VagabondExplorer

Thanks for the tips, though at least yesterday Balmung was open for new characters as of when I got out of work. I'm sure I could just create a character when I first wake up or on lunch to avoid peak hours as well. Going by what I see in the FC listing and event listing, it almost seems like Balmung may be the slightly more active server?

Thank you both! Tthe cross server thing is pretty neat. It really seems tailor made for RP, but I doubt that was the intention of it. That said, I imagine there are more active RP FC's on the servers with more people RPing so I'll try and get a character on one of those first. Shame everyone hangs out in Ul'dah, it was my least favorite city. Though I do quite enjoy impromptu open world RP so thank you for the tip on where to go! Events are great ways to meet everyone and some of my best memories from EQ2 are from events our guild hosted so I'm looking forward to attending some!

Hi all, I played at release until Squeenix said everyone plays free until we fix the game. As well I expected that the game was going to die at that point. And life game up and I really haven't done any gaming since. Fast forward to now, I have time and want to do some gaming again. I'm not interested in any new games, and since I never got much of a chance to play XIV (And it seems to be in the best shape out of the games I'm looking at).... I've decided to come back. I've been reading around and keep on seeing Balmung and Mateus servers mentioned, but I'm pretty sure those posts are at least a year old. Are those two still the most active servers for RP? Looks like Balmung is the only one of the two you can make a new character on though. If Balmung is the way to go and someone on the server wants to get some bonuses for the recruit a friend thing, I'd be interested as the XP item looks rather useful. I'm making a new account since I'd have to buy all the expansions and game time so just getting the complete collection seems to make more sense. Thanks!