The server is full, try again later (1017)

[Raist]

I had issues with the DF/instanced portions prior to a few of the maintenances. Those seem to be resolved (for the most part). However the amount of people connecting or trying to connect to a single server has not. It's increasing. So at this point I can honestly say that I don't believe that the Duty Finder is the issue. Their servers just can't currently handle the amount of load that the many NA/EU users ALL logging in would place on them.

This could have been worked on during Beta P4 if SE had extended NA/EU's P4 stress testing after clearing the original 3102.

That's just it though... there doesnt' appear to be an issue with server load balancing in the normal portions of the game. I managed to get on briefly just before maintenance last night--in the middle of them increasing the login limit while everyone was still stewing over 1017 during primetime.

Server was FULL of people. And not just AFK'ers. There were HORDES of people around some of the NPC's in Gridania, running quests, killing level 1-8 mobs for items/hunts--so much that we had to wait on repops and would unofficially team up to kill them faster so people could progress.

There were NO zoning issues. 0... zip... nada. Zone loads and NPC cut scenes loaded without a hitch... smooth as it ever was last weekend. Was far better than XI EVER was in the 7 years of playing that game before I quit. And this is on a laptop, not my PC with the high speed drives and everything overclocked to just under their breaking point.

I also never had any issues with the game prior to them taking everything down (it was the same for beta and ths time around). The only reason I got kicked Saturday was because of the emergency maintenance. Since then, I was unable to get on---when SE started locking everyone out arbitrarily. The same thing happened with Beta. Once I was able to get on, I played for a whole day until SE intervened and bounced me from the server for maintenance--then I got locked out again because of their snafus trying to fix things. Both then and now, I had NO issues with stability until they kicked me out of the game and/or locked down access.

They are just being overly cautious at this point.

[MGRockwell]

Why is there not an AFK timeout to kick players out?

This would relieve a lot of the stress on the servers.

[JakBkillin]

Havnt been able to play a single minute of EA. Nice job SE once again not thinking ahead and pushing things out without enough time to test. Doesnt seem that you guys will ever learn from mistakes. Gota meet that dealine! Fuck if it works or not.

Oh well EA is gone so nothing to be done about that. So How about it SE? Do you think it might be possible that i could just maybe play the game after it launches? You know since i paid for it and all? just maybe? oh no take your time SE...You would think with this game being a relaunch that they would have focused a huge amount of energy on making the launch successful...

But nope SE likes to try and fix things at the last second.

[Sonatine]

I DEMAND BLOOD BE SPILT

[ThunderCat]

[Bob-Loblaw]

i don't care for why people do it, idling for hours on end just to play later in the day is horrible and only contributes to this problem with people being able to connect. you are not only being selfish but you are also making it that much harder for others to play and you are to blame partially for this issue and everyone doing it should stop. that might be enough to help remove some of the congestion. when i finally logged in earlier, i forgot just how many i saw just idling and not doing anything. way to many frankly and i think SE should put in measures to prevent it. maybe auto kick people for going idling for more than maybe 20 minutes - 1 hour.

I would like to complain about this, but I can't honestly say that if I was actually able to get into a server that I wouldn't leave my player AFK. If it means getting to play vs. not getting to play, I would pick the former. With that being said I obviously want an AFK timer, but at the same time, I'm not going to get upset at the players who remain AFK. It's SE's fault for allowing it.

[castial]

everyday 3hr++ only to log in.........Fun of the game....fading away

[Vyndae]

Oh the pain! Played MMOs from EQ 1 on. Played just about all of them. Never seen such a horrible launch. I was lucky enough to get on today after clicking over and over again. After a very short play time I zoned and got booted why zoning. SE does love to tease us!

[Bob-Loblaw]

everyday 3hr++ only to log in.........Fun of the game....fading away

Welcome to 1.0... I mean 2.0... I mean... I don't know anymore

[Maalphas]

Welcome to 1.0... I mean 2.0... I mean... I don't know anymore

Welcome to SE doesn't give a flying fuck about us .0