Aveline

Ah, seeing as how you have been registered for a week and there have been multiple posts and emails sent out about it, I figured it would be impossible not to know. I guess anything really is possible. Sorry you have such hate for a server that just came online. We are all pulling for you to overcome this difficult time in your life.

Because she decided not to vote and showed up immediately after to complain about it?

I second these sentiments. A lot of people talk and talk about projects like this, but very few actually put in the monumental amount of effort to make it a reality. Kudos to you for sticking with it, through EVERYTHING. :cheer:

Just so you guys know... pretty sure those chocobos only reflect # of people logged in. All during closed beta, chocobos changed wildly depending on the time of day. Shadowlord could have 3 chocobos at peak times and 1 chocobo at others. I don't think people were quitting Shadowlord for 12 hours each day and then rerolling. Those chocobos only tell us how many people are currently logged in at that moment, not how many people are rolling on the server, which is why every 30 minutes or so, Lindblum goes down and we can't make characters (yes it has been happening off and on all day, not just once or twice).

Those are going to be hard to come by In Ul'dah at least haha.

Cas, can you set it to allow people to change their vote? I'm not sure if that would make it easier or more complicated, but either way the vote would be ending at the 24 hour mark.

Funny how lemmings follow the lemming directly in front of them right off a cliff too, right? ;D Guess that explains the huge # of votes for Lindblum.

Good call I just listed off a bunch of games off the top of my head.

I started ranting to Mason about this in IM but realized I probably should just say it here instead. :3 I honestly do not understand all these attempts at strategizing which server is going to have what groups and how populated they are going to be. This is a free open beta in the calm before a ton of high ticket games get released this fall. Of COURSE every gaming community & their granny is going to be trying out FF14. Chances are, at least 50% of them are also going to be gone by the time CE is out on shelves. Along with FFXIV at the end of September, all of these games are set to be released within the next few months: Halo: Reach Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Fable 3 WoW: Cataclysm (maybe/possibly) Fallout: New Vegas Call of Duty: Black Ops And 4Chan? A threat? Really? They have the collective attention span of an adolescent goldfish. It's highly unlikely that they are going to stay together as a huge group on one server beyond open beta. I apologize if this is coming off as overly snarky, but I just do not see the point in wasting so much energy making newsroom updates about who is going where when really, the server populations are going to in all likelihood look completely different come Sept. 22. If we really want a server that is more low-pop and easier for everyone to access, IStory (TM Apple), Kashuan, and Ghysal will probably be our best bets, for the 300 or so of you who haven't voted yet. But who knows? Maybe at the last minute a bunch of linkshells will have the same idea as us and rush Kashuan.

While I'm pretty sure they will add more, S-E has never said they definitely would, though if you can find an official source please correct me if I'm wrong. The only thing they've said about the number of servers is on the beta tester site:

Yep. :lol:

Just so you guys know... it is impossible to create new characters on Lindblum now. I was going to make an alt in Gridania and the server is no longer on the available servers list. However, I can log in with my Ul'dan on Lindblum still. Whether this is a temporary bug or if the server is at full capacity is still unknown.

Well, only 1/5th of our total registered users have voted so far. I say it's still too early to tell when the vote won't even be closed until tomorrow night.

Exactly. There is no way we can predict server population or personality right now. >_>

Ewwww

I tried to see how well I did as a conjurer with a pack of orange juices I'd made.. only to find out that in Beta 3 orange juice does not regen mana. Hopefully that changes in OB and release >_> I ran in to the same problem as Iroh: at earlier levels the MP thing was fine, but higher up and I was running back to camp far more often than I had to on pugilist or gladiator. PUG I could basically stray as far away from the aether as I wanted. And in fact, in the earlier betas when every monster area was overcamped, the only places I could find to level up in peace were far away in hidden caves. I would never have had the patience to keep running back and forth between my leveling caves and the aether. We'll see how well it works in OB though..

Yeah, we got it, Armi. As I summed up about 4 posts back. No need to keep troubling yourself on everyone else's behalf.

Brin this post was never about you or any one person. This was about coming across a site that appeared to be a secondary coalition of roleplaying linkshells and asking about it, then being told by its members first that it was a private group of long-term friends, then that it was a coalition for every interested linkshell. All in the space of a few hours. My curiosity was piqued, and now that the whole thing has been explained here, it's pretty much done.

Yes, that's quite different than what your community was described as On the first page of this very thread, no less Well, I wish CrimsonBlades, HACK!, Guardians of Balance, and all your friends much luck with your RP-and-everything-else coalition. I'll be sticking it out here with the RPC and others. After all:

Ahh okay, gotcha. I guess I was thrown off on the whole "making your tight-knit group of friends you've played with for years fill out an impersonal application for approval to join" thing. Well, that and it's weird that an alliance of close-knit friends would have a section dedicated to questions for getting to know each other But whatever works for close friends! Like I said, if it's a private forum that's cool. It just showed up on Google and some people might get the wrong idea about what it is you are working on.

Ah, so like another coalition of linkshells.

Ah, so it's an interpersonal thing, cool. The linkshell applications forum and the post about it being open to all roleplaying linkshells threw me off--it seemed like it was something meant for more public use. Thanks for clarifying otherwise!

Hopefully!

I found this site today while Googling around for FF14 communities beyond the Big Three, and I noticed so far that two RP linkshells here have joined this Alliance. Is this yet another RP coalition, or a larger-scale alliance of companies/linkshells looking to join the same server? CB and HACK can fill us in, maybe? :approve: http://ffxivalliance.com