Cassandra

To touch on this further, I had someone start calling me pet names after one discord conversation. Now I don't mind when friends do that or if it's clearly being playful, but DMing me every other day with "Hi, dove" or "kitten" immediately triggers my "this person will be clingy!" radar. It didn't help the mentioned "adult content" more than once, which kinda put me on edge over what their intentions were.

The devs certainly didn't.

As fresh Mateus native I personally appreciate any effort to promote the server because more RP for everyone means more RP for me, but this is not the attitude we should be presenting, much less on forums that are so heavily tilted in Balmung's favor at present. Many people who have been helping us here are from Balmung, or are Balmung people rolling alts, or they've moved / will move entirely but still understandably have a soft spot for their original server. Really, people, stop saying things like this. While I've never played on Balmung, I have seen a lot of it due to the person who got me into this game being from there. Mateus is neither better (let alone "WAY BETTER") nor worse. It is different. Let's stop this ridiculous server rivalry trend. Balmung needs Mateus or when it opens again people will flood their server and they'll be right back to the issues they're having now. Mateus needs Balmung if it has any hope of ever having plentiful, varied events and FCs -- though I understand some people would prefer to be an oh-so-exclusively sandbox, but well, I'm not talking to those sorts. I'm afraid you'll just have to learn to share. The focus should be "Welcome to Mateus!" not "lol Balmung suxorz amirite?" To anyone reading this from Balmung who is now concerned about joining us, this is not the prevailing attitude at all. I and many others welcome all of you and have nothing but respect for your server. I just want to state that my intention isn't to say Balmung is a horrid server: In fact I really enjoyed it. But I also want to say that I have had my fair share of bad experiences as well on there. On Mateus I haven't had a bad experience. I'll edit accordingly to not make it sound condescending because that isn't my intention. I wanted to stress the fact that the RP here seems to be a bit more centralized around serious themes versus ERP. That being said, I am here to make RP flourish in any server on FFXIV. I like RP, I support RP. I have no reason to make people think RP is a bad thing on any server. But I do know there is a group of people whom want to get away from the Balmung community because of how toxic some of the groups can be. Not saying everyone on Balmung is horrid obviously, just trying to encourage people who feel like Balmung is their only option to come and try out something that could be a potentially better experience for them. No offense, but how long have you even been on Mateus? The fact you immediately point to ERP gives me the impression your opinion is highly bias since you've already jumped to stereotypes. ERP is nowhere near as prevalent nor do people hound you about it. I get some tells if I idle around Ul'Dah but even those aren't a big deal usually. All that aside, your overall sentiment differs little from Gilgamesh. They tried promoting a rivalry-- an alternative to the cesspool that was Balmung. It wound up alienating like-minded people aka other roleplayers who felt insulted. The inevitable drama that kind of mentality fosters slowly drove people back to Balmung while Gilgamesh roleplay collapsed into itself. The road to hell is paved with good intentions What you're doing is precisely that; good intentions that could lead to alienating other roleplayers who don't want to be apart of a community who does little more than take jabs at how much better they are than Balmung. If Mateus is to succeed, it absolutely needs to do so without those idle jabs. Yes, your experiences on Balmung may be bad, but bear in mind your experiences are also entirely subjective. Simply put, frame your recruitment strategy positively. People like to hear good things, especially about a server they may consider making a character on or transferring. What Balmung is or does shouldn't even be a thought.

This was just posted on the official forums regarding Sasano. There is apparently a 50% chance it will permanently lock your character in game, i.e., you will not be able to log back in again until they fix it.

It isn't even Balmung. The whole DF imploded on itself multiple times. Of course, that hasn't stopped a handful from crying foul it's all our fault and we're too stupid not to transfer.

Mateus officially is listed as a "preferred" world, thus will gain all listed benefits in the OP. Other preferred worlds are: 　○ Coeurl 　○ Goblin 　○ Zalera http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/news/detail/80cd4583bf743600105b947d6906d0909189e479

First and foremost, welcome! As for character personality, all of mine usually exhibit some characteristics I possess, though they often become only the template until the character takes a life of their own. If you are shy and wish to portray that because you aren't yet confident playing someone differing too far from yourself, by all means! That can help strengthen a character as you have experience to draw from. Just be mindful, as Lydia said, to keep IC and OOC separate. Someone aloof or even mean to you IC doesn't necessarily mean they feel that way OOC, for example. I also agree, using your actual name is... disconcerting. I'd personally suggest you pick something different because that separation is important and if you're already an anxious person irl, seeing your own name might make it harder to separation the IC feeling from the OOC.

I believe I said this already in your thread on the official forums, but I shall post here too. This solution only works with a brand new server, on a temporary restriction that allows only Balmung players to transfer initially. Those with houses would be given a token allowing them to repurchase the exact same house once relocated. That is never going to happen. Designating Balmung the official roleplay server now accomplishes nothing. Plenty PvErs fancy being on it due to the high population whilst others have called it home since 1.x and feel a sort of attachment despite not roleplaying themselves. Established PvE FCs like Ward and Highborn have no intention of moving and they boast over 100 members each. Therefore, we either accept Balmung may not see new recruits for however long or it's the roleplayers who move because we're more of a community than our PvE counterparts and could facilitate something like that. I suspect the former will happen.

I... actually had the basis of a plot not too dissimilar to Last of Us or Logan, if you're familiar with either. The gist putting a somewhat morally bankrupt character having to deal with the perceived burden on a younger associate. In this case, a sibling. For Cassandra's part, she lives by her whims and the gil mercenary life affords because a broken upbringing sees her distrusting everyone. Having someone abruptly fall into her life that has no ulterior motive besides meeting her would be... strange for her. She honestly couldn't imagine! Anywho, I do not have a wiki written yet, though Cassandra here is a re-imaging of a character I've been playing for seven years now. So I only needs to adapt her story to XIV sometime. I'd be happy to share them over discord if you're curious.

1. Mogstore Credit 2. Of the Round Weapon As always Rini. :love:

About that. Apparently, those dungeons are getting reduced! We're down to only one in odd numbered patches. http://www.mmorpg.com/final-fantasy-xiv/previews/stormblood-preview-dungeons-new-jobs-and-the-underwater-world-1000011766

The reason they didn't is to avoid people flooding onto Balmung and Gilgamesh knowing they won't have an opportunity again for however long. They wanted this to blindside us hoping people like yourself would transfer off. I don't say that to be mean, but it's the unfortunate reality of how SE wants to handle Balmung's overpopulation. What I do take umbrage with is their decision to lock high pop servers now but wait until Stormblood's launch before implementing bonuses or free transfers. Right now, no one has any incentive to leave since it'll still cost $18. They should have rolled everything out together, thus encouraging people to transfer instead of having us stuck in limbo waiting for them to figure it all out.

Just to clarify. These statistics are somewhat disingenuous. The method he uses negates a significant amount of active players and people on reddit have poked multiple holes in it. Lucky Bancho does a much more thorough analysis-- one that doesn't omit players who don't bother with the MSQ until later on. https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/5za5zx/lucky_banchos_unofficial_census_has_been_updated/

Ironically, because Mateus has such a tiny population. If we all need transfer, we'd actually solve the problem for SE and probably see Balmung open again.

And if we keep refusing to balance ourselves out, it will happen. At that point, they probably won't even give incentives, maybe reimbursements on housing, but they'll just dump us all in a server. This is a doom and gloom perspective. They are not going to essentially pick people at random and force them off Balmung. It's practically guaranteed to be a financial loss as a good chunk of those players will quit. If my friends and I were all split apart with no way of transferring to one server in particularly, I'd unsub immediately. All they will do is keep Balmung locked indefinitely.