The Rain Nightclub event

[Jojoya]

For those who were there, I'm curious. About what percentage of the crowd was Travelers?

For those who play on Balmung, what was the impact of the event outside of the event area? I avoided Balmung last night but had no problem with world visit to other Crystal worlds (same as Tuesday when the "Balmung blockade" was going on). Seems like the impact of travel load is mostly localized to the world instead of the data center.

[Zomkei]

For those who were there, I'm curious. About what percentage of the crowd was Travelers?

For those who play on Balmung, what was the impact of the event outside of the event area? I avoided Balmung last night but had no problem with world visit to other Crystal worlds (same as Tuesday when the "Balmung blockade" was going on). Seems like the impact of travel load is mostly localized to the world instead of the data center.

i didnt go to the event, but had no impact on areas outside. i moved around just fine. uldah was the usual packed uldah, and limsa was more packed than usual (because they were trying to get into the ward) but i didnt lag or crash.

[Illy_Peridot]

For those who were there, I'm curious. About what percentage of the crowd was Travelers?

As in visiting from other DCs? I'd wager about a quarter or so, but it was extremely hard to tell because load distance was shot and it was like being in a virtual mosh pit most of the time. Travelers + Wanderers made up no less than half of the crowd, probably even higher.

[Jojoya]

As in visiting from other DCs? I'd wager about a quarter or so, but it was extremely hard to tell because load distance was shot and it was like being in a virtual mosh pit most of the time. Travelers + Wanderers made up no less than half of the crowd, probably even higher.

Wanderers would be expected, there's been a lot of world visit going on for the various nightclubs on the data center for the past 2 years.

I was more interested in the Travelers because it shows how effective the publicity stunt was. I doubt that there would have been many non-Crystal players attending otherwise.

[Deveryn]

Wanderers would be expected, there's been a lot of world visit going on for the various nightclubs on the data center for the past 2 years.

I was more interested in the Travelers because it shows how effective the publicity stunt was. I doubt that there would have been many non-Crystal players attending otherwise.

The stunt may have garnered some interest, but probably not enough to have justified the billboard. There were other events happening on Crystal last weekend. It seems to be a little more active in that regard. I went over to check out the Aquarium on Malboro. They seemed to be very popular and their success could actually be measured. I saw plenty of tweets about that and an all elezen event, but nothing about rain.

[SackPirate]

We goes there with some friends around 12:30ish (EST) and it takes about 5-6 min to gets over, then another few to gets into the event, which by that time was jus all over the ward, mostly on the beach though. Someone tells us about the Lala tunnel, so we hangs out there for awhile, then jus wandered around, hasing fun with others.

Around 5:00-5:30 we see's people gathering doing group pictures, so we joins in...

Then we says our goodbyes and come home. All in all it was a fun time.

[Renalt]

For those who were there, I'm curious. About what percentage of the crowd was Travelers?

For those who play on Balmung, what was the impact of the event outside of the event area? I avoided Balmung last night but had no problem with world visit to other Crystal worlds (same as Tuesday when the "Balmung blockade" was going on). Seems like the impact of travel load is mostly localized to the world instead of the data center.

From what I noticed it was about 50/50 on visitors and natives to the server. I made a point to camp out there the night before cause I knew there would be issues loading in for people who did not. I loaded in in about 2 minutes while others took about an hour.

It was a lot of fun though. Here's a short list of some notable things that happened...

1. I hung out with a corpse for a bit who was floating in the ocean. I think it was corpse...or maybe Blitzball confirmed?

2. Catgirl warned others to not mate with catgirls until they are dewormed. She then proceeded to open trade and gave me a Plump Worm.

3. Konga Lines for days.

4. They had dance lines for every race. ( Of course I was near the Au Ra line cause those women get the blood flowing )

5. Dance parties in every direction...if you can even call it a dance party if everyone is doing Bees Knees. I wanted to Walk the Dinosaur but that is not an option so Manderville Mambo it is.

6. Loads of groups of people to just talk with.

[Illmaeran]

This just in: the whole thing was a set-up by SE to do stress tests without telling us they're doing stress tests.




I'll see myself out.

[Zer0ofTime]

This just in: the whole thing was a set-up by SE to do stress tests without telling us they're doing stress tests.

You joke, but no official word from SE, Nothing said officially about the billboards, the party went off without much of a hitch, so I bet Yoshi-P got the network team together and monitored numbers all night for a stress test to see that they need more than 1500 person slots in wards, a residence priority system, and how many travelers to locations and how the servers for those locations handled the load for their new cross DC travel.

[Deveryn]

You joke, but no official word from SE, Nothing said officially about the billboards, the party went off without much of a hitch, so I bet Yoshi-P got the network team together and monitored numbers all night for a stress test to see that they need more than 1500 person slots in wards, a residence priority system, and how many travelers to locations and how the servers for those locations handled the load for their new cross DC travel.

They're weighing their options and keeping an eye on things. I'm sure someone lowkey checked what was going on. We won't hear anything though, unless a third party confirms a ban or something.