Just back up Unnamed on this. Â Hi, I'm an enterprise software architect. Â My job is to design the parts that run on the sort of stuff Unnamed is watching.
There are ways where one could conceivably load-balance the game better then it currently is but you might end up with a solution where you have the old 'instanced areas' we had in HW launch constantly. (read: the death knell of open world RP) or you'll end up with queues to enter zones.Â
In either case to do it well would probably require a general retooling of FFXIV's server architecture all around. There is a misconception that you can just throw more server resources at a problem, but people who believe that don't really understand the perils/difficulty of parallelism and multi-threading. Â If you really want to know more, go look for the articles CCP has published on this issue for EvE Online and why the core of that game runs single threaded. Â It's something that generally effects almost all 'Massively Multiplayer' online games. Â
Back to the original topic of 'should' or 'should not' try and consolidate everyone.Â
Really, Balmung isn't what -everyone- wants. Â Some people want that 'small town' feel where everyone matters. Â You're never going to find that on Balmung, ever. Â Balmung is like strolling into New Orleans. Â Generally full of good southern hospitality but you're just this person in a sea of people. Â If you want that small town tight knit community, that's not Balmung. Â You may find some within Balmung, yes, but that's not the server as a whole.
I think if people want to find that more cozy, intimate community in small groups instead of massive RP hubs, don't discourage them. Â Both can survive on their own.
What happens with the server lock, we won't know until it happens or doesn't. Â There's no real use bickering about if's. Â We just go back and forth over "What if they do?" Â "Well, what if they don't?" Â That horse is thoroughly living up to the name "old glue" at this point. Â Same thing for if badgering SE to get an RP server designation will provide results. Â "They might!" "They probably won't!" Â Â
You get a lot of bandwagoning both ways on a bunch of assumptions of outcomes here and both sides just feed each other because they have to be 'more right' or some such. Â I don't really get it.
In the end, Sig, If you want to badger SE about an RP designation, just do it. Â Get a petition going or some such, contact the community managers. Â Maybe sneak it into a live letter question or two. Â Ask for other people to slap their names on it. Â Some will, some won't.
There are ways where one could conceivably load-balance the game better then it currently is but you might end up with a solution where you have the old 'instanced areas' we had in HW launch constantly. (read: the death knell of open world RP) or you'll end up with queues to enter zones.Â
In either case to do it well would probably require a general retooling of FFXIV's server architecture all around. There is a misconception that you can just throw more server resources at a problem, but people who believe that don't really understand the perils/difficulty of parallelism and multi-threading. Â If you really want to know more, go look for the articles CCP has published on this issue for EvE Online and why the core of that game runs single threaded. Â It's something that generally effects almost all 'Massively Multiplayer' online games. Â
Back to the original topic of 'should' or 'should not' try and consolidate everyone.Â
Really, Balmung isn't what -everyone- wants. Â Some people want that 'small town' feel where everyone matters. Â You're never going to find that on Balmung, ever. Â Balmung is like strolling into New Orleans. Â Generally full of good southern hospitality but you're just this person in a sea of people. Â If you want that small town tight knit community, that's not Balmung. Â You may find some within Balmung, yes, but that's not the server as a whole.
I think if people want to find that more cozy, intimate community in small groups instead of massive RP hubs, don't discourage them. Â Both can survive on their own.
What happens with the server lock, we won't know until it happens or doesn't. Â There's no real use bickering about if's. Â We just go back and forth over "What if they do?" Â "Well, what if they don't?" Â That horse is thoroughly living up to the name "old glue" at this point. Â Same thing for if badgering SE to get an RP server designation will provide results. Â "They might!" "They probably won't!" Â Â
You get a lot of bandwagoning both ways on a bunch of assumptions of outcomes here and both sides just feed each other because they have to be 'more right' or some such. Â I don't really get it.
In the end, Sig, If you want to badger SE about an RP designation, just do it. Â Get a petition going or some such, contact the community managers. Â Maybe sneak it into a live letter question or two. Â Ask for other people to slap their names on it. Â Some will, some won't.
