New server maintanence help

[Jotunhammer]

Here is a novel idea, how about to prevent ppl from afking have the server kick everyone every 3 hours from the time they log on. That will prevent those that get in to just afk and never leave cause that is being done by a lot of people when there is this bad servers.

[Bloodwillow]

SNIP.

I am quite behind that idea ...

But then you have the people complaining "well I don't want to be kicked going to the bathroom, or checking on my kids ... or X Y Z"

Yes there is a thread on this already.

But I don't think that is the problem now. The problem is, S-E didn't count on so many NA/EU people playing. So their servers are not up to the capacity load. Even if the AFKers were to be removed and actual people came on to play, the problem with the DF not being able to work cause of the large load of people hitting it is going to stop progress too.

I am not sure why they would have to put SOLO instances through the same DF that is used for GROUP instances. That is what boggles my mind.

[Jotunhammer]

They are cooly counting on that there WILL be a drop of players when the 30 days of "free" gametime is done, so they do not want to open to many servers that they later have to shut down due to lack of people. So what do they do?

They let those that want to get in wait and wait and wait to see if there is a constant pressure for the servers and then they will maybe open one and then they will wait and see if the pressure is there... and the 15000 people that still
waiting will be forced to continue to wait.

That is the strategy of SE and any other MMO, they do not WANT to open more servers because they want to see that there is enough playerbase tp fill the servers that are there. Do they care that they lose players due to the people
not wanting to wait? Hell no. They are counting on that because they already received the initial money.

That is my theory.

[Azmaat]

They are cooly counting on that there WILL be a drop of players when the 30 days of "free" gametime is done, so they do not want to open to many servers that they later have to shut down due to lack of people. So what do they do?

They let those that want to get in wait and wait and wait to see if there is a constant pressure for the servers and then they will maybe open one and then they will wait and see if the pressure is there... and the 15000 people that still
waiting will be forced to continue to wait.

That is the strategy of SE and any other MMO, they do not WANT to open more servers because they want to see that there is enough playerbase tp fill the servers that are there. Do they care that they lose players due to the people
not wanting to wait? Hell no. They are counting on that because they already received the initial money.

That is my theory.

Hope that is not the case..

[Jotunhammer]

Umm, you don't get the full idea of my idea for the 3 hr kick. that would also give those who have waited for a long time a chanse to get into the servers. if there is a constant kick of players then there is a oportunity for those who are waiting to get in. at least until servers are capable of taking care of all the players who wanna get in. SE has to do something and right now to me and a lot of other players it looks like SE is sitting on their thumbs doing nothing.

[Bloodwillow]

Umm, you don't get the full idea of my idea for the 3 hr kick. that would also give those who have waited for a long time a chanse to get into the servers. if there is a constant kick of players then there is a oportunity for those who are waiting to get in. at least until servers are capable of taking care of all the players who wanna get in. SE has to do something and right now to me and a lot of other players it looks like SE is sitting on their thumbs doing nothing.

Oh I don't disagree with you there. I'd love to see AFKers of more than an hour or so kicked. And I am not disagreeing that the way S-E is handling this is poor.

[Skyl1n3]

I'd love to see AFKers of more than an hour or so kicked.

I think kicking AFK'ers would be a great implementation that SE should seriously consider, it's surprising how many times I'm running around and I see the same person twice in the same spot about 10 minutes later just doing f**k all, I think AFK'ers should be given a time limit of 15 minutes and then kicked to the character select screen, that's a reasonable amount of time to be away to do something and then come back to the game and I think it will at least free up some space for people who are constantly trying to login. (me included)

[Sansho]

My god man 26 out of 28 post??? I understand your a little upset about this, a lot of people are, but hell.... 26/28 posts. NO it's not right we have so few servers and they've been on and off all day but what do you think is going to happen from spamming the forums? I haven't been able to get on since last night but I realised there was problems and went and did stuff in the outside world. Would you prefer that this stuff was happening every day for the next few weeks or that they sort it out ASAP.

[Jotunhammer]

My god man 26 out of 28 post??? I understand your a little upset about this, a lot of people are, but hell.... 26/28 posts. NO it's not right we have so few servers and they've been on and off all day but what do you think is going to happen from spamming the forums? I haven't been able to get on since last night but I realised there was problems and went and did stuff in the outside world. Would you prefer that this stuff was happening every day for the next few weeks or that they sort it out ASAP.

Yes, my plan is to spend my day filling out these forum posts. I don't have anything else to do. anything you want to know?