Data Center Travel System - Can we remove restrictions now...?

[Jeeqbit]

I do not think the change was meant to be temporary. Rather, it was meant to prevent worlds getting overly congested as a result of DC travel or world visit. It's actually important for them to do it for server security.

You can probably get onto them at more quiet hours. Which of course, you may not be available then yourself - that's the very reason they are quiet hours. But if you really want to get onto a specific world you could set your alarm for the middle of night, switch, then stay logged in for as long as you can.

[Clockworks]

I do not think the change was meant to be temporary. Rather, it was meant to prevent worlds getting overly congested as a result of DC travel or world visit. It's actually important for them to do it for server security.

You can probably get onto them at more quiet hours. Which of course, you may not be available then yourself - that's the very reason they are quiet hours. But if you really want to get onto a specific world you could set your alarm for the middle of night, switch, then stay logged in for as long as you can.

Lmao.

/10char

[Kyeria]

I'm sorry. I can't tell if this is trolling or serious, but regardless this is not a solution. Not to mention - even at 3-5 am I'm unable to get on most worlds in Aether, it's not viable anyway. They need to fix this properly. Also the worlds can't be that congested if they're allowing you to make new characters on those worlds.

[Jeeqbit]

I'm sorry. I can't tell if this is trolling or serious, but regardless this is not a solution. Not to mention - even at 3-5 am I'm unable to get on most worlds in Aether, it's not viable anyway.
They need to fix this properly.

It's completely serious.

Also the worlds can't be that congested if they're allowing you to make new characters on those worlds.

It's most likely due to the way that they do it:

They have a limit on the number of homeworld players logged in. If reached, new characters can't be made.
They have a separate limit on the number of world visitors.
They have a separate limit on the number of DC travelers.

Then the limits on world visitors and DC traveler are tightened significantly if the world has "Congested" status but it's still possible to visit until it reaches the limit.

If you can actually make a new character there successfully, what that suggests is that the server is partially as full as it is due to DC travelers rather than homeworld players.

Perhaps they could make room for more DC travelers when homeworld player counts are low, but they most likely don't want to rob homeworld players of the ability to even login on their homeworld, so I don't think there is an easy answer with it other than your friends visiting a less congested DC.

[Clockworks]

It's completely serious.
It's most likely due to the way that they do it:

They have a limit on the number of homeworld players logged in. If reached, new characters can't be made.
They have a separate limit on the number of world visitors.
They have a separate limit on the number of DC travelers.

Then the limits on world visitors and DC traveler are tightened significantly if the world has "Congested" status but it's still possible to visit until it reaches the limit.

If you can actually make a new character there successfully, what that suggests is that the server is partially as full as it is due to DC travelers rather than homeworld players.

Perhaps they could make room for more DC travelers when homeworld player counts are low, but they most likely don't want to rob homeworld players of the ability to even login on their homeworld, so I don't think there is an easy answer with it other than your friends visiting a less congested DC.

Or they are forcing people to transfer to those worlds to make money.

Stop coping with your excuses.

[Jeeqbit]

Or they are forcing people to transfer to those worlds to make money.

If SE really wanted to endlessly chase money they'd do stuff more like Blizzard has done. People give them too much credit. It's a lot more to do with slow or incompetent development than anything else.

Just like how people claim the housing issues are a way for them to make money by keeping people subscribed. That's giving them credit for something that clearly isn't the case. They just haven't managed to make unlimited housing when literally every other MMORPG manages it because they couldn't manage to code it within the constraints of their self-imposed infrastructure setup.

If they wanted people to pay to transfer worlds that badly they'd probably not have made DC travel or world visit in the first place.

[Menriq]

I'm sorry. I can't tell if this is trolling or serious, but regardless this is not a solution. Not to mention - even at 3-5 am I'm unable to get on most worlds in Aether, it's not viable anyway. They need to fix this properly. Also the worlds can't be that congested if they're allowing you to make new characters on those worlds.

Until recently, I had to transfer to Aether before 9am EST. After the change in congestion, I've been able to transfer any time during the day with no issues (since I transfer to different DC for Chaotic farming).