Against "Simultaneous Logout Measures"

[Aladire]

Since I play healers and tanks, df queues are not a concern to me.

Since I transferred off Balmung, logging queues are not a concern to me.

What concerns me is that if this is ever done during start of peak time for a timezone, say 5pm Eastern, then there is going to mostly likely be a large influx of people trying to log in at once. Last time this happen, since ALL servers will be basically "restarted", the login server for the data center is going to be hit by people logging in by not 1 or 2 servers worth, but everyone on that data center.

If past history is a good indication since SE did not upgrade the login servers, they will most likely crash. That is the part that is very concerning to me.

[Aronys]

lol, do you even play on other servers? Afternoon-evening queues on every Chaos server consistently take 1.5-2 hours, with no less than 1800 people in queue. YES, even on the brand new servers that were created last week to prevent congestion.
Sorry but I find it hard to believe that beside our entire datacenter only one single server has this problem. This still sucks, don't get me wrong, but stomething has to be done.

I play on Lich and there aren't any queues.

[Mishayangg]

Okay, here is how you solve the problem permanently, ( Yoshi P ) : Create new separate servers, like the duty servers but smaller in scope because of the intended low activity. These servers are the new place players get placed when they go into the standardized hotel rooms. Players cannot do anything in these rooms except run around. No chat or duties or anything. Only enter and exit. In these rooms they can go AFK for as long as they like and not get logged out and not take up space on the active servers. Call them AFK-servers? When the players then want to enter the active servers again they already have a spot saved for them. And all the players getting kicked out due to AFK will be placed in these AFK-servers. Players who have logged out completely have to stand in line to get on again.

[BigRed5392]

nvm my bad. lol

[Hyperia]

Even the JP players are being kicked and hey don't really have these kind of queue issues.

[Mitisuki]

Why don't they address the real problems like. You know the ones that have been mentioned constantly. People crafting and going away, people clicking a retainer or Aetheryte and going afk. Why are we going to punish people who are actively playing the game? Mid Duty? Seriously? Upgrade your auto logout and this wouldn't be necessary even slightly.

It honestly sounds like SE is intentionally making XIV inconvenient to play on large servers to try and force people to transfer servers. Oh, our bonus offers to transfers aren't making too much difference? Let's make everyone wait in hour long queues a few times a day! I can't speak for other congested servers, but you're not going to relieve Balmung's congestion without putting an RP tag on that server, or on a new NA server.

[Kaelah]

Has this happened yet? Cuz on Odin I'm now only in a queue of 18. Used to be at least 1000 by now this time of day.

[Ransu]

Those issues you're complaing about?

That's what happens with all the afk players hogging up the server resources...
All those people trying to hide from other players so they don't get reported?
In their housing/apartment...


This is a step towards trying to rectify those issues.
It's an easy step to take, requiring no...

Development time and testing time, which would likely put a fix too late to make any difference for the current issue.


Still needs to be done though...
Manage the symptoms, while working on curing the problem.

This exploits been around since ARR....They've had years to realize its a thing to fix.

[Clawbriar]

I don't really see why this is being done on non-congested servers, but hey, whatever works. /s

[Dzian]

Just had the message come up... 8PM seriously....................