Servers in Danger of Crashing RIGHT NOW!

[Phenidate]

Thats right, if everyone were to buy a retainer, the servers could come crashing down on us right now according to YoshiP.

Each of us getting 175 extra inventory slots would be just too much for the server to handle.

Q71. After 3.0 launched, my inventory and Armoury have been super full. Do you plan on adding more inventory space?

A71. I understand everyone’s request, but since additional inventory space would increase the data transmitted, there is a risk for server crashes, so this isn’t something we can do right away. We’re optimizing aspects with every patch, so we will continue to look into this for the future. Until then, we would like to add a feature that stores and retrieves whole gear sets to and from retainers, and make other quality-of-life changes to retainers.

Sit down with your engineers and have a nice long talk about why giving 24 slots to the players would be too much for the server to handle.

Maybe ask them what's going to happen when that returning players campaign kicks off and thousands of inventories SLAM the servers?

Maybe ask how they plan to handle the game getting any new players, adding 450 massive inventory slots each.

Apparently we just can't spare the space!

[Tuathaa]

Might be time for a server upgrade then.

[Feyniphia]

So they admit their servers are piss poor and cant handle that? how lame.

[Nghthawk]

People just need to manage their inventory spaces better.

[Zarzak]

People just need to manage their inventory spaces better.

uhh... 25 slots in armory... 24 classes. You are right because no one should ever carry around that 1 extra weapon -_-

[Eidolon]

uhh... 25 slots in armory... 24 classes. You are right because no one should ever carry around that 1 extra weapon -_-

Man, I know some people that have /multiple gear sets/ for the same job to accomodate different accuracy caps in order to push higher DPS on earlier-turned fights back in FCOB. Taht right there is devotion. xD

[Rose-Wild]

It's just an excuse to make us rent retainers.

[Eye_Gore]

Well then I have to wonder is this the real limitation and not the whole console/PC debate that always comes up?

[Raist]

Each one of those 24 slots is another query to the backend databases---that is a big increase in traffic if you math it out to 400k+ users in real time.

[Phenidate]

Each one of those 24 slots is another query to the backend databases---that is a big increase in traffic if you math it out to 400k+ users in real time.

I'm pretty sure each individual world server doesn't have 400k players on it. Thousands of concurrent users, maybe ten thousand at peak.