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Looks like I've got a bunch still kicking around in the backup folder of my hard drive from like three PCs ago. Gonna post them all for posterity: mods, feel free to remove the ones that are, uh, maybe not in line with society in 2020. I forgot how completely unhinged this guy was:
@snakelinksonic said:
@jimbo7676 said:
Has anyone actually seen Ultros open up for character creation at all lately? I tried waking up early on a weekday but no dice. Wondering if I am wasting time trying to get in but you'd think it would open sometimes for people who want to play with their friends.
Honestly? No. Sometimes a few worlds on Primal open up in the morning, but they were pretty aggressive on preemptively locking our world down a month before Shadowbringers even launched. I can't say whether or not that's a hardline lock as we're still getting new people joining the company on a daily basis. They may have already been here though, there's really no way to tell. Just from personally tinkering around though, I haven't seen Ultros open in over a month.
Just so you guys know how the statuses on https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/worldstatus/ work:
Congested (as a status, as opposed to Standard or Preferred) is a manual hard lock on a server. No new characters can be created on that server at all, no matter the time, until Square Enix reevaluates the server population, which typically only happens during maintenance periods.
This means that Standard, Preferred, or New servers are the only ones that you can create a new character on. These are the servers that will be open or closed to character creation based on the server's current population, so these are the ones that you'll be able to create a character on if you stay up late/wake up early.
So, for example, these are the three NA data centers and each server's status as of right now (7:30 pm EDT). Any server with Standard, Preferred, or New is a server that it will be possible to create a character on if the current server population is low enough, and any server with the green person and + icon to the right of it is a server that it will be possible to create a character on at this moment. Ultros (and all other Primal servers other than Exodus, Famfrit, and Lamia) will not be open to new characters until Square changes the server statuses; the same is true for all Aether servers, as well as Balmung on Crystal. The earliest any of these servers would open up would be after the maintenance for 5.01 on July 15th, but it might not happen then either; it's totally up to Square to manually flip the switch.
Yes, it's a bad system, and unfortunately you don't have many options for dealing with it. You can create a character on another server on Primal and world visit to Ultros, but there are some restrictions on you while you're world visiting (viewable here), with the most notable being that you can't join an FC (i.e. the GB one, to gain access to the FC chat) and you can't do anything with your retainers (i.e. your bank). If you did want to be in the GB FC once Ultros is no longer 'Congested,' you'd either have to create another new character on Ultros, or pay $18 to world transfer from the other server to Ultros. It's up to you whether either of those things would be worth it or whether you'd rather just play other games while you wait out the server 'Congestion' and check back again later. There's another maintenance tentatively scheduled for two weeks from Tuesday, so even if Ultros doesn't open up on the 15th, there's some hope that it might open up towards the end of July.
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