I would like faction based queues. If your realm has 30% Horde and 70% alliance, get horde accounts into a smaller queue. Dont reserve the spots, just put them at the front if they try to log in.
It could help faction imbalance on realms.
I guess it is a high technical problem though.
Do you have any arguments against layering except a strong unfavorable opinion of them?
As plenty of people have already said, classic was designed around having 4-5k players per realm. We now have 15k players and the same spawn time on limited resources, which has bizarre side effects like black lotuses costing 150g on some realms where in vanilla they used to be 30-40g during BWL…
If layering can remove queues and increase supply of rare mats I’m all for it… plus if the realms are boosted to 20k to 25k populations you probably won’t be able to tell that layering is back on because the world will feel just as full as it has been in the last couple of weeks.
Funny thing about this is those people are dog piling cuz “dead realms”. Realms that by Vanilla standards were lively thriving communities.
Does the layering technology allow for it to be scheduled/turned on for a specific amount of hours? If it does, then only add 1 layer during peak queue times and then immediately turn it off once the peak has gone. This way you can strike somewhat of a balance between the ‘quality of life’ and the ‘nochanges’ crowds (until a better solution can be thought of/implemented).