(08-28-2013, 09:37 AM)lady2beetle Wrote: Here's my question - what about the queue?
One way to minimize 1017 issues would be to increase the maximum queue size. I would be happy to log in and get at the end of the queue, even if it meant I was #1000 or something. Because then I'd know I could go do something else, not spam "log in" buttoms and maybe go have dinner and then come back. It also means that it's not a race to click 'log in' at the exact right time. I'd know then that I'd get in when it is my turn.
However, I assume that putting people in a queue means that you have to have a server devoted to that right? I'm not really sure how queues work but I assume there's a devoted "queue server" and that is also very small because they didn't expect to have this many people queued up at once?
(As an aside, I'm not saying that I want to log in to #1000 in the queue every day, but it would be an acceptable bandaid until they have a chance to upgrade their servers next week.)
You more or less answered your own question there. Having a queue will just fill up the lobby server full of people trying to get it and it will crash and have errors so you are really just moving the same problem from one server to the other. Unfortunately they don't have a great solution right now but any solution that lets more players into one server will just cause all the same problems we had on day one when tons of people flooded the servers.
