Congested Worlds: SE You need to fix things

[Daeriion_Aeradiir]

One of my solutions? Put in something to detect these bots easier. Certainly very reasonable, is it not?

It sounds reasonable on paper, but as an ex-programmer, it's far from that simple.

Fighting against bots is literally a never-ending arms race. You implement detection programs, and within a week most botter program developers will have figured out ways to circumvent it/mitigate it, update their bots and you're back to where you were before; creating new detection methods, and then the cycle continues. It costs a lot of money and time to fight bots, and Square has adopted the approach of simply doing waves of mass bannings to them, rather than fighting a weekly never ending war.

[Rinuko]

Balmung was closed? Big shocker there.

Sounds about right. Balmung is simply too lucrative, there's no way SE would dare keep it closed forever. Gotta make them transfer coins.

They could force merge the server with a less populated.

[Indicative]

Balmung was closed? Big shocker there.



They could force merge the server with a less populated.

And make it even more populated? Isn't that completely counterproductive? If anything they should merge low-pop servers with other low-pop servers. But you can't do a server merge because of the nature of the housing districts and it would be an absolute nightmare if they attempted to merge them together since each server is a copy/pasta'd version of each other.

But if it means actually improving server infrastructure etc. they really should invest in that. But presently it seems that they don't have any interest in understanding that larger servers are always going to be large and they're willing to stagnate larger servers to populate smaller ones. It's the much-easier route and requires way less effort on their part.

[AriaXIV]

Wait no actually Rinuko has a point, sharing resources with another less populated server would balance the load a little bit. Not counterproductive at all.

[Nerfworthy]

Lol no one can fix Balmung because the players will always clamber to the server any time it's open. If they had given advanced notice, it would have only exacerbated the situation.