Quote Originally Posted by Japtor View Post
SE has to tackle the question, why people are so incredibly keen on to keep playing on heavily congested servers and how to move them to low-pop ones ...
They remain where they are because, aside from a two-week period this summer (so far), they've enjoyed every bit of play time on that congested server. That enjoyment does not come from the Fantastic Storyline alone. It comes from playing with friends and, as time goes on, family. No one wants to lose that.

No one wants to lose that house they've had in the Goblet for the past X years, with all of its contents and memories, either.

At some point, there will need to be a way to encourage entire Free Companies to move as a unit. Cost will need to be zero for each member, and housing will need to be one-for-one between the current and target worlds. The logistics behind such a thing are not going to be resolved easily.



In the meantime, a judicious unscheduled "maintenance window" of 10 minutes duration, scheduled at a time when most AFK folks are not going to immediately log back on, will relieve some of the pressures. I suspect SE already knows when it would be best to perform that downtime, and, no, it won't be during prime time in the evenings.