How did people log in so quickly?

[LaylaTsarra]

I have a PS4 and a PC. I specifically upgraded my PC to Stormblood to use it to log it. It loads faster and the check server status is much quicker. I still had a queue of about 200 and when i arrived all the 30/60 plots were gone but still managed to get plot 46 which was one I wanted as an alternate.

i had the hope of getting 30/60, 16/46, 8/38 or 22/52 and had practiced my runs and teleport locations a lot before maintenance so when i spawned in Kugane I knew exactly what i wanted to do. I got lucky given all the plots were sold in about 20 minutes. Being a designated server sure changed the housing situation on Siren where plots would sit for a couple days before they would sellout.

[Luna_Ariana]

I think I might say how I got lucky with it from my personal View.

During the last Minutes my Friends and I kind of spammed the Server Button (for me it was just once within a minute) and once it was up it also took a bit till the Log In Button but came within a few Seconds.
Now comes to the Login Queue Part: Even if we all logged in at like the same time only one friend and I got happy with just a 100 queue. The others already got up to 1000. That was purely Luck actually. I can tell that I am european playing on a North American Server. So my Connection is not the best. Therefore I can say that this was mainly pure Luck.

[Penthea]

When you have hundreds or even thousands trying to all log in at the same time becoming the lucky first few is lottery. Even players with better connections have to compete with one another.

[LalaRu]

To secure a good place I paid almost twice. First purchase was anything was free, anything, just to have at least one plot. Then tried to get the place I like and when found it, purchased using relocation. Small, obviously, because anything medium or large was gone in first 15s of the game.

[Minas-tepes]

Only luck for in game queue + SSD

[Serilda]

SSD + PS4. Entered my login details but did not press the login button until the exact time of maintenance end because if you enter the PS4 launcher before maintenance ends you have to close it and reopen, which is a waste of time. I was on my voice chat with my PC-using friends and we had spent the entire previous evening preparing and getting used to the run with every possible speed optimisation; their Play button didn't go live instantly so I risked a login right after the time passed and bam, green button. Clicked in, clicked past a message saying my character data wouldn't load and landed 279th in my queue. My friends had to reload their launchers because they still showed maintenance ongoing until I screamed at them, so they were slightly behind, which was a bit annoying as they had the money and we'd been planning to use me as a backup for my wife to teleport to! I'd originally assumed I'd be slowest on PS4.

Still missed out on every single 30/60 plot to those higher up in the queue, but I managed to jog to several other unclaimed mansions which ended up claimed before my wife logged in with our FC cash and we got one in an unpopular subdivision. It was bloodthirsty.

We all had to take the day off work and got about two hours of sleep in total, but it was worth it. Hope those on more crowded servers get some more housing added ASAP.

[Nerfworthy]

My FC leader and I were up, trying to log in at the same time. He was meant to get a medium for the FC, and I wanted a small personal right next to it. I got lucky and only hit a 200 queue, but I also have a fast connection/good gaming PC. He wasn't so lucky, and got hit with a 1500+ queue even though he logged in at the same moment as I did. It was all about luck, and speed of hardware/connection.

[Jandor]

I got logged in instantly the moment the servers came up, but then got a lobby connection error and by the time I'd relogged was 1000 in queue. Luckily I managed to snag a small, subdivisions seemed to take noticeably longer to sell out thankfully.

[Andevom]

I don't have a SSD, but loaded in (albeit in a weird, glitchy way) pretty fast. Was 24th in queue for all of 15 seconds. So yeah, luck...with a fair dose of spamming the launcher to get in for quite some time.

[Naberrie]

I logged in at 6 am yesterday morning. Had to wait in queue. Some people got in quick and purchased all the large plots. How did these people get in so quick

No idea. I actually got disconnected trying to connect to data center, had to relaunch the entire game, then got stuck in a queue trying to connect to my server. Yet I still got a small lot.

Only thing I can come up with that I did right was that I logged off in Shirogane. I didn't have the slow log in to Kugane like everyone else I know. When I saw the lot I wanted was already taken, I quickly sprinted to the ferry, checked the wards. I saw a ward where the one I wanted was available. And this is where my having logged off in Shirogane really paid off, because the transition from one ward to another was near instantaneous. I then mounted, quickly rode to my lot, and got it. I not only got one, I got the exact small lot I was aiming for.

Next time I checked, maybe 15-20 minutes later, everything was taken.

I had the same log in issues as everyone else. I'm on PS4. I didn't use any special tools. I didn't spam the server. The only thing I can come up with is that I made a smart decision to log off in Shirogane, because it lessened my load time, first when I logged in, then again when I had to change wards.