Bluegartr appears to have Jecht as their server of choice for beta, most likely if the name stays they will go with it for live, not sure. I know CKD from FFXI are leaning towards Garland or possibly Emperor, they are not 100% yet. I'll be basing my vote upon CKD and BG, CKD were notorious jackasses in FFXI later on in the game and BG is a huge entity.
Would anyone (not including Council peeps since this was their suggestion xD) be completely opposed to changing the length of the poll from 3 days to 1? Everyone should be aware of when the poll is opening since I sent out a mass email stating as such. But I'm not sure if anyone feels this is too rushed. I don't want to change the time limit suddenly without warning.
Siben Wrote:Kashemia Wrote:Well, we will hopefully have CD-roms at the time to download from, at least that's what I'm hoping. If I have to download it all from scratch, I will probbly not be able to play at all during those extra 8 days we get from the CE <.<
Speaking of the 8 day head start...how are we supposed to get into that exactly? My local Gamestop didn't give me a CD-key or anything when I pre-ordered my C.E.
Those who preordered the special edition will actually be able to go to the place they preordered it and pick up a box with, you guessed it, DVD's so you can install the game. So no worries on download times. Save maybe updates.
Castiel Wrote:Would anyone (not including Council peeps since this was their suggestion xD) be completely opposed to changing the length of the poll from 3 days to 1? Everyone should be aware of when the poll is opening since I sent out a mass email stating as such. But I'm not sure if anyone feels this is too rushed. I don't want to change the time limit suddenly without warning.
Bumping Castiel's question.
Keir Wrote:Castiel Wrote:Would anyone (not including Council peeps since this was their suggestion xD) be completely opposed to changing the length of the poll from 3 days to 1? Everyone should be aware of when the poll is opening since I sent out a mass email stating as such. But I'm not sure if anyone feels this is too rushed. I don't want to change the time limit suddenly without warning.
Bumping Castiel's question.
I am in favor of this idea.
I think a one day poll is a better idea for this.
The only issue I take with any of this is that I think the voting ought to be open for at least one full week, if not two. This gives people who may be traveling, working, or otherwise away from the internet for an extended period of time the chance to get their votes in as well.
Volkai Wrote:The only issue I take with any of this is that I think the voting ought to be open for at least one full week, if not two. This gives people who may be traveling, working, or otherwise away from the internet for an extended period of time the chance to get their votes in as well.
Heh, yeah, I don't think that's gonna happen, no offense. The discussion right now is if the vote should be up for 24 hours or 3 days, 1-2 weeks would be way too long time, people would end up scattered all over the place.
Most people are mainly eager to have a server selected as fast as possible. If people are travelling, it's a shame, but will it really make that much of a difference? Isn't the important thing knowing what server to go on once they get back?
Edit: I merged the post into this thread, where most of the discussion is going on.
I think one day is just fine for this kind of vote. You might want to consider a link to ffxiv-status.com once the names go live to give a reference to voters. I do need clarification on one thing: Server names in the beta are going to be the server names in retail since you'll be able to rollover your name to the retail server?
RcknShdw Wrote:I think one day is just fine for this kind of vote. You might want to consider a link to ffxiv-status.com once the names go live to give a reference to voters. I do need clarification on one thing: Server names in the beta are going to be the server names in retail since you'll be able to rollover your name to the retail server?
The server names in
Open Beta will be the names of the Servers on the
Live Game. We know this to be true, unless SE lied to us all, and they are not going to keep their world.
Something I highly doubt they want to do so early on.
Honestly, I'd be happy if someone just picked a server arbitrarily, as long as it wasn't Sephiroth.
The server's name doesn't matter the slightest, the only important thing is we all know which it is so we can all roll there.
Asyria Wrote:Honestly, I'd be happy if someone just picked a server arbitrarily, as long as it wasn't Sephiroth.
The server's name doesn't matter the slightest, the only important thing is we all know which it is so we can all roll there.
There's a huge debate about the vote in the Council Chambers right now about this. However, as it was basically stated there, a vote was promised. To take it away only about 24 hours from the actual vote would cause a rather large uproar. It would be different if we had time to discuss it more thoroughly but there is no time anymore. We've essentially been advocating the vote for months now and everyone has accepted that there would be one if server names were known before launch. And well, server names are about to be known 3 weeks before launch. The most I think we can do is just shorten the length of the actual vote, but not take it away at this point.
Double post ftw! The following procedures and whatnot will be posted in the official poll thread. However, I want it all to be made public now so everyone can get a feel of how things will work in advance. Most of this is posted in the Headlines sticky but there have been some modifications and there may be at least one more before the poll goes up.
Quote:*You have 1 vote and cannot change it.
*Poll will remain open for 24 hours. This shorter span of time is meant to prevent a scattered community during open beta and by extension, the final version.
*Results will remain hidden for the first 2 hours of the poll. If you wish to vote with the majority, hold off until after this initial time limit expires. This is being done to prevent those fortunate enough to vote first from having too much of an influence over the server choice right away (in other words, a "fair" start).
*Most secondary forum accounts should be temporarily disabled.
*Forum registration is currently set to admin approval only.
*2nd place server in the poll will become the overflow server. That means if the RP server gets overloaded and locked down, the overflow server is where the rest of the RP community will go until something can be worked out.
*Poll results are final. Do not whine after the results that the server name is lame, girly, or silly. Regardless of any drama here or on any other site, the chosen RP server will remain the same. So don’t waste our time and energy whining about it.
*In the extremely rare event of a tie, the RPC Council will hold a vote to break it. (This is being discussed now in the Council Chambers and a quicker and more efficient tie-breaking solution will hopefully be ready soon.)
*Due to the fact that this vote is happening during Open Beta, participants may have to reroll after the vote (delete character and recreate). This can not be avoided. Fortunately, you can skip the opening CS anyway. With the time limit on the poll greatly reduced, this shouldn't be a big issue.
*If you see a similar RP server poll on Core, please contact Cerulean Shaman immediately. He will shut it down.
*If you see a similar RP server poll on any other site, please direct them here and tell them that they’re only causing confusion amongst the overall community. Spam the poll as much as needed to get the poll starter’s attention.
*Please keep an eye on the beta forums as well. Someone may try to create some kind of poll there.
*Moderators: Please move any other server selection poll created to the Council Chambers for removal. Only one poll topic should exist on these forums.
*Council: Please mobilize your members as needed. Also be sure to properly announce the winning server (and overflow server) after the vote concludes.
*Poll results are final. We will not acknowledge any outside RP server polls if they continue on with their endeavor even after being directed here.
Castiel Wrote:There's a huge debate about the vote in the Council Chambers right now about this. However, as it was basically stated there, a vote was promised. To take it away only about 24 hours from the actual vote would cause a rather large uproar. It would be different if we had time to discuss it more thoroughly but there is no time anymore. We've essentially been advocating the vote for months now and everyone has accepted that there would be one if server names were known before launch. And well, server names are about to be known 3 weeks before launch. The most I think we can do is just shorten the length of the actual vote, but not take it away at this point.
Pardon my language (and rhetoric) but,
WHO THE FUCK thought it would be a "good idea" to advocate stripping away the ability of the community
as a whole to decide where it would go?
Mad props to you Castiel for shooting that tyrannical proposition down. :approve:
I've been trying to hold my tongue over this asinine debacle about server selection but c'mon. This is getting ridiculous.
I get that some people were "inconvenienced" in beta when the game was randomly assigning servers and people who got stuck on Exdeath and where ever else had to reroll on Jecht only because DUE TO RANDOM CHANCE most of us ended up there BEFORE they gave us the option to select a server. But there is absolutely zero reason to try and force a hardline decision down the throat of the community simply because the fact of the matter is THERE IS NO URGENCY TO THIS DECISION. Game goes live in 3 (three) weeks, why do you people INSIST on whipping yourselves up into a frenzy over beta, BETA. It's all going to be wiped at launch anyway (names aside), so just relax.
I understand people want to snipe their own "original creation do not steal" character names like Cid Do'Urden or Mary Sue Kirk before other people do and in order to do that "ASAP" I understand the desire to just say, "This is the decision, you hoi polloi can like it or lump it." However I can in no capacity approve or advocate such a totalitarian proposition.
Anyone who wishes to take away the voice of the community, in my mind, doesn't want to have a community to begin with, they want drones who'll blindly bend to their own wishes. I don't know who the genius is/was behind that idea but I am seriously disappointed that someone could think that would be "ok."
Play me off, men.