Quote Originally Posted by Kirito_Kun View Post
I know the 1017 error is the new idea that SE came up with to keep the servers stable but I'm worried it's being catastrophically exploited by the selfish because ARR doesn't have an logout on afk feature built into it.

I understand everyone wants to play, that's kind of a moot point -- but at what point do the rest of us who wait hours clicking out character's names and get trolled for a few moment by the loading screen before the error box shows up get our play time?

Is there an ETA on when this system is going to be updated or policy changed to where we can all get some levelling in? I'd hate to be left behind by my guild because I few people park their characters in Ul'dah and go shopping for their groceries, et al.

Thanks!

-K.
From what i understand, All the servers are still running at max capacity as intended, but they have made login procedure tunnel incredibly small, filtering a limited number of login request at any given time. The Data Center is having trouble with a server side error so limiting the incoming traffic helps them pinpoint the issue.

I dunno where people are getting this "the servers are incapable of housing us blah blah blah" no, the servers are not even running at full capacity right now, when the tunnel has reached its request limit it sends the user a "server full" error when the server capactiy is really not full at all.

Iv temped at a Ruby Rails Data Centers before and when we want to find errors that cause instability we limit the incoming traffic rather than downsize the user database.

Even so, server side fixes shouldn't be taking this long unless there is an issue with the FFXIV client itself producing errors that populate into the server database, in which causes server instability tandemly. If that is the case, its going to take much longer than a day to find the issue because SE and the Data center have to work together. Finding a single syntax or logic error in a mountain of code isn't simple regardless of how much money or man power you have.

At the same time, SE or the Data Center shouldn't be having members of the coding staff be incompetent enough to even make mistakes that cause syntax/logic errors to begin with.