Quote Originally Posted by Drakeos View Post
Soft cap is ???? and 8pm AEST ???
There are two types of queues:

The soft queue is to prevent the lobby server from crashing the game server by allowing too many people to log in at once. When your queue is under 100 and you get in after a minute, that's the soft queue.

The hard queue is when the world server is full, and you have to wait for space to clear out. Either people logging off, or disconnecting, or traveling to duties. When the queue is in the hundreds or thousands and isn't moving, this is the hard queue.

4AM Eastern Time is when everyone has logged off to sleep, because that's 1AM Pacific time and 2 AM mountain time and 3 AM central time. EU and JP data centers obviously are different since the time zones are more concentrated than the NA, but by 4AM EST, the queue on the NA data centers is gone.