[Greenleaf]

I bet Sandy wins.

[Bewoulf]

I was drawn to San d'Oria's castles and forests, but my brother was in Bastok and could help me more (it was my first MMO). I was happier with this decision, as I found San d'Oria rather annoying.

[Eorzea]

Windurst! Very happy with my choice, too. Not only is it home to both the cooking guild and the (in)famous Shantotto, it's also very beautiful.

[Momotaru]

Bastok! I wanted to be in a more modernized and metropolitan area. The other places are great, and I have to admit, Bastok felt a little empty and boring at times, but I think I made the right choice. Next is Limsa Lominsa!

[beoulve]

go sandy go!

though my first char was from Lastok, I didn't like it too much. After creating my char in Sandy, I felt a lot more in place and was easy for me to navigate.

That and we got to punch bunnies in the face through the first few levels.

[Eorzea]

Was San d'Oria really that popular? I liked the surrounding areas, but the music within the city was awful!

Is there an official site with nation statistics for each server and/or all servers together?

[beoulve]

Not sure about other servers, but when people actually cared about Conquest tally San d'Oria seemed to get 1st a LOT.

I personally did not like Bastok too much, and Windy is way too huge and I'd get lost easily. Why did Tarus & Mithras need all that space for anyway?

[Greenleaf]

on my server Kujata, Sandy had the most people and then windurst, bastok brought up the rear lol

[Honorbound12]

i picked bastok but i was new and didnt know san'd was better lol

[fnrmerse]

yep my first was in sandy but then I picked windurst. I liked windy alot better It seemed so much more calming.

[Galactimus]

I ended up getting all three to Rank 10 and after contemplating the pros and cons of each I settled down in Windurst. Reasons being: Home of the Fishing guild and Cooking guild (my two hobbies), Tarutaru mages which could teleport you to other areas of the city, the best music, a really close outpost teleport, and my favorite nation Missions (everything was heavily based on Magic and Summoners).

Bastoks outpost was so far away from the actual city and the city itself had a pretty ugly design. Not to mention they were always in last place in the standings so getting all of the outpost teleports was nearly impossible. Sandorias music was awful (but Ronfaure was one of my favorite.) The medieval theme was excellent but I didn't like the Elvaan race at all. They looked like monkeys and the whole "We are awesome because we have pride" didn't really flow well with me.

[Control]

Started in Bastok but much preferred windy. It seemed like a place i would want to be in if it was actually me running around out there.

[Quinn]

Go Sandy!

I had both my main characters and mules from San d'Oria for the simple fact, it was smaller then windy and bastok to run around in also it was closet to the dreaded dunes to just run across La Theine Platau (can't spell it & never could )....also it was easier to dual box myself to get my mules to jeuno XD

[TempestKin]

I liked bastok cause it was close together, easy to navigate, and the hill's were awesome places to level up.
I enjoyed windy for it's nice scenery and appeal. However, Sandoria had the closet outpost.

Bastok had the furthest, and was the only area that required you to run through two areas to get to the upper tier.

In my opinion, I feel that over all people favored all the cities rather evenly, however slowly people went to Sandy more and more because of the fact that it was winning more.

I also think it was because... Windy and Sandy had more of a fantasy feel and more of a... full scenery. Bastok was more barren and modern. So it wasn't the first pick.

[Inaaca]

I was a Bastokan. I started there in order to play with a Bastokan friend of mine. If I had chosen based on personal preference, however, I would have been a Windurstian. Even so, I developed a strong attachment to Bastok over my many missions there.

Towards the end of my XI career (long after getting Rank 10 Bastok), I switched to Sandy to see all of the story through rank 10, and planned to switch to Windy afterward to get to 10 and stay there permanently. However, I only got a few ranks up in Sandy before I finally made the decision to quit. Ah well.