Overpopulated Servers

[Cecil118]

I talked to Caedmon for about an hour (he sent me to jail, but i requested that) arguing the point about population of some of the servers. Hes some of the conversation, didnt get the full thing:









Please, if you do wish to share it with other boards, keep my name, and redrum.aborman.com (ls website) posted. Feel free to argue away.

Added: I think me and Caedmon will be good buddys, lol. And, about taking are requests and doing events, i even said a lot of us hated events like the gigantoad @_@

[DJplaeskool]

"The servers haven't met their halfway mark for what they are able to hold player wise"

NOW I'm scared...
everything is so inundated with people...and we're not even at the half way point...

[Cecil118]

Exactly what i feared too heh. Check out the confirmation of the expansion with lower level zones heheh :D

[John Doe III]

Originally posted by DJplaeskool


NOW I'm scared...
everything is so inundated with people...and we're not even at the half way point...

Just when I thought my game was choppy becuse of the server population (aka lag)..............

[Rico]

Poor Ragnarok .

[Chapel]

Heh, the screenshots taken were about Midgard. THis weekend i think we had at one point over 4600 People online at once. Thats just crazy and we're a relatively new server too. The constant people search/AH search failures and 1k+ recieve in any of the popular leveling spots really make it hard for someone to enjoy their playtime recently.

[l)@RK-l)EVIL]

i use
/sea all
before long time

there was +5000 in ragnarok

[no1_Cloud]

its kinda funny when you search valkurm and find 200+ ppl there.

[Cecil118]

Yea, that was midgardsormr, and I played on ragnarok last year before the US Version came out and thought it was crowded....

[Talonus]

Personally, I don't think its that overcrowded. I'm guessing that he meant hardware-wise the servers can handle more people, which is semi-debatable.

The major problem is that everyone tends to go to the same places, leaving some zones unused. People whore themselves out in Valkurm, but other same level zones go unused. If all of these zones were crowded, then you could say the server is uncrowded, but this is not happening at all.

[Mithrael]

290 people in Valkurm Dunes on Saturday evening. 18 people in Buburimu (all farmers or people soling with /anon). Better utilization of the zones is definitely in order, but S-E can't force you to go somewhere else.

Only real solution I see is to impose limits on the number of similar level people in one area. i.e. in Valkurm, there can be no more than 40 people lv.17-21, and no more than 40 people lv.14-17. In Qufim, no more than 40 people lv.19-25, and no more than 40 people lv.27-30. But all that would do is generate a lot of aggrivation too, so not sure where they can go to fix this :/

[Rekiem]

If you have lag in FFXI, theres two reason, either you have a bad connection or theres many people fighting near you (like 3+ Party). The problem is not the servers, its how each zone is handled. A leveling area shouldn't have more than 36 people in it to insure that no one has lag or lower perfomance. Its very easy to do this and Im suprised that FFXI hasn't done this yet. Basicaly the server create a "clone" of the zone that is currently overcrowded. That area is exactly the same but theres no player in it when its created and once the original zone reach its maximum amount of player, the "clone" is opened and players are able to join a new fresh zone free of lag and plenty of monsters to kill. They could put some requirement in it so the people you are partying with will access the new zone and all sort of things like this to prevent that your not in the right zone or your party is not all scattered in different area. I've seen MMORPG using this and its great because it prevent the areas to be overcrowded. Its a goos system as long as its well handled and people are able to be in the right zone.

Long story short, the problem is not the server but how each zone is handled.

BTW, your pic are way too huge, this thread is unreadable because they ruin the size.

[tongyang]

I can just imagine now.

You just got killed by some Wight trains in qufim. Was really crowded at that time. No one is willing to raise you, so you decided to call a WHM in your LS to help.

That WHM enters qufim, and a "clone" qufim zone appears! So you end up going back to home point instead

[Razz]

Sorry I didn't get that

But yeah, I don't put up my PT flag up much during busy times because I know I won't enjoy levelling in an area with 3-4 PTs there.

The solution: Expansion with more levelling spots for ALL level ranges.

[Celeras]

Clone the area? Rofl, are you kidding me? That'd be just like players playing on a different server. Besides tong's example, what about NM's? What if you want to meet someone somewhere?

"Alternate realitys"... worst idea ever:dead: