Rationing Playtime - An Unpleasant Sounding Temporary Solution

[Haseno]

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[ArkenaeuxBelmont]

This is a horrible idea. Absolutely not.

[DBriggs304]

No Thanks.

I doubt this will last that long and while I has a nearly two hour que time, I wasn't knocked off and got in in the end.

[Haseno]

This is a horrible idea. Absolutely not.

Assertion requires substantiation. Current projections for SE to acquire new server hardware to alleviate the issue is fall of 2022. Drastic situation, that players won't tolerate for 10 months.

[aveyond-dreams]

Making a supermarket only open for 4-6 hours a day won't stop everyone from trying to walk through the front gates when most people get off work at the same hour in the afternoon.

Same concept applies here.

[Haseno]

Making a supermarket only open for 4-6 hours a day won't stop everyone from trying to walk through the front gates when most people get off work at the same hour in the afternoon.

Same concept applies here.

Rations would cycle players out making room for the prime time players. The servers are full basically 24 hours a day at this point with the queues dwindling into reasonable territory only in the very late night/very early morning window.

[LaylaTsarra]

No thank you.

[Moonlite]

No but if people are using new work arounds to bypass auto logout, we are heading to serve resets. Except with people being at home I expect them to log back in and start cheating again.

[Kes13a]

awesome idea! how exactly do you intend to assign the rationed slots? first come first server? excellent!!!

so you take a hours long queue... and make the payout only a couple hours as well.

wonderful idea.

so, remove any possible idea of people being able to play with friends, it will now be just a jumble of random people able to be on at the same time.

I can see, as explained, several reasons why this would be an abysmal plan and guarantee a dissatisfied player base.

if you were trying to kill a game, this would go a long way towards it.

sir... your 15 minutes are up.

[ArkenaeuxBelmont]

Assertion requires substantiation. Current projections for SE to acquire new server hardware to alleviate the issue is fall of 2022. Drastic situation, that players won't tolerate for 10 months.

The only reason the queues are so large as they are, is because *everyone* who was unsubbed came back to play EW. The queues will lessen in another week or two. Stop calling down doom and gloom. It's not the end of the world.

Why should those of us that were able to take time off, rearrange our schedules and are able to log in during non-peak hours be punished for those that can't? I don't mean to sound like an evil person here, but we all pay the same subscription fee. If you can't log in during the non peak times, then you sit in the queue.

The ONE thing I'll side with on the gripe side of all of this, is Square looking into and trying to further improve the problem with the 2002 situation. There should be a coding fix there somewhere, or an increase in the disconnect grace period, that can help that situation.

You are basically calling for everyone to suffer, because a fraction of the playerbase is suffering, right now. I'm empathetic to people who can't change their hours, schedule, and don't have time to suffer through those queues right now, but *they will not be around forever*. Literally wait a week or two and the numbers will start to go down, either from the returners that don't want to stomach the queue, or the casual of casuals that finish their MSQ and then unsub like they always do.