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Overflow server: awesome idea, horrible execution

LakytusLakytus Member Posts: 59
in Guild Wars 2

The overflow server is great, you can play until your server has a spot.  That is until you try to group.

I'm on the server, friend is on overflow.  Now I enter the main city which is a different zone, and it resets and I go back into another overflow server.  So now we are both not on the main server.  Now I go back to the main area and I'm on a different overflow server again and my friend is on the main server.  We were both on for about 2 hours and we were never able to group.

The really need to make it that once you are on the main server, you never come off of it.  Everyone else will have to stay on the overflow until they can get on.  Constantly going back back and forth to an overflow server after switching zones seems kind of dumb, unless I am doing it all wrong.

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  • adam_noxadam_nox Member UncommonPosts: 2,148
    Originally posted by Lakytus

    The overflow server is great, you can play until your server has a spot.  That is until you try to group.

    I'm on the server, friend is on overflow.  Now I enter the main city which is a different zone, and it resets and I go back into another overflow server.  So now we are both not on the main server.  Now I go back to the main area and I'm on a different overflow server again and my friend is on the main server.  We were both on for about 2 hours and we were never able to group.

    The really need to make it that once you are on the main server, you never come off of it.  Everyone else will have to stay on the overflow until they can get on.  Constantly going back back and forth to an overflow server after switching zones seems kind of dumb, unless I am doing it all wrong.

    they want to be able to control the load on a per zone basis apparently.

    there's really no excuse for not being able to join the same overflow as a friend though.

  • MeowheadMeowhead Member UncommonPosts: 3,716

    The thing is, it couldn't work that way.

    If there's 500 people in one zone on the main server, and 500 people on another zone on the main server, and they all decide to go to zone 3 with 500 people, you can't have 1500 people there.  Each zone has overflow queued seperately.

    ... and USUALLY this works, the last couple BWEs and the stress tests, joining friends in overflow wasn't a problem.  Not sure what broke.  Too many people?  No idea. :D

  • AzureProwerAzurePrower Member UncommonPosts: 1,550

    Originally posted by Meowhead
    The thing is, it couldn't work that way.If there's 500 people in one zone on the main server, and 500 people on another zone on the main server, and they all decide to go to zone 3 with 500 people, you can't have 1500 people there.  Each zone has overflow queued seperately.... and USUALLY this works, the last couple BWEs and the stress tests, joining friends in overflow wasn't a problem.  Not sure what broke.  Too many people?  No idea. :D

    I couldn't join up with friends in stress tests whilst we were separated in overflow. Not sure what you're talking about.

    It always gave the network error.

    -Azure Prower
    http://www.youtube.com/AzurePrower

  • MeowheadMeowhead Member UncommonPosts: 3,716
    Originally posted by AzurePrower

     

    I couldn't join up with friends in stress tests whilst we were separated in overflow. Not sure what you're talking about.

    It always gave the network error.

     Really?  I never had that problem before.  Was that in the two most recent stress tests?  I missed those ones.  Actually, maybe missed the last three or something.  I hit the earlier ones.

    It was fairly common for my friends and I to join up then pop into each other's overflow.

  • saluksaluk Member Posts: 325

    Agree, this could be done better. With all the zone hopping that happens, instances for story etc, it should keep a spot for you in the main server once you get in. At least for a little while. And for the first hour me and my friends were all in different overflows and couldn't group; but later on after running a story together and popping out into an overflow it kept us together. Kind of strange. If they fix these two problems (at least stay in group when in overflow, and not kicking you out of main server the instant you zone) then it will be pretty good I think. But right now this is pretty bad.

  • thekid1thekid1 Member UncommonPosts: 789

    So even though you are on the main server when you change zones you could end up playing in the overflow server and have to que again for the main server?

     

     

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