Balumg Congestion: Please do something

[Draeor]

Hello!

I have been playing on Balmung since around the end of Shadowbringers. I'm in an RP community and it is increasingly difficult to have our communites open here due to the congestion difficulties. The RP venue I work at has all but dried up due to the difficulties of other data centers coming here, and I often can't play with friends unless we go off the data center, defeating the purpose of community housing and appartments.

Please make data center travel possible again. I've discussed a couple ideas that could be implimented, including:

1. Set an AFK timer on this server so that people who are not active for an hour or longer will be kicked
2. Allow players coming in to enter an actual queue to join. Currently, players cannot even enter the queue to join. This strikes me as odd - why not allow them to join the queue and then be allowed to come in when there is room?*
3. Impose some kind of auto-kick that sends players back to their original home world after going offline.

*I like this solution the best


If there has been any communication regarding the congestion issues, I'm not aware of it, but I would like something to be done to allow our friends to play with us.

Sincerely,

Another Warrior of LIght

[Lusarae]

This is the common sense option. Literally every other MMO in the world has an AFK timer. We're having an entire server ruined so people can be afk. It's cool when there's room, but if the server is congested it should trigger the afk kick timer and remove these people. It's a night and day difference playing after a server reset. All the afkers are gone and all the people you see are actually on the game. But since this is not a Japanese problem and no devs that can actually do anything read these forums nothing will be done about it.

[Zotoh_Zhaan]

This is the common sense option. Literally every other MMO in the world has an AFK timer. We're having an entire server ruined so people can be afk. It's cool when there's room, but if the server is congested it should trigger the afk kick timer and remove these people. It's a night and day difference playing after a server reset. All the afkers are gone and all the people you see are actually on the game. But since this is not a Japanese problem and no devs that can actually do anything read these forums nothing will be done about it.

Ff14 actually does have a afk timer. It's turned off.

Generally it only comes on the a few months when a new expansion releases due to a massive uptick in players playing.

I agree is should be turned on all the time though. There's some people I've seen that have never moved from their spot in Limsa.