Hydaelyn Role-Players

(08-27-2013, 01:48 AM)Erik Mynhier Wrote: [ -> ]I got tired of waiting 12 hours and just clicked Cactar. I'm just going to take it easy and work on getting my crafting up. Going to just hang out until update 1 or 2 when they drop the server-jump service. Just take it easy and wait it out people.

Yeah I made another char on Coerul (sp) as my husband already had a char there.  Light pop so can have fun if Gil is full

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threa...ost1083120

Im just going to leave this here...

Yeah, my husband and I couldn't get on either RP server all weekend, so we had to roll on Lamia. It sucks, but it is what it is... I don't see the server locks going away for a long time, not until after release and the first free 30 days are over at least. And I would really like to play on my limited time rather than wait for 30 days or keep randomly checking and HOPING I might get to roll a character.

I'll just have to hope we can find a little group of RPers on Lamia and make the best of it.

But hey, if anyone wants to make Lamia the unofficial 3rd RP server, it's hardly ever locked so it's got more room to accommodate, and wouldn't piss off the JP players by rolling on "their" servers.

(08-27-2013, 02:10 AM)Bloodwillow Wrote: [ -> ]Yeah I made another char on Coerul (sp) as my husband already had a char there.  Light pop so can have fun if Gil is full

It's Coeurl.
Coeur (French for Heart) with an extra L (for love, I guess? One way to remember it...)

(08-26-2013, 06:59 PM)Aldotsk Wrote: [ -> ]@Aysun:
I really would like to see you able to endure the rage of inability to play games with your friends for last two days including open beta because of severe errors ._.

Because this is ridiculous. We are in a server full of reddit players that is overpopulating 70% of the population and 20% of other communities and 10% of roleplayers. That doesn't change that this server is beyond the save of allowing people to play on it since it's too populated. It's #1 most over populated server.

I'm ignorant so please excuse me, but how do we know conclusively that all the reddit persons who joined the game during the last open betas actually put money on the game?

Because during the Rift open testing phase, hell yeah the servers were vomiting people back out by test 4, but very few of those persons actually bought the game.  The traffic came from people who loved what they saw by round 2 of beta, pre-ordered, then didn't play until early access.  The reddit masses were probably a tenth to a fifth of the original crowd in beta, if my understanding of the situation is correct.

There's no way to conclusively know the ratio of reddit people, SA people, rpers and people who've just gone to gilgamesh without following a community, beyondf the fact that we do know the size of the Reddit FFXIV community and the people coming from SA is far greater than the amount of people registered here. And honestly it doesn't matter. I don't want to blame reddit or SA for the fact that we're having problems. It's not their fault - they just want to play with their friends like everyone else.

What does matter is that the server is not open to new characters and is unlikely to become open to new characters for some time. When it does open, there's going to be a larger queue of people lining up to make characters there, meaning it may not remain open for long. Character transfers there are likely to have more restrictions. There'll be a drop off in people after 30 days once the time that comes with the game is over, I'm guessing, but I think Gilgamesh will remain heavily populated due to being the home of several very big name free companies that will be starting to advertise more once the drop-off begins. If nothing else, we need to decide on an 'overflow' server and stick with it - I'm hoping we can use this thread to come to a conclusion about which one.

Personally, I am in favour of Faerie. It's a P4-added server, so it has no community attached to it. Plus, and this is just me guessing, I'm banking on the name of it helping to keep away the '14 year old boys who play halo and swear a lot' crowd.

Quote:SA people

My ignorance shows again but, who?

Quote:Personally, I am in favour of Faerie. It's a P4-added server, so it has no community attached to it. Plus, and this is just me guessing, I'm banking on the name of it helping to keep away the '14 year old boys who play halo and swear a lot' crowd.

If I know the trolls, they'll log into that server in hopes of trolling LGBT groups.  RPers would give them a 'twofer'. In short, trolls will join no matter the name.

I haven't bought the game yet, so I am really not up to speed on the server issues, but I'd think something should be decided before August 31.  Isn't that the scheduled date for a server-wide RP event?  I know I would be disappointed to miss it if I were a legacy RPer (which I'm not, if I wasn't clear before).

(08-27-2013, 12:37 PM)penniless1 Wrote: [ -> ]

Quote:SA people

My ignorance shows again but, who?

Quote:Personally, I am in favour of Faerie. It's a P4-added server, so it has no community attached to it. Plus, and this is just me guessing, I'm banking on the name of it helping to keep away the '14 year old boys who play halo and swear a lot' crowd.

If I know the trolls, they'll log into that server in hopes of trolling LGBT groups.  RPers would give them a 'twofer'. In short, trolls will join no matter the name.

I haven't bought the game yet, so I am really not up to speed on the server issues, but I'd think something should be decided before August 31.  Isn't that the scheduled date for a server-wide RP event?  I know I would be disappointed to miss it if I were a legacy RPer (which I'm not, if I wasn't clear before).

SA = Something Awful.

http://www.somethingawful.com/

Ah, sorry for being unclear! SA is something awful, the other community we're sharing Gilgamesh with. They're both extremely big communities.

The big LGBT players community is also on Gilgamesh, I believe. A lot of groups laid claim to it (probably because Gilgamesh is the coolest |D).

(08-27-2013, 12:20 PM)raindrops Wrote: [ -> ]Personally, I am in favour of Faerie. It's a P4-added server, so it has no community attached to it. Plus, and this is just me guessing, I'm banking on the name of it helping to keep away the '14 year old boys who play halo and There's no way to conclusively know the ratio of reddit people, SA people, rpers and people who've just gone to gilgamesh without following a community, beyondf the fact that we do know the size of the Reddit FFXIV community and the people coming from SA is far greater than the amount of people registered here. And honestly it doesn't matter. I don't want to blame reddit or SA for the fact that we're having problems. It's not their fault - they just want to play with their friends like everyone else.

What does matter is that the server is not open to new characters and is unlikely to become open to new characters for some time. When it does open, there's going to be a larger queue of people lining up to make characters there, meaning it may not remain open for long. Character transfers there are likely to have more restrictions. There'll be a drop off in people after 30 days once the time that comes with the game is over, I'm guessing, but I think Gilgamesh will remain heavily populated due to being the home of several very big name free companies that will be starting to advertise more once the drop-off begins. If nothing else, we need to decide on an 'overflow' server and stick with it - I'm hoping we can use this thread to come to a conclusion about which one.
swear a lot' crowd.

I agree with your assessment and I rather a proactive stance than waiting and being reactive again to avoid such situations. So I can't see why Faerie is not as good as any other. Granted to me it is just a name so I never been one to care in any case, heh. Just want to be able to hang out and enjoy the game with those of a like mind.

Hell, I led a RP guild in FFXI on Garuda and we sure as heck didn't have any to rp with but ourselves but yet it was one of the best experiences I have ever had gaming wise.

So if it is open I shall create a character there this evening.

(08-27-2013, 12:54 PM)Zhauric Wrote: [ -> ]

(08-27-2013, 12:20 PM)raindrops Wrote: [ -> ]Personally, I am in favour of Faerie. It's a P4-added server, so it has no community attached to it. Plus, and this is just me guessing, I'm banking on the name of it helping to keep away the '14 year old boys who play halo and There's no way to conclusively know the ratio of reddit people, SA people, rpers and people who've just gone to gilgamesh without following a community, beyondf the fact that we do know the size of the Reddit FFXIV community and the people coming from SA is far greater than the amount of people registered here. And honestly it doesn't matter. I don't want to blame reddit or SA for the fact that we're having problems. It's not their fault - they just want to play with their friends like everyone else.

What does matter is that the server is not open to new characters and is unlikely to become open to new characters for some time. When it does open, there's going to be a larger queue of people lining up to make characters there, meaning it may not remain open for long. Character transfers there are likely to have more restrictions. There'll be a drop off in people after 30 days once the time that comes with the game is over, I'm guessing, but I think Gilgamesh will remain heavily populated due to being the home of several very big name free companies that will be starting to advertise more once the drop-off begins. If nothing else, we need to decide on an 'overflow' server and stick with it - I'm hoping we can use this thread to come to a conclusion about which one.
swear a lot' crowd.

I agree with your assessment and I rather a proactive stance than waiting and being reactive again to avoid such situations. So I can't see why Faerie is not as good as any other. Granted to me it is just a name so I never been one to care in any case, heh. Just want to be able to hang out and enjoy the game with those of a like mind.

Hell, I led a RP guild in FFXI on Garuda and we sure as heck didn't have any to rp with but ourselves but yet it was one of the best experiences I have ever had gaming wise.

So if it is open I shall create a character there this evening.

I already made a character on Balmung intending to RP there, but instead I'll join you guys just get the fat-chocobo rolling down that Faerie hill.

Haha! I'm glad people like the Faerie idea. I won't be able to log in for a few hours yet (my brother plays MMOs as well and when he's playing I have too much lag to play) but once I can feel free to add Cendrillonne Braids (my main, currently in Gridania) or Chumimi Chumi (an alt I made, largely to torment a friend's character, currently in Ul'dah). 

We have a - currently tiny, I don't want to put up anything proper until I'm 100% sure Faerie's a good solution to avoid causing more splits - teeny tiny RP linkshell going on, but I accidentally passed over leadership of it when trying to give another member the ability to invite |D Hopefully I can get that sorted out soon, derp.

Edit: A little more info! They're looking to expand the data centres as early as next week! This one says 'Japan' but since it was posted in the NA announcements section using the NA account, there's a better than even chance that that's a typo and they're planning on expanding both.

The JP servers have been hammered with people since this morning, it seems that most of Asia just didn't preorder/use their EA time.

(08-27-2013, 02:34 PM)raindrops Wrote: [ -> ]to avoid causing more splits

Square-Enix kind of already beat us to it when they started limiting players create new characters on the more popular or older realms. I doubt Balmung or Gilgamesh will be open for character transfers until people finally settle down on other, newer servers.

I say it's time to move on and actually play the game than to wait for either of these realms to unlock.

Problem is, those of us who are either Legacy or rolled on either server in Phase 4 are facing either being stuck there or abandoning all their progress. Not to mention their connections to other people in the same situation, unless everyone agrees to do a Mass Migratory Reroll (not gonna happen).

So the solution to just roll elsewhere only works for newcomers, really.
Which sucks for everyone because established players love new blood and newcomers love having stuff already there they can join in (of course, this is a generalization in both cases).

Thing is, P4/early access has only been a few days - Gilgamesh may not open for a few weeks. People who've HAD to go elsewhere may well have made more progress than P4 people have right now by the time Gilgamesh opens up - certainly more than they'll want to give up. If people have their heels dun in after five days, think of how hard it'll be to get people to go back to Gilgamesh when they've been elsewhere for a few weeks.

It's not ideal, but we're not going to get an ideal situation unless Gilgamesh magically becomes empty. Having an unofficial overflow is better than having a lot of isolated 3-4 person linkshells scattered across servers.