Sad and tired

[Luthienari]

I'm very upset about the current state of Chaos DC and I keep noticing more and more that I'm not the only one with this issue.
Chaos DC has never felt dead to me before and during SB til EW party finder used to be very active (I started playing during the pandemic). Now everyone keeps hopping to Light and literally killing Chaos with it. I wouldn't mind if people just travelled to do Ultimates but they literally do everything there now....if my FC wasn't active at all anymore, I'd have stopped playing by now (I'm literally burning myself out to keep it active and alive).
I wish the devs would care at least a little bit about this because it saddens me a lot and I don't want to change DCs as all my friends are on Chaos as well as all the hard work put into my private house as well as the free company (I don't wanna start over again).

My one suggestion to solve this issue would be to make party finder and duty finder cross DC but idk how difficult it would be to implement that.

I'm just very, very sad about everything q-q

[SamuraiMiqo]

You have my sympathies, given this is an issue that Dynamis suffers from as well. Though in my case I have no friends or FC left to keep me here, which is why I plan to transfer out after 7.4 and I'm just waiting to see which NA worlds will still be open then.

If it's no longer congested once the Patch drops, Courel over on Crystal will welcome you with open arms! It's where i do my main three characters and duty/party finder is pretty active

[Alice_Rivers]

Unfortunately I don't see the devs doing anything to ease low population issues as that would require them to admit that they've lost that many players, that's a bad look for any MMO but immediately after EW's infrastructure expansion would raise very uncomfortable questions at the board meetings.

[vincexorcized]

So I’m from Louisoix first. Since forever.

I paid service to change server and went to Zodiark, Light. No regret at all. If you have money to spend, I strongly advise you to do the same. (Zodiark being apparently the most populated one in EU).

SE won’t do anything at all about the servs, we all have to accept it.

[Shistar]

Hello, fellow Chaos dweller o/

Of course, I relate to your struggle... personally, I insist on doing as much as humanly possible in Chaos. I only ever go to Light to do my Ultimates. I hate having to do there for anything EX difficulty and up, but if I'm in a rush I'll bite the bullet and go, then go back home immediately because not having access to my stuff is incredibly annoying.

I can only give you a little advice that's kept me going so far:

• Delegate, delegate delegate: You're burning out from managing your FC, it's understandable. Do you have any officers or friends who can shoulder the burden with you? If not, you really should. FCs are not meant to be managed all by one person, not if you want a functional FC and a sane company leader at the same time. Teach someone to run your subs. Ask a friend to ping and gather people for your event. You really shouldn't have to do everything yourself.
• On a similar vein from the point before: Anything you can automate, go and automate it. Discord bots are super popular and fairly easy to code with youtube tutorials and you can get them to do tons of things. Anything to lessen your burden. At the end of the day this is a game and you should enjoy yourself, too!
• Ally yourself with fellow small FCs: Organizing joint events with other FCs can be really good for everyone involved, helps getting bigger groups going for content and promotes friendship outside of the usual circle. Ideally, you'd be able to gather enough people to host it in Chaos. My group does this and although it can be a struggle when people drop out or take breaks, we usually have 7-8 people gathering every week to run Unreals and chat for an hour or two. This depends on your FC's interests, but you can do RP events, club-going together, run roulettes, unreals/EXs, etc. There's no real limit to what you can do, so get creative with it!

With that said, it's perfectly understandable you feel like giving up. If you're not very particular about which character you're playing, I'd suggest testing out the waters with an alt on Light. It'll be good for you to get a change of air from your FC and you can look into the housing for a potential future FC/personal in Light if it comes to that, while still keeping all your progress in Chaos. If your main interest is housing, don't waste your time going to the populated ones like Zodiark, go straight to the smaller ones like Alpha and Raiden. Better chances at housing there.

The solution is indeed region-wide PF. Even if it is difficult for them, they should seriously set some time and resources aside for this—players are literally getting in the way of their idea that all servers should be equally populated because we don't have this. Would be much easier for us to go with what they want of us if some players weren't being punished for choosing the "wrong" DC.

[Sunhwapark]

It would be nice if they could eventually add it.
Everyone seemingly migrated to light for savage content during the later stages of the pandemonium raid tier, whereas before it was primarily just ultimate if memory serves me right.
Most of my friends have ended up moving across to light because of that too, so I end up on there quite often as a visitor and it's a bit annoying not being able to access my retainer or mailbox at all.

For other people that might be uncertain about what to do, I would definitely recommend Shistar's suggestion of testing the waters with an alt account at the very least.

[FeyFavilla]

That is something that has been mentioned many, many times in regards to the server issues. Just being able to pop queues faster by making it region-wide would be such a quality of life improvement. Even on bigger servers. I don't think there's any downside to it at all apart from it costing SE money to develop.
That said, given server stability atm, I think that might just make them fully implode. Sad as it is.

[Doomed_Raven]

I'm on Chaos DC (Phantom) it gets busy at peak times but compared to light DC is generally much more quiet, especially outside peak times. Some other Chaos world's tend to be more active at times even than my world. But I do a lot of content solo and am a newer player so there's stuff to do still (friends don't play this and the one's I've made on here are rarely online).

I heard they split Europe into 2 data centers before I started playing? seems maybe that thinned it out too much in the end.