Faerlina Full at 2:30 PM, Sigh

[Holycow-uldaman]

@Brother-deviate-delight

Say the cap is 30k for a server, that would be insane if there were that many people in one place, so Blizzard spreads them across 10 different versions of Azeroth so you can actually quest without 15000 other people trying to kill the same bears.

The server population cap remains the same.

If the server population cap remains the same, why do the queues explode when they turn off layering?

@Kaivax

Raising realm caps would simply forestall the problem, letting more players in at launch but creating an unsustainable situation down the line, with severe queues when we turn off layering permanently before Phase 2 of our content unlock plan.

Is it possible that they also reduce the server population cap when they remove layers? Maybe there’s some sort of connection between the two?