Will servers be expanded for expansion launch?

[Ilitsa]

Personally, I think the "lock" needs to stay in effect on Balmung for a while, and this includes Character transfers onto it. It's pointless to put a character creation lock on a server, but then allow someone to go to Cactuar or whatever, create a level 1 char and then pay to transfer it onto balmung. Locked needs to mean locked, that or offer some incentives to FCs to transfer OFF Balmung. a combonation of both would work wonders.

[XxSliphxX]

I hope they bring back the auto-log out temporarily for people that AFK. :-/

This is all they need to do to alleviate most of the problem. People never logging out is 99% of the reason there are queue times.

[Wings]

This is all they need to do to alleviate most of the problem. People never logging out is 99% of the reason there are queue times.

Actually, it doesn't quite work like that

[Saccharin]

This is all they need to do to alleviate most of the problem. People never logging out is 99% of the reason there are queue times.

Actually, it doesn't quite work like that

Actually it does. At launch due to the queues people would AFK so they didn't need to re-queue when they can back to play the game, sometimes overnight, so this exacerbated the problem and made the queues even longer. When they implemented the AFK kick the queues virtually disappeared.

[SakuraMidori]

One thing that freaks me out is that I nearly always get a queue when logging into balmung. And right now, not -that- many people seem to be playing.

If the population doubles when the expansion is released, will servers with heavy populations (like balmung) be able to handle the load?

I get disconnected a lot, and it would really suck if I couldn't complete a dungeon because of a 20min+ queue wait each time I have to log back in. Even now I occasionally miss out on a dungeon if I D/C near the end, due to the occasional long queue.

Remember the gold saucer on day 1 on balmung haha id say we are in for a lot of sitting or crashing if they don't do something

[Azurymber]

Remember the gold saucer on day 1 on balmung haha id say we are in for a lot of sitting or crashing if they don't do something

LOL yes... I remember spending hours just trying to get into the zone.

Was better the next few days, but still had to spend like 20min each time

I really don't want to deal with that again x_x

[Tempting]

Good Solution: SE sets up so you can free transfer to Medium/Low population servers instead of the "ridiculously full" status it is now.

Only problem is the gil transfer limit, they couldn't increase it cause you would destroy the lower markets since WAY more gil is circulated on Balmung and other very high servers.

Bad Solution: SE raises limit of people on Balmung and other capped servers, but this will just bring more people to transfer to server and kill other servers slowly.

[Raist]

It sounds like you're talking about dungeon queues when I think the topic has been about login queues that hit you when you first log on to the server. As a Balmunger myself, I've never seen my place in queue higher than 100th. And before Balmung, I was on Behemoth and logging on there was just as painful.

Though I agree, that because Balmung has been closed to character creations except for odd hours of the morning, I'm optimistic about how early access will impact Balmung. I don't remember being any issues in Limsa when Rogue first launched.

It applies to login as well. There is one logon service that manages the logins for all the worlds in that data center. When I login to neolobby02 to get to Midgard I am competing against everyone logging into any world in the aether group. That is all simultaneous login sessions for 13 worlds, each hosted on 3 or more IP addresses.

That is a LOT of sessions to manage, and where that backlash occurs. The session pool for the lobby server is getting exhausted, not necessarily your world service.

[Craiger]

I get a queue on Phoenix every day during peak hours (short though), and even when Gold Saucer came out, there wasn't any problems at all, other than the actual Gold Saucer area being full... Don't know if the queues are caused by something else, because while there still is tons of people online, it's a lot less crowded then it usually is.

If you didn't have any problems when Gold Saucer came out, I don't think it will be a problem now... Gold Saucer brought back a ton of people, and while Heavensward probably is attracting a lot more new players, if your server is full, then they won't be able to create new characters anyway.

[h0tNstilettos]

I'm on Leviathan and sometimes there is a login queue, but not always. I'd say I get one once a week. I don't believe they will expand servers because they will expect players to fill the less populated servers.