Max Capacity 42,000 Players,Coming out on Steam, Servers are gonna be packed!!!!!!!!!

[Chaff]

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If Char are locked to ea server, that could really blow. Unless, SOE limits access to Servers once they get 300% people with avatars on any given server .... somethin' to help the people who know what they want to be and WHERE they choose to start their game advancement. SOE has to let enough people create on each server, but not sooooooo many that the server risks being log-Jammed. Any player wait to join a server that lasts more than 10 minutes to get in should be an issue SOE looks into.

It would suck to get your avatar rolling the first month or two....and then have recurring issues with logging in. Soe needs to monitor this issue carefully.

The fact they are letting people grow certs while off-line will only lead to many "dormant" accounts ..... who knows when these players will jump into the server & create Pop issues with these "dormant" avatar accounts...
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[Eyeklops]

Originally Posted by Sledgecrushr

They have the capacity to host 125,000 players if all 25 of the servers go up.

Do you happen to know what the "shard" capacity is? I hope SOE does not set the shard capacity at 650*3*3. That would leave no room for continental movement/domination.

I really think PS2 will get much, much better once we hit around 7+ live continents with a global lattice that does not promote constant 3 way battles.

[JoeDragon]

Welp, I'm definitely getting the subscription lol. (Was going to even without priority login, though)

[Johari]

Just get in Tuesday and never log out. Queue problems solved :P

[Rago]

Originally Posted by JoeDragon

Welp, I'm definitely getting the subscription lol. (Was going to even without priority login, though)

Better is this ! Subscribe means Premium membership anyway, im happy to have this especially tomorrow

[Tharrak]

With the plans to introduce new continents the population cap will rise if population is dictated by the continents alone. There is no Sanc... err... buffer zone to put people in, beyond the traditional queue. Which still serves as a buffer zone, a very boring one at that? I say they need to make something new, and call them "Sanctuaries", to make things more... transitional. Yep. Yep.

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[Chaff]

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Sanctuaries ?

....wow, what a great idea.
(and cloaking AMS', and a HART,....)
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[Eyeklops]

Originally Posted by Tharrak

they need to make something new, and call them "Sanctuaries", to make things more... transitional. Yep. Yep. ---

They will figure this out eventually, right now Smed is just being stubborn. After launch, when clans/outfits start screaming for a VR range, and a place to gather when conts are poplocked, they will realize what we knew to begin with, Sanctuaries are needed. "Footholds" are not a "Home"...a Sanc IS.

[MrBloodworth]

Taking bets on one continent being stuffed and two others being empty, due to the lack of a Lobby like area..called Sanctuaries.

Unless they are just going to drop people randomly on each.

[Sifer2]

Originally Posted by MrBloodworth

Taking bets on one continent being stuffed and two others being empty, due to the lack of a Lobby like area..called Sanctuaries.

Unless they are just going to drop people randomly on each.

I believe the game can already do that itself. When they added Esamir I remember hoping on quickly, and it dropped me right in the middle of Esamir instead of on Indar like most new characters. I guess Indar warpgate is the default but it has emergency load balancing to spawn people on others if needed.

[MrBloodworth]

That, will cause other issues all by itself.

[Littleman]

I'm under the impression it's 7 initial servers, +25 back up. That's about 192000 people. However, servers aren't loaded that way, normally they allow MORE people to sign in than are allowed for those "low pop" times, so I expect max capacity at 32 servers to be more around the 300,000-400,000 mark. Mind you, only 192,000 of them will get to play at any one moment. Despite being the first MMOFPS in a decade since gaming became acceptable as a casual hobby, I don't expect every server to be bursting at the seams right away.

Originally Posted by MrBloodworth

Taking bets on one continent being stuffed and two others being empty, due to the lack of a Lobby like area..called Sanctuaries.

Unless they are just going to drop people randomly on each.

Betting their systems will disperse people around depending on which is least packed/needs more of their empire on the continent.

...And they'll all be dropping from the skies in one big, glorious cluster-fuck. IT'S RAINING MEN! HALLELUJAH!

[Minor]

The best policy for a scary launch like this is simply to expect the unexpected.

I will be up at 9:45am in the morning, I got home made donuts, and come coffee.

Sit back, check it out, and if the queue gets really really bad, maybe pop some cash into membership for 1 month to check it out.

I'm not spending until I clearly see a need to be spending.

[Piper]

The danger is that people will make characters on very few servers, immediately blow their SC on said characters and then not wish to leave them and migrate.

Miller, for instance, will be packed with new characters because go time is prime time in the EU. Couple in that most of the established outfits want to call it home and won't be willing to move to new servers if/when they come up and er...

....just who is going to be leaving Miller to go elsewhere and hopefully ensure that the queues to the server eventually calm down.

12k immediate capacity for the entire EU, in prime time, bonkers. Just bonkers.

[infinite loop]

Originally Posted by Piper

The danger is that people will make characters on very few servers, immediately blow their SC on said characters and then not wish to leave them and migrate.

This is my biggest fear that I wonder if they have even considered. They will either need to allow free (or cheap) server transfers, or refund SC to people willing to switch servers. Losing your reserved name would also be a possible consequence of this playing out.