Can we calm down about the daily logoff?

[BlackironTarkus]

So for 10 minutes every day the servers are booting people then coming right back up.


Yes, their AFK detection is crap, but I've never played an mmo that didn't have daily maintenance cycles at some point in their lifespan due to server issues or some such. WoW, Wildstar, EVE, Blackdesert, hell even everquest had it's share of server crashes during some points that required a daily restart until they fixed the problem.

It's 10 minutes. Go use the restroom, get some water, check the mail. Everyone who's abusing the AFK trick while away at work will get booted and will quickly learn there's no more incentive to staying logged in, and the queues will work themselves down in the congested areas.

On Balmung alone, there are:

58 Paladins
26 Warriors
34 Dark Knights
50 White Mages
28 Scholars
34 Astrologians
18 Monks
24 Dragoons
11 ninjas
85 Samurais
45 Bards
8 Machinists
31 Black Mages
27 Summoners
78 Red Mages
39 Carpenters
39 Blacksmiths
28 Armorers
55 Goldsmiths
39 Leatherworks
54 Weavers
25 Alchemists
49 Culinarians
15 Miners
11 Botanists
7 Fishers
and 5 no-soulstone people

all abusing the trick. Give or take 20 or 25 players as I didn't take the time to read each name as I counted up each class searching for AFK players, just took the lowest total # of AFK players after checking 3x once every 15 mins this morning for a total of 45 minutes to see how bad it was.

923 people, +- 25.

Of these people, 80% or so were in their private chambers. 700+ separately maintained instances full of people sitting there doing squat in balmung alone.

A few days of this and the issue will be resolved. Additionally this method catches any script users who had the bright idea of using any such program to make their character move once in awhile while they're at work.

Just give it a rest, and see what the queues are like after the servers go back up.

Inb4 'balmung is bad, is balmungs fault' etc etc.

[NewSinz]

The issue is it's effecting every server. And of course people are going to blame the servers that have the most people causing the issue. Derp. Not every server is about that life.

[Raynar-Bloodstrike]

The issue is it's effecting every server. And of course people are going to blame the servers that have the most people causing the issue. Derp. Not every server is about that life.

If your server doesn't have a queue, then it's literally nothing more than a 10 minute break. And yet it seems as if the sky is falling to some people. As OP said, go grab a drink or pee or something. Or, do what many will choose to do and take the 10 minutes to make yet another post about how unfair life is and then go back to playing as soon as the servers are back up and completely forget it ever happened 30 seconds later.

[Mycow8me]

If your server doesn't have a queue, then it's literally nothing more than a 10 minute break. And yet it seems as if the sky is falling to some people. As OP said, go grab a drink or pee or something. Or, do many many will choose to do and take the 10 minutes to make yet another post about how unfair life is and then go back to playing as soon as the servers are back up and completely forget it ever happened 30 seconds later.

Its not just 10 minutes when you have to plan around this forced logout when you are already actively in the game doing something whether it be MSQ, DF, or even crafting/gathering.

[BlackironTarkus]

Its not just 10 minutes when you have to plan around this forced logout when you are already actively in the game doing something whether it be MSQ, DF, or even crafting/gathering.

If you can't plan around a 10 minute downtime where we now know the window is going to be then that's not really anyone else's fault. Sure you might miss a timed node. It'll be back up in 35 minutes.

[HyoMinPark]

If you can't plan around a 10 minute downtime where we now know the window is going to be then that's not really anyone else's fault. Sure you might miss a timed node. It'll be back up in 35 minutes.

I see that you list DRK as your main job, so then you probably don't understand the DPS queues, but when we wait for 30-45 minutes, have to stop queuing because we'll be booted before the queue even pops/we complete the duty (it boots you out of those, too), have to wait in a log-in queue upon logging back in (my server never has these and I got stuck in one 10 minutes AFTER the servers came back up), and then requeue, basically waiting 30-45 minutes again, if not more, to get into a duty or roulette (and Roulettes seem to take even longer than directly queuing into dungeons for leveling), it's far more than just a "10 minute downtime."

[Mycow8me]

If you can't plan around a 10 minute downtime where we now know the window is going to be then that's not really anyone else's fault. Sure you might miss a timed node. It'll be back up in 35 minutes.

You are really selfsh, just saying. You know full well there are servers with absolutely no problems but you somehow thing this is OK just because it Might help you and a few. There is no excuse for SE not doing this to a selective few servers instead of all of them.

I'm @ 20 minutes currently still waiting on a que to log into my server thanks to the mass exodus SE has done. Now everyones trying to log back in at the same time.

[Gabrielleblanc]

"Its just 10 minutes!"
Just logged back in after that 10 minutes, it did nothing to help congestion.
https://gyazo.com/601529a735afeeb6d655d3ae43ecb4f3

[vigioX-Sun]

"Its just 10 minutes!"
Just logged back in after that 10 minutes, it did nothing to help congestion.
https://gyazo.com/601529a735afeeb6d655d3ae43ecb4f3

because is not the ppl afk is the servers man, thats what they get for keeping transfer open to high populate servers.

[Vallamaria]

"Its just 10 minutes!"
Just logged back in after that 10 minutes, it did nothing to help congestion.
https://gyazo.com/601529a735afeeb6d655d3ae43ecb4f3

It would be great if SE could actually implement a REAL fix for the login queue issue rather than a shitty band-aid fix like this. Since this just ends up greatly inconveniencing many innocent people. Though honestly they really should have just closed our server to transfers long ago. Since the World Transfer Service page had said for a long time that "Characters cannot be transferred to a World which has already reached the limit for character creation.". Yet despite that SE more than happily accepted money under the table from people wanting to transfer in for years. In the end it was SE's greed and refusal to seriously address the overpopulation issue sooner that lead to the state the server is in now.