from this (http://www.ffguild.com/servers.shtml) site, it seems to claim that pandemonium, Garuda, cerverus, kujata, bismarck and midgardsormr are the "american servers". I wonder if they mean that they were just created at the US launch of FFXI or if theyre not available to the japanese

also, as lonely and sad as it might sound, here's my results from trying to get on the Seraph server because I originally heard that Lakshmi, Fairy, Midgardsormr and Seraph were made at US launch, and Seraph had the coolest name ...

World - times I went there trying to get to Seraph
Bahamut - 1
Shiva - 2
Titan - 3
Ramuh - 2
Phoenix
Carbuncle - 4
Fenrir - 4
Sylph - 2
Valefor - 3
Alexander - 3
Leviathan - 4
Odin
Ifrit - 1
Diabolos - 4
Caitsith - 1
Quetzalcoatl - 1
Siren - 2
Unicorn - 3
Gilgamesh - 2
Ragnarok - 2
Pandemonium - 3
Garuda - 3
Cerberus - 5
Kujata - 3
Bismarck - 2
Seraph
Lakshmi - 2
MidgardSormr
Fairy

From these results, they might either help u get an idea of how bad your chances are of getting on that server of your poor bastard friends without a world pass, show u how much time I have on my hands and that I know absolutely freaking no one on any server, or see that apparently its almost impossible to get on midgardsormr, phoenix, seraph and fairy.
By the way from searching around it seems all the US players and guilds are trying to get to, cerberus, Bismarck, Ragnarok and of course Midgardsormr.

Now this noob still has to choose his race and get used to the game, hopefully some Clan will find me on Seraph or give me a world pass to another server and show me around (hint hint), because I am sooo done, although im tempted to go back to ragnarok or cerberus

Why oh why couldn't they just have 1 juggernaut main server like Anarchy Online... and atleast 1 free character content ID for each race...