Odin World Character Population (04/14/2008)

[Seyrr]

News regarding the character population for the Odin World is now available.

Click here for more information.

This May, FINAL FANTASY XI will celebrate its sixth year of official service.
At present, FINAL FANTASY XI boasts a total of 32 Worlds populated by 1.7 million characters and half a million registered users. Along with the release of the Wings of the Goddess expansion, these numbers continue to grow.
The long-awaited World Transfer Service and the ability to select the World in which to create a character have also been well-received and widely used since their implementation last year.

This continued increase in characters and the advent of unrestricted World selection has led to overpopulation in certain Worlds.
When compared with the average numbers of 55,000 characters and between 15,000 and 16,000 users per World, the Odin World in particular stands out with a staggering 70,000 characters and 23,000 registered users as of the end of March.

http://www.playonline.com/pcd/topics...045/3045_0.jpg

Ordinarily, the overall prosperity and activity of a World is improved in proportion to the size of its population. However, a situation of overcrowding can create game balance issues, such as struggles to claim ordinary monsters and Notorious Monsters, as well as aggravate economic problems. In the worst case scenario, a situation can occur where the restriction on the number of simultaneous connections creates login problems, changing areas becomes a lengthy or limited process, or a limit is placed on the creation of new characters.

To avoid these very issues, a free World Transfer was offered to the inhabitants of Odin. While many players accepted this offer, the situation of overpopulation remains relatively severe.

With quality of service first and foremost in mind, the development and management teams are devising solutions to this problem on Odin and other Worlds. Removal from the list of destinations for a World Transfer or the list of Worlds available on the character creation screen, as well as continuing to provide free World Transfer services, are some of the ideas being considered for overpopulated Worlds.

We hope that our players will also take these factors into consideration when utilizing the World Transfer Service or choosing a world for their new character.

Thank you for your continued understanding and cooperation.

The FINAL FANTASY XI Development and Management Teams

So Odin's overcrowded, and apparently this is news?

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[Ashira]

Yeah, amusing considering how kinda.. low the representation is for Odin amongst cross-server communities like this.

It's weird, I remember, back before.. hm, I think it was LB's attempt at AV really that we realized how large we are population wise. Our server is relatively .. closed off? I guess, in a manner. We always seemed relatively behind in some certain ideas about how things work.. crafting was always behind on Odin (Mikesjustice did a lot for the NA community on that end, and others who kept their findings pretty quiet), big kills were always pretty slow in being taken down after being introduced, and we have had a pretty steady 3 major HNMLS for the last 2-3 years, with others that crop up and eventually fade out.

A lot of us were of opinions that we were pretty small, really. Dunno why we're so sequestered. Very large die-hard JP community, maybe, and they kept hold of the server for a pretty long while.. that could have some impact I suppose. The NA community, too, overall - esp endgame wise, are pretty tight-knit, even with rivalry and competition. Probably one of the most active server forums on KI way back when (still is, I think, but it's mostly crap spam now ;P).

/shrug

/cheer Odin?

[Lyramion]

Odin is considered "the world to be" under German players. Half a dozen ppl I knew migrated there because of that.

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[Ashira]

I spy an active mod who is not moving the vegas thread in Advanced Discussion.

Edit: Damn it, you moved it while I was posting.

LOL

You edited while I was clicking to reply!

[Elipse]

We've had discussions like this in the past on BG about how bad Odin is for population and overcrowding. Getting an exp camp sucks hard. Parties on top of parties, anything crafted is saturated, new LS's popping up all the time, etc etc.

Much of this has been talked about before. I can't speak for the rest of Odin but I've hated the idea of server transfers since day one, this only makes it worse. I don't know what SE can actually do about the situation now, but I really wish they would take an active role in fixing it. Blocking all server transfers to Odin would be a nice start.

[Liseth]

I wonder if they'll eventually force recent transfers in over populated worlds to a less populated one.

And lol @ this:

Along with the release of the Wings of the Goddess expansion, these numbers continue to grow.

From what I've perceived thus far, this expansion is only making players (endgame mostly) feel more inclined to quit since the recent set of updates totally sucked...maybe I'm wrong, but I doubt that.

[Ashira]

I wonder if they'll eventually force recent transfers in over populated worlds to a less populated one.

And lol @ this:

Along with the release of the Wings of the Goddess expansion, these numbers continue to grow.

From what I've perceived thus far, this expansion is only making players (endgame mostly) feel more inclined to quit since the recent set of updates totally sucked...maybe I'm wrong, but I doubt that.

Well, I predict maybe a small boost when the new 2008 collection is released, like with ToAU, dunno.

As to forced transfers... it's one thing I've always feared. How would they even arbitrate that.. what would happen if you ended up like, one person out of your LS being dumped onto some random new server... but if they're this concerned about our population, it is unfortunately a kind of logical step. :/

[Liseth]

Indeed...I think they are trying to be nice about it now by offering the free transfer option before kicking people in overpopulated worlds into a random, less populated world.

[Sonomaa]

http://sonomaa.com/random/odinsclosed.jpg

[Cyprias]

Indeed...I think they are trying to be nice about it now by offering the free transfer option before kicking people in overpopulated worlds into a random, less populated world.

:ashira: nothx.

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[Sonomaa]

if they have to force move people off, they will basically make threats for a few weeks, remove the option to start or transfer characters, then take the newest server transfers/newest made accounts off and transfer them to another world

[Sonomaa]

[img]Pool'sClosed[/img]

You make me sad

go back to spam

[shukuffxi]

As to forced transfers... it's one thing I've always feared. How would they even arbitrate that.. what would happen if you ended up like, one person out of your LS being dumped onto some random new server... but if they're this concerned about our population, it is unfortunately a kind of logical step. :/

Hold me

[vagus]

the expansion has made more people XP. the xp is so good in these areas its tough to pass it up. for people that play night time on the weekend, xp is almost impossible unless your JP. Lol. kings aren't dominated by any timezone, but each timezone has a heavy end game prescence.

I'm with Elipse, i've never been a fan of the server transfer. It just opened up for rmt and asshats to make profit. I feel for people that got a "new start", but for the most part its turned out bad for most. SE should have just made server transfer a high cost, like $100 or something. Lol.

[Deband]

I heard a rumor they got REAL girls there

[TacoTaru]

I heard a rumor they got REAL girls there

I call shenanigans!

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