Mmmhmm I think they removed the auto-log around Spring? Early spring? I was after I joined RPC and had already spent more than just a few months in the game. I think it was -just- after the dances were put in (manderville for example).
People locked onto NPCs, the summoning bell, the diary etc.
Queues back then used to be 103097 or -60482 etc. The numbers were random. And the queues were longer than the <2 min queue times I have now.
Other than the character creation that has gotten harder, the queues to log in have become much better in my opinion. The problem is: Balmung is a very populated server. As time goes on, the popular servers are going to hit max capacity. Is this it? Maybe? More and more people join or create alts. If I were Square, my thoughts wouldn't be 'gosh I should make that one filled up server open more." It'd be "Go create a fun community on the servers we made that aren't having issues."
Is that a good idea? IMO no. But it's devoting less of my time on a more... trivial factor when I could be devoting my resources to the expansion etc.
People locked onto NPCs, the summoning bell, the diary etc.
Queues back then used to be 103097 or -60482 etc. The numbers were random. And the queues were longer than the <2 min queue times I have now.
Other than the character creation that has gotten harder, the queues to log in have become much better in my opinion. The problem is: Balmung is a very populated server. As time goes on, the popular servers are going to hit max capacity. Is this it? Maybe? More and more people join or create alts. If I were Square, my thoughts wouldn't be 'gosh I should make that one filled up server open more." It'd be "Go create a fun community on the servers we made that aren't having issues."
Is that a good idea? IMO no. But it's devoting less of my time on a more... trivial factor when I could be devoting my resources to the expansion etc.
