(04-24-2015, 11:04 AM)Oswin Wrote: The update sites only go by Square's Character Restriction post, which updates every 5 hours. Servers open and close outside of that 5 hour post. You're best bet is anywhere from 5am EST to 9am EST every weekday morning. Weekends are the worst time to try and get a character created as in most instances the server won't open at all.
^Pretty much this, if you're trying for Balmung. For a while, the worst it got was like tuesday-thursday early morning. Recently, it's been more general morning EST, while all the PST people are sleeping.