Against "Simultaneous Logout Measures"

[Jetstream_Fox]

Some probably can't be solved by throwing bigger hardware at them.

Considering what we have now and it can't maintain the current population numbers, yes a much bigger server would allow for much more traffic, even if they rented more of the same servers it would help. You do realize that the only way to handle congestion is to allow more access to the destination? So people afking are causing congestion? Ok cool, you found one culprit, how did you handle it? By shutting the game down for 10 minutes? That's great for that 10 minute span, but what about the next wave? And the wave after that? Shutting down the servers once a day doesn't help anything despite what disillusioned people might think.

The only way to handle congestion is to allow more for more bandwidth. That is it. Look at it like a restaurant, if your building max occupy is 50 but you keep letting 300 people in, you create a bottleneck at the doorway, none can get in and none can get out. Your restaurant would be shut down immediately for safety violations, the only way to ensure you get all those 350 customers? By either expanding your current building, or by renting out or buying a new location. Not by kicking people out mid meal and say try to get back into the building in 10 minutes.


There is always going to be congestion and DDoS attacks, they just can't simply be fixed, they can only be mitigated. It's much harder to congest 300,000 servers vs 500. More is always better in the networking world. It's really as simple as that.