Server restarts to boot afk players?

[Ferth]

Despite what some of you would like to believe there is a portion of the player base who once they get in will not log out. At 10 am today my free company had 30 members on, 4 of them were actually playing.

You can make whatever statements you want about this being a non-issue, but as long as there are people logged into the game but not actively playing it's wasted server space. It is not a long term fix... it's not even a large scale fix, but taking the time to code an afk boot timer, and occasionally flushing the servers is a good idea. As is a queue that actually works from the moment you hit character select, regardless of whether the world you are logging into is full or not.

No, it won't solve every issue we are having right now... frankly, even the new servers are most likely going to hardly put a dent in the log in issues. The overarching problem is that pretty much every server has more people who want to play on them than the server can hold. Most likely the only way to really fix this issue is through adding new servers and offering free server transfers for free companies, both of which will require time to implement.

I don't care if I end up being 3000th in the queue. Provided people are actually leaving the servers, and others are steadily replacing them I know I will get on sooner or later.