I first want to make clear that I understand the purpose of offering a bonus to preferred/new worlds and taking them away once they are filled so that people might be convinced to join other struggling populated worlds instead. And in theory this is a good idea! But in practice, it has only lead to Seraph/Kraken players transferring to other DCs or just dropping the Seraph/Kraken alt that they have entirely.
Dynamis is still noticeably less populated than any Aether or Crystal server. Despite that Seraph and Kraken have managed to maintain a steady population, the rest of the DC that they share has not. As a Kraken player, losing my bonus meant that the only benefit of playing on Kraken is housing -- my queues are slow, the marketboard is pretty empty, and content/rp is more popular elsewhere. The bonus was really most of what I was here for. Without it, I'm better off moving off Dynamis entirely and going to Aether, where I don't have to worry about trying to travel for rp/content, which I think is not good for the state of the DC.
It's true that a lot of Dynamis's struggle to maintain a population has to do with people constantly traveling elsewhere for queues and it's true that if players would simply stay in their DC then maybe Dynamis would thrive. But that's not what's happening, so it is up to the devs to herd players and create a system that encourages people to stay. So I would like to suggest restoring bonuses to Seraph and Kraken to do just that.
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Dynamis is still noticeably less populated than any Aether or Crystal server. Despite that Seraph and Kraken have managed to maintain a steady population, the rest of the DC that they share has not. As a Kraken player, losing my bonus meant that the only benefit of playing on Kraken is housing -- my queues are slow, the marketboard is pretty empty, and content/rp is more popular elsewhere. The bonus was really most of what I was here for. Without it, I'm better off moving off Dynamis entirely and going to Aether, where I don't have to worry about trying to travel for rp/content, which I think is not good for the state of the DC.
It's true that a lot of Dynamis's struggle to maintain a population has to do with people constantly traveling elsewhere for queues and it's true that if players would simply stay in their DC then maybe Dynamis would thrive. But that's not what's happening, so it is up to the devs to herd players and create a system that encourages people to stay. So I would like to suggest restoring bonuses to Seraph and Kraken to do just that.
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