(05-21-2017, 05:41 PM)Sig Wrote: (1) Convincing SE to lift the server transfer restriction; or
(2) Convincing SE to designate an official RP server.
1. This is NOT going to happen. I'm not sure how many times it can be said.
Unless we see some large, and I mean truly LARGE number of players either stop logging to Balmung or leave, it's going to stay at a "highly congested" status in SE's eyes and remain locked. Maybe the PVE-only people will get fed up with it and leave. Maybe some RPers will do it. If we look at the other servers SE locked down, it's obvious that their "too many people" number is over 8000 (because I'm gonna round up and overshoot).
Balmung has way more than that. Active. During the slowest part of the 3.X patch series.
I'm not sure how much of a tech background you have, if any, but you can't just throw money or complaints at a problem like this. And that's what this is. An actual server problem. There are physical limits to how much data can be processed in a timely manner on a network. Data transfer on a network is SLOW compared to what a computer can actually handle.
We're at the point where server stability is affected when too many people login to Balmung. Its map/zone/instance servers can't handle that load while maintaining gampleplay functions. This stuuff isn't just about your specific connection to the server. Everything your player character does has to be broadcasted to every other player around you. And in FFXIV, that generally means per zone. Everything.
Every time you move.
Every time you chat.
Every object your character interacts with.
Every item.
Every design decision in your character.
Every skill, with its animations and targets.
Every monster.
Every NPC.
For every character on the map. It's not a lot of data for a single character, but it scales up MASSIVELY per character. And imagine this. They're all doing something different. And all that data has to make it to every other person on the map. And for some pieces of data like a linkshell, theoretically the entire server.
There are hard limits to how much data can move while keeping gameplay consistent. Otherwise, it's not synchronized and there are major stability issues, lag, etc.
That is Balmung right now. That is Balmung's reality right now. I'd love it if it were not the case. I'd love for all the RPers to be on a single server. But that's just not realistic given the population size right now.
2. They're probably not going to do this. People have been asking since 1.0 and their official stance then was "we'll let the players decide." Their official stance in 2.0 was "we want the players to decide." In 3.0, they panicked and implemented some of the worst zone instancing I've ever seen in a game. And there was still no official RP server then either. They want the players to figure out which servers they want to RP on. It's not changing in the foreseeable future. Asking that people randomly pick a server to play on and RP on only to tell them they should just pay to move to a closed server if they want RP isn't a viable solution. A coordinated effort is needed for somewhere NOT BALMUNG for these people to go and RP on if they want. Maybe they will transfer if Balmung ever opens. We can't count on it until it's actually open.
