Cross Server Leap of Faith

[TheCutter]

Please remove the cross server function from the Leap of Faith GATE. The Gold Saucer is supposed to be a fun distraction from the game at large. What isn't fun is going into a GATE and seeing swarms of players all over the jumping puzzles. So much so that I couldn't see whee to go and for the first time abandoned the thing. It's not that I dislike the GATE itself, on the contrary, I do but not in its current state.

[Thamorian]

You speak as if this definitely going to be a thing. I'm pretty sure it won't be a thing. I'm pretty sure you are worrying over nothing. You may get a few extra people from other servers that are hopping to do multiple GATES if it is allowed, but it will be a trickle, not a flood.

[Odd]

You speak as if this definitely going to be a thing. I'm pretty sure it won't be a thing. I'm pretty sure you are worrying over nothing. You may get a few extra people from other servers that are hopping to do multiple GATES if it is allowed, but it will be a trickle, not a flood.

I don't think that's what the OP means. I think they mean how it is currently. If you do this GATE, the people you see in there with you are from across the data centre (cross server), not just from your own server.

[Raldo]

I do wonder why we can see others inside. I don't think it would be difficult to simply hide everyone that isn't in your party.

[Brill_]

What the OP is getting at is it is too crowded in leap of faith. I queue in and see how many people are in there and leave right away. They need to drastically lower the max amount of people in there.

[Kalise]

Do not see the jump. Feel the jump. BE the jump.

More seriously:

Would be nice if they at the very least made the GATE server only if they can't manage to keep up individual instances. Crowding can be an issue for platforming...

[marquoise]

You have a problem with how many people are in the GATE?

Damn, you'd have a heart attack if you ever do Eureka...

[Elizar_Naki]

Except Eureka doesn't require precise platforming. Or at least not AS precise, or as much of it.

That being said, does anyone know HOW the game decides who gets to be alone and who's in the ant farm? I've seen any number of times where my wife and I queue in within a second of each other, and one of us gets an instance to ourselves while the other doesn't.

[shoobiedoobie]

Except Eureka doesn't require precise platforming. Or at least not AS precise, or as much of it.

That being said, does anyone know HOW the game decides who gets to be alone and who's in the ant farm? I've seen any number of times where my wife and I queue in within a second of each other, and one of us gets an instance to ourselves while the other doesn't.

So this is purely anecdotal, but here's what I've noticed from personal experience

Any time I get into a private instance of Leap of Faith, I did the following: The instant the npc spawns, I'm immediately clicking on him. I click through the npc's dialogue as quickly as possible, and click on the entry option. When the queue pops, I immediately click my entry.

Now, if I delay any of that by even 1 second, whether because I wasn't paying attention when it spawned or due to a misclick, I end up in the instance with 9 million people.

But as said, this is anecdotal, and based on a pretty small sample size of less than 50, so there's probably more to it, and it may be due to something else entirely.

[Elizar_Naki]

I'm guessing there's something else to it. You'd have to be the quickest person to click in on your entire data center for that to be correct, and while that doesn't mean you're wrong, it DOES make the theory difficult to confirm/deny.

Side note: I usually do that exact thing myself, but despite clicking through at a relatively fast (and consistent) rate, it's still iffy where I end up. Once earlier today, I thought I'd gotten the solo instance, only to see the shadows of other players landing behind me after making a few jumps and realize that I'd just given myself a fair head start on the parade. Again, that's not to say your theory is wrong (I've been thinking along similar lines myself), and it's possible that I just misclicked or delayed clicking for a bit without noticing, but it does make me second guess the idea.