(09-03-2013, 02:24 PM)lady2beetle Wrote: So, I had wondered about this until someone actually explained it on skype last night. The problem with server capacity, apparently, is that the duty servers are actually the ones causing the problem. So they've put a cap on all the servers to keep the people using the duty servers to a manageable level. Once they upgrade the duty servers, they'll be able to use the regular servers to the capacity that they were built for - which is a lot higher than they are current set at.
This was my thought as well, based on SE statements and my own personal experience in large distributed systems (I don't just do management
). The seemingly random behavior of the 1017 error seems to indicate an external system -- most likely the duty finder/instance system, and possibly the lobby system, both of which experienced capacity issues in beta -- is the source of the problem, not the world server cluster itself. When this other system fills up, it just blocks new connections to worlds it serves to save itself from crashing. The worlds can fill up (which gets you the queue), but when this critical external dependency is full, you just get booted.That said, I wouldn't expect the character creation lock to be lifted immediately. The addition of the new worlds in new duty finder groups will most likely mean they won't remove the restriction for a while in the hopes that they can push the load off to the new hardware.
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