Guild Wars 2

Do inactive players effect a servers “Fullness” last night I deleted all my 5 level 80 characters to transfer to Deso to join up with my friends, only to find it had turned to full

Curious if inactive players will effect it, and trying to estimate how long I have to stare at having 0 characters =[

Inactive players do affect the overall server population, as ANet doesn’t terminate inactive accounts (since there is always a chance that said player will play again).

I head that server “fullness” may change during the day, so trying to transfer during “off hours” may work.

I always thought those full server are just there to prevent over flooding of wvw. Some server have really long queue time.

if you dont’ wvw. it doesn’t matter which server your from, you can always play with your friend.

I’m pretty sure inactive and even logged out players DON’T effect overall population of servers. At times full servers will have a “blackout” or have everyone log out for x amount of time in order to help wvw guilds transfer on to that server. If Anet counted logged out and inactive accounts i dont see how this would work at all.

We don’t know exactly how it works. Certainly, server blackouts have been effective in the past. But equally, it’s definitely not as simple as ‘number of accounts currently online,’ otherwise there ought to be more ‘Full’ servers every day during NA prime.

I suspect there’s an algorithm of some sort, and that the longer an account has been inactive, the less it counts towards the server total.

laokoko.7403:

I always thought those full server are just there to prevent over flooding of wvw. Some server have really long queue time.

if you dont’ wvw. it doesn’t matter which server your from, you can always play with your friend.

I know, but I’m a WvW player and their WvW friends. :P

Guess I’ll just have to see if it changes from full after the WvW reset and see if that changes it

ArenaNet adjusts the numbers every few months, usually before a WvW season. If inactive accounts didn’t count, you can assume this is when it happens (any account that hasn’t logged in since the last check wouldn’t count). ArenaNet has complete control over the numbers however, as seen with the last season where all servers went to medium, then very high and stayed there for quite a while.