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[Camate]

Greetings,

There has been a lot of feedback asking to remove the party member limitations for various content so that it can be undertaken solo.

Below is a reply from Associate Director Yoji Fujito explaining the technical issues surrounding this as well as a potential solution.

In regards to this request, there is one large reason why we haven’t been able to easily say yes to this.

• Simply increasing the amount of layer areas would result in an extreme increase in server lag.

I'm sure many of you are thinking, "What? Lag again?" However, we have data to base this on.

With the recent Salvage "Design Plan Drop Rate Doubled Campaign", the number of areas reached the threshold for the server and server latency bugs began popping up here and there.

These bugs were due to our own lack of gauging the settings and we accept the blame for that. However, what we want you to understand is that the creation of layer areas utilizes a vast amount of server resources (you think of it as the power required to run them).

Layer areas are a system used by various content, and the total amount of server resources (power) has been determined. In the event that we were to simply allow everything to be soloed, we predict that the layer areas would increase exponentially.

Especially considering what would happen on the weekends, I think you can understand why we are hesitant to do this development-wise.

However, we have no intention to deny solo play for layer area content and we think that layer area creation could be allowable for soloing depending on the days and times when concurrency (as well as the number of layer areas) is low.
(For example, making every Wednesday a day that you can solo Salvage.)

There are various other methods that can be thought of, but given the opportunity this is something that we would like to try out.

[FrankReynolds]

Greetings,

There has been a lot of feedback asking to remove the party member limitations for various content so that it can be undertaken solo.

Below is a reply from Associate Director Yoji Fujito explaining the technical issues surrounding this as well as a potential solution.

If given the choice between having high lag and or disconnects on some days or just plain not being able to enter at all, I'll take the lag.

Standing around not doing salvage, Nyzul isle etc. is the worst game ever.


On a related note, what kind of servers are we talking about here? I manage an IT department that happens to be scrapping a bunch of servers in the near future. Perhaps we can donate them.

[Nebo]

Greetings,

There has been a lot of feedback asking to remove the party member limitations for various content so that it can be undertaken solo.

Below is a reply from Associate Director Yoji Fujito explaining the technical issues surrounding this as well as a potential solution.

This is pretty basic stuff. If you wonder why people are upset and leaving this game...it's because we are paying money for a monthly service and we are not getting our money's worth.

It's assumed that FFXI revenues will go to other projects...but when this little goes towards providing the service that we pay for - like keeping the hardware current, it leads to the dissatisfaction that you see.

You can say till you are blue int he face that the player base is just unhappy, or rude or looking for things to complain about.

But at the root cause of all of that...are issues like this. And it won't change until the dev team changes the way they do things.

Edit:

"Sorry, PS2 Server Limitations"

[Oddwaffle]

Greetings,

There has been a lot of feedback asking to remove the party member limitations for various content so that it can be undertaken solo.

Below is a reply from Associate Director Yoji Fujito explaining the technical issues surrounding this as well as a potential solution.

/King mode on

Engine not having enough power? Fix it! COme up with solution! Stop asking your King to fix your problem!

/King mode off

Invent a new way for soloers to obtain that reward (but no random rewards and lotteries please). I watched a guy shouted for Salvage v2 for months and got pretty much nowhere. Time for a change, erase the crumpy salvage area and make something with easy access and everyone and do what they want with it.

[Mostfowl]

Greetings,

There has been a lot of feedback asking to remove the party member limitations for various content so that it can be undertaken solo.

Below is a reply from Associate Director Yoji Fujito explaining the technical issues surrounding this as well as a potential solution.

So let me get this straight. You are concerned about lag because you do not feel your servers can withstand the amount of ppl who would participate in a piece of endgame you have rendered all but irrelevant so your solution is to only allow players to enter on certain days/times?

...because when you don't want a server to crash you make it so everyone who wants to do it is forced to log in at the same time and all do it at once instead of allowing them to enter on their own time....

...Um

...Ok