Trixstir Posted December 22, 2015 Share #101 Posted December 22, 2015 Bah didn't make it after servers came back up oh well guess since I am still new I will just play the game. Link to comment
Branson Thorne Posted December 22, 2015 Share #102 Posted December 22, 2015 Servers are back up. If Balmung was open, it was for less than 15 seconds, at least on my end. Logged in, FFXIV was not accessible. Immediately exited launcher, relaunched, servers were up. immediately loaded pre-made character, licked yes through everything else. Choose a name I had pre-choosen and Balmung was closed already. Link to comment
Branson Thorne Posted December 22, 2015 Share #103 Posted December 22, 2015 Bah didn't make it after servers came back up oh well guess since I am still new I will just play the game. Try making it into Gilgamesh and check out the Gilgamesh-rp website. Link to comment
Trixstir Posted December 22, 2015 Share #104 Posted December 22, 2015 Bah didn't make it after servers came back up oh well guess since I am still new I will just play the game. Try making it into Gilgamesh and check out the Gilgamesh-rp website. Ya made a toon there since I figured it would be good to at least see some pve content. Didn't even know there was any real RP stuff going on there. Always sounded like a joke when I seen post about it. Thanks for the info will look into it. Link to comment
Branson Thorne Posted December 22, 2015 Share #105 Posted December 22, 2015 Bah didn't make it after servers came back up oh well guess since I am still new I will just play the game. Try making it into Gilgamesh and check out the Gilgamesh-rp website. Ya made a toon there since I figured it would be good to at least see some pve content. Didn't even know there was any real RP stuff going on there. Always sounded like a joke when I seen post about it. Thanks for the info will look into it. It's really quite when compared to Balmung, yes. However it's the 2nd largest RP server so it's a good 2nd choice. Link to comment
Rudiford Posted December 26, 2015 Share #106 Posted December 26, 2015 Gah, seems impossible. Will Balmung accept all eight of my characters if I were to transfer? I was thinking about stalking the server in the wee hours, but it seems unlikely this season. Link to comment
Unnamed Mercenary Posted December 26, 2015 Share #107 Posted December 26, 2015 Gah, seems impossible. Will Balmung accept all eight of my characters if I were to transfer? I was thinking about stalking the server in the wee hours, but it seems unlikely this season. If all 8 characters are coming from the same server, yes. You can use the one transfer fee for them all. Link to comment
William Greystone Posted January 7, 2016 Share #108 Posted January 7, 2016 Hello everyone, I wanted to know if I buy a world transfer can I still get rejected due to the overpopulation of players. Link to comment
Maril Posted January 7, 2016 Share #109 Posted January 7, 2016 Hello everyone, I wanted to know if I buy a world transfer can I still get rejected due to the overpopulation of players. If your application to move gets rejected, then I do not think they charge you. I had a friend transfer in today (like 10 mins ago) and the process was without hiccups. I think the fact that you "apply to move" is more of a technicality than a thing that actually causes people to get rejected - like a thing they'd only use if Balmung was about to melt down entirely. Link to comment
William Greystone Posted January 7, 2016 Share #110 Posted January 7, 2016 Hello everyone, I wanted to know if I buy a world transfer can I still get rejected due to the overpopulation of players. If your application to move gets rejected, then I do not think they charge you. I had a friend transfer in today (like 10 mins ago) and the process was without hiccups. I think the fact that you "apply to move" is more of a technicality than a thing that actually causes people to get rejected - like a thing they'd only use if Balmung was about to melt down entirely. Thanks will try that later this week, Thanks again Link to comment
Akasumi Posted January 8, 2016 Share #111 Posted January 8, 2016 I know this is probably such a forgone question. But will they ever...EVER...expand the server capacity (or whatever they have to do) to allow us to create characters on Balmung again WITHOUT having to transfer from other servers? Why are they dragging their feet on this? Link to comment
Cassandra Posted January 8, 2016 Share #112 Posted January 8, 2016 I know this is probably such a forgone question. But will they ever...EVER...expand the server capacity (or whatever they have to do) to allow us to create characters on Balmung again WITHOUT having to transfer from other servers? Why are they dragging their feet on this? Doubtful. They want to populate existing servers rather than encourage people to migrate away. It's much more cost efficient to spread numbers around. And while I think they should consider server merges, it's horrible PR. The unfortunate fact is RP doesn't matter to Square. They look at Balmung not as a RP hud, but just another large server. There isn't a reason to expand it anymore than expanding Gilgamesh because it's the unofficial raid server these days. That, and I'm too much a cynic to deny they're not complaining over the transfer fees we all pay to get our RP fixes. >.> Link to comment
Kage Posted January 8, 2016 Author Share #113 Posted January 8, 2016 I know this is probably such a forgone question. But will they ever...EVER...expand the server capacity (or whatever they have to do) to allow us to create characters on Balmung again WITHOUT having to transfer from other servers? Why are they dragging their feet on this? Doubtful. They want to populate existing servers rather than encourage people to migrate away. It's much more cost efficient to spread numbers around. And while I think they should consider server merges, it's horrible PR. The unfortunate fact is RP doesn't matter to Square. They look at Balmung not as a RP hud, but just another large server. There isn't a reason to expand it anymore than expanding Gilgamesh because it's the unofficial raid server these days. That, and I'm too much a cynic to deny they're not complaining over the transfer fees we all pay to get our RP fixes. >.> Honestly they're more likely to just separate Gilgamesh and Balmung into different data centers than they are to expand servers. As you said, they want people to populate the existing servers. Not to mention how horribly fucked up Aether Data Center gets when -everyone- is wanting to play. *cough*Heavensward launch*cough* The thing is, no one really wants to be the pioneer. If someone is going to move they're more likely to want to move to a place with things established. Link to comment
Parth Makeo Posted January 14, 2016 Share #114 Posted January 14, 2016 I know this is probably such a forgone question. But will they ever...EVER...expand the server capacity (or whatever they have to do) to allow us to create characters on Balmung again WITHOUT having to transfer from other servers? Why are they dragging their feet on this? Doubtful. They want to populate existing servers rather than encourage people to migrate away. It's much more cost efficient to spread numbers around. And while I think they should consider server merges, it's horrible PR. The unfortunate fact is RP doesn't matter to Square. They look at Balmung not as a RP hud, but just another large server. There isn't a reason to expand it anymore than expanding Gilgamesh because it's the unofficial raid server these days. That, and I'm too much a cynic to deny they're not complaining over the transfer fees we all pay to get our RP fixes. >.> Honestly they're more likely to just separate Gilgamesh and Balmung into different data centers than they are to expand servers. As you said, they want people to populate the existing servers. Not to mention how horribly fucked up Aether Data Center gets when -everyone- is wanting to play. *cough*Heavensward launch*cough* The thing is, no one really wants to be the pioneer. If someone is going to move they're more likely to want to move to a place with things established. I know the tech they have is different but what wow did to bandaid the issue of imbalanced servers were to link them together sort of through "Cross realm" but many hate Cross realm simply because it killed a community even more so than battlegroups back in a patch before BC To solve the server population via expanding, they would have to go the SWTOR route and kill the least populated servers while forcing those on killed servers to migrate to med pop servers. Thhat would probably be the only way to do that. But there is never a way that solved the issues. In fact, some players (Weirdly enough) like being on empty servers as much as people who enjoy heavy pop. I doubt we will see anything server changing till 5.0 IMO Link to comment
Kage Posted February 4, 2016 Author Share #115 Posted February 4, 2016 I've updated the first post to reflect the current status of getting into Balmung. Same thing since June 2015 sadly, transferring into Balmung is the only surefire way to get in. It also saves you time wasted trying to wait for Balmung to open. Link to comment
Reqnia Posted February 19, 2016 Share #116 Posted February 19, 2016 According to the World Transfer Service page (http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/help/option_service/world_transfer_service/) characters cannot be transferred to a World which has already reached the limit for character creation. Is this accurate/still in effect? Link to comment
Unnamed Mercenary Posted February 19, 2016 Share #117 Posted February 19, 2016 According to the World Transfer Service page (http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/help/option_service/world_transfer_service/) characters cannot be transferred to a World which has already reached the limit for character creation. Is this accurate/still in effect? To my knowledge, they've never enforced that. There is likely a different number of players who must be logged in befire server transfers are cut off, as opposed to the number of players who must be logged in to disable new character creation. Link to comment
Reqnia Posted February 19, 2016 Share #118 Posted February 19, 2016 According to the World Transfer Service page (http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/help/option_service/world_transfer_service/) characters cannot be transferred to a World which has already reached the limit for character creation. Is this accurate/still in effect? To my knowledge, they've never enforced that. There is likely a different number of players who must be logged in befire server transfers are cut off, as opposed to the number of players who must be logged in to disable new character creation. Good to know, thank you! Link to comment
Kage Posted February 29, 2016 Author Share #119 Posted February 29, 2016 Hey all, I've gotten a report from a friend who had attempted to transfer into Balmung yesterday that they got an error during the process as Balmung was too congested. I tested it with a character I sent to hyperion but it worked just fine and the friend reported that 3 hours later the transfer was able to get through. Link to comment
Nodem Posted February 29, 2016 Share #120 Posted February 29, 2016 Hey all, I've gotten a report from a friend who had attempted to transfer into Balmung yesterday that they got an error during the process as Balmung was too congested. I tested it with a character I sent to hyperion but it worked just fine and the friend reported that 3 hours later the transfer was able to get through. This might mean we're getting to the point where there's so many people on Balmung that transfer to it will be stopped all together. I don't find it surprising, although I'm sure they're banking on transfer and such right now. Link to comment
Tatsu Posted March 14, 2016 Share #121 Posted March 14, 2016 I'm just creating 8 characters on one server and transferring my characters all to balmung when possible (3 days i believe) Link to comment
Ashe Posted March 21, 2016 Share #122 Posted March 21, 2016 Except tonight apparently. TOnight you cannot transfer for some reason... Link to comment
Unnamed Mercenary Posted March 21, 2016 Share #123 Posted March 21, 2016 Except tonight apparently. TOnight you cannot transfer for some reason... This has been happening a bit more often lately. I think we're hitting that point where the number of people logged in is hitting the unsafe number more often. Link to comment
Ashe Posted March 21, 2016 Share #124 Posted March 21, 2016 Except tonight apparently. TOnight you cannot transfer for some reason... This has been happening a bit more often lately. I think we're hitting that point where the number of people logged in is hitting the unsafe number more often. I am legit ready to cry. So frustrated >.< I am gonna try until it works though >.< Link to comment
Unnamed Mercenary Posted March 21, 2016 Share #125 Posted March 21, 2016 Except tonight apparently. TOnight you cannot transfer for some reason... This has been happening a bit more often lately. I think we're hitting that point where the number of people logged in is hitting the unsafe number more often. I am legit ready to cry. So frustrated >. I am gonna try until it works though >. It cleared up pretty fast last time. I'd just wait for a weekday to try again. Or not spring break for many Americans. Link to comment
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