Server cap?
By
CatAstrophy,
Posted on: 2010-08-16 13:44 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
If you're seeing 50 people villainside (who aren't hidden), chances are there's quite a few more blueside. Not to mention everyone who just rolled a praetorian...
I was seeing 50 people on every side today on search.
Is 50 max number showing? Can bet there were more then 50 people in Praetoria and on heroes.
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Lots of people are set hidden. If you see 50 on search, there's probably 2-3 times that easy.
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Originally Posted by CatAstrophy
I was seeing 50 people on every side today on search.
Is 50 max number showing? Can bet there were more then 50 people in Praetoria and on heroes. |
The search window doesn't return more than 50 at a time and no longer says 'list truncated'. If you see a result of 50, its more likely to be more than 50.
If you search by AT and then subdivide that by Origin, you can break up the numbers into chunks smaller than 50 for a true picture of how many are on the server.
Last night as Virtue's server load indicator was going from Pink to Red, there were:
480 Heroes
289 Villains
707 Praetorians
1,476 unhidden total.
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So are we thinking about 1600 or 1700 limit?
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If he counted nearly 1500 unhidden, I'd bet the cap is around 2000. Assuming it's a nice, round number, of course. |
Originally Posted by Mr_Zek
So are we thinking about 1600 or 1700 limit?
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Any idea why the developers changed this method of reporting numbers? I used to be able to do a /search twice, once on one side (red) and once on another (blue) and get the total number of players on a given server at one time. I was just finding it very difficult to believe we were capping out so many of the servers even at the launch of a new expansion.
I was under a sneaky suspicion that they were artificially inflating the numbers (on the log in screens) to appear to have a larger surge than we were normally used to. For instance I know freedom would usually have about 1000 people on (both sides combined) and it wouldn't even go to 2 bubbles at the log in screen...anyone else seeing these discrepancies?
The reason they did this is so you can do a deeper search. Before you could search and that first screen of the list was all you would get. Anybody who may have been on that list further down would never be picked up in any search unless you narrowed down the search pattern by level, archetype, or zone. With the ability of teams to form across any levels thanks to SSK that form of searching just didn't make sense.
Now when you search it takes the first fifty in the list. Then when you hit the search button again it takes the next 50, then the next, and so on. You can actually see every one of those characters who before was just an unlisted statistic called "list truncated". You can still count how many people are on who are not hidden. Just hit search again and again. Each time will be a new 50 character chunk until the last one which can be anywhere between 1 and 50.
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The server cap seems to have been set very low, I'm taking a guess at 50 people per side as when I got on after queueing, search never turned up more than 50 people villanside.
I hope this is a mistake.