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    Hitoshura's Avatar
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    Chiaki Tachibana
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    Quote Originally Posted by worldofneil View Post
    I saw someone further back in the thread say that the servers obviously aren't that full as the login queues aren't that big, but if you're getting login queues at all then the server IS full. Allowing people to create even more characters on those servers is just reckless. They won't be running the servers to 100% capacity, but by now they'll have worked out what their "safe" limits are so they'll be working to those limits.

    Sorry, but just need to be patient
    So, that was me who said that, and I am all but certain that how you described it is not how it actually functions. So, think of this -- when the data center crashes and people try to log in en masse, you get the same message: "Server is full", and your spot in the queue. Obviously, the server *isn't* full (or at that 100% safe capacity) at this point, nobody is having to log off in order for more people to log on, but there is still a queue -- this makes sense, because obviously if you let everyone log on at exactly the same time, it will probably crash the server again. I'm certain that the normal queues work in much the same way -- it's not that the server is at 100% safe capacity or necessarily reaching it, it's just a matter of balancing the load of current players' activity vs the users trying to log in, and letting those users trickle in gradually so as not to overload the server. Nearly EVERY server has a queue when logging in now, so I would certainly hope that not every single server was near or at that safe 100% capacity.

    In terms of "adding more people to a full server", I would honestly rather deal with longer login queues if it meant that my friend could actually play with me on my data center. At least opening up a single new server on Aether would allow for that.
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    Xant'cha Argoth
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    Excalibur
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    How does adding more people to a full server fix anything?
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    Luna Nattvind
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    RIP Balmung, 10.549 people in queue to enter the server due to people giving codes to their "friends" to join. There is a reason why they have these server limits, we might not like it, but we do definitely like it more than the option.
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    Barraind Faylestar
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    Obviously I'm not SE, but they probably don't want to add new servers because in a few weeks once things calm down a lot less people will be playing and they won't be necessary.
    I'd buy this as an argument if the JP clusters werent set up the same way the NA ones currently are, only more optimized, despite having significantly fewer players.




    Populations:

    Elemental/Gaia: 105k
    Mana: 120k

    NA (A, C, P): 155k, 162k, 160k

    EU datacenters: 100k each (on half the servers as JP)


    In terms of ACTIVE numbers:

    JP (E, G, M): 20k, 21k, 23k

    NA (A, C, P): 34k, 30k, 33k

    EU (C, L): 21k, 22k


    Given that Mana is a fully congested datacenter despite sitting at 70% of the active and 75% of the total population of an NA datacenter, I'm not sure what squeenix actually expects NA players to do, really.
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    Last edited by Barraind; 07-13-2019 at 03:37 AM.

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