SE needs to Fix Same-Server Capacity (Legacy servers)

Hey everyone

I spent two days effectively logged out of the game to try and create a new character on my own server "Excalibur", but it's the only server in Primal that seems to have no creation window anymore.

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Yet logging in with my own existing legacy character has no queue. (And even when there is, it's 16 and takes less than a minute)

So on the plus side, the server seems to have no RMT spam activity. On the negative side, if I can't see any window for creating characters, that means anyone who wants their friends to join them on the server won't be able to either.


Now in thinking of possible solutions to this:

1. Most obvious - Increase the server capacity. We got "instanced" overworld zones now, seems like the most obvious thing to do would be to allow that to apply to all zones. Downside - Fragments the community.
2. Make oversubscribed servers "invite-only" - Where players could use Mog station to invite their friends (using their email address) to their server, and that would reserve a spot for them once they pay for service/attach a license.
3. Don't allow "free trial" accounts on the server unless invited. See #2.
4. Allow players who are already on the server to create new characters anyway as long as they are on the same account 15$/mo account.

Not an option:

1. Picking another server - You can't just pick up and move a FC and their housing to another server just because one friend can't get onto the server.
2. Splitting the server into two - for the same reason as A.

Also being more aggressive on the auto-kick feature would be welcome (eg a participation based auto-kick instead of just a timeout)

The "instanced" zones are a temporary measure against overloading the servers with returning players. Not a permanent solution to allow even more crowding.

"Invite-only" opens up for a situation where players end up paying other players to be invited. NOT something that is desired in any way.

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Originally Posted by Nekodar

The "instanced" zones are a temporary measure against overloading the servers with returning players. Not a permanent solution to allow even more crowding.

"Invite-only" opens up for a situation where players end up paying other players to be invited. NOT something that is desired in any way.

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Obviously there would have be more specific criteria to the invite-only, but if the server is "full" already, it's already detrimental to the existing playerbase as there's no new players at all, and the bottom falls out of the server's economy.

I was thinking more along the lines of the "friend-referral" = "invite code" to that server. I've rarely seen Excalibur open, short of a few tiny windows around 3am when pre-HW all the RMT spammers would ramp up.

Another day, and another check from 8pm to 4am with zero availability.