About these new worlds...

[cbwriter]

so you the op wants to further hamper the ability for those that have not at all been able to create a character yet on the current servers because they are locked has the balls to suggest to lock the new servers as well. Strange!

The reasoning behind this is to get people to transfer OFF the current full servers onto the new ones. Just creating new worlds without first trying to lessen the population of the current worlds just spreads the problems to those new worlds without lessening the current situation. Most Free Companies are probably filled with folks that want to play together and would move to new worlds as a group. If 20 FCs of 10 move off one server. that's 200 emptied connections at one time. They also probably play on their main either exclusively or have alts that would probably move with the FC.

Since you haven't been able to create characters on current servers, being locked out of new servers for 2 weeks wouldn't FURTHER hamper your inability to create characters. As FC's move out those servers should empty enough to slowly allow SE to resume character creation on those servers. And, as I suggested, all servers would be unlocked after allowing all those that wanted to transfer to transfer.

In order to relieve overcrowding, you DO need to provide empty spots for those that want to move to move to.

[edgefu]

NA and EU have their own server we only share the list. Servers are clearly marked EU or NA but not both. We can access those or even the Japan servers so seems to me we share all severs.

[Nova_Dresden]

NA and EU have their own server we only share the list. Servers are clearly marked EU or NA but not both. We can access those or even the Japan servers so seems to me we share all severs.

They still segregated out the Japanese servers to their own datacenter in Japan. The NA/EU servers share a datacenter in what I assume would be England (server time is GMT) so you still have two continents trying to connect to servers in one location and that's the choke point. The individual servers may be marked NA or EU, but there are too few of them compared to JP and both of them share the same lobby server and datacenter because they're stored in the same location. They should have divided the servers similar to WoW where Asia, Oceanic, and NA are all separate if for no other reason than that alone.

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So what's the point of all this, or the tl;dr as I'm sure some of you were skimming for. The point is that I don't have enough data to continue making conjectures and assumptions with basic math, but hopefully reading all of that forced you (yes you, you very angry and frustrated person reading my post.) to breath long enough for some of your rage to subside.

Still not working on the rage thing. I spent 3 straight hours clicking the same few buttons and getting 1017'd. Sometimes I had to completely close out because it wouldn't load the server list and keep fully logging in (with that stupid authenticator) trying to get the server list to load. After 3 hours of carpal tunnel pain and clicking I finally got on and did what anyone would do: I walked away from my computer to get some rest after all of that. They sold way more than they could handle and that's usually the fault of the digital download era. You can account for 150K physical copies, but digital downloads are a lot harder to track through multiple vendors. They just went into idiot mode and chose to limit logins and servers based on a number MUCH lower than what they actually got and it's backfiring, horribly, and causing them to start a backslide from what little ground they were making. 1.0 was complete crap, and this one is shaping up much better with a few issues (I'm looking at you 50-man fate alliances spamming flash and every AoE under the sun in a mass blitzkrieg of death giving me ~50+ exp in any fate I join because I can't hit anything before it dies) but it's failing in the most basic part of the entire equation. If we can't log on we can't play, and if we can't play we get pissed the hell off. I took the week off of work and it's beginning to look like I should have just worked my normal week because I'd probably still have the same playtime.

[Ervin]

The reasoning behind this is to get people to transfer OFF the current full servers onto the new ones. Just creating new worlds without first trying to lessen the population of the current worlds just spreads the problems to those new worlds without lessening the current situation. Most Free Companies are probably filled with folks that want to play together and would move to new worlds as a group. If 20 FCs of 10 move off one server. that's 200 emptied connections at one time. They also probably play on their main either exclusively or have alts that would probably move with the FC.

Since you haven't been able to create characters on current servers, being locked out of new servers for 2 weeks wouldn't FURTHER hamper your inability to create characters. As FC's move out those servers should empty enough to slowly allow SE to resume character creation on those servers. And, as I suggested, all servers would be unlocked after allowing all those that wanted to transfer to transfer.

In order to relieve overcrowding, you DO need to provide empty spots for those that want to move to move to.

That is ass backwards thinking.

First step should be to let players that havent had the ability to play yet roll their characters on the new servers. Then after that (seeing how much servers fill up) start giving out free transfers to fill the servers. Those that already have their characters on other servers SHOULD NOT be the first to get onto the new servers. The people that sit without character have payed the same as you but not been able to play yet.

They are increasing capacity on current servers, so transfers wont be in dire need. Let the people that havent been able to roll a character yet start playing.