[ Unlock Aether Servers ]

[Veritas-Ancora]

They have to get rid of Dynamis. As a player on Seraph, roulettes are all 25-30+ minute wait times. The entire DC was a mistake. They need to really look at the populations and consolidate. My thoughts are splitting the worlds on Dynamis, between the other DCs, and just adding them there.

Star Wars: The Old Republic did something similar many years back. My character was on Jekk'Jekk Tarr and they closed that server to combine with Harbinger. It was due to the low-pop servers.

But the issue we face right now is that the devs feel Aether is at capacity, which begs the question why don't they expand the datacenters instead of creating new ones?

[Jeeqbit]

which begs the question why don't they expand the datacenters instead of creating new ones?

Because the datacenters themselves share connections in some way, so it would be too many connections. This is why they did the data center split back in 2019, and created Meteor in the JP region. Too many servers per DC was a technical problem for them.

[Veritas-Ancora]

Because the datacenters themselves share connections in some way, so it would be too many connections. This is why they did the data center split back in 2019, and created Meteor in the JP region. Too many servers per DC was a technical problem for them.

So what would be the answer? There's no growth in Aether and losing new players means not running content every day with new players. This can't be the way the game dies out.

[Jeeqbit]

So what would be the answer? There's no growth in Aether and losing new players means not running content every day with new players. This can't be the way the game dies out.

As far as Aether goes, it being locked is temporary.

For other data centers such as Dynamis, really the answer should be creating a cross-data center PF/DF. Whether they view that as technically possible I don't know. Whether it's in the works, I don't know.

But I know that it can technically be done by having the data centers communicate PF information at intervals (they do this for the friends list) or have data centers submit the information to an external cloud server that clients request it from.

It would have to forcefully decide which data center the content gets done on and request an instance, then forcefully logout the players and switch their data center. But this could be made more visually seemless so you don't see the logout/login process and see a cutscene instead and continue to allow access to party chat, which can take place through a cross-data center cloud server if it's the only way.

Now will SE do this? I would say it's unlikely, but I thought that about World Visit and they surprised me and actually did it. It was a big technical hurdle with a lot of complexities to do world visiting and data center travel, yet they actually did it. From the technical side of things, it was risk and complicated and yet they did it and it wasn't some big disaster like it could have been.

[Kewitt]

I miss the days when balmung was locked 100% of the time, before data center and world travel. I played the game for years never once seeing a RTM shout.

FFXI and a server cruch, where they combined a bunch of servers.