Is adding more worlds going to actually fix this problem?

[Talsalus]

My guess is no! It seems like the population cap is so low that even new worlds isn't going to fix the problem. They need to get an actually working queue system in place ASAP in my opinion.

What do you guys think? Will this alleviate our log in issues?

[Pizzagirl]

All they need to do is add an AFK kick and a proper queue.

If they don't, I really question the intelligence of their infrastructure team.

[Talsalus]

Yes, an afk timer would certainly free up several spots.

[loco12]

hopefully they'll let us change servers for free.

[Valius]

I don't think more servers is going to fix the problem. They need to add more servers AND up the player limit from 5000 to something an intelligent person would set. More servers don;t really do shit for people that have already made a character on an existing one. Now kicking idle assholes.....THAT is what this game desperately needs.

[Raist]

It's not just new worlds... sometimes that is done virtually on the same servers. They are bringing in new hardware as well.

So, yes... depending on exactly what they change in the configs and whether they allow the population to redistribute more evenly. Yoshida-san stated in his letter to us that they have a limit of 5000 concurrent logins per world--but the population perworld has exceeded that limit. If what they are implementing Tuesday night allows us to balance out that disparity, then yes... it will make a difference.

[baddagger]

a afk kicks wont fix the problem fully. Yes it would help free up some spot for other people to play but the servers only allow 5,000 people on .. they need to up the server abilty to atleast 10k to 15k people because there are just so many people trying to play that kicking afk players wont free enoff spots for the amount of people who are trying to get on. On wow servers they can get up to 20k people playing at on one realm.

[edgefu]

New worlds + free transfers will help unless you RP lol

[pkosborn]

a afk kicks wont fix the problem fully. Yes it would help free up some spot for other people to play but the servers only allow 5,000 people on .. they need to up the server abilty to atleast 10k to 15k people because there are just so many people trying to play that kicking afk players wont free enoff spots for the amount of people who are trying to get on. On wow servers they can get up to 20k people playing at on one realm.

Let me start by saying that I 100% agree with you that increasing server capacity would for sure fix this problem, but I understand that the problem is not that simple.
Adding more realms for them at this point would be easier than increasing capacity on account of stability. They know that their current software is pretty stable when it comes to 5,000 people on, with the exception of a few kicks when zoning while the lobby server is down and stuff like that. But increasing server capacity is not an easy task in any way, shape, or form. 5,000 is just the amount of players currently online, not players on the realm total. I'm not assuming that you don't know that, but I'm just clarifying for anyone that might read this and not understand.
I'm not going to claim to be a server expert here, but I have run online servers before. Increasing my capacity, which I had to do a few times, was an incredibly difficult task, and required completely new hardware, but adding a sister server took me less than a day and a fraction of the cost.

I understand the route they are taking, but like all of you I'm also not happy about it. I strongly feel that AFK kicks should have been implemented first and in addition to adding more servers, they need to tell us that they are at least looking into increasing capacity and what that would mean for them time-wise. Lord knows we don't care about what it means money-wise for them as we have all paid good money for the game and they damn well should be able to afford it.

I am incredibly upset about this entire debacle, and I really hoped that I would be able to log in today and a lot of these problems would have been alleviated, but unfortunately they have not.

I'm going to stop before I TLDR the hell out of this post.

[allstar3339]

Unless they have plans to roll out at least 100+ new servers... it's not gonna help too much.... Or if they can raise the limits on the current servers... it might help...