I think the problems to the server issue is a mix of everything involved.
On one hand, you have people who leave themselves AFK'd for long periods of time, for whatever reason it is they feel the need to remain logged in even after they've gone off to do other things.
One the other hand, you have a sever that just has a lot of people on it. Â It's been in my experience with just about every other game that I've played, heavy populated servers are just difficult to get on, even if at all. Â More server space costs money, too. Â It's not just something that they can click a button for and make happen. Â It could be that they are perhaps working on a fix and have been really hush about it. Â You never know! But it also has to be a smart decision on their end to expand the server sizes. They'll have to do it for all of their servers. It ends up being a wasted effort (and money) once population dies down a bit. You kind of have to look at it from their perspective. On their end there are lots of other servers that are unoccupied/doesn't have a problem with capacity.
With that being said, there are also players who have alts that they don't play as well. Â Those also take up server space. Â And with the new patch already here and a patch and an expansion on the near horizon, there are just going to be more people logged in.
I think it's a shame that new players can't get onto Balmung to be on the server that they want for RP, but there isn't much you can do about a heavily populated server, unless SE decides that it is something they can fix. Â Another part of the problem, that is since it's not a dedicated server AND it's one of the legacy servers, you have both masses of RPers and masses of Non RPers on the same server.
The best solution for now is to just be patient. Â It's frustrating, yes. Â It took me about a week to get on Balmung when I first came to FFXIV back in August. Â It'll just probably be less do-able during patch/expansion release.
Another quick edit: I want our community to get larger and I want other RPers to be able to join us too!
On one hand, you have people who leave themselves AFK'd for long periods of time, for whatever reason it is they feel the need to remain logged in even after they've gone off to do other things.
One the other hand, you have a sever that just has a lot of people on it. Â It's been in my experience with just about every other game that I've played, heavy populated servers are just difficult to get on, even if at all. Â More server space costs money, too. Â It's not just something that they can click a button for and make happen. Â It could be that they are perhaps working on a fix and have been really hush about it. Â You never know! But it also has to be a smart decision on their end to expand the server sizes. They'll have to do it for all of their servers. It ends up being a wasted effort (and money) once population dies down a bit. You kind of have to look at it from their perspective. On their end there are lots of other servers that are unoccupied/doesn't have a problem with capacity.
With that being said, there are also players who have alts that they don't play as well. Â Those also take up server space. Â And with the new patch already here and a patch and an expansion on the near horizon, there are just going to be more people logged in.
I think it's a shame that new players can't get onto Balmung to be on the server that they want for RP, but there isn't much you can do about a heavily populated server, unless SE decides that it is something they can fix. Â Another part of the problem, that is since it's not a dedicated server AND it's one of the legacy servers, you have both masses of RPers and masses of Non RPers on the same server.
The best solution for now is to just be patient. Â It's frustrating, yes. Â It took me about a week to get on Balmung when I first came to FFXIV back in August. Â It'll just probably be less do-able during patch/expansion release.
Another quick edit: I want our community to get larger and I want other RPers to be able to join us too!
