Thread: SE needs help for testing their servers before 5.0

Time to animate people to participate

Lol SE they do a late April fools after all.

I’m glad that they thought about this.

The fate that they're using is Ixion which is funny for those who were around at Stormblood launched when they had instanced zones. Ixion would crash servers. XD

Note to SE: If the last weekend is any indication, there are issues going on with duties/instances when an unsynced full group can take 5 minutes to ready check and 5 minutes to pop a queue into Nidhogg extreme. Or when one of those members disappear from the party list but are in the instance so group heals don't work on them.

i dont think ill do it since they said for warriors of light .. i am not never will be a warrior of light.

i am A Magi of darkness

Well...

I'm expecting this to fail spectacularly.

Given that the FFXV event already overloaded their instance servers due to a questline with 2 solo duties in it... It was to the point where when I was trying to do some solo unsync'd content the day it came out, I had to wait upwards of a minute to "Reserve an instance"

Now what's going to happen when everyone's trying to cram into the same zone...

Originally Posted by Kalise

Well...

I'm expecting this to fail spectacularly.

Given that the FFXV event already overloaded their instance servers due to a questline with 2 solo duties in it... It was to the point where when I was trying to do some solo unsync'd content the day it came out, I had to wait upwards of a minute to "Reserve an instance"

Now what's going to happen when everyone's trying to cram into the same zone...

Well that's kind of the idea. They want to see how quickly ppl can crash zones though, particularly those coming from other worlds. Also probably track how many ppl show up. What they intend to do with that data afterwards, no clue...

Like I said, two possible outcomes would be they add more zone instances upon ShB launch (they've done 3 instances of each zone initially in HW and SB), but that is bandaid at best. If a Special FATE or S Rank spawn in that instance, that particular instance is still gonna fill and cap just as fast if the player cap stays at 300. There will be more overflow though for players that aren't necessarily trying to get to "the thing" and just trying to do MSQ.

The other possible outcome I speculated would be that they increase the player cap per zone instance, which would be better (IMO!!) since more players could get "to thing" each window. I just don't know how feasible that actually is though.

Originally Posted by Kalise

Well...

I'm expecting this to fail spectacularly.

Given that the FFXV event already overloaded their instance servers due to a questline with 2 solo duties in it... It was to the point where when I was trying to do some solo unsync'd content the day it came out, I had to wait upwards of a minute to "Reserve an instance"

Now what's going to happen when everyone's trying to cram into the same zone...

There was a bit more too it than that. Not only was everyone flooding instances for the 2 solo instances for the event but every time Leap of Faith or Air Force One popped in the Gold Saucer people were flooding it as well. Which probably gave SE a ton of data on how the instance servers are holding up right now prior to the expac which is probably why they are only testing zone servers now.

So they want the players to do free testing for them?

I'll pass.