Against "Simultaneous Logout Measures"

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Originally Posted by curather

so as a dps, you stop queueing 1 hour before the kick. wait 10 minutes through the kick, wait 20 minutes to get back on, and then wait another 45 minutes to get into a dungeon. Total time lost: 2 hours 15 min.

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Yea, that's pretty much the short of it. Or you can have healer or tank friends. As to time lost, those on Balmung in particular lose a lot more time if they get hit with a 90k. I can't say the same for other servers, and that yes, it should be Balmung only. But if things are not coded properly, there's little choice in the matter until they do a week long maintenence (most likely). Better to lose 2 hours and 15 minutes than 3-4 hours

On Adamantoise queue was 11. 5 seconds later back in game. So not sure if it was a big effect to my server here, didn't have issues before and queues were usually tiny even at peak hours.

My queue to enter was 1,082 it took under five minutes to get back into Balmung. Whereas if this didn't happen that 1,802 would of took close to an hour or two hours. I really don't understand how people complain about everything. Complained to do something about the afkers they did this to try to boot off any and all afkers and now even more complaints about this.

Don't some of you comprehend that if no afkers are in the game that we get in faster ? Besides..think of this as practice. See how fast you can spam the login button so when the new housing area opens up you'll be a expert in getting in fast to buy a plot. Think something positive about all of this.

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Originally Posted by curather

so as a dps, you stop queueing 1 hour before the kick. wait 10 minutes through the kick, wait 20 minutes to get back on, and then wait another 45 minutes to get into a dungeon. Total time lost: 2 hours 15 min.

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This exactly.

The real question is did it help more people than it annoyed. Was there a reason to do the whole datacenter? Hopefully SE chimes in about this mess of a solution, maybe they were trying it to see how it goes. Who knows.

What they need to do is after the afk timer of 30 minutes comes up, just 90002 the client. They are so good at doing this to non-afk people already...

Speaking as someone from a lower pop server (Famfrit), this was much more of a headache than has ever been caused by a server queue since Stormblood launched. As a dps I had to drop out of queue for extreme dungeons because I had been in it for 50 minutes without a pop and it got to the point where we had less than 20 minutes remaining till the server went down. Queue was small to get back in (well larger than normal but took the same amount of time), however it prevented me from being able to complete my Ex roulette before work, which is fairly annoying considering our server hasn't had the same problems. The whole point of playing on a low pop server was to avoid the issues caused by the high pop servers so the blanket treatment is kinda frustrating. Mainly because it conflicts with a time that I normally try to get in some runs.

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Originally Posted by Dement

For those posting queue numbers, it doesn't mean much of anything. Before I left Balmung I logged on straight away from over 4k in queue due to a large amount of 90ks happening. The real question is how long did a 67 or 450 or 300ish queue take on your server? If it's a few minutes then this is hardly an issue. If it's 10 mins+ then it is definitely an issue.

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Speaking for my experience on Cactuar, I waited until 12:15pm PST to relaunch the client and attempt to log back in, got tossed into a queue, and made it back in game 10 minutes later. Any queue for my server is an issue though, because Cactuar rarely has queues, and when we do, it's the 20 people queues that you can just hit cancel and retry to immediately bypass. The only time I've ever seen a queue was for Early Access; not even for big patches have I been tossed in a large queue before (mine was 500 when I tried to log back in).

Speaking from a DPS perspective, I immediately tried queuing into a duty (Sohm Al HM) on my RDM (since she's not quite 61 yet, and can't do Sirensong). Average wait time started as 16 minutes, but increased to 19. At 13, I got an in-progress queue pop (5 mins elapsed), zone in, and I'm in the only one in the duty. So I left, requeued, and I've been sitting here for 10 minutes now with DF only showing me in the queue. :/

It's 15 minutes people. 15 minutes. You will live.

Force logoff of ACTIVE players to curb "AFK-queue exploiting" is singlehandedly the most stupid thing I have read in 20 years of internet use.

Do NOT do this SE. Your login servers will prevent everyone with hour long queues, the AFKers log in and AFK again and this whole thing accomplishes nothing, except pissing off your PAYING customers who have a real life and limited time to play.

FIX your system (players can afk during crafting/retainer/cutscenes) and upgrade your server hardware.
THAT is the solution.