How are server populations calculated?
Former. Try very late at night/very early in morning.
Took my friend about a week to get on my server.
According to the post by Anet, looks more like the latter
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Server-Populations/first
Former. Try very late at night/very early in morning.
It clearly isn’t the former, so why you answer so definitively is a mystery.
If you had ever played at 3am and took note you would see servers still say “full” despite the fact all the usual places (WvW, lions arch, Orr, number of active hotjoin servers for sPvP ,etc) very obviuously have far fewer people than primetime.
In answer to the OP servers do very rarely drop out of ‘full’ (the one time I switched it was at around 2pm on a weekday), people do transfer off ‘full’ servers which frees up space, plus and this is just a guess, perhaps they discount accounts that have been inactive for a certain period else in theory they could end up with a server marked ‘full’, but without anyone actually being logged in, actively playing the game.
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It’s most definitely the former. I have had friends join my full server, Tarnished Coast, only recently by waiting until 3-4am, when the server suddenly dropped from full to high. For several weeks, up until recently when the population on the server picked up, it would drop from full to high every night around this time. It was also on “high” status early in the morning (5-6 am), nearly every morning
According to the post by Anet, looks more like the latter
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Server-Populations/first
I’d say that post hit it right on the money.
Unless the staffmember lied (Or terribly misphrased what he was trying to say), it’s the latter.
According to the post by Anet, looks more like the latter
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Server-Populations/first
I’d say that post hit it right on the money.
Unless the staffmember lied (Or terribly misphrased what he was trying to say), it’s the latter.
It just seems odd to me that every day a bunch of people transfer off of the servers on off hours, then suddenly transfer back on when prime time hits
According to the post by Anet, looks more like the latter
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Server-Populations/first
I’d say that post hit it right on the money.
Unless the staffmember lied (Or terribly misphrased what he was trying to say), it’s the latter.It just seems odd to me that every day a bunch of people transfer off of the servers on off hours, then suddenly transfer back on when prime time hits
People are probably transferring off the server possibly moving to better WvW servers. Then other people are transferring onto that server. Anet could be culling the server every so often of inactive accounts as well. Maybe only accounts that are 90 days inactive? Or who know the amount of days.
They have to be ready for these 1-time events where many of those long-inactive accounts make pop back to life. If it was full at 3am on a Tuesday, then how did all of those people log on during the Karka event?
The server population must be a realistic overestimation of how many people will come on at any given time.
According to the post by Anet, looks more like the latter
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Server-Populations/first
I’d say that post hit it right on the money.
Unless the staffmember lied (Or terribly misphrased what he was trying to say), it’s the latter.It just seems odd to me that every day a bunch of people transfer off of the servers on off hours, then suddenly transfer back on when prime time hits
You would get the same effect if they removed accounts from the server status calculation that had been inactive for x number of hours.
If you actually go on a “full” server at 3 am you will see it is far from full, (I’ve played on two perma-full servers EU Desolation & Blacktide).
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