Raubahn Extreme will return? Version 6.0

[Moonlite]

The Raubahn extreme problem wasn't due to server login, but was due to them putting a solo instance early on in the MSQ that every player had to do to unlock the rest of the expansion. Raubahn ex brought progress to a standstill. In 5.0, they did not put any solo instances that early to prevent that from happening. Aside from some login queues, I don't recall any major issues during ShB launch.

Not to mention most job quests also used an instance. It was horrible design to lock content behind something like that. They were so puffed up with all the MSQ fanboy's from the end of HW's. When anyone mentioned problems from the fuller servers they got dismissed as it was those players fault and not SE.

[Rosa_Frandlia]

Not to mention most job quests also used an instance. It was horrible design to lock content behind something like that. They were so puffed up with all the MSQ fanboy's from the end of HW's. When anyone mentioned problems from the fuller servers they got dismissed as it was those players fault and not SE.

And they split the NA and EU DC's adding Light and Crystal so not as many servers would be accessing the instance servers. If it looks to be a an issue, it wouldn't surprise me if new worlds or even new DC's get added based on the ShB launch response.

Only issue I had day 1 of ShB was a DDOS attack which also effected browsing sites in California or my ISP sent me through California.

[Moonlite]

And they split the NA and EU DC's adding Light and Crystal so not as many servers would be accessing the instance servers. If it looks to be a an issue, it wouldn't surprise me if new worlds or even new DC's get added based on the ShB launch response.

Only issue I had day 1 of ShB was a DDOS attack which also effected browsing sites in California or my ISP sent me through California.

Yeah the real solution seems to be another data centre. I forgot to add houses and we have way more houses then in the past as well. Some patch days you can be locked out of your house in the past. If people organized I wonder if we could max out the instance servers across the data centre with just houses and have a count from there? The number has to be astronomically higher then the number of houses right, but maybe not.

[Deceptus]

Not to mention most job quests also used an instance. It was horrible design to lock content behind something like that. They were so puffed up with all the MSQ fanboy's from the end of HW's. When anyone mentioned problems from the fuller servers they got dismissed as it was those players fault and not SE.

This. The Raubahn Ex debacle was a combination of 3 things:

1) A mandatory instanced solo fight early in the MSQ (Raubahn)

2) Introducing TWO extremely popular jobs (SAM and RDM) in the same expansion that also used instanced solo fights in their story quests

3) A second mandatory instanced solo fight not much farther into the MSQ (Pipin Ex).

In the above examples, SE literally made the worst decisions they possibly could have by bottle necking players.

[TheMightyMollusk]

This. The Raubahn Ex debacle was a combination of 3 things:

1) A mandatory instanced solo fight early in the MSQ (Raubahn)

2) Introducing TWO extremely popular jobs (SAM and RDM) in the same expansion that also used instanced solo fights in their story quests

3) A second mandatory instanced solo fight not much farther into the MSQ (Pipin Ex).

In the above examples, SE literally made the worst decisions they possibly could have by bottle necking players.

And even if you got past both Raubahn and Pippin, it wasn't much longer until you'd have to run Sirensong Sea to continue. On top of normal roulette traffic from people trying to get a jump on leveling.