Congested server problem - wanted to introduce friend to ff14

[Hosenbund]

so i didnt play ff14 anymore for like 2 years.. and i wanted to play it again, and at the same time i want to introduce a friend to the game.. but my server - shiva - is congested. so he cant create a character on it. how long will it take to not be congested anymore?

[Jâbbérwôkkï]

Your best bet on that is to have him log into it earlier in the day, usually the server load on mmos are lower morning time as most ppl are doing other things & not online. It also depends on the server region. As to a specific time I doubt anyone here can tell you exactly, so you'll just have to check & let your friend know yourself I guess.

[Ally Bobo]

You won't be able to create a character on the server regardless of the time of day. It'll keep the congested status for a while, I assume they take it off in patches. Nobody really knows how long it will stay congested though, there will only be guesses. :(

[Alternity]

Originally posted by Ally Bobo Pipe:

You won't be able to create a character on the server regardless of the time of day. It'll keep the congested status for a while, I assume they take it off in patches. Nobody really knows how long it will stay congested though, there will only be guesses. :(

That is simply not true, this status is updated fairly regularly during the day. I got a friend create a character during a 2minute window where it wasn't congested on my server.

[Under there]

you have tons of visit features now, just hop to where he is.

[tathen]

watch https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/worldstatus/ EU data tab if your server turns green its time to login and make that new character might have to do it at 2AM though.. also it seems u managed to pick the only EU server thats Congested lol

[Hosenbund]

any clue on when shiva wont be congested anymore?

[Dou B Jin]

From my understanding the best time to create a character is during server reset after a maintenance. It's relatively low traffic immediately after a maintenance unless its a huge content update.

I manage to get a character into cactuar during the whole population boom near the end of Shadow Bringer this way. Hope this works for your friend. Meanwhile keep an eye on the server status. Once in awhile they pop into non-congested and you can create a character then.

Best of luck.

[Sunny]

If a server is marked as CONGESTED that is a flag that has to be turned off and on manually on the Square Enix side. This is done on a cycle that is longer than daily, so checking every couple of hours won't get you anywhere. This is not based on live metrics, but instead on a judgment call by a human being, and is related to how many subscribed characters exist on the server itself, rather than being related directly to login queue issues.

If it's just that the character creation is disabled (little people head grayed out instead of green, but any server status other than congested), it updates every few minutes automatically based on live population statistics.

[Dou B Jin]

Originally posted by Alternity:

Originally posted by Ally Bobo Pipe:

You won't be able to create a character on the server regardless of the time of day. It'll keep the congested status for a while, I assume they take it off in patches. Nobody really knows how long it will stay congested though, there will only be guesses. :(

That is simply not true, this status is updated fairly regularly during the day. I got a friend create a character during a 2minute window where it wasn't congested on my server.

I second this. I've seen congested servers change status at random points of the day sometimes. I'm on Gilgamesh and made an alt character on cactuar both being pretty high population server and have seen several people get in doing this dating back as back from HW to shadowbringer.

The server take into account of active players counts and how many of them remain active over a span of time. If the server itself is populated but not to the extreme like JP's Tonberry then there is a higher likely hood they turn off congested at some point.

One alternative I remember working (if you're willing to put in the extra money) is that you can always do a paid transfer character to a server regardless of congestion.

[Ally Bobo]

Originally posted by Alternity:

Originally posted by Ally Bobo Pipe:

You won't be able to create a character on the server regardless of the time of day. It'll keep the congested status for a while, I assume they take it off in patches. Nobody really knows how long it will stay congested though, there will only be guesses. :(

That is simply not true, this status is updated fairly regularly during the day. I got a friend create a character during a 2minute window where it wasn't congested on my server.

That isn't true either.. like it's not even close. Congested servers stay congested for a while, they don't just change on a whim. I said that nobody really knows which is super obvious from everyone's posts here, just people guessing and helping no one.

Sunny explained it best, everyone else should delete their posts cos it's spreading misinformation. (:

[Alternity]

Originally posted by Ally Bobo Pipe:

Originally posted by Alternity:

That is simply not true, this status is updated fairly regularly during the day. I got a friend create a character during a 2minute window where it wasn't congested on my server.

That isn't true either.. like it's not even close. Congested servers stay congested for a while, they don't just change on a whim. I said that nobody really knows which is super obvious from everyone's posts here, just people guessing and helping no one.

You're assuming that I guessed this. I looked at the status every minutes until I saw the server being opened to new characters, it does get refreshed pretty often, I've seen multiple windows of a few minutes only. This is not a guess, this is reality. I know plenty of people who did the same thing for their friends. I don't know the inner working of how it is done, all I know is the user end, and in the user end it does get refreshed often.

[Valkyriemeow]

Originally posted by Hosenbund:

so i didnt play ff14 anymore for like 2 years.. and i wanted to play it again, and at the same time i want to introduce a friend to the game.. but my server - shiva - is congested. so he cant create a character on it. how long will it take to not be congested anymore?

Ask him/her to make character during non peak time .they will probably be able to make character then

[Hosenbund]

Originally posted by valkyriemeoww:

Originally posted by Hosenbund:

so i didnt play ff14 anymore for like 2 years.. and i wanted to play it again, and at the same time i want to introduce a friend to the game.. but my server - shiva - is congested. so he cant create a character on it. how long will it take to not be congested anymore?

Ask him/her to make character during non peak time .they will probably be able to make character then

nope, not a single time did the congested status go away yet on my server. i think many people here are just confusing full servers during peak times with congested servers.. the people which say the devs need to remove it manually and until then u cant create a new char seem to be right. we checked the server status so often already now

[weiss]

he could try to make a character on a different world on the same data center. you both can still play together tho o.o. it just gets more complicated if your friend is on a different data center.

edit:
tho, i think fates are not crossworld doable *shrugs*

[jblackmaster]

Originally posted by Hosenbund:

so i didnt play ff14 anymore for like 2 years.. and i wanted to play it again, and at the same time i want to introduce a friend to the game.. but my server - shiva - is congested. so he cant create a character on it. how long will it take to not be congested anymore?

all servers are like this