Guild Wars 2

It’s actually a query, and i’d appreciate a dev response or a link to some dev information.

When you view servers from the character login screen, there’s the population status, from low to full. What does it actually show? The concurrent players logged in at that time (unlikely) or total number of accounts which have made this server their homeworld (likely)?

Nobody except Arenanet know. However, going by our own observations, it seems it refers to how many total characters are on that server. Not how many actual players are on there.

If i an wrong, and it is indeed the latter, then they have a low pop cap for whatever reason. Possibly for server stability.

I just wish they would remove the cap, add a queue or fix the overflow servers.

you see how many people are logged in. My homeserver always turns from full to high at about 3-4 am.

So you have high population at 4am? That still sounds way off – medium would make sense.
It’s much more likely that FULL means 5000/5000 accounts that took it as their homeworld (random number), while 4999/5000 shows as HIGH. That 5k is the absolute lowest for server cap, imho, and with that many people and still free server transfers having one people transfer away overnight isn’t that unlikely.

More speculations are welcome. Still looking for any dev words, even hints at it.

Yes this is a problem, our small group of irl friends who tried to change server and while we were changing it went from high to full. The group of 15 has now been split with 5 people in the full server and the rest at the other. This sucks. :<

Not just basing on what Kuroin said, but it would be pretty silly if the status represented the ‘currently online’, as this would mean you can go over the server population cap, which is ridiculous.

It’s a joke, my servers is always full, but the zones are normally always empty… I should expect to be in overflow, never been in it since launch…

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Server-Populations/703192

drkn.3429:

So you have high population at 4am? That still sounds way off – medium would make sense.
It’s much more likely that FULL means 5000/5000 accounts that took it as their homeworld (random number), while 4999/5000 shows as HIGH. That 5k is the absolute lowest for server cap, imho, and with that many people and still free server transfers having one people transfer away overnight isn’t that unlikely.

More speculations are welcome. Still looking for any dev words, even hints at it.

How is it off? We got a strong night crew in WvW and some people play pve too.

Jestunhi.7429:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Server-Populations/703192

And that settles that conspiracy theory. In before “but they’re lyeing/shills/etc” from the usual crowd.

Turns out i was right.
Eva’s initial comment – https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Server-Populations/first#post703192
Eva’s clarification – http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/1772/serverstatusd.jpg