Cloud Data Center Stress Test Feedback Thread (November 2023)

[reginleif-]

Three days on Cloudtest02

Playing from Eastern Europe, with a 100 Mbps bandwidth, wired connection. Little difference with my usual experience, which is very smooth.

The connection status on the character screen is always “Good,” with an average ping of 116–122 ms. To compare, my EU connection is “Excellent,” with 30–40 ms ping.

The longest queues met:
- 945 people, moved in 14 minutes. It was in the first hours of the test.
- 394 people, moved in 7 minutes.

The only nuisance
The animations feel rough. On the first day, the frame rate was constantly around 50 fps both in battle and quiet areas. In the next days, it returned to 120–160 fps as I have on the EU server, but the movements and effects remain slightly rugged. No input or position lags, though.

Yet again, I'm very far from the data center. The performance for my distance is impressive.

Also, thanks for the opportunity to do the non-NG+ content without leveling an alt!

[eikomakimachi]

So far having no issues with connection. Latency is better for me on Cloud Server than on Hyperion (Primal DC), usually I have 180-210ms and on Cloud Server it would drop to 125-170. I am playing from Brazil, São Paulo. While I wouldn't want to transfer my character from Hyperion to Cloud Server because I love my current Free Company and my friends in Hyperion, it would be nice to be able to do Data Center/World Travel to Cloud Server to do some content with less lag.

[Jojoya]

I'm finding the choice of times for the major stress test on Sunday to be rather strange. Why pick a time when most of North America is still sleeping or barely waking up when it's a North American-based test that would lead to a solution for a mostly North American problem? You're effectively excluding the majority of those who would benefit in the long run from participating, and that's going to reduce the number that do participate.

[Khryseis_Astra]

I'm finding the choice of times for the major stress test on Sunday to be rather strange. Why pick a time when most of North America is still sleeping or barely waking up when it's a North American-based test that would lead to a solution for a mostly North American problem? You're effectively excluding the majority of those who would benefit in the long run from participating, and that's going to reduce the number that do participate.

I can’t seem to find where they said the time, but yeah that’s kind of odd…

[JaydeDancer]

Guys. Having your stress test at 4:30 AM when most people are asleep is not great planning on your part. It should be done on Sunday night. Alliance raid queues in DF don't come back up until 6:30AM PST. I say that to illustrate that no one is online at 4:30AM PST. It's during the slow hours for NA. I do realize that there are players from other localities testing these servers, but since it is an NA cloud server, you should be scheduling the stress test during peak NA log in times. I.e. at night.

I did just realize that it is possible that the Japan team may be the ones who have to monitor the stress test, and 4:30AM on Sunday NA time is Monday morning/early afternoon JP time. Perhaps that is the reason for the timing. It is still not a great time to preform a stress test for NA when most of the continent is still sleeping. . .

[Edgedy]

Test Period
Sunday, November 26 from 4:00 a.m. until 4:30 a.m. (PST)

The Hell Square Enix? Why are you having me be awake at 4 AM in the morning this isn't a stress test period for NA you need prime time hours during the afternoon not 4 AM in the morning.

[Jojoya]

I did just realize that it is possible that the Japan team may be the ones who have to monitor the stress test, and 4:30AM on Sunday NA time is Monday morning/early afternoon JP time. Perhaps that is the reason for the timing. It is still not a great time to preform a stress test for NA when most of the continent is still sleeping. . .

Except it's not. 4am Pacific is 9pm Sunday in Tokyo.

It really doesn't make sense unless they're using an outside contractor to assist with the test and that contractor only had that time slot available.

All we can do is hope it goes well. I would have been happy to participate but not when it means disrupting my sleep. At least I contributed to the madness when the test servers first went online.

[Teeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeej]

The cloud DC might be located nearest to NA East Coast but anyone around the globe can connect to it, so it's not really an NA-player exclusive DC like the regular NA DCs are. 4AM Pacific is prime time evening JP and middle of the day EU so there's still plenty of people to simulate load.

[Sorimachi87]

The whole world was taking part in that stress test basically. There is no perfect time for this. Even on weekends people would miss out. But i saw screenshots where people said they couldnt join the area because it was overloaded. So at least it was well attended.
I couldnt join, thanks to work.

Also roulette queues are long... guess nobody is doing those. ^^"

[TheodoreL]

Stable connection 142ms. For an hour of play did not notice a single hang, response is quite nice, was surprised by the implementation. Connection disconnection did not happen once. With a large number of players ping reduction is not observed.
Way to go. So far 9/10 for the system, if on release will be stable below 60ms - congratulations.
Testing region: Moscow, Russian Federation.
On the home data center - Light ping is from 52 to 124 and constantly changing.