Login restrictions gotta go, make a real q system

[Wolfie]

That doesn't have anything to do with the queue system itself though, does it? AFKers not being kicked from the servers is a problem, but it's a problem regardless of whether or not there's a queue.

The way it works right now, player A could try to get in the game for hours without success whereas player B could get in at the first try. I think it's safe to say that this "method" is less than optimal.

Do you think a queue where people wait in line for 5 hours with [only] like 400 players in front of them would be received any better than what they have now?

For any queue to be good, you need a way to actually move that queue along (by servicing the people at the front of the queue or who made it in, and then kicking them out to make room for more). Imagine this as a restaurant that let people loiter at the table for hours/days after they buy their one meal. There is no queue that would fix that restaurant.

[Vaer]

Do you think a queue where people wait in line for 5 hours with [only] like 400 players in front of them would be received any better than what they have now?

For any queue to be good, you need a way to actually move that queue along (by servicing the people at the front of the queue or who made it in, and then kicking them out to make room for more). Imagine this as a restaurant that let people loiter at the table for hours/days after they buy their one meal. There is no queue that would fix that restaurant.

Well, I'd like it better that people are standing in line based on arrival time instead of everyone trying to bumrush the locked door.

[syntaxlies]

I agree afkers gotta get kicked, but it's a seperate issue and deserves its own thread.

[Blazer]

People including myself, would spend days logged into ffxi without logging out. That's a big issue. I also agree a huge queue> standing there just pounding the enter server over and over.

I alt tabbed last night to show my friend a SS. Upon trying to tab back in I crashed and was back to pounding the server door lol. So annoying.

[Helzbelz]

There are 3 critical things that SE has to fix/implement soon to resolve several of their login issues.

#1 Implement kicking people AFK 30 to 60 minutes so concurrent connections drop down. No one should be logged on all night just so they can avoid queuing the next day.
#2 Implement a Queue system for the servers so people have an idea how long wait times are for certain servers
#3 Implement the Transfer server system and not wait 2 to 3 weeks. Right now Several servers are locked for new players; Leviathan is one of them. We would transfer off the server even if we had to pay to however no one wants to restart characters because there are still about a dozen of our friends who cannot create characters on the server. Let us transfer now and we will free up Leviathan. Win Win because several other FCs have many more members that are trying to get on Leviathan and cannot.

[Awdogsgo2heaven]

They had fatigue to get people off but peps complained

[Shigaru]

It's a circle right now and to be honest with you, I'm at work with my character afk at home and I don't feel guilty in the slightest.(That and my wife is home using him for gathering every once in a while) Its not my fault that servers aren't allowing new people in and I don't want to come home from a long day of work to play Enter button simulator 1017. I'd log out if they had a queue system, even if it was slow. But right now the way its set up is that I will be heavily punished if I log out so I won't.

But yeah, an auto kick feature would be fine as long as it was set at like 30 minutes or something. Too low and I risk losing my game while I eat dinner or something.

[syntaxlies]

They had fatigue to get people off but peps complained

Actually fatigue was to slow people down so they wouldn't get to far ahead of the casual players. But I guess an adverse affect could be people logging off. By that logic you could say they made 1.0 boring to get people to log off.