[Discussion] Upcoming Hot Fix

[Naunet]

I'm late to the party, but what this means is this:

Each zone will have a cap population, so for example Behe spawns, and Coerthas is set to allow only 400, 500, maybe 700 people on it at once. Once that number fills, others cannot zone it, they'd be bounced back.

This was a feature they used in FFXI, and the cap was 700 for all areas if I recall.

I really hope you're wrong on this. If so, it is a horrendous mistake on the part of SE.

Hopefully they've entered the 21st century and are just implementing zone channels, rather than some idiotic hard cap on the population of a zone.

[MaethusXion]

My questions is the Tomes. I wanna know where and how many. Also new World-Servers aren't going to help a congested Instance-Server with limited AK slots. They need to double or triple the number of AK, or in the case of the coming hotfix for whatever drop more Tomes, until they raise the level cap or at least until patch 2.1 where Crystal Tower comes out.

Also wanna know how to UNBIND something... I SB my Giantsgall Trident a week or two ago, and it's been unbound for about half as long...

[Robobandit]

They don't mean world servers.. they mean servers for handling instances. AK takes so long because all of the servers assigned to run the instance get full from so many people farming it. Adding more servers will allow them to run more instances of AK.

Allowing tomes to be a acquired from other places will also alleviate the demand for constant AK farming.

[Johnist]

My questions is the Tomes. I wanna know where and how many. Also new World-Servers aren't going to help a congested Instance-Server with limited AK slots. They need to double or triple the number of AK, or in the case of the coming hotfix for whatever drop more Tomes, until they raise the level cap or at least until patch 2.1 where Crystal Tower comes out.

Also wanna know how to UNBIND something... I SB my Giantsgall Trident a week or two ago, and it's been unbound for about half as long...

They didn't mention new WORLD Servers. These are new DUTY Servers.

[Kanzer]

My questions is the Tomes. I wanna know where and how many. Also new World-Servers aren't going to help a congested Instance-Server with limited AK slots. They need to double or triple the number of AK, or in the case of the coming hotfix for whatever drop more Tomes, until they raise the level cap or at least until patch 2.1 where Crystal Tower comes out.

Also wanna know how to UNBIND something... I SB my Giantsgall Trident a week or two ago, and it's been unbound for about half as long...

Where did you read 'world' servers? You do realize instances are on separate servers right...?

[Hysterior]

Changes will be made to the way equipment is bound.

ok

Introducing additional servers and enhancements to act as a countermeasure against the congestion to enter "Amdapor Keep."

great! finally!

The difficulty for level 50 dungeons will be adjusted.

we will see what it means

The number of areas where you can acquire Allagan Tomestones of Philosophy and Mythology will be increased as well as the amount you can acquire.

awesome, I can stop doing CM/AK right now ^^

Implementation of a population cap for each field.

Not sure what that means

Adjustments to the spawn rate of monsters that drop diremite web and additional locations where Karakul can be found.

To spread bot locations?

The amount of experience points that can be acquired on botanist and miner, as well the experience points that can be acquired from their fieldcraft leves, will be increased.

YES!

User interface elements related to materia and target information will be adjusted.

ok

[Darkranko]

I'm happy with all these changes, tho I admit I'm not entirely sure what they mean when they say "Implementation of a population cap for each field." Is it going to start spawning "instances" when there are too many people in a zone, or just not let you in?

[Judge_Hellboy]

I'm happy with all these changes, tho I admit I'm not entirely sure what they mean when they say "Implementation of a population cap for each field." Is it going to start spawning "instances" when there are too many people in a zone, or just not let you in?

I imagine it is for when zones get crashed because over a thousand people head to coerthas / shroud when Behemoth / Odin spawn.

[SirSaber]

Population Cap for each zone = channels ?

Miner/Botanist Exp increase = YES!

More Tomes per runs and more places where to get them = Yeah!

[Nekodar]

More places to gain Myth tomes from? Great. Then the crap dungeon called AK will only be needed for GC and Relic quests.