SE, Fix The Player Instance Fragmentation

[Pintsized]

Okay, so at launch multiple zone instances were required, I get that, but now it's causing serious player population fragmentation.

I just logged into Phoenix @ 9:30 GMT and ported to Labyrinthos and was in instance 3 of 3 .. player populations were listed as 6, 1, 3 respectively.

Why had I been put into number 3? In fact how come there were three instances anyway with such a trivial population?

Sure, I guess if there's 1 player in #2 AFKing then that instance won't get shut down but when a new player logs in (me) why aren't they being allocated to the highest populated instance when numbers are so low, so as to eventually be able to shutdown the other instances.

I refuse to believe that all three zones were heavily populated right up to the time I ported in.

[Waterscape]

Now that most people are done with msq the zone are not populated anymore , it happens every expension. They are going to remove instance 2 and 3 soon anyway

[Hasrat]

Instances don't just get "shut down" as they are not procedurally restarted. They're just constantly up and running, until maintenance removes them.

[Jeeqbit]

The areas are not populated anymore, but in Shadowbringers when everyone was done with the MSQ instances remained for months. If it follows Shadowbringers they won't be gone until 6.1.

[Sacae]

I mean, triple the A/S ranks, so keep it up as long as possible, IMO.

[KageTokage]

I think they mostly need to dial back how slowly instances allow people to enter them.

ShB was not nearly as bad in terms of how long it forces you to wait to enter a crowded instance for something like a special FATE or S rank.