"Implementation of a population cap for each field"??

Does this mean that there will be a population cap for each zone???? Can´t really say if its for the better or worse if its true..


Source

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...56#post1410856

There is a thread for this, also if it means people can actually see fate bosses, then by all means yes.

That awkward moment where you realize you can't log in due to the population cap of the zone you logged out in.

EDIT: LOL thought this was the other thread XD

I can see this becoming a huge problem, people idling in Coerthas 24/7, waiting for Behemoth, locking everyone else out of the zone. It's just 1017 AFK in a different form coming up.

Hopefully it means a population cap of the FATE zone, and not the entire region.

I can't imagine developers going with the latter..

Most likely its channels once one is full switch to the next.

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Originally Posted by Azures

Most likely its channels once one is full switch to the next.

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This is a suggestion that I sent a month or so ago. It still needs to have measures to make sure party members stay in the same channel and that you can't fight Behemoth or Odin in one channel and then switch to the next just to fight them immediately again.

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Originally Posted by Sove92

This is a suggestion that I sent a month or so ago. It still needs to have measures to make sure party members stay in the same channel and that you can't fight Behemoth or Odin in one channel and then switch to the next just to fight them immediately again.

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Sounds like a good idea, they can avoid people trying to get credit again by putting a lockout per world boss spawn window, In other words you won't credit till the next world boss spawns.

Maybe there will be a "backup" server like GW2 (Overflow)?

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Originally Posted by Sove92

This is a suggestion that I sent a month or so ago. It still needs to have measures to make sure party members stay in the same channel and that you can't fight Behemoth or Odin in one channel and then switch to the next just to fight them immediately again.

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I'd rather say Free Company members.
But yea the idea is good.

I can't see a population cap of an entire region working especially in a place like Coerthas where you have people afk idling for FATEs yet so much integral story line stuff going on as well. The EG community shouting in Mor Dhona could put a real slow down on anyone needing to get into the area for story cs and quests for example. Will be interesting to see how this feature pans out.

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Originally Posted by Phe

I'd rather say Free Company members

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Which reminds me that the suggestion I sent included both party and the FC members, it's just not a good idea to forcefully separate them.

i enjoy this game, and play during off peak hours. but man... of this is a zone cap, the amount of shitstorm that's gonna follow is gonna be unstoppable

If they have overflow/instanced zones this will be a good... no, GREAT thing. However, with all the other lazy decisions I have seen in this game I would imagine they will instead simply lock the zone out. With the way FATEs work, that will again cripple things.

I'm not a big fan of zone channels, to be honest. The fact that if we're in an area we'll be seeing everyone that is there is what makes me not mind the instancing of the world. It feels a bit more alive and not just a lobby.

As the issue is with culling on Behemoth and Odin fates, I sincerely hope that what they mean with a zone cap is that there will be a cap on the amount of people that can come near said fates at any given moment, at least until less people needs/wants to do said fates for the equipment. Or at least that the zone cap is just for those servers that were crashing because of everyone going into the same zone (and that would mean that it would be a pretty big cap).

Expecting shouts like "Leave the area if you cannot kill Odin/Behemoth!!!!!!!!!!1111"

They could just upgrade their servers to handle the stress from the Fates instead of punishing players for doing what's intended.