Maximum players per server anyone know?

[Zenaku]

Nah my problem is that I am greedy and want to stick with the players I met in 1.0. At the same time, I want the server to have room for my friends who will join when the game is released. 1st world problems

Ya i see that issue there i really wish they made a few new worlds but w/e i guess we just have to play by ear with this servers stuff.

[Alhanelem]

Simple solution: just join a server listed as "moderately full."
Or you can just join whichever server, because even if it is "mostly full" there isn't going to be a permanent lockdown... they will turn CC on and off on each server as needed to help balance populations. This has been happening during the beta and you can be sure it will happen in release- no server had CC shut off for a very long time.

Don't shy away from a lower-pop server either... even if there aren't tons of other people around at a certain time, the duty finder will link you to every other server in the same data center, so you'll always be able to get a full group for dungeons and guildhests.

[ArkhamNative]

From past experience (v1 Early Access in 2010), SE will make worlds available and unavailable depending on congestion in certain zones. A world that is "full" now might become available again later.

When I started, Besaid was "full", so I chose another. (iStory. er, Istory.) Many days later I heard it was available again. (You only saw server availability after creating a new character.) (Yes, that's the world's smallest violin you hear playing in the background...)

[JillyBean]

A couple questions if someone knows ~

1) For those who have visited the server transfer site, what are the amount of stars on the JP worlds, and have the stars on the NA/EU worlds changed from the OP?

2) For those who played at launch of 1.0 in Sept/Oct 2010 for a while ... did you ever get queued when logging in and have to wait to get on your server to play? This happened when my son played SWTOR at launch. I'd never seen anything like it, it did not happen with XI. It went on for a few weeks. I found it pretty appalling. Sometimes he could not get on for hours.

[Zenaku]

A couple questions if someone knows ~

1) For those who have visited the server transfer site, what are the amount of stars on the JP worlds, and have the stars on the NA/EU worlds changed from the OP?

2) For those who played at launch of 1.0 in Sept/Oct 2010 for a while ... did you ever get queued when logging in and have to wait to get on your server to play? This happened when my son played SWTOR at launch. I'd never seen anything like it, it did not happen with XI. It went on for a few weeks. I found it pretty appalling. Sometimes he could not get on for hours.

The only time there was a queued in 1.0 was when a new patch hit. The lag was really bad and it was a few min waiting to get in but once people saw the new patch they just log off and we never saw that many players online. Even when yoshi-p took over and it became P2P we had that issue people would just pay the game and log on to see the new patch lol.

[Breladine]

A couple questions if someone knows ~

1) For those who have visited the server transfer site, what are the amount of stars on the JP worlds, and have the stars on the NA/EU worlds changed from the OP?

Japan Ridill ★★
Japan Masamune ★★★
Japan Durandal ★★
Japan Aegis ★★★
Japan Gungnir ★★

North America/Europe Sargatanas ★★
North America/Europe Balmung ★★★
North America/Europe Hyperion ★★
North America/Europe Excalibur ★★★
North America/Europe Ragnarok ★

As of.. well right now.

[Yowyow]

Japan Ridill ★★
Japan Masamune ★★★
Japan Durandal ★★
Japan Aegis ★★★
Japan Gungnir ★★

North America/Europe Sargatanas ★★
North America/Europe Balmung ★★★
North America/Europe Hyperion ★★
North America/Europe Excalibur ★★★
North America/Europe Ragnarok ★

As of.. well right now.

rofll...... glad i'm staying on raggy, screw crowded servers... never EVER again

[Solace]

Yea Excal is filling up crazy fast. One day it was one star and the next it was 3.

[Naraku_Diabolos]

Would anyone happen to know..
The maximum amount of players...
A server is limited to....
Before it becomes full.....?

9000? 10000?

Data Center Location World Name Status
North America/Europe Sargatanas ★★
North America/Europe Balmung ★★★
North America/Europe Hyperion ★★
North America/Europe Excalibur ★★★
North America/Europe Ragnarok ★

Status

★ Relatively Uncrowded ★★ Relatively Crowded ★★★ Crowded × World transfer applications not being accepted.


Regarding the character transfers for 1.0 characters and the people who have friends that they want to play with in the future(such as on the release date or after), what are your thoughts?

1. You transfer to Excalibur/Balmung and it becomes full shortly. Your character is locked into those servers as there is only a one time world transfer. You are stuck here with your 1.0 character.

2. You transfer to one of the 3: Hyperion, Ragnarok, Sargatanas and it is likely that there is enough room for your friends to join your 1.0 character.

3. Throw away legacy status/1.0 character and start fresh?

The problem is that the people who I played with in 1.0 are leaning towards the 3 star servers and I want to play with them but in fear of the server having a maximum capacity.

WOOT, Excalibur!!

[Ruethryl]

Well this is interesting.. that and the transfer page hasn't updated since 6/22 --

"We would like to notify our players that, in regards to the ongoing World transfer applications, the Masamune and Aegis Worlds are approaching the maximum number of applications allowed. Please be aware that we will stop accepting applications once a World maxes out and further transfers will not be possible."

From - [NA] Status of World Transfer Applications for Masamune and Aegis Worlds

Both are also at 3 stars, but they've posted no such notice for Balmung or Excalibur