schwarzerregen9338: It's eerily weird seeing a Sever completley empty
glimoreganajai2206: they need to not close DC travel, but implement cross DC PF (within same region), that would fix issue.
vincentbeton: So it's like Living Memory, but we're not the ones flipping the switch this time. Poetic
RoundSeal: To clear up my confusion — this worked sort of like a 'spill-over' DC, yes? Not meant to be a home centre, but for anyone who was having trouble doing content on their own worlds during the expansion launch?
LivvieLynn: Dynamis is great for those who don't like an over populated server. However, adding the additional servers was a mistake.
crushme2233: My static is half primal and half crystal. First week, we raided on Dynamis, as that was our only real choice with congestion.

This past week we've had to have a sub for a few days. Going to Dynamis, the high end raid PF was only around 30~ parties and took about 40min with no one joining. Aether was too congested to move in. We moved to primal and the PF was 100 , and found a sub within minutes.
Lyu-Phy: So this DC was just a temporary thing in preparation for the expansion launch to reduce ques etc and future ones I guess? That makes sense. I thought it was a permanent one but it was clear that Chaos and Light are the very core of EU and still have plenty of room. Personally I would like if SE just keeps it open cuz its own little funny thing.
ncBadrock: I also hate how dead Chaos is for harder content. I don't want to travel every time I do an ex or savage. It was fine during Tier 1 of Pandemonium. It was fine when travel was turned off. I feel like in EU at least, the disadvantages outweigh the benefit. Of course you have DCs like Dynamics or the Oceanic DC, that rely on DC travel. But the system overall is very flawed in my opinion.
simusar: Many people said the same thing about primal in NA, but when travel to aether was cut off, raid and prog on primal was strong and healthy again. With the change to login priority for dc travelers, meaning, even if you can manage to travel to aether, it's unlikely you'd be able to login, it seems, for now, that raid and prog on primal will be healthier than it was in EW.
isturma: I don't have any experience with the EU DC, but since you mentioned Dynamis, I need to chip in from the NA side. Dynamis has had free server transfer and they've been giving rewards for people to switch - I went from Goblin on Crystal to Seraph on Dynamis and it's almost as busy, if not busier, than the server I came from. In addition, housing has been far easier to actually win, because there's so many plots and a lack of people able to afford to buy a plot for themselves. Whereas on Goblin there'd be 20,40, 100 entries into the lottery, I was able to secure a plot for myself as the only bidder.

I hope that they do more to encourage people to come to Dynamis because it's been a positive little community so far, and I'm far happier for having migrated. It sounds like Shadow might have always been temprary, though so it might not be a 1:1 comparison. Just wanted to toss in my 2 MGP and invite you to come take a gander at our happy little home! Much luv!
Webberjo: After Endwalker's launch, I think having lots of extra data centers and worlds is better than sitting through 2000 player queues every time a DDoS DCed everyone.

Aug 15 2024

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