3 New servers already visisble in the (updated) launcher ...

If you update your launcher now you can see 3 new servers at the bottom of the list:

Pandaemonium
Famfrit
Lich

So - let's hope those will last a bit for those of you planing to roll on new servers.

EDIT:

There is about 9 MB launcher update and then 1027,31 MB game update on PC and 745 MB on PS3.

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Originally Posted by HEC

If you update your launcher now you can see 3 new servers at the bottom of the list:

Pandaemonium
Famfrit
Lich

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Is that just one new server each for EU / NA and JP?

I thought they were going to add a lot more!

3 servers isn't much, especially if, as Malorey said, that's 1 for each region. I expected like 6 new servers minimum for US/EU! I hope there is more they just have not brought online yet.

It doesn't specify the regions so we can only asume it's one per each. Also - I've went through the list just by what I remember so it could be that there are some other servers in the middle of the list ...

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Originally Posted by SMNaCarbie

3 servers isn't much, especially if, as Malorey said, that's 1 for each region. I expected like 6 new servers minimum for US/EU! I hope there is more they just have not brought online yet.

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Keep in mind, there are new servers being added to previous worlds to deal with player load as well. So if they manage to get each current world running better then they currently are, then even if it's only three new ones, that's really good.

lich is probably JP since its a summon from FFT and NA/EU and most of the summons are on their servers :mad:

EDIT nevermind

who the heck is Famfrit? Never heard of him/it

I suppose pandemonium sounds the coolest out of the new ones

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Originally Posted by ElaintheShy

lich is probably JP since its a summon from FFT and NA/EU and most of the summons are on their servers :mad:

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Lich was one of the important bosses in the first final fantasy. So who's to say it will only be a JP server.

The irony is that the actuall worlds (once you've managed to barge through the avalanche of errors) where working quite fine, the actuall issue was (is?) that the lobby and queue servers were colapsing under the influx of all the players plus indeed the "central" isntance's servers - e.g. all the non-world specific ones. If those has been upgraded to manage the higher load that should take care of majority issues during actual login process and at entering or leaving instances.

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Originally Posted by FrionielHope

I don't remember valefor being in the list either, but I never paid much attention.

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It was one of the later added JP servers.

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EDIT nevermind

who the heck is Famfrit? Never heard of him/it

I suppose pandemonium sounds the coolest out of the new ones

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Dis guy!

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__...it_Artwork.jpg

Final Fantasy Tactics Advance

i just checked the old list and they are the only 3 new ones that are appearing on the current world list... hmm should clean my house :P

One of the other changes in this patch is limiting your Duty Finder to a group of servers rather than all of them. SE say this resulted in a restriction on server capacity (as the DF had to deal with every player on all servers for your region I imagine). So restricting the DF to a group of servers allows them to increase the capacity of the current ones. I do not know by how much, and we'll have to wait and see whether this resolves the 1017 world full issue.

So your duty finder will not be looking across all servers for that missing tank/healer :-) but the servers it will be accessing will have more people on them.

Hopefully an afk kick will be added soon, this is overdue and should have been in at launch. As for a decent server queue system - also overdue, but hoping that it's not needed as much with the increased server sizes. They do need to think about introducing transfers asap if there are still queues.

I'm wondering if they seriously think 1 server per each area, assuming we are correct about that plus on the assumption they aren't upgrading the current worlds, will be enough? Those are gonna light up in seconds and then burn if they are the same as the current ability of the ones we had. Hopefully they just 'turning on' the new ones in chunks and we'll see more.

On another note, nice to see Pandy back, was my first server ever for FFXI. Probly won't be NA though knowing my luck. :/

I think SQ-EX should add more 3 servers for JP and another 3 servers for NA/EU. Refer to Op said, we still experience 1017.

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Hopefully an afk kick will be added soon, this is overdue and should have been in at launch.

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Frankly - those who want to be AFK know how to circumvence this anyway.

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As for a decent server queue system - also overdue, but hoping that it's not needed as much with the increased server sizes.

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There actually is one (see my post above) - the problem is that it was overloaded as well.

Yup. There were 50 servers before tonight's maintenance. Now there are 53. Unless more start to show up, it looks like they just added three servers.

Personally like it that they aren't going wild adding new worlds. If you're thinking long term, past the initial rush of people that just try the game out, it's not going to be fun if you end up on a world that is more or less empty a few months in. Recent example being SWTOR where they kept adding more and more servers at release, and a bit in, some saw less than 20 people in the main city during prime time.

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Personally like it that they aren't going wild adding new worlds. If you're thinking long term, past the initial rush of people that just try the game out, it's not going to be fun if you end up on a world that is more or less empty a few months in. Recent example being SWTOR where they kept adding more and more servers at release, and a bit in, some saw less than 20 people in the main city during prime time.

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Yea but the turn out for this game is a bit bigger than they expected. I mean the 5 extra that they gave us at launch filled up in a day easily, and we still have people who haven't even touched the game yet.

Some kind of afk is needed

Hopefully they will get the queue system working properly

Below is formation from SE's Naoki_Yoshida re server df limit:

There are currently 50 worlds and this is split into two data centers with 25 worlds. Currently the Duty Finder matches from these 25 worlds within the data center, but with the world increase it will go over the amount of process it can handle, for that reason we will be grouping some of the worlds within the data centers together, by doing this it will be possible to accommodate much more people.


AFK
We have been receiving requests to add a feature to automatically log out characters that login to the game but going AFK without playing.
We are looking into implementation, but please understand that we are currently concentrating and prioritizing to resolve the stress and increasing above mentioned worlds.

It's back up!

I logged in right away just in case, can anyone tell me the distribution of the new servers? I saw that Pandemonium was JP

I think a combination of improvements would mean they don't need to introduce 'too' many new servers - or in the longer term, there would be server mergers in the future when population drops off. At this stage, I imagine people unable to get onto their chosen realms may be rolling extra characters wherever they can connect - when those people will eventually settle on one realm.

Definitely some sort of function to disconnect people who have been inactive for a reasonable period of time is the main improvement that needs to be made - I don't know if that has been included in this patch.

Even if they were to do a 5 minute restart with a warning, once every 3-6 hours it would help, removing the people who are afk. It would be a temporary inconvenience to those who 'are' online and actively playing, but reducing the server load by those hundreds of people who are there afking to maintain their online status is a worse inconvenience to those trying to log on.

They likely have capacity to start up more worlds if necessary.
Starting with three more, wait for them to fill up to some level, then start up some more, etc.

Pandaemonium - japan
Famfrit - US
Lich - EU

taken from notes:
*Japan Data Center
-Pandemonium

*North American/European data center
-Famfrit/Lich (Europe-recommended World)

Seems like adding servers would just help those who bought the game and have yet t make a character since all worlds were full, not sure how if at all it will affect log in traffic issues. Seeing as server capacity is roughly a quarter of a million players, 3 new servers will not even accommodate another million players, so I still log in slow and can't play together with my boss or girlfriend, seems like the only thing this fixed is they can now start selling copies of the game again.