...so who got in?
https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca88...TEFVkdOR1SQaZo
So there I was, waiting for like 30 minutes before I was sent to Goblin server for the special FATE.....and by the time I got there, it had been over long ago!!!
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No prizes...no monsters...just..."sigh"
What was the prize btw??
Goblin FATE Test
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05-01-2019, 02:27 PMAngelov-MercyGoblin FATE Test
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05-01-2019, 03:04 PMLittleChickenNugget
You got the horns from Ixion like any other time you do the FATE. It died so fast though most people didn't get squat.
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05-01-2019, 03:10 PMBrightamethyst
I couldn't even enter the zone. Kept getting congestion errors trying to zone in.
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05-01-2019, 03:14 PMlinay
No way! I missed it!? I was wasting time on game forums instead of in a game! :mad::o
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05-01-2019, 03:14 PMDuskaneGood thoughQuote:
Originally Posted by Brightamethyst
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05-01-2019, 03:20 PMLittleChickenNuggetHow was it a failure though? The server has limits in every game.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brightamethyst
The game didn't crash nor did it lag out (unless you don't have a good connection). That's exactly what they were checking on. They wanted to make sure the servers could handle such a sudden influx of characters rushing.
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05-01-2019, 03:20 PMDaraliiThe point is to stress the servers to the point of breaking. It's only a failure if they don't use it to improve.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brightamethyst
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05-01-2019, 03:20 PMDualbladeNot really. Amongst other things they couldn't fail the stress test because the whole point is to, well, test things. Given that the servers didn't break/go down to my understanding that actually shows things being better then many might have thought.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brightamethyst
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05-01-2019, 03:22 PMMuseTraveller
Your reward is a smoother ShB lunch. :)
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05-01-2019, 03:27 PMDuskaneMmmmm what type of lunch >.>Quote:
Originally Posted by MuseTraveller
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05-01-2019, 04:10 PMAngelov-MercyWhen I asked in chat, someone said they give away prizes and stuff like mounts for participating. I didnt wish to miss something this big. But I didnt expect a queue, when they wanted us to all pile into the world like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by LittleChickenNugget
But playing a DPS lately, one gets used to the 50+ waiting line....
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05-01-2019, 04:19 PMValkyrie_LennethThey were trolling. There are no rewards or prizes. It was a test to verify server integrity during a very stressful situation.Quote:
Originally Posted by Angelov-Mercy
Also, this is why we do t have a test server. Even when something is literally advertised as a stress test, people say it failed because they didn't get in. They weren't testing to see if everyone could enter the zones. They were testing to see if the zone could be filled to capacity, the server filled to capacity, and the world visit functions overloaded without crashing the system, server, or datacenter, which seems to have been successful. -
05-01-2019, 04:25 PMKurandoI don't know about that, some other data centres actually had some issues. Probably isn't a coincidence that it happened at the game time as the NA server test.Quote:
Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth
https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...aa2a8f72d2c5b4
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05-01-2019, 07:21 PMJeeqbit
I missed Goblin's Ixion. I was surprised it was announced though because we'd shared some of the Ixion FATEs previously and there were no system messages. Ixion still got destroyed really fast and there appeared to be no issues. This obviously won't have had the same reach as the ones with system messages though. We've arguably had similar attendance for some hunts which have gone smoothly as well. I can't speak for other DC or the specific test on Goblin but Crystal in general has shown no visible signs of server issues with the frequently packed crowds.
The queue times are only lengthy in very rare cases, where an abnormally large number of people are trying to congregate on one server for a hunt or FATE. In these cases the queue is most likely sensible so that a similar special FATE in 5.0 doesn't drive more than are needed to one server. -
05-01-2019, 09:48 PMGralnaI'd still call the test a success, better for them to find out now that massive server migration and filling a zone to capacity on one server of a DC, can have networking issues for separate servers than the one being taxed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kurando