The plan for the next week is now set for ArcheAge. On the overcrowded server Kyprosa, no new characters can soon be created, new servers for Europe are on the way, and inquiries have also been made in Korea regarding server transfers.
Surge ten times greater than expected
The queues at the fresh sandpark MMO ArcheAge are still large. ArcheAge used the values from the beta as a reason to conclude the interest of players at launch.
Thus, they provided enough servers and then a few in reserve. However, the surge was ten times greater than expected, as Community Manager Scapes states in the official forum. And the reserve servers had to be brought online soon.
ArcheAge and the sleeping jury
The queues are due not only to the surge but also to tricks that allow players to stay on the servers even when they are not at the computer. This way, they avoid the AFK check, bypass queues that occur when relogging, and also increase their labor point regeneration. This leads to some absurd situations like this sleeping jury, as can be seen in a screenshot posted on reddit:
In the ArcheAge forum and also on reddit, accusations against Trion Worlds are increasing, stating that they left some loopholes open, allowing players to remain logged in indefinitely even if they had not been active for hours.
These loopholes include, for example, sitting AFK in a courtroom or hitting a training dummy for hours.
As a comment on reddit states: “People have known all the dirty tricks since Korea and every single one still works here.” Some therefore demand to increase labor point regeneration even when players are offline to at least curb this incentive.
This is what Trion Worlds plans to do next week
Trion Worlds wants to solve the issues with long queues primarily through three measures:
- More European servers are to be introduced next week. North America has already received two new servers, Europe needs a bit longer, as the hardware for the servers has to go through customs first.
- When the new servers arrive, the creation of new characters will no longer be possible on the largest server Kyprosa, which has a higher capacity than the rest. Trion Worlds reserves the right to prohibit character creation on other European servers as well. In the USA, such a ban already applies to four worlds.
- At XLGames, the Korean developer, inquiries have also been made about whether a type of server transfer can be offered. Currently, Trion Worlds cannot do that yet. If this service comes that allows players to move from overcrowded servers to new or low-populated worlds, it will probably happen without land ownership.
Additionally, they plan some compensations for the more than rocky head start.
