Transferring Servers

Hey everyone, it's Ayuna...it makes me sad that I will be leaving AKS and transferring to tonberry...there's a number of reasons for this which I will go over.

1. Time zones, living in New Zealand with GMT +12 makes it impossible for me to ever get a flight or anything of the sort just because of the sheer amount of hours difference there is between New Zealand and the U.S, The FC also gets incredibly lonely after around 6-7:00 pm, with only a few night owls on...not to mention queue times are horrendous during these hours.

2. Ping, playing with 270 constant ping makes it very hard to be competitive especially in AOE heavy content, there are many cases where I appear to have dodged an AOE by 2 seconds and still get hit by it...you can imagine with the amount that high end content likes to spam AOEs that becomes a major problem...

3. One of my best IRL friends moved over to Tonberry recently (Korihu) and it would be really nice to have a real life friend I can play with.

Reasons to stay, absolutely none...other than of course AKS, which is the single best guild/clan/FC/whatever your game calls them.
I love you guys and you have no idea how much it pains me to leave such an amazing group of people...it really pains me to leave but I feel that at this point i'm just unable to grow as a player due to the limitations of both time zones and ping. I hope that I can stay in contact with you guys and that if the Tonberry thing doesn't work out you will welcome me back in. If you want to stay in contact with me you can reach me at Nanopizza62@gmail.com, Robert Hurford on Skype and Facebook or Nanopizza (the actual name you might have to search may be ussdragonfirenx84...I'm not quite sure since I changed it) Or you can of course reach me through the forums.

Like I've said before, it's been a blast guys and I will miss each and every one of you (yes...even Mai Fault) I wish you all well and the best of luck...i've given this weeks of thought and it was a tough decision but I hope you won't think less of me for it

Best wishes, Ayuna. I hope that Tonberry will provide a better environment. Give our best to Korihu as well.

I'm on one of the fiber hubs that crosses the Pacific so I get nearly the same ping to the US datacenter as Japan (80-100). I raised an alt on Tonberry for fun to see how group play is different on Japanese servers, and I had a good time over there. Seemed about 50/50 Aussie & Kiwis / Japanese.

English-speaking players will likely fill you in on the etiquette. I recommend making a few auto-translate macros for some equivalents of "hello nice to meet you" and "thank you for the party good job everyone".

Have fun :)

Thanks for the best wishes guys, it's been hard leaving you all.

Good luck! Hope you enjoy yourself over there. Definitely was a pleasure to play with you from time to time.

Take care and have fun! :)

Good luck Ayuna! Take care.

I hope it works well for you on Tonberry and that you have fun there. Its been an absolute blast playing with you while you were here Ayuna =).

Hard to see you go man. Best wishes and good luck!

It was hard to leave you guys too....I will try and get on the mumble but I will probably give it a week or so before I do, Just so I can properly acclimatize to my new FC...they will never be as good as AKS (We are no.1 after all) but they seem like a decent bunch. Hopefully I can keep my friends in AKS and make new friends in my new FC :)

Ok. I thought I would give an update on how it's going.

Basically, i'm so lonely on Tonberry.
I have an FC that is nice enough and are reasonably active...but it's just nothing compared to AKS, I kind of feel like I've made a mistake by moving...sure, the ping may be better, but there aren't really more people on in those later hours. Dungeons are also a lot less fun and more stressful, most people in the data center don't speak English, so you can't get involved in any chatter and banter in random parties...which was always a nice thing, also you can't explain mechanics...you can't even really apologize for when you mess up, at least not beyond an auto translate macro.

I miss you guys so much :(
I'm going to give it awhile and see how I feel, but i'm very tempted to transfer back and rejoin AKS (assuming you will take me back.)
I guess maybe I've come to the realization that it isn't so much the game itself as who you play it with...maybe I won't be able to do Alex Savage and all that due to timezone and ping, but at least I will be with an awesome group of people. And that being said, in all fairness I never did actually try and get a static together or join one...maybe I would have more luck than I might think.

I hope you guys are all doing well, I popped on the mumble today and chatted with a few people and apparently you all miss me which I found touching.

But like I said before, i'm really not liking Tonberry much and it's way harder than I thought it would be to leave you guys behind...so I hope there's a slot open for me if I want to return to AKS, Playing FFXIV is all well and good but it's no fun if I'm just lonely and have no real friends the whole time.

Sorry to hear things aren't working out, but I think you're doing the right thing by giving it a bit more time. It may just be like moving schools where you just need to find your "groove" and group of friends. If it doesn't work out though, you are more then welcome to come back!

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Originally Posted by E'hosmer

Sorry to hear things aren't working out, but I think you're doing the right thing by giving it a bit more time. It may just be like moving schools where you just need to find your "groove" and group of friends. If it doesn't work out though, you are more then welcome to come back!

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'Hosmer has it right on the money. Given the fact that you've spent money and moved over for specific reasons, you should give yourself an appropriate amount of time to actually decide if it can be a better environment. Try looking on the Tonberry forums for recruiting FCs or those that might be more English-friendly. You can also try looking at the recruitment subreddit at http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxivrecruitment/. It's more heavily used for static raiding recruitment, but FCs do post and respond from time to time. Also, are you not forming up with Korihu?

I have to wait another day until the server transfer cool-down is over anyway, and the FC I have is an English speaking FC, I don't think I could really get a better one, Kori did her research when she chose it. Honestly, I don't think I need more time...I haven't had anything but regret since changing server. I've really come to the realization that I had my priorities the wrong way round, I was thinking that the game was first and community second, now I've realized it's the other way round.
In regards to Korihu, that is one of the reasons I moved, but one friend vs the many of you I have in AKS doesn't seem like a good trade, besides I can talk to Kori every day IRL so it's not like I never see her.

To be honest, my mind is made up at this point...I want to be back with you guys, it's friendly and nice on Gilgamesh and with AKS, Tonberry just feels lonely.

Hopefully there's a slot for me back in AKS...I know a lot of people miss me and I miss them too, The 70 or so better ping and one friend isn't worth the sacrifice of all of AKS.

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Originally Posted by Nanopizza

I have to wait another day until the server transfer cool-down is over anyway, and the FC I have is an English speaking FC, I don't think I could really get a better one, Kori did her research when she chose it. Honestly, I don't think I need more time...I haven't had anything but regret since changing server. I've really come to the realization that I had my priorities the wrong way round, I was thinking that the game was first and community second, now I've realized it's the other way round.
In regards to Korihu, that is one of the reasons I moved, but one friend vs the many of you I have in AKS doesn't seem like a good trade, besides I can talk to Kori every day IRL so it's not like I never see her.

To be honest, my mind is made up at this point...I want to be back with you guys, it's friendly and nice on Gilgamesh and with AKS, Tonberry just feels lonely.

Hopefully there's a slot for me back in AKS...I know a lot of people miss me and I miss them too, The 70 or so better ping and one friend isn't worth the sacrifice of all of AKS.

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A spot will be waiting. :)

omg! BYE! but .. mm.. noooooooooo at the same time!!

Dont be a stranger and come back in mumble and bring Kohiru with you!! because, yeah .. the pokemon rap must live on!

Glad to heae there's a spot for me. :) I will be transferring back today (assuming it all goes smoothly.)

Korihu is intent on staying on Tonberry...I just have too many friends in AKS to stay on Tonberry, like I said before it's just not worth loosing all you guys over a little bit of ping.

I'm back on Gilgamesh and with AKS again now guys. Tonberry just wasn't right for me, sure I may have more ping and more awkward timezones here but the company is worth it :D

Glad to have you back!

Sooo I can't believe you left me! Glad you're back though!