Reshuffle NA worlds to help Dynamis grow

[Aidorouge]

Aether is basically immune to falling population because all of NA basically concentrates on aether because of travel. During the WOW peak you couldn’t leave your data centre so aether’s population was aether, now it’s all of NA. Especially since as the population fades (if it’s still fading) people migrate onto the busier servers to retain community which further chokes aether

The population as a whole is down but I wouldn’t be surprised if DT as a whole is the busiest aether has ever been, and that’s nothing to do with squares weird congestion rules

Yeah, I don't think the congestion is happening because the population overall is booming, but rather its because all the population keeps funneling into Aether. If Square-Enix really wanted to lie to people about how "full" the game is, they would be making ALL of the data centers aside from Dynamis look congested, instead its ONLY Aether and Balmung specifically, which Balmung already was a big fish even before it got broken off into Crystal, and it likewise gets bombarded by people trying to travel to it for, uh, "reasons".

Hell, isn't that why the data center listing is randomized now? Because Adamantoise and Balmung were struggling further because most people clicked them first by default when traveling to Aether and Crystal?
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The true fix is even worse for the community, but it's what is going to have to happen. That or he has the balls to shut it off and keep Aether locked forever. I'd respect him for that. Force people to play together and grow their communities. Instead of turning mine into the McDonald's bathroom for however many weeks. But that's pie in the sky.

Shutting off Aether for good would likely just cause people to travel to Primal or Crystal instead, I know that's what I was doing any time I found the door locked, and I'm probably not the only one.

And they tried forcing Dynamis players to play on Dynamis, but the moment the lockdown was lifted, people started flooding out. Trying to undo the ramifications of data center travel with congestion and lockdowns only seems to be making the issue worst. I suppose someone could argue that data center travel never should have happened at all, but then Dynamis would probably be even worse than it is now.

It's hard enough coaxing people over here with houses and the promise of being able to still travel to find others, now trying getting those same people to move while telling them they're trapped here. There's already a lot of new players as well that get stranded in the MSQ trying to get Crystal Tower cleared (even unsync), and I can only hope they DC traveled instead of quitting because of it.

[Catwho]

The reason I do not think they will do this is because during launches, the other three data centers approach or hit their instance caps (read: what caused the Raubahn Ex issue) and they added the 4th data center so they would NOT immediately smack into that cap

I would much rather they devote the resources to cross data center Party Finder, and treat the four data instance servers like a load balancer. The party was formed on Aether DC, people from any data center can join, but the instance load balance drops the group on the Dynamis DC instance server until the raid is over. They clear or time out, and the next time they go in, the instance server is load balanced over to Primal. Etc.

The entire process remains invisible to the ender user, but this solve BOTH problems in one swoop: Dynamis ain't dead because people can join whatever party they want, and the instance caps aren't a problem on any one DC.

[Jaltaer]

What they should do is start implementing actual restrictions on Travelers - stop letting them make PFs on other DCs (or at least public PFs), or queue for DF unless they're in a party where the lead is a local. If the main complaint against removing DC travel is "but I want to play with my friends" then surely those restrictions shouldn't be a problem, since you'd have a local friend that can queue you/make a PF.

[CCheshire]

TBH, I always figured most of Dynamis liked being on the DC either for housing or "small town" feelings, like up until 7.2, Aether was open for paid transfers along with Crystal and Primal worlds.

I'd be pretty unhappy if they reshuffled the worlds and I was moved out unless they had free transfers like last time, like, oh, but I wanted to be in Aether for a reason, along with my FC and house.

[Thaciscokidd]

What they should do is start implementing actual restrictions on Travelers - stop letting them make PFs on other DCs (or at least public PFs), or queue for DF unless they're in a party where the lead is a local. If the main complaint against removing DC travel is "but I want to play with my friends" then surely those restrictions shouldn't be a problem, since you'd have a local friend that can queue you/make a PF.

The only problem with this is that you're just gonna see people selling spots for PF/DF in linkshells/discord. If they're gonna restrict they need to go all or nothing.

[TaleraRistain]

They took worlds away from Aether and Primal to make Crystal and it was MASSIVELY unpopular. That's more than likely why they decided to make Dynamis completely new.

Also maybe not a good idea to add servers. Aether used to have more and we were very unstable. They seem to think 8 works best.

[Andanie]

No. And I'm fully on Dynamis (even on this guy) and I fully do not like this idea.

Take a data center like Crystal where there are plenty of roleplay venues (like real rp) and community interaction. Imagine if you're on Zalera thinking it's a chill server connected (mostly) to the rest of the rp community and suddenly you're on Dynamis? Not willing moved- your server was shuffled

THis isn't even counting all the ways this could hurt Primal and Aether statics.

It's not an actual solution it's just going to make people angry and cause more problems.

[Derio]

I agree with others. The only real solution is a cross region PF. To where you can play with anyone from NA.