Balmung Restriction Discussion

[Kage]

Everyone take note:

 

http://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/news/detail/7646466e34be540314cfa6810da8874de9c8642b

 

NA Data server maintenance!

 

At the following time, we will be performing maintenance on the North American data center. During this time, players may be temporarily unable to connect to the North American data center, or may become disconnected from the server, but gameplay will be possible by logging in again.

 

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause and thank you for your understanding.

 

[Date & Time]

From Mar. 15, 2015 4:00 to Mar. 15, 2015 10:00 (GMT)

 

[Affected Worlds]

- North American data center Worlds

For people who don't live in Euro land and don't want to convert themselves...

 

Mar. 14, 2015 9:00 p.m. to Mar. 15, 2015 3:00 a.m. (PDT)

[Kage]

I tried to check if Balmung was open once people could finally connect to the server... but I found out both Gilgamesh and Balmung were still closed.

 

I wonder if everyone being stuck in an instance/DC'd in an instance is still considered to have congested the servers

[Kellach Woods]

I tried to check if Balmung was open once people could finally connect to the server... but I found out both Gilgamesh and Balmung were  still closed.

 

I wonder if everyone being stuck in an instance/DC'd in an instance is still considered to have congested the servers

 

Seems like this maint also caused an issue - A lot of us are getting the Waiting in Queue : 1.

[Heart Quintessence]

I just logged all the way back out, ( closed out the launcher as well) and the logged in, and it had 28 people in the que and then i got in.

[Gegenji]

I tried to check if Balmung was open once people could finally connect to the server... but I found out both Gilgamesh and Balmung were  still closed.

 

I wonder if everyone being stuck in an instance/DC'd in an instance is still considered to have congested the servers

 

Seems like this maint also caused an issue - A lot of us are getting the Waiting in Queue : 1.

 

Ah, yeah, I'm getting that. Thought it was just a normal queue at first but it kept "refreshing" the waiting in queue window. Logging all the way out and trying again worked, though.

[Y'lani]

Damn, no amount of logging out and logging back in helped me with that queue window. Maybe Squeenix is trying to tell me to just clean the house already.

 

That wasn't on my to-do list for today. ;;

 

:cactuar:

[Spethah]

Ladies and Gentlemen,

 

If you have the "Players in queue: 1" and cancelling does not remove it, just restart the game.

[Y'lani]

Ladies and Gentlemen,

 

If you have the "Players in queue: 1" and cancelling does not remove it, just restart the game.

 

Mmhm! That's working for some (with the exception of me) so I also recommend this course of action for those who cannot log in because of the queue window.

 

EDIT: A helpful Enzo told me that changing your data center from American to Japanese multiple times and trying to log into Balmung after each change should also help with the queue. The more you know!

[Dravus]

I'm not sure whether it actually helped or I just got lucky but closing down the game entirely, waiting five minutes and then trying to get back online allowed me to skip the queue problems.

[Kellach Woods]

PRO TIP : You can access the character creator even if Balmung isn't up, so save your character's appearance with a comment with their name to accelerate the creation process when Balmung is actually open.

[Kage]

I wanted to post in this thread since it -is- the discussion for the topic.

 

Anyway, as I theorized before, it looks like Balmung has 'stabilized' into having a consistent but by no means concretely set open window for character creation.

 

It seems that Balmung seems generally open now on Weekdays 3am PST-7am PST which is what seemed to be the open window for creation before the Christmas holidays.

[K'nahli]

I am strongly of the same opinion solely due to the massive influx of RMT tells and bots I've been seeing lately - relative to the near-zero we used to get beforehand anyways.

[Kage]

>.> I actually still get less than 5 tells a day on average of RMT tells. I think the most I had in one day was 7 if that.

 

Though there was a time when I used to only get 5 a week so the tells are up.

[Branson Thorne]

>.> I actually still get less than 5 tells a day on average of RMT tells. I think the most I had in one day was 7 if that.

 

Though there was a time when I used to only get 5 a week so the tells are up.

I received 4 tells for RMT in just under 2hrs this morning.

Funny thing for me is, the later in the day it gets, the less I receive them.

[ZoktaiKhor]

I play on behemoth but we have the same issues as all of you itseems Every time i recruit a friend into FF io have ot tel lthem the first time ot make a char wont be til 3am the next day. at best.

[Domri Blackblade]

I play on behemoth but we have the same issues as all of you itseems Every time i recruit a friend into FF io have ot tel lthem the first time ot make a char wont be til 3am the next day. at best.

 

I know the feeling. I recently talked a good friend of mine into rejoining and was so apprehensive of the part where she'd have to make a character at strange hours of the night. LUCKILY, she already had one.

[SaintEaon]

The first week  I came back I had to try logging in at weird times every day for about a week before I finally got in. Took my best friend about as long a few weeks later.

[Rurel Dunewall]

I used a site to set up email alerts for when Balmung opened up. From what I can gather it's pretty frequent. 1pm GMT Mon-Fri without fail, looking at my inbox.

 

I have to agree that it's pretty silly to disallow creating new characters on the server whenever you like if you already have one there, but with how often it's opening it hasn't caused me any issues. And simply saving the appearance for a character does speed the process up ten fold.

[Branson Thorne]

And simply saving the appearance for a character does speed the process up ten fold.

Unless you are anything like me.

 

I will sit at the creation menu for 2hrs perfecting my character, will save appearance when I am 100% satisfied with my character, then, as soon as I reload it, I instantly see multiple things that I know longer like!

[Kayfaei]

I used a site to set up email alerts for when Balmung opened up. From what I can gather it's pretty frequent. 1pm GMT Mon-Fri without fail, looking at my inbox.

 

I have to agree that it's pretty silly to disallow creating new characters on the server whenever you like if you already have one there, but with how often it's opening it hasn't caused me any issues. And simply saving the appearance for a character does speed the process up ten fold.

Do you still happen to have this website?

[Unnamed Mercenary]

I used a site to set up email alerts for when Balmung opened up. From what I can gather it's pretty frequent. 1pm GMT Mon-Fri without fail, looking at my inbox.

 

I have to agree that it's pretty silly to disallow creating new characters on the server whenever you like if you already have one there, but with how often it's opening it hasn't caused me any issues. And simply saving the appearance for a character does speed the process up ten fold.

Do you still happen to have this website?

 

We learned that the most of the websites that reported open servers reported based on the Lodestone, which is only updated every 4 hours for status. Given that Balmung typically closes new accounts within about 5 minutes (barring an active server crash in progress), by the time you get an alert, the server is usually already closed and has been for quite a while.

 

Some people do have success staying up late (or early depending on timezones) and effectively click-spamming the launcher/server during the maintenance period so that in the event maintenance ends early/ends on time, they are one of the first people to login. It's certainly not the best of methods, but does work.

 

Given that Balmung is probably one of the most densly populated servers (active logins vs total characters/accounts), creation tends to close almost immediately once people begin logging in.While we haven't hit physical limits on the server in a while (ie, the zone becomes locked because too many people are in it already), it is something that usually happens around patches.

 

If you're the type of person who would be making multiple characters, I'd suggest a server transfer, where you can transfers as many characters as your account allows for one transfer fee. (Assuming you have a standard account, that means 8 characters from one server to Balmung for a single $18 transfer fee. The original server does need ot be the same for this to apply, iirc.)

[Kayfaei]

Thank you for this info. I am off for a few days i'll try the 3am-5am method and see if I can win a spot on it.  I just would of never thought trying to get into a server would be this hard haha. I'm on the standard account. Got my toon all made and a name picked out.  

[Saeran]

I was just curious about this;

 

I have 3 characters on another server I'd like to bring to Balmung through a world transfer. In the small print, however, I saw that they can request you choose a world other than Balmung or even impose upon you to move your characters to a different world after the transfer has gone through without a refund.

 

Has anyone had any issue with transferring to Balmung?

[Lamia]

I just- transferred a bunch of characters over to Balmung literally monday. You should be perfectly fine to transfer on in :3

[Yuvan]

Hello! Sorry to resurrect a sleeping thread but I was wondering if anyone has had any luck getting onto Balmung recently? I've been trying to a character in with the server transfer on Mogstation but I can't even select a world if it's locked, Balmung doesn't even appear on the list! I've tried this several times now but I've had no luck.