The Dynamis Problem and Potential Solutions

[Miradelle]

The bandaid aka DC travel has been a massive failure due to ppl just crowding aether for everything. But putting quick and easy solutions into the game with little forethought, next to no testing and a complete lack of understanding on how game communities work is kinda par for the course in this game.

If they actually want to fix the problem they need to just pull the plug on dc travel and force everyone back to their home dc until they can come up with a better solution. But I also understand that this will never happen. "meh, it's good enough" feels like the new "please look forward to it"

This won't work in the current state of the game, unless you want raiders to literally transfer off of their DCs to Aether. There's simply not enough people playing this game, at least on NA, for there to be healthy amount of groups for the raiding/extreme scene. What they'd need to do is consolidate servers so that there's a lot more people on each server, or make cross DC party finder that automatically sends the party to a dedicated cross-world server.

Right now, the best system is to let everyone just go to Aether, so people don't need to wait hours and hours for a group that never fills. However, they screwed even this over by locking Aether .. so ironically enough, what you suggested is sort of already in play, and it has just made things worse--everyone just LIVES on Aether now by logging in at early hours and never leaving.

[Alicie]

This won't work in the current state of the game, unless you want raiders to literally transfer off of their DCs to Aether. There's simply not enough people playing this game, at least on NA, for there to be healthy amount of groups for the raiding/extreme scene. What they'd need to do is consolidate servers so that there's a lot more people on each server, or make cross DC party finder that automatically sends the party to a dedicated cross-world server.

Right now, the best system is to let everyone just go to Aether, so people don't need to wait hours and hours for a group that never fills. However, they screwed even this over by locking Aether .. so ironically enough, what you suggested is sort of already in play, and it has just made things worse--everyone just LIVES on Aether now by logging in at early hours and never leaving.

Why half-measures are even being discussed?
Are we assuming that Square Enix is completely incapable of creating cross-dc pf and df in a timely manner?
Other studios manage to do it, why SE can't?
Maybe we should demand - and demand really hard - that they reroute their revenue back into game, hire programmers and make it happen?

[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

[OliverQ]

At the very least, transferring off Dynamis should be free. It's lame that you have to pay to get off a dead DC at this point.

[CCheshire]

At the very least, transferring off Dynamis should be free. It's lame that you have to pay to get off a dead DC at this point.

tbf most ppl willingly moved and accepted they would be stuck there for 3 months for housing along with the exp buff road to lvl 80 so it wouldn't make sense for them to make the usual paid transfer for free knowing ppl already keep the exp bonus.

[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.