Quote Originally Posted by Kilta_Firelotus View Post
wards are fine, player base isn't.
Reason for the crashes is players are all in the same ward area, AND in the same wards. Too many people put to much stuff in the same few wards or do not take out their retainers. In some cases no one is using the wards as intended and screwing over others. Too many retainers handing in very few wards is too much for the server.

Some suggestions are:
1 make all the wards for MISC instead of trying to have catagories.
2 instead of a narrow hall, make the ward one large room that is 6 stalls x 9 rows.
3 have 3 cloors for each ward

I think that is stuff SE can do to help the server.

But most of the problems are with the playerbase. We do need to spread out more and not congrigate into 1 town. Which is part of the crash.

Do not go by the 30K player base number as it may be more considering even a 1 chocobo server has full wards in Ul'dah. 3 chocobo server ( high populated server) had very full wards in ul'dah.
In Selbina all the wards are used properly and packed to the brim and the wards crash all the time.