, the PF is literally just a little bit of venue spam, and unless you play during peak hours you won't get any roulettes done at all. But then Dynamis had the misfortune of being born right when DC travel was added, whereas Crystal was at least born out of worlds that already had a population. Only reason to come here is for a house and then hop elsewhere for content, but in light of the travel restrictions, we're not even getting new transfer moving in despite there being a bunch of Mediums and even Larges up for grabs, or how even the Smalls would be valuable in light of the upcoming interior space changes.

The thing about Dynamis is that most of the people who went over went for housing. They didn't plan on staying since the server was mostly empty. You're right that it had the misfortune to open right as travel became available. With time and more new players it should go up. Eventually when PF becomes data center wide, none of this will matter. That's the goal of a post like this, but Yoshi-P mentioned it would take a long time if they decided to go that route. In the meantime, these new changes are just making everyone unhappy in different ways.

[Zarkovitch]

We are on the thick of it everybody knows... Only fix is A) Mega Data Center or B) Spread the servers for NA. For EU Just mega server it. JPN mega server it

[Ephedrine]

You could just lock the Party Finder to a specific Data Center, have UCoB and UWU on Aether, TEA on Crystal, DSR and TOP on Dynamis, and FRU on Primal. Same with the Savage Tier. You can still raid with private parties on your server if you'd like, but if you want to find other people to do the content, you'd have to travel.

[YonaAkatsuki]

Unfortunately come November, Dynamis will have been around for 2 years and it *still* has population issues. Even the claims of "just wait for the Xbox players" fell through because they mostly went to Aether/Primal/Crystal instead, and the whole "more people will show up for Dawntrail" also failed to bolster our numbers because, yep, they all went to A/P/C with Returners of course having no reason to visit us at all.

It's a large part of *why* there's travel restrictions in place right now, because Square-Enix got tired of waiting for the playerbase to disperse on their own and stop making a super data center, so they took matters into their own hands short of removing DC travel completely.

It's especially rough for Dynamis because we already got locked down once to little benefit (where we couldn't leave *at all* for about 3 weeks) and now we're under a "soft" lock down where we still can't travel easily to get stuff done during some hours of the day. I had to wait until after 10PM tonight to slip into Faerie for my roulettes because everyone was apparently already long gone on Maduin where I was looking at a 15+ minute wait just for 4-man content, whereas I was getting "less than 5 minutes" on everything I wanted to do (on DPS no less).

Their current plan isn't likely to force people to transfer to Dynamis though, and while it may have stemmed the amount of people that hop to Aether, it's just made Primal & Crystal into the go-to places for a lot of folks (I myself often hit up Behemoth for example). Their plan is indeed making people unhappy for different reasons now, but lifting the travel restrictions would just bring back the previous problems of Aether bursting at the seams while Dynamis twists in the wind. There just isn't a good solution no matter what.

I get what you mean, and it really is rough for Dynamis players. I do think a mega data center is the way to go to make everyone happy, but will they really spend the money and resources on it? It's why I made this post, to try and add to the yelling for action to be taken.

[VoidsentStatus]

"more people will show up for Dawntrail" also failed to bolster our numbers because, yep, they all went to A/P/C .

inaccurate statement when we had more new players signing up for Dynamis than the main 3 data centers.
https://luckybancho.ldblog.jp/archives/58615522.html

[glitteringcosmos]

inaccurate statement when we had more new players signing up for Dynamis than the main 3 data centers.

Because you literally CANNOT make characters on Aether right now, or half of Primal/Crystal. If a world is marked congested you can't make a character there. Your argument is flawed.