(05-19-2017, 02:25 PM)Kage Wrote: A forced split of Balmung would be a horrible fucking outcome for players. I would love to make sure this is not a world we go to.
This isn't an unheard of scenario either, FFXI forced a split on it's biggest server when it got too congested. Players woke up one day on a completely different server than their friends. It's not above SE to do this.
I don't see them adding another world to the Aether datacenter, but I wouldn't be surprised if they offered a free transfer to one of the lower populated worlds there. If they were smart they WOULD just tag an "unused" world the RP server, but that's a highly unlikely hypothetical.
I'm concerned for both sides of the fence here.
Balmung being locked (And probably locked for awhile, we need to stop saying it's going to be only a month or two, it's not. We all know it's not. Balmung is in dire straights, it's going to be longer) risks Balmung dying as a server due to people quitting and no one new coming in. That's the truth. That's the reality. We'll see a bunch of old blood come back for StormBlood, then people will get bored and quit - and MORE people will follow. No reason for it, that's just how MMOs are. People don't stick around. They have other things to do. SE is choking Balmung and promising it can breath again later. It may be dead by the time that happens. That sounds dramatic, but it is a risk.
A new server has the disadvantage of not being well known and no one really deciding what the new server IS. Mataeus is being pushed here but I keep seeing Siren pushed on the official forums. The so-called leaders of each server need to get together and talk about what they are doing so new people feel comfortable rolling in one of the "Wild West" servers. The RPC can help, a lot actually, if we throw are weight behind one server, but we can also look like we're playing favorites too. If we don't care about how it looks, I'd recommend just throwing our weight behind something. Still, the truth is, most people know Balmung as the RP server. They want to be on Balmung. They don't to help build a community, they want to be in one already established. Harsh, but true. People are just more comfortable that way. That gives any server a disadvantage, especially if people treat it as "I'll just roll here till Balmung opens up". Gilgamesh gave it a good go, but thanks to leadership falling into drama (Which is why I recommend NOT HAVING A CENTRALIZED LEADERSHIP) everyone just transferred to Balmung. It's going to be hard to make it successful without some bitterness.
It's just so much balls that people have to decide things RIGHT NOW because of what SE did.
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