(12-04-2015, 10:13 AM)missmizzy4 Wrote: In the news thread regarding being able to add characters it says "Due to congestion..." so that is why I am lead to believe it is due to well, congestion.Â
However, your points are valid and make sense. Maybe they are dealing with soliciting issues at the same time they have this going.Â
Either way, I do believe in outsourcing people that hinder the game play with ads. I guess I will have to just level up in Siren until I have the money to switch to Balmung like everyone else.Â
If there are no solicitors that makes it more worth it anyway. How bad are the quene lines though if I do switch over, and how good should my internet be to run smooth in it?
This is where we get into server design speculation about how SE implemented the server closings. We know that the server closes for character creation once a certain threshold of logged-in characters are present. But we also know that the number of logged in characters to close creation is nowhere near the maximum amount of characters who can be logged in and running around on the server.
There are a couple periods where we get some congestion, but that's generally due to either a vastly-larger-than-normal amount of players on a map (new patch content that everyone does at once that can actually generate an error where the particular zone doesn't allow anymore players on it) or due to a part of the network going to the server having issues. (A lot of people complain about Level-3's border router from the US to Canada having issues. Gaming VPNs like WTFast or Pingzapper help out here).
If you were to transfer to Balmung, you'd get a small delay when logging in, but that's about it. There's a login queue system in place so that the main server doesn't crash if an extremely large amount of people all try to connect at once. (Instead, the poor lobby server goes down). Depending on when though, you'll likely only see it during North America's awake primetime.
