[Discussion] Upcoming Hot Fix

[Rivienne]

Yay! Lowering the threshold for mining and botany should help combat the bots. Right now it is such a grind that it is ripe for bots. Removing the threshold means more real people leveling, decreasing the need for and value of bot goods, which in turn destroys a large percentage of their gil source. Adding more web sources does the same thing. This sounds very targeted at taking out bots by making them superfluous.

Too little too late since there will be more areas to get Myth tomes...hrm

Actually no, not to late. These are instance servers. So AK or anything else, can handle sustained load. By distributing more tomes, they aren't removing the sustained load on the servers, just shifting some percentage to other dungeons, which will till be running on the same servers. If they don't make changes to the reset date (which honestly I think they should), then a spike will also still occur on reset date, it will just be across more than one instance, so the need for new servers remains. They simply are announcing it for AK so people understand the purpose.

Population cap?

Why is this game even open world?

Well, it isn't a pure open world, but even so, this is a good thing. Remember that the servers are only designed to handle ~7000 max, distributed across 30 servers.

If you have 1000 all rush to one area for a fate, that means one single server has to handle 1/7th of the population, or 4x the load it was designed for.

Yet this usually isn't a problem, so clearly even high congestion areas aren't exceeding 750 people at a time right now, so it only is a problem during the two big fates. So these caps should only be an issue during those short windows in time, maybe an hour a week on average in the two zones that are affected.

[Joypad]

Let's get this out of the way: There is NO WAY of increasing the dungeon difficulty WITHOUT having the gearcheck system implemented.

With that being said, I'm curious if they'll raise the weekly myth cap.

[Tupsi]

Let's get this out of the way: There is NO WAY of increasing the dungeon difficulty WITHOUT having the gearcheck system implemented.

They can raise difficulties without this - Just because other MMORPGs were unable to doesn't mean SE is incapable of doing so. What you meant to say was: "In my opinion they should put a gearcheck system in before they raise dungeon difficulty."

[Rakhar]

If there was a zone cap and you couldn't zone in because of it, trolls would just flood the starting areas and no one would be able to play new characters.

Edit: I'm not saying that this will happen. I'm saying this is why people interpreting it as "zone population" are wrong.

[Alpheus]

That awkward moment where you realize you can't log in due to the population cap of the zone you logged out in.

[Silvyaniss]

The acquisition of Myth Tomes has kept me away from the game for a whole week after playing straight since the game started.

I guess the good part is that it has given me a time to reflect on the game and take a break which I am glad.

The game is great love it....but AK makes me wanna puke I find it uninteresting and must plain boring and a drag.

If I can queup in 4 different dungeons for tomes of Myth and not wait more than 40 min for each that would be awesome

if we can receive armor and other items like allagan metals from dungeons that would also be great......

when does this happen?

[Mordermi]

"The maintenance is scheduled to take place on Oct. 14, 2013 from 8:00 p.m. (PDT) / Oct. 15, 2013 from 3:00 (GMT)."

Also, it seems like the zone caps might be added sooner. "* The population cap is planned to be introduced separately. (Added on October 11th, 2013)"

Source: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...56#post1410856

[Sujaki_Nhakal]

"The maintenance is scheduled to take place on Oct. 14, 2013 from 8:00 p.m. (PDT) / Oct. 15, 2013 from 3:00 (GMT)."

Also, it seems like the zone caps might be added sooner. "* The population cap is planned to be introduced separately. (Added on October 11th, 2013)"

Source: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...56#post1410856

i hope they will post separately what excatly they will do with that. I really hope no "you can't enter that Zone, because it's full" Change.

[Silvyaniss]

Oh yeah forgot they are making more server to help with the congestion for DF in AK but
they are also implementing a change to how many and where you can aquire more TOMES
I would figure the second solution would fix the first but anyways

[denyd]

cant wait or this update ^^