Petion for Server Rolling Restarts.

[SirPercival]

The problem with a server restart to kick AFK players is this... Server Max is 5000 (Stable server limit, as stated in interview) - Say even 500-1000 are AFK and you have 4000 Players who aren't idle. You then would have 4000 people trying to log in at the same time. You would kill the Lobby server and thus create a whole new issue that already does arise from time to time without such things slamming it.

So while kicking AFK people may be a great idea, server restart in this condition right now would merely cause more problems and crash the server with mass log in from the players who aren't AFK.

[Blarglesniff]

The problem with a server restart to kick AFK players is this... Server Max is 5000 (Stable server limit, as stated in interview) - Say even 500-1000 are AFK and you have 4000 Players who aren't idle. You then would have 4000 people trying to log in at the same time. You would kill the Lobby server and thus create a whole new issue that already does arise from time to time without such things slamming it.

So while kicking AFK people may be a great idea, server restart in this condition right now would merely cause more problems and crash the server with mass log in from the players who aren't AFK.

If they did a rolling restart say at 4-5am EST when I highly doubt that many "Active" Players are on would be ideal. That way you wouldn't have a mass flood of login attempts and they would be staggered during the normal hours for NA. Also, the hundreds if not thousands of people running scripting macros in order to login without having to sit on the computer isn't helping the issue either. It's just causing the lobby server to become bogged down now as well esp with Error 2002 and 2025.