[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.