The Dynamis Problem and Potential Solutions

[CCheshire]

No server is being screwed over by going back to exactly the same situation that worked just fine for a decade. To the contrary, less people will be screwed over when they can play on their home server normally instead of being forced to travel elsewhere. If people want to play with friends on another DC they can make an alt or transfer if it's available. The mountain of issues DC travel is causing is not worth a little convenience.

I've heard the claims in all these posts a million times before. No, the game isn't going to suddenly implode if they remove DC travel. Some people would kick up a fuss for a time, a small percentage might quit, then most would learn to live with it, especially when they see the immediate and numerous benefits of their DCs coming back to life (doubly so for Dynamis). It is far healthier for the game and community in the long run.




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But it's not the same as back as before DC Travel didn't exist vs in 2025 like it would just punish low pop DC even more than aether which is doing fine on its own but I can't say the same for Dynamis, which is already empty other than housing or RP mains. It would completely destroy their remaining worlds and it's not worth it, esp not since SE can get a refund on their DC costs either way.

[Alicie]

But it's not the same as back as before DC Travel didn't exist vs in 2025 like it would just punish low pop DC even more than aether which is doing fine on its own but I can't say the same for Dynamis, which is already empty other than housing or RP mains. It would completely destroy their remaining worlds and it's not worth it, esp not since SE can get a refund on their DC costs either way.

Besides, in the grand scheme of things, colocation costs of an extra physical server for Dynamis DC is virtually non-existent. How much realistically it costs, 300 bucks a month? like, not even an drop in an ocean.

[CidHeiral]

But it won't be same situation. Player population is not the same as it once was. Dynamis wouldn't even have current 2,5 players if there was no DC travel. People will just naturally trickle to the most populated servers: raiders to Aether, RPers to Crystal. Dynamis will be left in submarine-farming ruins, Primal will probably be middleground where you'll farm like, ex trials and prog savages over 6 months. These who won't be able to transfer to Aether for raiding will unsub. These who won't be able to transfer to Crystall will unsub as well.

This is entirely fabricated nonsense.

But it's not the same as back as before DC Travel didn't exist vs in 2025 like it would just punish low pop DC even more than aether which is doing fine on its own but I can't say the same for Dynamis, which is already empty other than housing or RP mains. It would completely destroy their remaining worlds and it's not worth it, esp not since SE can get a refund on their DC costs either way.

Dynamis only seems empty because everybody travels elsewhere due to the perception that it's dead. It's a self fulfilling prophecy. Were DC travel to be removed there would probably be some initial drop-off in the short term, but in the long term the DC could grow normally like every other NA server.

These protestations remind me of when SE decided to address people ilvl cheesing alliance raid roulette and all the cheesers claimed alliance roulette was going to DIE and would NEVER pop again for ANYONE if the devs took away their ability to cheese. Lo and behold, the change went through and nothing they said would happen actually happened. People make a stink any time they have something taken away even if it's ultimately for the best.

[Brynne]

I think it's very unlikely that they'll remove DC travel at this point, whether it would be the best solution or not (we could probably argue hypotheticals for ages). It's not like the ilvl cheese, something which was never intended in the first place and SE just closed the loophole. It's a feature that was introduced and is widely used, and if SE backpedals on it now, it makes them look bad.

This is a crazy solution that no one will probably like, but if they swapped three servers from Aether with three servers from Dynamis, the two DCs might just balance each other out.

[Unixeon]

I actually agree with the shut down of DC traveling, as well as the options for shutting down dynamis entirely and just putting it's resources into the other servers. I mean just moving a server (basically copy/pasting it) to another one would allow people to keep their houses and such, but DC traveling has truly messed up a natural order this game had...

You can say it's bc people want to "play with their friends" but that's just not true, before people played with their friends on servers that had room? yknow? new players starting together would start on the same server. meet people naturally IN that server, and each DC had their own homemade ecosystems that have just been fully erased because of said DC visiting feature...

Even so, everyone fluttering to Aether for Raiding, on top of the people who have just lived there since before the visiting feature was even introduced, who don't even raid is just clogging that place up, and leaving other servers feeling empty..

My own twisted answer to this, which i know would cause the most resentment but would probably be the most effective in decision they could make, would be doing what they did to Balmung way back when.. shut off DC visiting, switch some of the aether home worlds with the dynamis ones. People wouldnt like it obviously, and they could eventually move back to aether, over time. etc. Give the people who were forced to move a free home world transfer. that way the people who ABSOLUTELY want to be on Aether can move back for a cost (any homes, etc.).. That way it's more ideal for them to stay.. Honestly, it would even out the servers again over time, people joining to play with friends would move around again, etc. And everyone wouldnt be crammed on one singular server..

Now if that didn't work? and for some reason MOST players ended up just moving back to aether? It's just a lost cause..

IDEALLY they'd remove logical DCs entirely.. why arent we able to easily transfer to Aether in game anyways? why does it have to be through the login screen? Why are there 3 logical dc's? Why isnt it all just on one massive megaserver that way all the resources can be divided equally across the board? allowing players to do CW-parties.. What happened to the online servers that they were experimenting with? yknow? there's a lot of ways they could go about this.. but i do agree, some things need to change, and DC visiting is a problem, and it's a large one.

[Xieldras]

Why are the ones arguing in favor of locking down Dynamis' travel not even from here in the first place? You guys won't suffer the consequences at all.

[Alicie]

Why are the ones arguing in favor of locking down Dynamis' travel not even from here in the first place? You guys won't suffer the consequences at all.

Because it's much easier to suggest destructive solutions when you will not be a part of the group who will suffer because of it

[Ajisaii]

Merge the entire NA data center into one problem solved you're welcome

[MicahZerrshia]

Merge the entire NA data center into one problem solved you're welcome

The only problem with this is for years I was itching to get away from Balmung and even considered tranferring to a different DC to do it, but I had a house and I was stuck. Then they moved the servers around and I was finally free! Those were dark days, dark dark days I do not want to go back to.