Data center travel suspended

[Glandire]

Are the data center travel issues also a reason why home world transfer is not available at the moment? Or it's a separate thing?

[Theodric]

I suppose this does not bode well for Island Sanctuary, then.

[Kuroka]

I wonder how many were bots...

I bet many, i just cant believe the moment it wents live, 15k ppl per minute wanted to travel...

[Ransu]

Couldn't they have a system in place for handling an overload of requests? Like "Hey there's already 1000 of you trying to hop datacenters right now, the other 14k of you who are trying will have to wait."

They probably do internally.

[Larirawiel]

They test expected loads over normal usage.

There is no "normal usage" because SQEX cannot know what "normal" is.


Cheers

[Akiudo]

Are the data center travel issues also a reason why home world transfer is not available at the moment? Or it's a separate thing?

yes and no, it is connected but they actually deactivated it preemptively about 2 weeks ago with the plan of reactivating it at after they made sure the expanded/changed around (in case of japan) data centers aswell as data center travel run stable.

so yea, until they have sorted it out home world transfer will stay down, but it isn't like the data center transfer getting overhelmed unexpectedly took things with it or something.

[TaleraRistain]

I suppose this does not bode well for Island Sanctuary, then.

My guess is if those are instances, they're going to be on their own dedicated instance servers. We've seen what happens when players smack the same thing at once where sometimes Duty Roulette can't make instances or people couldn't get into their houses when others were hiding there to avoid lockout or all the congestion with Hunts and Ishgard Restoration. The most that will happen is we'll probably just the congestion message again if we overwhelm that system.

[Vahlnir]

I suppose this does not bode well for Island Sanctuary, then.

Nope. Definitely not.

[Ransu]

There is no "normal usage" because SQEX cannot know what "normal" is.


Cheers

I guarantee they have the numbers for what they expect normal load to be based on the populations of each DC and the average usage of things like world visit.

[Rhea_]

It's disappointing that they can't/won't re-enable the home world transfer service, for us that have been looking forward to transferring to a new server.
Maybe all these services are interconnected now that they enabled and disabled the DC visit feature.

Are the data center travel issues also a reason why home world transfer is not available at the moment? Or it's a separate thing?

I presume as much.