Against "Simultaneous Logout Measures"

[Ilenya]

Create a new server dedicated to spliting Balmung, send there every new players and give advantages to FC / people moving.
If they refuse to move, forget them and stop punishing other players

They...Just *did* that. There's a whole set of incentives for moving from the high pop servers to the lower ones.

[ChrissyMau]

i'm playing on the Chaos data center and this has just a stupid configuration. The daily timer reset is just when everyone is back home from work and the server load is high even without all the people logging in because they can do all their daily quests again now.

Why dont you let the daily timers reset during a time period when the server load is lower than average? or why dont you use different reset timers for different people? like 3am + x while x depends on the first letter of the last name of a character?

And why dont you do the same thing for forced logouts?
Oh and why is there no captcha-like thingy to solve if you want to avoide the auto logout? If you dont solve it within 5 minutes you get kicked out due to afk?

Let people enter instance queues without being fully logged in. Low CPU and GPU load until they get added to a instance group and they can hit "join" and the instance loads without them having to stand afk somewhere like an hour to wait for entry?

[Ayer2015]

Never commented on it being fair one way or the other. Please, though, tell me how your idea is fair.



Yes, because it is totally just Balmung, and the entirety of it.



For what it's worth, it's a partial idea, aimed to fix one part of the issue.

Do you see any other server on Aether with 3hr login queues still?

[Ilenya]

Do you see any other server on Aether with 3hr login queues still?

I don't *play* on any other server besides Balmung, so no?

[Chessala]

Tell me, how would you do this fairly?

Balmung should have been closed to new characters YEARS ago. They completely let it get out of hand to the point that it now even affects unrelated servers.

If done properly, there are ways to make a server split fair. Let people pick on the mog station which of the 2 new Balmungs they want to be on. The split doesn't need to be exactly 50/50. People that don't pick will be assigned randomly. Since we have cross-server partying now statics should not be disturbed by this (and people can coordinate it anyway if they want to be on the same server).

Afterwards, put a hard cap on the servers and let no one transfer to it if that hard cap is reached. Also don't allow new character creation in that case.

[Celef]

They...Just *did* that. There's a whole set of incentives for moving from the high pop servers to the lower ones.

Then let them stay in there queue forever if they don't want to move and let us, who did the effort to move to less populated server, alone.
Why should we all be punished just because people on Balmung refused to move ?
I had friends on Cerberus too, leaving was not easy, but paying a sub to stay in a queue was just not an option, I moved and can still play with them in PF.

They wanna stay on their overpopulated server ? Fine, let them stay

[Ilenya]

Balmung should have been closed to new characters YEARS ago. They completely let it get out of hand to the point that it now even affects unrelated servers.

Will not deny this.

[Reinha]

INB4 lobby server crashes because thousands of players are trying to log in at the same time.
INB4 the queue times during prime time don't change noticeably and all we get out of this is more inconvenience.

INB4 dps players can't do any DF instances for at least 1.5 hours every day with these queue times.

[Mikhaill]

Balmung should have been closed to new characters YEARS ago. They completely let it get out of hand to the point that it now...

They did. The problem was they k
allowed the loophole of letting people transfer in. CC was a rare thing to do in a tiny window of time.

[Masekase_Hurricane]

Everyone who complains about this. Go and thank the people who sit afk while crafting or interacting with an npc to avoid being logged out. Those people are the problems

lol you do know before people abused the afk the queues were still a joke. The queue is what caused people to abuse the system