Will servers be expanded for expansion launch?

[Azurymber]

One thing that freaks me out is that I nearly always get a queue when logging into balmung. And right now, not -that- many people seem to be playing.

If the population doubles when the expansion is released, will servers with heavy populations (like balmung) be able to handle the load?

I get disconnected a lot, and it would really suck if I couldn't complete a dungeon because of a 20min+ queue wait each time I have to log back in. Even now I occasionally miss out on a dungeon if I D/C near the end, due to the occasional long queue.

[AskaRay]

What is your queue like? Whenever I get a "world full, try again later" message, when I try again right away it lets me in.
My connection isn't the best, either, so I was just wondering.

[Azurymber]

Sometimes 30seconds, sometimes a couple minutes

I just remember all the issues at 2.0 launch

And remember people being scared to log out

[ShenDrakar]

I got it every time I try to log and just cancel click again and tada!

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[Tempting]

Thats what those servers get for players moving from medium and low server to those servers BECAUSE it has most people for faster queues and way more groups in party finder.

This will be a hard few weeks for those servers, but then they will reign top for popularity soon.

[Hieral]

Thats what those servers get for players moving from medium and low server to those servers BECAUSE it has most people for faster queues and way more groups in party finder.

This will be a hard few weeks for those servers, but then they will reign top for popularity soon.

Queue times have nothing to do with which server you're on. It depends on which data center you're in. Instances are shared between a whole data center.

[Amelia_Pond_Behemoth]

Queue times have nothing to do with which server you're on. It depends on which data center you're in. Instances are shared between a whole data center.

It sounds like you're talking about dungeon queues when I think the topic has been about login queues that hit you when you first log on to the server. As a Balmunger myself, I've never seen my place in queue higher than 100th. And before Balmung, I was on Behemoth and logging on there was just as painful.

Though I agree, that because Balmung has been closed to character creations except for odd hours of the morning, I'm optimistic about how early access will impact Balmung. I don't remember being any issues in Limsa when Rogue first launched.

[Saccharin]

Though I agree, that because Balmung has been closed to character creations except for odd hours of the morning, I'm optimistic about how early access will impact Balmung. I don't remember being any issues in Limsa when Rogue first launched.

problem is people now know to wait until early in the morning so it's unlocked - it needs to be locked continuously for a period of time.

[Raist]

It sounds like you're talking about dungeon queues when I think the topic has been about login queues that hit you when you first log on to the server. As a Balmunger myself, I've never seen my place in queue higher than 100th. And before Balmung, I was on Behemoth and logging on there was just as painful.

Though I agree, that because Balmung has been closed to character creations except for odd hours of the morning, I'm optimistic about how early access will impact Balmung. I don't remember being any issues in Limsa when Rogue first launched.

It applies to login as well. There is one logon service that manages the logins for all the worlds in that data center. When I login to neolobby02 to get to Midgard I am competing against everyone logging into any world in the aether group. That is all simultaneous login sessions for 13 worlds, each hosted on 3 or more IP addresses.

That is a LOT of sessions to manage, and where that backlash occurs. The session pool for the lobby server is getting exhausted, not necessarily your world service.

[AzraelX]

One thing that freaks me out is that I nearly always get a queue when logging into balmung. And right now, not -that- many people seem to be playing.

If the population doubles when the expansion is released, will servers with heavy populations (like balmung) be able to handle the load?

I get disconnected a lot, and it would really suck if I couldn't complete a dungeon because of a 20min+ queue wait each time I have to log back in. Even now I occasionally miss out on a dungeon if I D/C near the end, due to the occasional long queue.

I'm on balmung.......and its full almost everyday when something new is posted. only time its not is really late at night o r weekday mornings. weekends-always full