Cure the disease, don't treat the symptom

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Yes, XIV's servers need upgrading in general since they have the collective power of a room full of hamsters; but an instanced housing system is fundamentally a better system as the instances are only loaded on demand and not kept constantly running.
Also, no one would design a housing system with every one of them active at once.. Doing that would be bad design as well. You design a system like that to be able to handle a few steps above of your average active player base because you are never going to run into a situation where your entire server population is going to be even online at the same time, let alone doing the same activity.

That's literally what I said. Online characters.

Also, the wards themselves are likely not that intensive to run. Housing tho, has many more spaces for items, and much more customization.

[frostmagemari]

That's literally what I said. Online characters.

Wasn't talking to you.

Also, the wards themselves are likely not that intensive to run. Housing tho, has many more spaces for items, and much more customization.

Then you would be wrong. Static instances are much more intensive to run, especially when each city has forty-two static instances of dynamic content (player yards and house designs) that has to remain persistently loaded.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Wasn't talking to you.

Then you would be wrong. Static instances are much more intensive to run, especially when each city has forty-two static instances of dynamic content (player yards and house designs) that has to remain persistently loaded.

Well, it was in my original response which you quoted so yes, you were.


And it's still less intensive than the servers required for housing. Zones have fates, and way more characters in cities than the housing wards.

[frostmagemari]

Well, it was in my original response which you quoted so yes, you were.

No, it wasn't. I quoted MariaArvana, and you responded to what i said to MariaArvana, so unless you're MariaArvana, i wasn't talking to you.

And it's still less intensive than the servers required for housing.

No.. its not less intensive. You seem to have a fundamental inability to understand that keeping an instance up and running 24/7 demands more resources than loading an instance server on demand for a limited time. The majority of the game would not be in housing instances, especially if they dealt with other problems that lead to keeping on-demand instances active (ie. logout timers).

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

No, it wasn't. I quoted MariaArvana, and you responded to what i said to MariaArvana, so unless you're MariaArvana, i wasn't talking to you.

No.. its not less intensive. You seem to have a fundamental inability to understand that keeping an instance up and running 24/7 demands more resources than loading an instance server on demand for a limited time.

You are acting like people don't afk in their houses for days at a time. 2 larges have more customizarion spaces than an entire ward.


A few people in houses at a time is equal to the requirements for wards, in terms of instance capacity.

And you were responding to someone else, making a false assumption on what they were saying in response to what I said. Me correcting you is a valid thing to do.

[frostmagemari]

You are acting like people don't afk in their houses for days at a time. 2 larges have more customizarion spaces than an entire ward.
A few people in houses at a time is equal to the requirements for wards.

Sure.. aside from directly mentioning logout timers in an earlier post, i'm acting like people don't afk for long periods of time; though, i will give you a pass because i added that in a moment after initially posting, so you didn't see that.
Anyway, that in itself is a problem that needlessly taxes the instance servers; reinforcing my point that they are going for bandaid solutions instead of directing their attention to core issues that create problems.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Sure.. aside from directly mentioning logout timers in an earlier post, i'm acting like people don't afk for long periods of time.
Anyway, that in itself is a problem that needlessly taxes the instance servers; reinforcing my point that they are going for bandaid solutions instead of directing their attention to core issues that create problems.

I don't know what you expect to have happen. Instanced housing isn't a magical fix that will make housing suddenly available for everyone.