This World is currently full. Is this an indication of anything?

[Equitable_Remedy]

To answer the question seriously for those who aren't aware it's a troll thread from a troll poster: To alleviate re-crashes if a world goes down, SE just keeps the lobby feature on permanently these days. 50-100 people are allowed to log onto the world each time, once per minute. Before they put the lobby in, the combined stress of a thousand accounts empting to log into a world server at once would make it unstable. So you are caught in a net and released at a controlled pace via the lobby server.

That is—refreshingly informative!

[SecretIsland]

I almost took this thread seriously until I saw it was titanman's alt that posted it

I'm not MPK or titanman or whoever else. It's genuinely bizarre but as long as I get useful information I can safely ignore you, thankfully.

[SecretIsland]

To answer the question seriously for those who aren't aware it's a troll thread from a troll poster: To alleviate re-crashes if a world goes down, SE just keeps the lobby feature on permanently these days. 50-100 people are allowed to log onto the world each time, once per minute. Before they put the lobby in, the combined stress of a thousand accounts empting to log into a world server at once would make it unstable. So you are caught in a net and released at a controlled pace via the lobby server.

Thank you for the useful information! And no, I'm not a troll nor do I see how this is a troll thread.

[technole]

The server is full message is really more like that back alley queue to get into the club thing. A line to get into the server from the lobby, can't have too many people pile in.

Now does server population relate to this? Yes, because obviously during peak hours you'll have more people thrusting into a queue versus say a ho-hum server like Famfrit.

YoshiP's way of closing full servers is just to stop new characters and character transfers into the server, sometimes just certain times of the day or sometimes for days up to months. This happens a lot more at the beginning at expansions.