Tonberry always busy ?

Hi

I recently got back in to the game, my character used be in European server "Shiva" i used to get around 360 ping. After searching online i found that most of the australian players(i am in Melbourne) are in Tonberry and i checked the ping which is around 230 so i changed the world to tonberry using world transfer service which costs around 20AUD. My problem is i couldn't log in to the game because it's always busy at any time of the day,waited for few hours still in queue. Is this common for tonberry server or there are more people playing because of the new expansion and on sunday ?

If i want to change the world back to shiva(high ping but i can actually play the game ) do i need to pay again ?

Thanks
chaitu

It's just because of the expansion. Usually at peak times Tonberry has queues of less than 50, maybe 30sec wait to log in. Often no queues.

I would recommend staying - Tonberry is a great server and once the expansion rush dies down it will be well worth it. (And yes, you would have to pay again to transfer back.)

Thanks for your reply, i have no problem waiting for few minutes. Currently i am in queue for an hour and "players in queue : 4200". when do you think expansion rush dies down ?

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Originally Posted by seida

It's just because of the expansion. Usually at peak times Tonberry has queues of less than 50, maybe 30sec wait to log in. Often no queues.
I would recommend staying - Tonberry is a great server and once the expansion rush dies down it will be well worth it. (And yes, you would have to pay again to transfer back.)

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Tonberry also. Currently 5000 queue -_-

Did the server crash or is that just the middle-of-the-day queue? When I logged in at 7.45 this morning it was only about a 10 person queue...

We need server restart to get rid of all afk kick dodgers... 4991 in queue

What is the peak time for JP servers? When is the best time to make a character?

3144 in queue at the moment. Seems like peak time is now :)

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What is the peak time for JP servers? When is the best time to make a character?

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At the moment I would say in the morning Japanese time. I usually login in the morning to check market board stuff and small stuff, usually it is instant login. For making a character I usually do it about the same time, afternoon or evening times the lock is usually in place by then.

2572 for me, started at over 4000 1 hour and 30 mins ago.

5 hour queues at any time on any server for any reason are not ok. They are a failure of community management. The offers made are not enough and not TIMELY enough to enact the required change.

add SEA or Oceanic server maybe ?
so many SEA and AUS ppl playing in Tonberry

Japan is only an hour behind (AEST), so our peak times are essentially their peak times, unfortunately.

Unlike most everyone else, we're all mostly lumped together on Tonberry, which is why the server is getting hammered so hard. Bleh.

Oh and I'd also recommend staying on the server for the ping. It kinda sucks not being able to talk to people in instances and pvp 90% of the time...but based on my experiences in other MMOs, I actually think it's kind of better to not be able to talk to other players, heh.

As someone who has been on Tonberry for years I can confirm this queue is not normal! Being unable to create a character as they've turned off character creation is normal and if you want to create a new character you have to be online in the early hours of the morning. Like the OP I started life on a NA server but server transferred to Tonberry as a) the latency was getting me killed constantly and b) I heard there was a healthy population of Australians on the server. Normally when I login i'll see a queue of about 50 or so but you normally have to wait no more than 30sec for that to go away and the server to allow you access. I recommend to stick it out. They will EVENTUALLY fix these silly queues and it'll be worth it. Just don't be disappointed when you can't communicate with alot of the people you get grouped with as they don't speak English ;)

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add SEA or Oceanic server maybe ?
so many SEA and AUS ppl playing in Tonberry

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This is the problem right here. Tonberry is the unofficial server for English speakers in the Oceanic area so SE telling us to transfer is both a waste of time and rather ignorant of the situation. A server in the Aus/NZ area would be a wonderful solution but it has not happened to this date and considering SEs relationship with Aus/NZ is practically non-existent, I would not be holding my breath in anticipation.

Meanwhile, I got DCed while trying to zone in to a PotD and staring down the barrel of a 4k+ queue. Looks like I won't be playing tonight. Again.