Sortie on Popular Servers

[Sp1cyryan]

my entry into sortie has nearly always been instant (and yes, I see people coming and going, even here on Shiva, it's seeing plenty of activity. It's just not overloaded.)

Server populations. Balance them, SE.

They can't just kick everyone off to a random server. It's not happening. This is squarely the Devs fault for how they set up the event. They knew how the burden would look after ambuscade, Omen, and Odyssey. It's no one's fault but theirs.

[Tarmarkvar]

They can't just kick everyone off to a random server. It's not happening. This is squarely the Devs fault for how they set up the event. They knew how the burden would look after ambuscade, Omen, and Odyssey. It's no one's fault but theirs.

But there might not be a technically viable solution. What do you suggest? The solutions I can see are:

1) Increase the number of available instances for all servers, which would leave a big surplus of instances on every server other than Asura.
2) Increase the number of available instances for Asura only.
3) Require a minimum number of players to enter.

#1 and #2 might be possible or might not. I think it's arrogant for us to make the assumption that it is definitely easy to do. #3 will just screw people on other servers simply because Asurans chose to go where a problem exists.

[Sp1cyryan]

But there might not be a technically viable solution. What do you suggest? The solutions I can see are:

1) Increase the number of available instances for all servers, which would leave a big surplus of instances on every server other than Asura.
2) Increase the number of available instances for Asura only.
3) Require a minimum number of players to enter.

#1 and #2 might be possible or might not. I think it's arrogant for us to make the assumption that it is definitely easy to do. #3 will just screw people on other servers simply because Asurans chose to go where a problem exists.

Even if there wasn't a viable technical solution behind the scenes. It means that you adjust the requirements in game. Increase points and add a longer cool down, make the minimum requirement 3. Etc. If the game can't meet the backend requirements of a single player one then they have to take it into consideration.