(01-09-2015, 11:26 AM)Warren Castille Wrote: The egregiously bad period was just after launch, when servers were not only unstable but there wasn't a queue system in place. You'd try to log in and just get "Game is full. Close? Y/Y" and then you were back at character select.Well, there WAS a queue system, it was just a trial to get to that point. Once you hit the queue you were basically golden, but good luck getting there, especially during peak hours. Your only choice was to sit and spam character select until you finally hit the queue, if you got lucky. Then of course, there were the select few that realized you could make a macro to have your computer spam NumPad 0 over and over and simulate the log-in process... Set up macro. Go make coffee. Welcome to Eorzea.
But then the automatic log-out timers came, and the problem died down. Although I do have to wonder why they got rid of the timers at all, especially for higher population servers. Seems like they would still serve a purpose. I don't do alts so I haven't tried making another character on Balmung since beta, but I imagine just after maintenance would be the only chance these days, considering how many people I see afk for fucking days on end.
