Quote Originally Posted by Clawbriar View Post
I still don't understand why this affects non-congested servers. Not everyone has these issues, so why boot the entire data center?
Persistent world zones are handled by the world server, so people AFKing in open ones is local to one world, but there are many who AFK in personal chambers or private houses. Those instances are handled by the Instance server(s) - a shared resource, shared with the rest of the data center, and therefore affecting all players because it ties up server resource for idle players on the very server used for dungeons, trials and solo duties.. More load = less performance. More AFKers = more load = less performance an lower capacity for duty instances. That affects everyone.