Quote:Is there ever going to be another RP server?
Unlikely, and not advisable in the current climate, in an effort to consolidate members, events and the communities they interact with one was designated in 1.0, and another in 2.0 due to a whole host of factors you can read about in the thread I linked earlier.
Quote:What are you going to do if they ever decide to put in official servers (Not saying it will but this is just something for you to think about) and choose to have different servers to support RP? There is no reason to limit 2 out of 23 servers to RP.
Balmung was chosen as a result of the server merger of Besaid in 1.0 where many RPers were at the time. Gilgamesh is the new 2.0 server, again for a variety of reasons (if you want me to go into detail just ask).
A note on server limitation, the RPC does not say "NO ROLEPLAY ELSEWHERE" it says "we support these servers" they had (in the case of Balmung) the majority of people, and in the case of Gilgamesh in 2.0, the majority of the votes for designated secondary server.
Quote:Second… I think I should put it out there that both Balmung and Gilgamesh are almost completely full of players! I am sure I am not the only one that realizes that this prevents people from actually logging into the game to RP on said servers! I for one feel that another server would greatly help spread out our community so more Roleplayers can do what they love…. I guarantee you that waiting a half an hour to log in is not something anyone loves...
Ehe queue time is simply an element of the game regardless of the game and the role, its not purely a "roleplayer" issue, so its not something that should (in my opinion) be addressed as a problem, popular servers are just that, popular. People will be able to do what they love regardless of server, and there isn't a order in the world that will stop them, Again the RPC does not represent the entirety of Roleplayers in FFXIV, There's a large group of roleplayers on Sarganates who keep to themselves and have their own site.
Quote:So I really think that it is time to put it to the vote whether we add another server to our list… I mean seriously… why don’t we ask what everyone else wants to do… instead of acting like the admins are the overlords of the damn RPC… I don’t see why random people get to decide on this… From my first point I made, Square Enix is not deciding on this… we are, and when I say we… I mean everyone! Not some random group of people that are only in charge because they made this site.
Admins aren't "random people" they're a dedicated group who have been with this game since 1.0, in 2010, hells I wasn't even among them but I certainly saw them.
Quote:ALSO!!! Now that I am asking I would also like to know why in the hell Gilgamesh was chosen as a RP server! You would think it would be shunned... being as it is also home to 4chan and Reddit... Seriously... you would think that server is like... troll headquarters or something... ./shrug
(10-21-2013, 12:43 AM)Faye Wrote: Fourth... okay, I have no idea why Gilgamesh was chosen, I agree that it was a pretty questionable choice. I suppose you'd have to ask whoever first suggested and agreed on Gilgamesh.
It was a public vote, you can look it up in the forums, everyone who has an account here had the chance to vote and did. It was hotly discussed, and the fact that Reddit chose the server was brought up, but surprise, many people here are Redditors or interact with the community.
Small addendum, sorry if any of this sounds trite, I've just been over this conversation more times than I care to count, please let me know if anything needs clarification and i'll do my best to address the points you raise.