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.