Queue system added to the servers yay!
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Posted on: 2009-10-01 14:59 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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First Car Crash Pugs, then meeting old friends. I am going to enjoy this Dxp weekend |
Originally Posted by Carnifax
In all fairness the best time to play on Union or Defiant IS double XP weekend. Simply because of the fact that a lot of people on your Global list whom you haven't seen in ages should be back for it, your SG will be fairly full and the global channels will be hopping (hopefully).
Whereas if you visit the US servers chances are you'll be an anonymous face in the crowd. Plus, if you pick Freedom chances are you'll experience the awesome that is the Freedom Car Crash PuG. I'm looking forward to seeing some old faces show up next weekend! |
You've got to be kidding me. Server queues? Sorry, the moment I see that I'm queued to log on to a server for a game that I pay $30 a month for (two accounts), I'm gone. I have never played a MMOG with queued log ons, and I'm not about to start. And no, I don't play on Freedom, nor Virtue.
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Originally Posted by Celestial_Lord
You've got to be kidding me. Server queues? Sorry, the moment I see that I'm queued to log on to a server for a game that I pay $30 a month for (two accounts), I'm gone. I have never played a MMOG with queued log ons, and I'm not about to start. And no, I don't play on Freedom, nor Virtue.
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Then you shouldn't have an issue. This is for servers that are FULL and for people that want to wait in line to play on those FULL servers. It's not like they'll make you wait there for no reason like an exclusive night club.
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Thus far we've seen three options to deal with heavy load on the Big servers.|
Originally Posted by Celestial_Lord
You've got to be kidding me. Server queues? Sorry, the moment I see that I'm queued to log on to a server for a game that I pay $30 a month for (two accounts), I'm gone. I have never played a MMOG with queued log ons, and I'm not about to start. And no, I don't play on Freedom, nor Virtue.
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1) The server queue for when they fill up
2) Before the queue, when servers got to a certain population, they just stopped letting folks in. Period. Now it was only at times when there were as many people actually online as the server could hold, and the moment someone logged out someone else would be let in, but it still caused a number of complaints.
3) Before the population caps were put in place, folks would just continue to pile on those two servers until it was enough to cause them to crash, meaning NO ONE could play on them AT ALL. Usually followed by the folks that just got kicked off their server to log into a different one, maxing out THAT server and causing it to crash. This would continue until all servers were down and no one could play the game at all.
Of those three options, which would you pick?
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Originally Posted by M_I_Abrahms
Thus far we've seen three options to deal with heavy load on the Big servers.
1) The server queue for when they fill up 2) Before the queue, when servers got to a certain population, they just stopped letting folks in. Period. Now it was only at times when there were as many people actually online as the server could hold, and the moment someone logged out someone else would be let in, but it still caused a number of complaints. 3) Before the population caps were put in place, folks would just continue to pile on those two servers until it was enough to cause them to crash, meaning NO ONE could play on them AT ALL. Usually followed by the folks that just got kicked off their server to log into a different one, maxing out THAT server and causing it to crash. This would continue until all servers were down and no one could play the game at all. Of those three options, which would you pick? |
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Originally Posted by Westley
Then you shouldn't have an issue. This is for servers that are FULL and for people that want to wait in line to play on those FULL servers. It's not like they'll make you wait there for no reason like an exclusive night club.
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Double XP weekends aren't that bad. Freedom may hit a few moments of server lock.
What's coming up is a combination of Double XP AND REACTIVATION weekend. Now, *that* will cause Freedom and Virtue to lock down during peak play times... and that's where the queue comes in.
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Yes, the problem isn't the Double XP weekend. It isn't even the Reactivation Weekend. It's the lunacy of letting people on for free onto servers with a higher load than normal because of double xp.
Have a free reactivation weekend that isn't double xp. End of major problem. The queue becomes a rarely needed tool.
Edit: I have played on Virtue on a double XP weekend. I do know what it's like trying to log in - and to have it completely lock up my computer. Not getting in isn't even the worst of it, it's the client getting 'confused'.
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Originally Posted by Celestial_Lord
You've got to be kidding me. Server queues? Sorry, the moment I see that I'm queued to log on to a server for a game that I pay $30 a month for (two accounts), I'm gone. I have never played a MMOG with queued log ons, and I'm not about to start. And no, I don't play on Freedom, nor Virtue.
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* Not being able to log in at all
* waiting in a queue to log in
In that regard, it's not really that bad. Of course, I lived through the 2 hour WoW queues...
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Yes, I agree! The devs should, not now but right now, stop further development on this game and fix the European servers' issues.|
Originally Posted by rpgguy
You have got to be kidding me..
A queue system?! The european players are pledging for a server merge for months, ending up with less people on their servers each day, and ncsoft is just nicely implementing features on the american servers to deal with the load? This is getting so redicolous. |
Not now.
Right now.
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Originally Posted by UnSub
The server queues are being implemented ahead of CoH/V going into a single server with a full seamless world. The war walls are coming down, people.
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Originally Posted by Celestial_Lord
You've got to be kidding me. Server queues? Sorry, the moment I see that I'm queued to log on to a server for a game that I pay $30 a month for (two accounts), I'm gone. I have never played a MMOG with queued log ons, and I'm not about to start. And no, I don't play on Freedom, nor Virtue.
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Originally Posted by Steele_Magnolia
Yes, the problem isn't the Double XP weekend. It isn't even the Reactivation Weekend. It's the lunacy of letting people on for free onto servers with a higher load than normal because of double xp.
Have a free reactivation weekend that isn't double xp. End of major problem. The queue becomes a rarely needed tool. |
Yes, I know you know this. That was for the benefit of those who perhaps don't know the 'why' behind double xp and holiday events and/or don't know why the last double xp weekend wasn't as jam-packed as they had been previously (and thus automatically assumed 'the game is dieing[sic]' because they could actually log in to Freedom at 11am on Saturday morning).
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I've played on Virtue since CoV launched and can count on one hand the number of times I got locked out of Virtue due to excessive load.
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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Or, you know, so people stop whining about being locked out of Freedom and Virtue during every double experience weekend that ever was.
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Bahaha!
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Strange move for a game that's "dying"
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Originally Posted by UnSub
The server queues are being implemented ahead of CoH/V going into a single server with a full seamless world. The war walls are coming down, people.
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I remember one doofus that actually tried arguing that the only way to solve Freeedom's overpopulation problem would be to shut down the low pop servers.
/em rubs hands in glee
Insert maniacal laughter here.