Suggestion: Shut Down DC Travel for Dawntrails Launch.

[strawberrycake]

So, this is not a lack of faith in CBU3 being able to deal with the surge of not only returning players for DT, but ofc our new Xbox Friends. And after experiencing all of the server issues XIV has had on launches, this is my suggestion.

Pre-warn players of a 1-2 week shut down the DC traveling for DTs Launch so that way people can pre-emptively go to the server they wanna play on with their friends, and so that people can play peacefully.

My reasoning for this? I feel like we'll see a LOT of people trying to rush going to play with friends, or go to "better" servers for content reasons, here in NA we'll see a surge of players heading to Aether, and possibly in turn as a knock on effect, players from Aether will surge places like Dynamis and Crystal which quiets down on expansion launches.

Not only will this clog up things and make something as simple as queueing for content abyssmal, servers will be congested interally, by the people already in game, and externally, by people trying to get in game. This isn't even mentioning the usual Early launch DDoS and Launch Day DDoS attacks.

I feel like this will be the best choice for player to play peacefully and only have to deal with minimal server queues.

And I know people will disagree, but this is just my 2 cents.

[Reinha]

My reasoning for this? I feel like we'll see a LOT of people trying to rush going to play with friends, or go to "better" servers for content reasons, here in NA we'll see a surge of players heading to Aether, and possibly in turn as a knock on effect, players from Aether will surge places like Dynamis and Crystal which quiets down on expansion launches.

I'm not agreeing or disagreeing yet because I didn't understand the reasoning. Do you mean players will accumulate to a specific data center and abandon another? Using your example, one player from Dynamis and one player from Aether swapping places has a net zero effect on the internal congestion of both data centers.

[strawberrycake]

I'm not agreeing or disagreeing yet because I didn't understand the reasoning. Do you mean players will accumulate to a specific data center and abandon another? Using your example, one player from Dynamis and one player from Aether swapping places has a net zero effect on the internal congestion of both data centers.

Specifically players from the other 3 DCs surging to Aether and Aether players Surging to the precieved No population Dynamis

[LaylaTsarra]

They probably will because of congestion. If log in queues are long which is to be expected they'll suspend it like they did with Endwalker.

[Reinha]

Specifically players from the other 3 DCs surging to Aether and Aether players Surging to the precieved No population Dynamis

What's the harm in the same number of players surging to and from Aether?

They probably will because of congestion. If log in queues are long which is to be expected they'll suspend it like they did with Endwalker.

Wasn't that because everyone and their cat was trying the new feature when it was added in patch 6.18? DC travel didn't exist yet for Endwalker launch.

[SannaR]

Yes EW launch was awful. It was a perfect storm type deal. Yet we shouldn't need to worry as I'd be surprised if they didn't enable cloud servers or only allow travel to less populated data centers for those who are from more populated ones. So Dynamis and OCE would be allowed to be traveled to and if those don't do the work of alleviating the strain on the log in servers then I'm sure they'll as I've said bring back on line a few cloud servers. There shouldn't be this much fear in experiencing the same problems we did in past launchs.

[strawberrycake]

What's the harm in the same number of players surging to and from Aether?.

The issue is that a bunch of people will congest the game, we'll have new players, returning players, and those of us who play regularly. My point is that XIV launches are always huge turn outs. This coupled with the DDoS attacks we've gotten every launch, it will probably be better to have people stay on their prefered servers ahead of time to mitigate larger issues from impatient players, inconsiderate players, and people who will maliciously make things worse for fun, which is all sadly a norm along with the increaded populationsize.

[strawberrycake]

Yes EW launch was awful. It was a perfect storm type deal. Yet we shouldn't need to worry as I'd be surprised if they didn't enable cloud servers or only allow travel to less populated data centers for those who are from more populated ones. So Dynamis and OCE would be allowed to be traveled to and if those don't do the work of alleviating the strain on the log in servers then I'm sure they'll as I've said bring back on line a few cloud servers. There shouldn't be this much fear in experiencing the same problems we did in past launchs.

I have faith that CBU3 can handle this launch well with the Cloud servers in place, but i also think avoiding uneeded stress works just as well.

[Jeeqbit]

They plan to use DC travel as a way to reduce congestion by allowing people to go to less populated locations, such as Dynamis, Materia and the Cloud Data Center that was previously setup if it's needed.

I feel like we'll see a LOT of people trying to rush going to play with friends, or go to "better" servers for content reasons

I think we will see a surge either way or a lot of congestion that will render DC travel unusable anyway, despite the aforementioned intentions that SE has for Dynamis, Materia and the Cloud DC. However, I could be wrong, especially if travel to a low-population DC does not suffer from congestion.

[strawberrycake]

They plan to use DC travel as a way to reduce congestion by allowing people to go to less populated locations, such as Dynamis, Materia and the Cloud Data Center that was previously setup if it's needed.

I think we will see a surge either way or a lot of congestion that will render DC travel unusable anyway, despite the aforementioned intentions that SE has for Dynamis, Materia and the Cloud DC. However, I could be wrong, especially if travel to a low-population DC does not suffer from congestion.

Yeah, I'm specifically thinking back to prior expansions and telling FC members to stay and let others muck it up because they will and low and behold thats what did happen. And it's not that the Cloud servers won;t help. I def think they will, but I'm also aware of how impatient and unwilling to work together any MMOs community can be and ours isnt any different in that regard and people tend to exacerbate it more then they need to. In fact we have a tendency to go above and beyond at times with these type of situations.