So the 1017 error.

[vampiresupremacy]

My thread got engulfed by a whole bunch of others so if you don't mind, I'll just post it here since it has something to do with 1017.

Okay, so first off, I had thought that error 3102 had been fixed but I guess it still lingers here and there. My question however is if anyone has ran into this problem, where you are doing a dungeon (in my case, Halatali) and was disconnected. For about 5 minutes, I got the error code 3102, which freaked me out for a bit. But after 10 minutes of waiting, I decided to try again and began getting error 1017, that the world is full.

Great, I guess I could keep trying to log on. It's been about an hour since I still cannot log on. At first, I thought...hey a lot of people are playing, but I noticed something strange. The location of my character in the character select menu is still Halatali. Not only that, but the blue floor my character is standing on is glitching, like it's spazzing out. Am I stuck in limbo?? Has anyone dealt with this problem? Thanks in advance for anyone who could help.

EDIT: The floor glitch did stop.

[sweats]

it says server congestion relived but I just tried to log on and nope 1017 ???

[DarthVader]

Ill they have to do is add more servers... Many people who don have friends will volunteer leave, this will ease the congestion

[DarkChops]

This is a pretty bad situation, and because it's getting so much press, people won't log out because they know they won't be able to get back in. I won't pay for this.

[Andorian]

The problem is all the people who log in and never log out...and SE incentivising the behavior with 1017 errors. Post in this thread and get SE to make a real solution to the problem, not a patch fix like 1017.

[Wraithwin]

Booting inactive players - while not a bad idea - is a bad solution.
Getting servers that can actually handle the volume of players - is a good solution.

Mind that even in its high day, FFXI had tons of "AFKers" selling wares in their personal markets. Wasn't a problem there.

[Verrilee]

Game mechanics (i.e. selling on the market) required they allow people to stay logged in. This game does not have that same issue. Retainers sell for you, even when you are off line. There is NO reason to allow people to just sit on the server. However, there is every reason as a player right now to sit on the server because you may not be able to get back in.

They need to boot those who are afk for 15 minutes.

They need a real queue, not just a message that tells you where you are in line but actually puts you in line and moves you through. As far as I can tell, it doesn't do that.

They need to give us a means of telling how crowded a server is so we can make informed choices, a means OTHER than world is full when you try to log in!

[Wraithwin]

...They need a real queue, not just a message that tells you where you are in line but actually puts you in line and moves you through. As far as I can tell, it doesn't do that.

They need to give us a means of telling how crowded a server is so we can make informed choices, a means OTHER than world is full when you try to log in!

This, above all else, I loathe. It's a totally BS error message too!
"The server is full - try again when a spot is open" - Well riddle me this... How the (heavily censored) am I supposed to know WHEN a spot is open?!
Man... I haven't been angry enough for my eye to twitch at a game in a lonnnnng time. Thanks, SE, for returning my eye twitch with these half-dozen error codes.

[hysteria]

Problem is really that the servers are just not large enough. Characters will go afk and not log off. And they don't log off for the simple fact the know they wont get back on. SE is not prepared for this release at all.