I'm staying logged in all dayFollow

I read this right, and then my mind went right to the gutter.
Both seem to be the correct and always answer, to the question that was not asked.

I don't get all the hububb... I don't have any waits logging in :\ Never have.

I'm pretty sure I remember reading in one of the Yoshi P comments that they're adding in infrastructure not only for extra worlds, but for the servers to handle more connections, period. For example, the cross-server Duty Finder simply couldn't handle the number of requests hammering it - they had two servers dedicated to it and split the DF applicants into two pools, but now they're going to split them into more. This was one of the stability issues that caused the 90000 error and problems with instances. Adding in more Duty Finder servers will allow them to increase the capacity of people across all worlds as well as individual worlds, both new and existing.

I'm also guessing that some of the additional hardware mentioned is the networking guts for each of the data centers, which simply couldn't handle 100,000 simultaneous users. They're likely having to go from the standard data center infrastructure which can handle spikes of 10.000 users at once before they choke, on to ISP grade switches and routers which can handle many more.

I'm officially a software analyst and not a hardware analyst, but my understanding is that the world capacity limit was put in place not because the world couldn't hold any more characters, but because the world was unstable past a certain point. They've slowly adjusted the numbers (from a hard cap of 180,000 to 218,000 as of the last letter) because they're proceeding cautiously and don't quite know where the breaking point is.

Edited, Aug 30th 2013 2:24pm by Catwho

For one SE has never had free server transfers afaik. They already stated server transfers will cost $ (likely 20 dollars). That alone will turn many off from leaving a crowded server. Second people have already found FC'c, LS's, and made friends on their server so that alone also will hamper that effort. Thirdly what about legacy servers? Those are the most crowded because SE in its wisdom decided to have them open to new players as well, so people rushed onto the four NA legacy servers (which seem to be the most crowded.)

If you can imagine the operators from the 1940's where you had this person plugging your call to the right port manually. Now we do this with hardware using switches. The switches and routers handle the users coming in from the outside(our ISP's) and routes them to the game lobby >> your server. The problem with FFXIV is two fold. The capacity itself is not enough to support over 5,000 people without the risk of crashing. The switching(operator) can't log in enough people at once(hence the que/ login error codes). So SE is expanding capacity of both to handle the influx of people. Once this is done, new people will be able to log on closed worlds.

Yoshi has admitted this capacity upgrade will take place in all regions. It's supposed to be upgraded within a week or so. The hard part isn't the cost, but the programming aspect which takes time. In order for the new hardware to talk to the old hardware, they must sync them up. The QoS differs as does load balance. SE underestimated according to Yoshi how many people would be logging in this game at launch. That's why the hardware wasn't ready for this influx of people. The good news is the equipment and network topology must be done otherwise we wouldn't of heard about it. I'd say 1 week minimum.. max 2 weeks until everything is fixed. That's unless we have more problems, but I really doubt it. The servers are stable as long as we weren't maxing them past capacity.

Thats a lot of "ifs"

Interesting you start out disputing me then end up agreeing. So lets agree its a crap shoot on all that

Maybe they hit that point today when it kicked everyone off and it took me a very unusual 40 minutes to log in pre-noon.

Isnt it a little late for that? Most people arent going to go jumping to a new server (like legacy players who are locked into their server for the forseeable future). Rather than new worlds which would likely be underpopulated how about they improve the existing servers so they can hold more players. I mean what mmo these days in 2013 cant hold more than 5000? Legacy players kind of got the short end of the stick here, we cant leave but SE decided it was ok to let new characters in on the legacy servers, which in turn prevents legacy players from playing on their own server.

Oh yes people who stay logged in to games, yet give to charity in real life are the reason the country has "fallen so low."

wtf does that even mean "Fallen so low"? Did you hear that on TV? Last I check you're chatting on a video game forum and that's your biggest concern in life... try living somewhere where people have real **** to deal with. Get over yourself douche.

One of the constant complains in XI was regarding the latency difference between JP servers and NA servers. For 99% of things you do, the extra latency doesn't matter. However, for an HNM that has a 3 hour window every 24 hours and will be claimed the instant it appears to someone's screen, the extra 100 miliseconds between the JP and NA player felt like the JP players had an unfair advantage.

I think this was proven untrue during the advent of the "NASA Bot" in XI, which cost an HNM group $3,000 but set up an intermediary packet sniffer between them and the servers to give them the command to provoke or flash an HNM before it even spawned on the screen (since the spawning process would take a full second before it was targetable.) With the NASA bot, the non-JP HNMs were able to beat out everyone, regardless of where they lived. If latency was really such a huge issue in XI, then the NASA bot's half a second advantage would be no advantage at all.