Seriously - WTH, Faeblight?!

[NegativeZero]

I think the key thing to differentiate is your personal framerate, your ping, and then there is server load cased GCD lag. The first two are per person, but on busy nights I notice the GCD lag, the whole raid suffers from it and there is nothing that can be done beside lower the population or increase the hardware. Hitting your interrupt, having it go on cooldown and the ability you were trying to stop STILL goes off is just damn annoying.

[Yaptap]

The new world event isn't helping with the congestion either.

[Cersae]

I'd venture to say a big reason to not lock Faeblight is that it will hurt raiding guilds that recruit from the Travel Hub. Many of these guilds would lose an important source of recruits, and would either have to limp along without it, or transfer off -- and I doubt that's something people who love the shard would want to do

[laughingskull]

Trion really just needs to update the server to run smoother with the large amount of players it has coming in. They cant really lock it because it is now the only RP North America shard. If they can get the shard running lag free(ish) when there is max population on the shard, everything should be fine. Sure there may be a queue, but if you dont want to wait for it just plan for the queue and log on earlier. If you cant, well then i am sorry, but thats life.

[Scormus]

They have closed other servers to transfers before they reached the point that Faeblight has- I assume they learned their lesson with Wolfsbane. Why they keep Faeblight open when it is bursting at the seams is beyond me.

There are more PvE servers besides Wolfsbane, thus people who can't transfer to that server have other choices. Trion has closed all other NA PvE-RP servers except for Faeblight, so they can't close Faeblight to transfers without upsetting potential RPers wanting to transfer to an RP server. The only option aside from that would be to open a new RP server, then close Faeblight to transfers, but that seems unlikely at this point (or they would have done it by now).

I agree something needs to be done, but it seems that Trion is waiting to see if the lag and queues get some major guilds to transfer off of Faeblight, solving the problem for them. It sucks, but that's just the way it is.

[Maeloda]

There are more PvE servers besides Wolfsbane, thus people who can't transfer to that server have other choices. Trion has closed all other NA PvE-RP servers except for Faeblight, so they can't close Faeblight to transfers without upsetting potential RPers wanting to transfer to an RP server. The only option aside from that would be to open a new RP server, then close Faeblight to transfers, but that seems unlikely at this point (or they would have done it by now).

I agree something needs to be done, but it seems that Trion is waiting to see if the lag and queues get some major guilds to transfer off of Faeblight, solving the problem for them. It sucks, but that's just the way it is.

I have the feeling that this is what they're doing, but I don't like it.

I think that if the 'overflow server' idea of GW2 is successful, we can look to other MMOs feeling they should adopt it as well. I'd like to at least have the option to quest around on an overflow server instead of waiting up to 20 minutes to get in my home server.

[Scormus]

I have the feeling that this is what they're doing, but I don't like it.

I think that if the 'overflow server' idea of GW2 is successful, we can look to other MMOs feeling they should adopt it as well. I'd like to at least have the option to quest around on an overflow server instead of waiting up to 20 minutes to get in my home server.

Indeed.

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[Aguni]

I'd venture to say a big reason to not lock Faeblight is that it will hurt raiding guilds that recruit from the Travel Hub. Many of these guilds would lose an important source of recruits, and would either have to limp along without it, or transfer off -- and I doubt that's something people who love the shard would want to do

Understandable but when their recruits are stuck ina waiting queue for 30-40 minutes that is bound to create some stress.