New server maintanence help

[Jotunhammer]

Here is a novel idea, how about to prevent ppl from afking have the server kick everyone every 3 hours from the time they log on. That will prevent those that get in to just afk and never leave cause that is being done by a lot of people when there is this bad servers.

[Bloodwillow]

SNIP.

I am quite behind that idea ...

But then you have the people complaining "well I don't want to be kicked going to the bathroom, or checking on my kids ... or X Y Z"

Yes there is a thread on this already.

But I don't think that is the problem now. The problem is, S-E didn't count on so many NA/EU people playing. So their servers are not up to the capacity load. Even if the AFKers were to be removed and actual people came on to play, the problem with the DF not being able to work cause of the large load of people hitting it is going to stop progress too.

I am not sure why they would have to put SOLO instances through the same DF that is used for GROUP instances. That is what boggles my mind.

[Jotunhammer]

They are cooly counting on that there WILL be a drop of players when the 30 days of "free" gametime is done, so they do not want to open to many servers that they later have to shut down due to lack of people. So what do they do?

They let those that want to get in wait and wait and wait to see if there is a constant pressure for the servers and then they will maybe open one and then they will wait and see if the pressure is there... and the 15000 people that still
waiting will be forced to continue to wait.

That is the strategy of SE and any other MMO, they do not WANT to open more servers because they want to see that there is enough playerbase tp fill the servers that are there. Do they care that they lose players due to the people
not wanting to wait? Hell no. They are counting on that because they already received the initial money.

That is my theory.

[Azmaat]

They are cooly counting on that there WILL be a drop of players when the 30 days of "free" gametime is done, so they do not want to open to many servers that they later have to shut down due to lack of people. So what do they do?

They let those that want to get in wait and wait and wait to see if there is a constant pressure for the servers and then they will maybe open one and then they will wait and see if the pressure is there... and the 15000 people that still
waiting will be forced to continue to wait.

That is the strategy of SE and any other MMO, they do not WANT to open more servers because they want to see that there is enough playerbase tp fill the servers that are there. Do they care that they lose players due to the people
not wanting to wait? Hell no. They are counting on that because they already received the initial money.

That is my theory.

Hope that is not the case..