Against "Simultaneous Logout Measures"

[Lunafreya]

Logged in fine on Lamia

[BillyKaplan]

Here's an intellectual challenge.

The purge takes place. Everyone is logged off. Ten minutes pass and the servers go back up.
Congratulations! You're in queue because the world is full!
It's full of people who literally just logged in. They're not going anywhere any time soon.
How is this supposed to improve queue times?

Either that or the World limit isn't dependent on how many people are actually logged in because queue # keeps dropping in which case I'm confused ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Dement]

For those posting queue numbers, it doesn't mean much of anything. Before I left Balmung I logged on straight away from over 4k in queue due to a large amount of 90ks happening. The real question is how long did a 67 or 450 or 300ish queue take on your server? If it's a few minutes then this is hardly an issue. If it's 10 mins+ then it is definitely an issue.

[Mitisuki]

Twenty minutes delay wasn't terrible, but I also had to stop doing what I was doing before I got to the Fringe quest and cutscene that takes some 10 minutes or so.

I still think they just need to update their auto logout more than anything. It's not Balmung's fault. It's not people who go afk to avoid a two hour queue's fault. It's SE ignoring a problem with the auto logout feature and punishing everyone else for it. When other MMOs want you to be kicked for being away from the keyboard, they actually make the system do that.

[Applesnap]

Balmung queue 1 hour ago: 26. Balmung queue 2 minutes after servers came back up: 2000.

At least it's moving unusually fast. Down 400 spots in 5 mins. Whatever works?

Being #2308 in the queue and only moving a hundred places in the last five minutes, I am confident enough to say that it hasn't fixed anything.

[Millen1]

I am hoping after today or within a few days they only do this to servers that need this. Behemoth is a coin toss as to if it needs it or not. I have characters on other servers that will never see a log in queue and certainly don't need it. As for the df going down also. It seems like some on the FC list show as in an instance and they have shown that for weeks some times. I don't know how it works but maybe they feel clearing everything once a day and seeing if it helps make everything better and more stable.

[Aerowaffle]

Here's an intellectual challenge.

The purge takes place. Everyone is logged off. Ten minutes pass and the servers go back up.
Congratulations! You're in queue because the world is full!
It's full of people who literally just logged in. They're not going anywhere any time soon.
How is this supposed to improve queue times?

Either that or the World limit isn't dependent on how many people are actually logged in because queue # keeps dropping in which case I'm confused ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Here's the premise.

The server is full of non-AFK people (we'll call them 'A'), and AFK people abusing some mechanic to stay logged in (we'll call them 'B').

Forcefully logging everyone off will only have group 'A' return, leaving group 'B' off.

Unfortunately, this still places a lot of stress on the login-service servers (which is likely why we still have a queue), but I assume that they're more worried about the servers handling the in-game load. The queue I was in was around 400 and it went about as fast as when it was 100.

[Elim]

I wonder how many AFKers logged back in and AFKed again.

[Mikhaill]

I'm at work, but can anyone tell me me how Balmung is now?

[Nightroad]

Granted the queue of 349h took 3 minutes to get through .... but i do not think it is US prime time yet.
I wonder what will happen if they pull this stunt then?