Congestion in Skirmish Areas

[Camate]

Hello,

Below is a message from Yoji Fujito regarding congestion in skirmish zones.

Hello.

While this subject is a bit different from what I'm in charge of, I'll be posting on behalf of the development team for a while.

With that said, I would like to comment a bit about the congestion occurring in instanced areas that are being used for skirmish.

The development team is aware that after the version update there has been congestion in both Yorcia Weald [U] and Cirdas Caverns [U].

To give you a quick explanation of the management of these instanced areas, we've set up a group of servers specifically for instanced areas, and their resources are fully devoted to running all of the instanced areas in Vana'diel. Currently these resources are largely allocated to skirmish, delve, and other Adoulin mission and quests.

While we've established an instanced area cap and allocated resources for each type of content, there are currently a significant amount of players participating in each of kind of content, and it's difficult for us to dedicate a large amount of resources specifically to skirmish only.

However, we are constantly checking the status of areas every day, so we will look into re-allocating resources based on conditions.

[Demon6324236]

There would not be as much congestion if you did not outdate almost every other piece of gear with this content... just sayin...

[Keyln]

There would not be as much congestion if you did not outdate almost every other piece of gear with this content... just sayin...

That's gear progress for ya. Just sayin'.

[MeltingColor]

That's gear progress for ya. Just sayin'.

Well actually, no, not really. Name one other game that out-dates gear within mere weeks between events, and I don't mean minor stat adjustments. Look at the difference between Kaireyh and Gorney for instance, or Delve and new Reive drops. It's sort of depressing, and almost completely turns me off to the idea of trying to get the absolute best gear when It inevitably gets replaced in 5 seconds.

[Babekeke]

However, we are constantly checking the status of areas every day, so we will look into re-allocating resources based on conditions.

You can start by removing all resources from the Campaign Ops Instanced battles, since noone is ever going to be able to do them again, due to noone doing campaign battles.