Fix on Wednesday

Now from what I am reading, there will be a server expansion on Wednesday to help with the server capacity. Or did i read that wrong and they are just adding new worlds? Bit confused on what IS coming around and have my doubts that it will actually FIX anything. Comments welcome.

**dazed and confused**

What I understand from their post is that they're expanding current datacenters slightly and adding new as well. There's already lots of people just waiting to hop severs or be on a lower pop server anyways that it should alleviate things all around. *fingers crossed*

You know, it takes about 20 minutes of coding to create a queue. Actually, since they are already have queue (with a cap of about 175), they could easily just raise that cap. This is beyond incompetence -- it really is.

Actually, I believe this problem stems from their login servers, which are also being upgraded. They had a queue that went a lot higher than 175 (at one point, I was in queue at 1125 or so), but that's the day all the server problems happened, they brought down the servers and when they came back up, no queue. This fixed all the in-game problems and login problems, but brought upon us the capacity problem.

So what it sounds like they are doing is threefold. Adding new worlds for new players/those who are willing to start over (or transfer over in the coming weeks), increasing/adding login server(s), hopefully giving us less of the lobby errors AND adding a large queue system, and increasing server capacities slightly, allowing for those of us already established to keep playing but no new character creation.

All in all, if all three of these things happen, I'll be a happy man.

It's weds there time, tues for NA, and yea I hope all These things add up and work a lot better. Though weekdays aren't that bad,
The real test will be when the weekend comes around again.

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Originally Posted by Klarick

You know, it takes about 20 minutes of coding to create a queue. Actually, since they are already have queue (with a cap of about 175), they could easily just raise that cap. This is beyond incompetence -- it really is.

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Please don't act as if you are working in a game/software development company.. What makes you think that creating a queue system only need 20mins?

Theyll just add new servers, it wont fix anything

First off, people need to read the post. Linked here.

For those who won't click the link to read the post, here it is:

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At the following time, we will be performing maintenance on FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn to perform the operations listed below. During this period, FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn will be unavailable.

[Details]
- Addition of new Worlds
- Implementation of countermeasures to handle the influx of concurrent user counts as a result of split processing the duty finder
- Address several known issues

* Clients will update automatically upon launch after the date and time below.

* We will announce details of the fixes at a later time.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and thank you for your understanding.

[Date & Time]
From Sep. 3, 2013 5:00 p.m. to Sep. 4, 2013 3:00 a.m. (PDT)
* The completion time may be subject to change.

[Affected Service]
FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn

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So we see that they will be giving further details after the Maintenance. They do say the following.
1 - Addition of new Worlds
2 - Countermeasures for Concurrent users (AFKBoot?) and working with the Duty Finder
3 - "Several Known Issues"... this probably includes the exploit for skipping the majority of a dungeon to go straight to the big boss fight at the end.

So please... Selo... do some fact checking before just saying

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Originally Posted by Selo

Theyll just add new servers, it wont fix anything

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Originally Posted by Johnist

First off, people need to read the post. Linked here.

For those who won't click the link to read the post, here it is:

So we see that they will be giving further details after the Maintenance. They do say the following.
1 - Addition of new Worlds
2 - Countermeasures for Concurrent users (AFKBoot?) and working with the Duty Finder
3 - "Several Known Issues"... this probably includes the exploit for skipping the majority of a dungeon to go straight to the big boss fight at the end.

So please... Selo... do some fact checking before just saying

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It's perfectly reasonable to be pessimistic.

They don't mention ANYTHING about login server upgrades. They don't mention ANYTHING about an AFK kick.

Creating new worlds means all of jack and shit without server transfers.

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Originally Posted by Pizzagirl

It's perfectly reasonable to be pessimistic.

They don't mention ANYTHING about login server upgrades. They don't mention ANYTHING about an AFK kick.

Creating new worlds means all of jack and shit without server transfers.

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They talk about Countermeasures for Concurrent users, the problem that is causing them to keep the servers locked. Concurrent users is the LOGIN Server problem.

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Originally Posted by Johnist

They talk about Countermeasures for Concurrent users, the problem that is causing them to keep the servers locked. Concurrent users is the LOGIN Server problem.

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It talks about concurrent users as a result of "split processing the duty finder." That item is duty finder related, NOT login related.

It would've been incredibly easy for them to add a bullet line for something like "increased login/lobby server capacity" or "increased login queue capacity", but they didn't. That worries me.

Maybe its included in the "several known issues" line, but I'm doubtful.