(08-25-2013, 03:03 PM)belderiver Wrote: I think it's frankly ridiculous that an alternative to Gilgamesh isn't being declared. Nobody knew about the server load issues at the time of its selection, but it's become obvious now that it's a problem and a serious barrier of access - and more than that, that the problem will continue in the form of long queue times into the foreseeable future, even if character creation is unlocked. It is obvious Square-Enix is struggling with managing their servers, and now is the time to choose and declare an alternative.

Arguments that the people who are on Gilgamesh are having fun, or that the RP community may be splintered are completely immaterial. The reality of the situation is that NOT declaring an alternative server will scatter the RP community across all of the servers that didn't want to put up with Gilgamesh's issues as opposed to separating it into three fairly reasonably sized populations.

More than that, people who have successfully rolled on Balmung and Gilgamesh won't be affected at all! I can't believe the people in this thread who are basically arguing that it's fine because they had a good time. You can continue to have a good time if everyone else who doesn't have the opportunity to play with you knows where to go!

(08-25-2013, 04:02 PM)Bluefear Wrote: I think by delaying the declaration of a third RP server is going to cause the community to fracture the most because people don't know where to go after being locked out of Gilgamesh and Balmung.

Quote:Well all servers are being slammed with a low pop cap to test the DF ....

There is nothing wrong with saying "Hey wanna just meet on another server and RP until we can make out people on Balmung or Gilgamesh?"

You can save your character appearance, so that is already a few saved steps for when you make it on Bal or Gil. Then when they come back up, make your char and then continue your RP

I guess for me though, RPing has nothing to do with levels.  I enjoy RPing as much at level 1 here as I do on my level 95 on EQ2.  The only exception is the places you can RP in.  That's it.

Just my 2 cactaurs 

(08-25-2013, 04:22 PM)Bloodwillow Wrote: And my alternative option still stands ...

http://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/showthread.php?tid=3949&pid=51430#pid51430

Quote:Well all servers are being slammed with a low pop cap to test the DF ....

There is nothing wrong with saying "Hey wanna just meet on another server and RP until we can make out people on Balmung or Gilgamesh?"

You can save your character appearance, so that is already a few saved steps for when you make it on Bal or Gil. Then when they come back up, make your char and then continue your RP

I guess for me though, RPing has nothing to do with levels.  I enjoy RPing as much at level 1 here as I do on my level 95 on EQ2.  The only exception is the places you can RP in.  That's it.

Just my 2 cactaurs 

(08-25-2013, 05:14 PM)Fenrir Wrote: I'm just still really confused about why people didn't change the projected server when it was announced that all those other communities would be jumping into Gilgamesh.  Having a high population server is great and all, but having a server with only "RP" attached to it means that, surely, you'll run into more RPers just running around than you would on a massively populated server where we only make up who knows what percent?  At this point, there's almost undoubtedly no way to fix this, given that so many people have already gone and leveled up their characters on Gilgamesh, and despite so many telling us it's fine to roll alts and wait to level up on Gilgamesh, I doubt they'd be willing to give up their playtime to fix the problem.

So the cons of having a third "official" RP server are that people are afraid it will splinter the community further, and it may turn out low pop.

But the pros are that if picking the right server, you'll only have RP attached to it, most likely driving up the raw percentage of roleplayers you encounter, and it'll allow us to bypass these overpopulation issues that're hurting so many of us and our friends already.

I''m currently level 27 on gilgamesh, not the highest, by far, but not the lowest, but I'm perfectly willing to give it up and roll somewhere else to fix these issues.  Not only would we be helping OUR community by finding a third, but we'd be helping Gilgamesh's population woes itself by moving likely quite a few people off the server.

I still like Lamia.