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I think the subject's important, but your OP post did come off a bit more accusatory than likely intended. I don't think anyone here is going to hold it against you. Many have expressed frustrations with trying to get a character in.
Balmung was pretty full from the start, but only because it had already had a pre-existing community from when it was Besaid. And then it grew more when A Realm Reborn launched. I remember having to tell friends when they needed to be awake to make a character. By the time I got into RP, we started having dedicated threads to tell people when Balmung was open and when to try getting into Balmung. (They were retired more or less when the server eventually hit transfer-only status.) But even once we hit transfers-only, which really should have sent a proper warning sign to SE, the population increased by a few thousand active players, which made the problem worse. (Really, SE should have locked it down back then so all these threads would have happened much earlier.)
What I'd recommend now is check some of the other server options. There are some RPers on Jenova, which I see is marked as your server here. Not large swaths, but a smaller community. Mateus has also been pretty active on the RPC recently as they work on making their server welcoming for RPers as well. If you haven't, I'd check them out or some of the servers listed in the Alternate RP Directory.
Balmung was pretty full from the start, but only because it had already had a pre-existing community from when it was Besaid. And then it grew more when A Realm Reborn launched. I remember having to tell friends when they needed to be awake to make a character. By the time I got into RP, we started having dedicated threads to tell people when Balmung was open and when to try getting into Balmung. (They were retired more or less when the server eventually hit transfer-only status.) But even once we hit transfers-only, which really should have sent a proper warning sign to SE, the population increased by a few thousand active players, which made the problem worse. (Really, SE should have locked it down back then so all these threads would have happened much earlier.)
What I'd recommend now is check some of the other server options. There are some RPers on Jenova, which I see is marked as your server here. Not large swaths, but a smaller community. Mateus has also been pretty active on the RPC recently as they work on making their server welcoming for RPers as well. If you haven't, I'd check them out or some of the servers listed in the Alternate RP Directory.