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[Veritas-Ancora]

Aether is a deadzone. FCs have nobody signing in, no new players are allowed to come in, and this applies to every server in the entire datacenter.

Square-Enix, you need to start thinking about the number of inactive accounts that are plaguing our servers. In an FC of 500+ people, we're lucky if 10 people are online (and AFK). It's maddening.



Please unlock Aether.

Consolidate servers if you have to.

A game without fresh blood is a ghost town.

[Uzephi]

The amount of <traveler>/<wanderer> I see compared to midgard players is quite high as of late.

[Llamalass]

The amount of <traveler>/<wanderer> I see compared to midgard players is quite high as of late.

I only recently traveled to the Aether DC from Primal because I spent four days in the PF looking for people to do Post-SHB MSQ dungeons/trials, with absolutely no luck.

Figured I'm better off just staying as a Traveler on Aether.

[Uzephi]

I only recently traveled to the Aether DC from Primal because I spent four days in the PF looking for people to do Post-SHB MSQ dungeons/trials, with absolutely no luck.

Figured I'm better off just staying as a Traveler on Aether.

Oh, I'm not complaining, I just wish there'd be more local players doing the regular gathering routes. Quite odd seeing so many travelers doing solo world stuff like that.

[MeanDragon]

Once the influx of bots from the last time they were opened get banned they will open it up again.

[Jeeqbit]

A game without fresh blood is a ghost town.

While I wouldn't say that not having fresh blood necessarily makes something a ghost town, it does make it full of veteran players who all have their own established statics and groups. It becomes hard for those "left out" to find others at the start of their journey, whether that is a journey doing MSQ, Savage or anything at all really.

Square-Enix, you need to start thinking about the number of inactive accounts that are plaguing our servers.

You seem to be misunderstanding something. SE does not base Congested status on how many accounts total have a character on the server. If they did that, all worlds on all data centers would be locked forever. They base Congested status on concurrent connections. This means the peak number of players that logged in at the same time since the last patch. Obviously this only happens at peak hours (evening after work or weekends).

For example, a world could have 5 million characters on it (created over a 15 year period), but they will obviously base Congested status on if they've got a significant amount of players logged in at the same time ie. 5,000. And yes that may look like a small number of players, but across an entire data center that's 40,000 and across 4 data centers that's 160,000 players that could, potentially, be logged in at the same moment in one region alone.

Aether is a deadzone. FCs have nobody signing in, no new players are allowed to come in, and this applies to every server in the entire datacenter.

Not to mine.

[Chasingstars]

I know I traveled yesterday to aether from crystal, only open world was adamantoise. Mostly to get a run of Jeuno First Walk in, it was either 25+ mins on my own datacenter, or 15+ on aether.

[Veritas-Ancora]

I know I traveled yesterday to aether from crystal, only open world was adamantoise. Mostly to get a run of Jeuno First Walk in, it was either 25+ mins on my own datacenter, or 15+ on aether.

25 minutes for a queue is crazy.

[Jeeqbit]

25 minutes for a queue is crazy.

Regardless, it's normal. When I started the game, waiting 40 minutes for an MSQ duty as a tank was normal.

Waiting ages for alliance raids has often been the case. And we are talking about a high-level alliance raid; the higher level it is, the less people in queue for Alliance Raid roulette that meet the level requirement.

As others have noted, Aether is noticeably quieter, so in terms of active accounts the "congested" status is puzzling.

While that may be so now, we just had Occult release and Forked Tower and at the time of that release, the area outside was very busy until just the last week or two. Of course, lots of people would be traveling to Aether as well since they do that for raids. And they didn't review it since May. So it makes sense.

[Chasingstars]

25 minutes for a queue is crazy.

Yeah, part of the reason I even traveled to aether was I actually did try to wait and see if it would be 25 minutes, it actually got to 30 mins with no pops. Although the run on aether was worth it, as dark lord did drop a piece of skillspeed gear I wanted.