Quote Originally Posted by reiichi View Post
while everyone on Aether contributes, Aether's also got some of the most populated servers. Balmung can and does crash the entire datacenter at times. It was also one of the only servers that needed to keep the multiple zone instances and AFK timers. Square Enix also had to initiate nightly server reboots during Stormblood to keep our queues down. Queses over 3000 people that took MULTIPLE HOURS to get through. Imagine not even being able to login because you had thousands of people ahead of you in line and the server was so overfilled that five hours later, assuming you didn't get a 90k, you were still waiting to get in. That was Balmung.

If haven't, go back and read my post on page 7. I already went into detail on what can and cannot be done.
Balmung does not crash the server itself theirs no proof of that. It does not help it being the biggest on Aether however it does not crash the server. Its everybody getting on at once that does it. If Balmung crashes itself of course others are able to exp better connections because 21-22k people on whats like a 10yr server is gone.