DDoS Attacks Confirmed

[Catwho]

Huge login queues on small servers are caused by the following:

- DDoS takes out 500-1000 people from Duty Finder at a time
- All 500 people attempt to log in at once
- SE's lobby server catches them and allows them to enter 100 at a time if the world is NOT full. (Compared to Balmung, where you literally have to wait for other people to log off or crash to have a shot, so sometimes it moves at the pace of 10 per minute or less.)
- Queue should decrease by 100 every 60 seconds, which has been my experience

You'll be back in the game in 5 minutes, but if your character is still attempting to load into the instance while the DF server is borked, you'll be 90002'd right back out again. And right back into the queue, along with everyone else with the same problem.

Edit: To clarify, the queue IS deliberate. The lobby server is a deliberate bottleneck to limit the number of connections to the world server at a time. However, the queue of 5000+ is not deliberate, it is an artifact of extremely large servers that are absolutely full to the brim, with no room for any more characters.