So, you’re advocating putting a 5k population cap back on the servers with a now 8k regular playing population - therefore guaranteeing every day queues.
Keep in mind that right now that server has population of say - 32k that’s sustainable only by layering.
What? Server cap is like 10 or 12k from last I heard. But I hear what you mean though. Might be a queue anyway. I think they really should just lock servers once they reach cap and when the drop off happens open them up. Not a business wise move but a technical answer IMO.
I"m just pulling numbers out of the air, I have no idea what the reality is. BUT if you’re correct, then that actually makes it worse, since even if there’s only single-digit layering, and say they have six layers, that means we have 50-60k people on a server that can only realistically service 10k.
Which means if they collapse the layers, we have either 50k queues, or 50k people all sitting in each other’s laps.
But geez, it’s only been 12 days. There will be a lot of people who will leave, their playtime will drop from two hours a day to two hours a week, other things will come up. Population will drop.
As to whether it will drop enough to allow a server that now has 5x the population it can support to work with one layer … who knows. Blizz doesn’t.
Only we’ve already got people on the forums whining about “I moved from Herod to this other server and now there’s no one to play with, and Blizz wont’ let me move back.”
People on the forums shouldn’t be allowed to post.
My RL friend wanted to move to felstriker from argul so i did. then he changed his mind cause he was told the servers dead.[/quote]
sounds like this is your friends fault and not blizzards that you cant play with them. sorry brother but you were warned before hand that the transfer is not reversible.
So, your friend changed their mind, but you had already went ahead with the switch. Well, now you are sadly stuck sucks your friend did the ole switch a roo on ya like that.
Translating your sentence is difficult, but I think you said what I said, so I’m not sure why “that’s not how it works.”
The realm population cap is set to - say - 8k. The server can actually handle say - 50k. So we make 6 layers and allow 48k people to log into the server. The layers keep us from seeing any more than 8k at a time.
If you were to remove layering from the server without either a population drop OR a queue, the population - all 48k of them - would be on a single layer. Which would be unsustainable due to resource conflicts.