Cross-World Linkshell Limit

[greekgeek]

I liked and was excited for the cross world LS, but after finding there is a limit of one kind of disappointed. Was hoping to have 1 with friends that are different servers, moved for congestion and various stuff. And was looking forward to one for the people I work with as there are a dozen of us on different servers.

I'm really hoping in the future we could get a couple of addition spots.

[Vivi_Bushido]

We need more Cross-World Linkshells please. I had completely forgotten that statics could and would consume the only cross world linkshell spot we get for a static shell; thus limiting my chances of cross world communication :c

[SXTC]

We need a linkshell that allows you to talk to friends even if they keep moving from one server to another (and show wich world they are on).
Also the friendslist will need to be adjusted so you can sort your friends not only alphabetical but also according to the server they are on.

[HyoMinPark]

Hopefully the add more in the future, as well as increase the number of members it can have. I know that they said they were starting out small to test them and make sure they were stable enough. Mine seems to work just fine, so hopefully we’ll see an increase in the future.

[ruskie]

Having 1 as you being the master and lets say member of 3 others would be a good start.

[greekgeek]

Having 1 as you being the master and lets say member of 3 others would be a good start.

I would be fine with that for sure. Just need to have more then 1

[KisaiTenshi]

I liked and was excited for the cross world LS, but after finding there is a limit of one kind of disappointed. Was hoping to have 1 with friends that are different servers, moved for congestion and various stuff. And was looking forward to one for the people I work with as there are a dozen of us on different servers.

I'm really hoping in the future we could get a couple of addition spots.

Most likely won't happen, the chat system is incredibly bandwidth heavy as it is. One chat message = same spikey load as opening your inventory. I imagine the cross-world processing itself is not unlike IRC, where each server is relaying the other server's chat traffic in a round-robin effort (Machine A -> Machine B-> Machine C -> Machine A (filtering out it's own messages.)) So each LS you're in doubles the bandwidth you receive. The game may not take up a lot of bandwidth by itself, but on the server side, but multiply that by the number of users on the server. Now with the cross world, you're multiplying that by every server in the data center. Like, I seriously hope SE moved the LS's to their own server for this, because it's almost a given that one very noisy cross world LS is going to crash the servers at some point. That's why they likely made it have such a low number to begin with.

The cross-world LS are basically designed for Raider/Static groups. Enjoy cross-world PUG'ing? Add them to your cross-world LS if they/you have room.

That said, SE probably should have put an expiry mechanism into the actual list, so that players who are not currently subscribed or haven't logged in in 30 days are dropped to "Hiatus" mode and thus opens up spots for more players who are online, just like how NN works.