I don't see how people thought it would be a good idea to make it 10x harder to play here, making groups, talking to people, making friends with out a server linkshell to communicate with other players makes it needlessly harder to play here. Is the server population atleast growing? I took a few months break so I have no friends here and no linkshell, Ive been trying to /sh to talk to people and getting nothing. So its pretty boring and it doesn't really feel like I'm playing a MMO, it's like a solo game now.

Very playable. People use party flags, or their ls. There's a dozen ls's recruiting, just shout and you're bound to get one. Population has remained at minimum steady with what it's been, 300-350 during the week, 400+ on weekends. Stability is at an all time high, and auto-hp is at an all time low, though not gone entirely.

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Pepsi - 75SMN - 88 cooking 12 fishing and rising
Sprite - 75PLD - 99.6ww 60alch 60gs 55bs 25cc 22bc
Coke - Best mule ever

It's not as bad as you'd think. Like pepsi said, find an LS. LFG works, server pop is up, and Kubi can only be an extremely amateur troll in whatever LS he's in. I think the removal of moghouse was a pretty not bad move, though I was also concerned about negative repercussions when it first happened.

Consider this linkshell, and don't mind the shameless self bump :
viewtopic.php?f=12&t=2950

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Noz

ya i was gone for a few months all my ls died

was never on moghouse only heard bad things about it.

been invited to a few ls just walking around you will find a place with people and it wont feel so empty.

That being said i wish there was some form of a friend list.

You should probably retire from "trolling" kubi lol

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Noz

Retail didn't have a server-wide LS, and somehow people got along fine without it. Learn to use /sea? I think you mean, "I no longer have the convenience of MogHouse, so I quit." /goodbye

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The universe is so large that, if life is not rare, a world much like Vanadiel probably exists out there somewhere.

Certain things are just hard yes. My CoP/ZM had stalled since the removal of MH and finding crafter is not easy even in an end game shell. Playing on a non-US time zone and the 20 cap really sucks too.

First of all did I ever say "I quit" and second of all people like you are really a drag on these communities so you can leave /goodbye

To answer your question, there is no serverwide LS because the one we did have was toxic; at least that's the reason I undestand it was removed. That said, there are plenty of linkshells out there that are pretty helpful. The linkshell that was linked above (vae) I'm actually in and everybody in there so far has been very friendly and chatty so far.

Moghouse was fine for like 98% of people in it unfortunately the last 2% generated enough crap to ruin it for everyone. I'd honestly still rather have it around so I could just equip it when I was trying to fill parties or look for parties with jobs I wasn't currently playing though. Pros vs Cons - Pros win!