A possible solution(?) for "segregating the community"

[Lirion]

I just had an idea, now I'm not against regional servers, especially not when you have the choice to pick any of them no matter where you live, but since some seem to be worried it will segregate the community how about this. Let's leave lag out of this and assume it will be no issue at all in 2.0, there is still one problem and that's my biggest problem, that there is no one to play with during my gaming hours since I live in EU and most of the people on my server seem to be NA/JP and it's not really fair to tell me to stay on that server if I have rarely have anyone to play with.

So, how about if S-E put a % next to each server that shows how many % of the players are from NA, how many % are from JP and how many % are from EU? That way I will know, ok they are evenly split on this server compared to this one where JP is dominating. And if I want to be on a server with people from all over the world I will pick the server where it's even and those who want to play on a server where their region is dominating they can pick that one. Naming a server "international" as some have suggested is also an idea but since all the servers are international I think it might be a bit misleading, showing exactly how many % from each region is playing on a server makes it more clear and is in my opinion a better way to do it.

What say you to that? Yay or nay?

Edit: Before this thread gets huge (if it does) this is not a thread about what you think about regional servers/data centers, there are other threads for that. I just had an idea and mostly wanted the devs/community reps to see it and maybe consider it and for the people on this forum to say what they think about it.

[yukikaze_yanagi]

i think this will segregate the community even more. You can already see (what's the server with more x people) right now.
I think we shoul leave things like they're planning

[Lirion]

i think this will segregate the community even more. You can already see (what's the server with more x people) right now.
I think we shoul leave things like they're planning

I don't mean how many people there are on the server (if you mean the chocobo bar) I mean how many from each region are on the server and if they have that already they should make it clearer because I saw no such thing when I made my character. And I honestly would blame the community for segregating themselves if even with this they choose their region.

Plenty of people here would like to play with people from all over the world, showing them what server have a close to even amount of them all I'm sure they would like to pick that server over another instead of guessing and hoping.

The one that want to play in his region, there's a choice for that, the one that want to play on a server with the biggest mix, show him/her which servers they are and then there's a choice for that as well.

Just my opinion though.

[CrystalWeapon]

I would settle for them just using duplicate server names for regional servers.

i.e.
Ridill [jp] Ridill[us] Ridill[eu]
Masamune [jp] Masamune [us] Masamune [eu]
Durandal [jp] Durandal [us] Durandal [eu]

etc...

If people are going to be moving for better latency I'd rather keep my server name and lose as little friends as possible.

[Medura]

well, it would make for example european people choose a server with little % of the others, that way you know the server has less lag since its fewer people from other places. In other words, it will separate the community much more :P

[Lirion]

well, it would make for example european people choose a server with little % of the others, that way you know the server has less lag since its fewer people from other places. In other words, it will separate the community much more :P

I don't know about that, if I saw that one server had an even amount of JP/NA and EU I would like to pick that one over one with 90% JP. The ones that want to pick a server depending on latency will pick their regional server no matter what, they would probably care more about the ping for each server. :P

[_pops]

I would settle for them just using duplicate server names for regional servers.

i.e.
Ridill [jp] Ridill[us] Ridill[eu]
Masamune [jp] Masamune [us] Masamune [eu]
Durandal [jp] Durandal [us] Durandal [eu]

etc...

If people are going to be moving for better latency I'd rather keep my server name and lose as little friends as possible.

I actually like this idea, as I don't really want to move servers. I know a lot of great people on Ridill and it would suck if there's some confusion on the regional server stuff.

[Wyll_JamBacchi]

Tagging a few server as "international" isnt such a bad idea!

maybe add some further infos, that those servers are exspecially for those who want to meet diffrent players from diffrent regions. and keep the data center "hidden"

To your idea with the percentage:

How do you want to calculate it?

- All player currently ingame?
- All players that are registered to that server?

With both of these ideas problems will occur

[Lirion]

I would settle for them just using duplicate server names for regional servers.

i.e.
Ridill [jp] Ridill[us] Ridill[eu]
Masamune [jp] Masamune [us] Masamune [eu]
Durandal [jp] Durandal [us] Durandal [eu]

etc...

If people are going to be moving for better latency I'd rather keep my server name and lose as little friends as possible.

Oh I'm not against showing where the servers are, but say if I want to play with everyone and Rdill JP have the biggest mix I would pick that one over the other two Ridill servers. So I'm not saying don't show where the servers are, I'm just saying that showing how many from each region is on said server might be a good idea for people that want to play with everone.

Tagging a few server as "international" isnt such a bad idea!

maybe add some further infos, that those servers are exspecially for those who want to meet diffrent players from diffrent regions. and keep the data center "hidden"

To your idea with the percentage:

How do you want to calculate it?

- All player currently ingame?
- All players that are registered to that server?

With both of these ideas problems will occur

Just check where the IP adress comes from? I don't care how many are currently online, the amount of player on the server is already shown with the chocobos. I'll I'm saying is show how many from each region there is on a server with a %.

[Xerius]

I would settle for them just using duplicate server names for regional servers.

i.e.
Ridill [jp] Ridill[us] Ridill[eu]
Masamune [jp] Masamune [us] Masamune [eu]
Durandal [jp] Durandal [us] Durandal [eu]

etc...

If people are going to be moving for better latency I'd rather keep my server name and lose as little friends as possible.

This will be a great idea assuming that the number of players increases dramatically, Right now I don't think that content wise, it would be a good idea to triple the number of servers just because it'll make multi-player content that much more difficult. Trying to find parties as it is right now can be difficult.