The Firmament CONJESTED

[Hinalover]

Since the Fate is tied to the server, wouldn't best solution be to have it instanced, but have all the instances pop the fate at the same time? Whichever finishes first triggers the next part of the chain? This would spread out the fate and allow more people to participate, and also reduce the lag. Just peaved more than anything else about this. The first fate I was able to be apart of, but I could not participate due to the lag (I could not target anything). The second fate that popped, I could not participate due to the zone being congested and I could not log in due to all of the off-worlders in the area. I just feel frustrated that I cannot participate on my own server.

This will calm down but how far down the road? when the restoration is close to finished? This needs a short-term solution to deal with the congestion.

WoW started doing that and it seems to be working pretty well. Some events give you a 1 hour duration "can't get rewards from this again" debuff upon completion. It lets people do the events locally when they spawn, but keeps people from constantly server hopping and overloading instances.

They could apply an 7-8 hour debuff (which is the duration between each fate).

Either that or change it data-center wide.