Curse

dilan155 · Sep 13, 2008, 04:05 PM // 16:05

i think they need to come up with a completely new weekend instead of recycling old ones, not that its bad just boring. maybe something like change your appearance weekend or something. as for this weekend i still doubt enough players are gonna play to have a couple of consistent games.

Traveller · Sep 13, 2008, 04:25 PM // 16:25

I enjoy playing at Aspenwood a lot. During these kinds of weekends, there's bound to be a lot of people who aren't familiar with the game mechanic, but I don't really mind if they are willing to ask and learn. You see all kinds of weird builds there and generally can't prepare for everything, but I still enjoy it - pretty much all I do these days is either FA/AB.

I've tried Jade Quarry occasionally too, since I can actually get a game there now, but it just doesn't seem as fun to me.

rohara · Sep 13, 2008, 04:33 PM // 16:33

i like the double faction in comp missions because i like playing at FA a lot, but the usual rewards are so uh...unrewarding. 10 minutes for 800 faction, nice joke! these missions really need to be put on par with AB matches. sometimes i want to have fun in AB, sometimes FA...but when i spend time in FA i just feel like i'm screwing up my time/faction ratio.

Victorious · Sep 13, 2008, 05:01 PM // 17:01

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Originally Posted by Mr. Undisclosed

Eww, can we get a good weekend event plz?

Best weekend ever. Cmon' now.

Tearz1993 · Sep 13, 2008, 05:17 PM // 17:17

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Originally Posted by HawkofStorms

Look at RA or GvG. 100s of games are happening at any given point of time. You really think A.net can't handle more then 3-5 AB games at once?

RA maybe but thinking that GvG is active is being delusional.

Martin Alvito · Sep 13, 2008, 06:14 PM // 18:14

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Originally Posted by HawkofStorms

I completely disagree Martin. I've entered Aspenwood every time but once on the very first timer. And only one time I had to wait 2 timers (oh know a whole 1 miniute).

I was joining matches from the Luxon side - 2 full districts in FA and no matches? Are you claiming that the Kurzick side was a ghost town by comparison...during American hours? That seems to defy the distribution of players on American servers.

It seemed to settle down somewhat later in the evening (2-4 timers with the odd instajoin following a match), but the lag picked up and I logged prior to your post.

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Originally Posted by HawkofStorms

It is not a.net server space that limits AB or FA games. It is player numbers.
Look at RA or GvG. 100s of games are happening at any given point of time. You really think A.net can't handle more then 3-5 AB games at once?

Do you think ANet overspends on capacity such that they have an effectively unlimited number of servers to handle player load? The lag last night tends to disconfirm that notion.

They've got to allocate resources somehow, and the more heavily trafficked ones (GvG, RA, HB) are going to get the resources first. Clearly HA, AB, FA and TA are further down the list. CAN Anet handle the matches in principle? Sure. DO the areas in question get the servers? Not necessarily; depends on how the servers are told to allocate resources at the time.

DutchSmurf · Sep 13, 2008, 10:36 PM // 22:36

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Originally Posted by Martin Alvito

I was joining matches from the Luxon side - 2 full districts in FA and no matches? Are you claiming that the Kurzick side was a ghost town by comparison...during American hours? That seems to defy the distribution of players on American servers.

It might have been the Kurzick side being empty. Also it might have been that those 2 districts hardly had any people joining. All far more likely then a theory about servers we have no idea about.