Against "Simultaneous Logout Measures"

[Dement]

I'm glad they've acknowledge the folly of subjecting every world to an inconveniencing measure that only benefits a handful of worlds. Completely and utterly weird to me that it didn't occur to them on the first pass, but all's well that ends well.

I'm not exactly sure why it was global to begin with, seems like a plan that wasn't well thought out to me...

I would guess that they thought of it but wanted a few days worth of data to confirm the assumption that it was occurring only on the heavily congested servers.

Maybe they are seeing fairly widespread success of their initiatives to get people to move (I know Coeurl actually shut down for new transfers for a while in the past few days) and thus needed to make sure that the problem of people avoiding the timeout wasn't already happening for "convenience" on the lower population servers. I'll admit that I'm just making presumptions but it seems just as likely as the idea that only shutting down Balmung/Gilgamesh didn't actually occur to them. Despite their faults and more than a few questionable decisions in content/balancing, they've kept the game up and running fairly well for the past 4 years.

[Paladinleeds]

You might be right. I mean, two datacenters for one country, one datacenter for a continent?

Let's extrapolate things further. Let's go outside the inner circles of the datacentres and move to the outer circles.
NA: catches South America, possibly Greenland too. Maybe Iceland
JP: catches Australia, New Zealand, and other countries nearby
EU: catches Africa and the Middle East (I have friends from this game who live in UAE + Saudi Arabia).
I daresay the EU datacentre attracts an equally large playerbase to the NA realms. Even within the EU vs NA inner circles. Which is why I don't think the problem will go away for the EU playerbase. We're also pretty evenly spread across the datacentre as a whole, yet still suffering congestion on a lot of realms.

[Odeon]

I was on Ragnarok with 2000+ queues at peak hours, move to Omega with ~000 queues at peak hour, but that was before the logout measures.

I honestly can't say whether it was all that effective now that on Omega, because the queues were generally shorter than on Ragnarok anyway.

But isn't it a bit early to stop the measure ? I mean, won't people resume their shenanigans to stay connected ?

[ExKage]

I was on Ragnarok with 2000+ queues at peak hours, move to Omega with ~000 queues at peak hour, but that was before the logout measures.

I honestly can't say whether it was all that effective now that on Omega, because the queues were generally shorter than on Ragnarok anyway.

But isn't it a bit early to stop the measure ? I mean, won't people resume their shenanigans to stay connected ?

Congested worlds still will get the logouts.

[Enyalios]

@OP, please un-sub. I like being able to log in with a small queue, lots of love: Odin server

[alimdia]

I'm glad they are changing it to only the affected servers. Again I'm not against the measure itself and I'm glad it's working on congested servers, but I was against it being implemented on all servers indiscriminately. Although Gilgamesh is still on the list for some reason, I'm happy for the other 51 servers that won't be interrupted for no reason.

@OP, please un-sub. I like being able to log in with a small queue, lots of love: Odin server

You first.

[Coratanni]

I'm glad they are changing it to only the affected servers. Again I'm not against the measure itself and I'm glad it's working on congested servers, but I was against it being implemented on all servers indiscriminately. Although Gilgamesh is still on the list for some reason, I'm happy for the other 51 servers that won't be interrupted for no reason.



You first.

I am sure they were testing it across the data center to see how populations would be affected on different servers before making adjustments.

Once again the chicken littles were proven their fears were unfounded. It must be horrible to only surround oneself with negativity. I feel nothing bit pity on those souls

[morruin]

I am an EU player and I support SE here.

This is a good measure and in my short experience it works. 1900 on a friday - a few minutes queue - last weekend in was more than an hour

[alimdia]

I am sure they were testing it across the data center to see how populations would be affected on different servers before making adjustments.

Once again the chicken littles were proven their fears were unfounded. It must be horrible to only surround oneself with negativity. I feel nothing bit pity on those souls

Could you be any more condescending? I don't get what's with Balmung people in this thread and their condescending attitude, as if no one but them are allowed to complain about anything.

[Neophyte]

I just went unsync Pharos Sirius alone just before logout.

After been able to log back in, I was still in the dungeon. Did anyone actually test if dungeon session are canceled by the auto-logoff?

So why exactly can't a dps queue for an whole hour, when the message appears?