Rising Event

[kikix12]

They don't have to allocate an extraordinary amount of space for it. One instance holding 144 players should require less server space then 36 instances holding 4 players each since it's only 1 set of art and NPC assets being loaded instead of 36.

But the data usage increases a lot more.

If you have two instances with 4 people each, every persons data needs to be sent to every other person for a total of 4*3 connections, so 16, times two because you have two instances. That's 32.
If you have one instance with 8 people each, every persons data needs to be sent to every other person for a total of 8*7 connections, so 56 connections total.
24 people means 24*23, so 552 connections, in comparison to 96 from six 4-man instances.
144 players means 144*143, totaling 20592 connections in comparison to 576 from thirty six 4-man instances.

Compared to that data, the individual instances are significantly lesser burden even if you consider the need to sustain that many copies of them. In the end, the biggest burden in ALL things 'gaming' is the calculations. The graphics DO NOT burden the server. They burden the players computers. The server only tells the client which assets to load. The only burden on the server is following the numerous enemies scripts, but in this game in particular, they are so simplified that the increase in calculations in comparison to one larger instance is not nearly enough to compare to the burden of synchronizing all the people IN that instance.


Ultimately this event should not be solved like this with unspecified times of being up...but yeah. They may be doing it because of the server strain.