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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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).

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*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.


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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.