Servers congestion

[Drimn]

The congestion probably won't go away until Dynamis is decently populated and can stand on its own two feet without having everyone DC visit to Aether or Crystal form there.

Dynamis could be at least somewhat healthy on its own if it was actually locked up, at least until people start transferring characters to Primal or Crystal. The problem is the community would much prefer it as a bedroom community, somewhere to park their house and drop by to renew while they leave to another DC to actually play the game. That's a problem that compounds itself, because people that would otherwise wait another 5-10 minutes to queue are stuck waiting for an hour plus, so they leave, too.

They just need to admit that Dynamis was a failed venture. It's not going to get better because Dynamis mains don't want it to get better. I really hope the devs admit the sorry state of Dynamis and especially OCE at some point and what their plans are to try to make it better.

[AyahM]

Dynamis could be at least somewhat healthy on its own if it was actually locked up, at least until people start transferring characters to Primal or Crystal. The problem is the community would much prefer it as a bedroom community, somewhere to park their house and drop by to renew while they leave to another DC to actually play the game. That's a problem that compounds itself, because people that would otherwise wait another 5-10 minutes to queue are stuck waiting for an hour plus, so they leave, too.

They just need to admit that Dynamis was a failed venture. It's not going to get better because Dynamis mains don't want it to get better. I really hope the devs admit the sorry state of Dynamis and especially OCE at some point and what their plans are to try to make it better.

A little harsh. I transferred to Kraken on day 1 of the world opening and have only traveled for content once in the years I've been there. I do want it to get better, and refuse to travel. Now if just 15% of Dynamis tried that, I think we would be OK. Alas, no one else seems to have the time for that.

SE, please create a cross DC content queuing system.

[VeyaAkemi]

The only way to fix the situation is cross DC PF/DF, everyone keeps citing Dynamis, but Dynamis is just the extreme example, even Primal players, an allegedly healthy DC, have been complaining about how much harder it is to raid since EW launch, and even if you magically equalized the population of every single world server, so long as DC travel exists and any given Data Center is considered "THE DC to do <thing>", then the problem will continue on indefinitely.

[GraceHorizon]

I live on Dynamis (transferred because I wanted a Medium house), and I do most of my gameplay there. Queue times for roulettes are often long, but usually bearable, and queueing for individual duties from the current patch generally works okay. Queueing for duties that aren’t current is something of a lost cause though, and my Dynamis friends and I have to DC travel to Crystal or Primal to do most such content because.

I would attribute a lot of that to new characters being funneled to Dynamis: my general impression of the data center is that it’s a lot of new characters with a smaller salting of high level ones who have a lot of stuff unlocked. So even if data center travel weren’t possible, queueing for optional duties in later expansions would still go poorly. I’m okay to shepherd sprouts through Sastasha in return for some daily tomestones and materia tokens, but I would be happier if the Duty Finder would just pool all 32 North American world servers together and fill parties with people from everywhere. Then first-timers would get their queues to pop, and experienced players would get more variety in their roulettes.

[Aidorouge]

Dynamis could be at least somewhat healthy on its own if it was actually locked up, at least until people start transferring characters to Primal or Crystal.

The risk of being locked down again was a contributing factor to me finally giving in and moving out though. I was there for the first one during Dawntrail launch, and I pretty much got NOTHING done, least of all PVP, while it was in effect because even forcing Dynamis locals to play with each other still revealed how anemic our total player count was, to say nothing of those who rolled alts elsewhere instead (and never came back to their original Dynamis main) or just immediately transferred away after it was over because they weren't going to deal with that again.

Hell, I almost left myself right then (and I probably should have, there were still Aether and Crystal worlds open at the time), but I kept buying into the idea that Dynamis would improve "any day now" and well... I gave it over another year, only DC traveling for PVP and coming back to do PVE, and it didn't help. I was also going through Stormblood and Shadowbringers at the time, which I largely sucked at, so even though I was on Maduin the whole time I wasn't actually queuing for much if I didn't have to (and due to the strict player requirement, I had to break down and travel to complete Seat of Sacrifice because 7 other people just weren't showing up, sync or unsync).

Maybe its a different story for those who managed to find/bring friends or got into an active FC, but I didn't have either of those so it just made an already empty world feel lonelier. In fact, according to one census website, Maduin is the least populated world of Dynamis and therefore ALL of NA, so I had it extra rough it seems.

[GraceHorizon]

Your queueing situation would have been the same on any Dynamis world, queueing is datacenter-wide. I cleared the MSQ and almost all side content before I moved, so I haven’t had so acute a need to queue for old content, but for anyone struggling (or bored) on Dyna I have noticed there’s a reasonably healthy Party Finder culture. If you put up a PF for a duty, you’ll probably get takers. I’ve taken to checking the Dyna PF listings to find interesting normal difficulty fights for the sake of variety.

[Aidorouge]

Your queueing situation would have been the same on any Dynamis world, queueing is datacenter-wide. I cleared the MSQ and almost all side content before I moved, so I haven’t had so acute a need to queue for old content, but for anyone struggling (or bored) on Dyna I have noticed there’s a reasonably healthy Party Finder culture. If you put up a PF for a duty, you’ll probably get takers. I’ve taken to checking the Dyna PF listings to find interesting normal difficulty fights for the sake of variety.

Queuing is data center-wide, yes, but you kind of need other people on your own world for things like FCs or even Eternal Bonding if one goes that route, and even just making friends off-world wasn't always viable because people tended to only friend people from their own world for convenience's sake, or how it was rare to run into any active cross-world linkshells (most people don't even know they or fellowships exist). At best you might run into somebody trying to drop a Discord link, but even putting aside not wanting to join dozens of channels for mostly the same content on the same data center, it was still a regular habit for people to group up with only people from their own world because some folks were as anti-wander as they were anti-travel. There's also the endless venues I suppose, but I don't RP so there was no reason to go anywhere near them (and its debatable how many of the people in them actually play versus chatting all day, not that there's anything wrong with that).

Quite often I was the ONLY person from Maduin in some circles, never got into an FC that lasted long/had barely anyone logging in, and any friends I made outside of Maduin were always hard to grab and do anything with that they weren't already doing with people they knew from their home world, and I didn't really have any friends from Maduin at all that didn't up permanently grayed out after a while or I noticed they were on another data center 24/7 (almost always Aether or Crystal), suggesting they had possibly moved. Some people also took the advice to bring friends/family/partners when they started on Dynamis to make things easier, and I'm not going to interject as a third-wheel in whatever progress they were working on together. (Meanwhile my own siblings had abandoned the game years ago.)

Admittedly, I don't have a FC/friends/groups on Primal yet either, but at least I don't have to travel for queues anymore. Other people are welcome to stick with Dynamis hoping it pays off, but I paid my dues trying to make it work and I was done with it.