Comments on: Personal Stores… I Hate You!

By: Giblets

Giblets — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:55:20 +0000

/necro FTW ! besides its still a problem almost 4 months later.

I think the real issue is the design of the broker system / personal store.

Broker only lets you put up 10 items at a time, then you put the other 6 in your store – silly.

Why not extend broker to hold 20 items per player and be done with this whole personal store junk.

By: Ted

Ted — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:42:55 +0000

just wait a a couple weeks
the game just launched
NCsoft will put more servers and channels commited to the game
this is always what happens in most mmos on launches or expansions

by mid october this wont be an issue

By: Takameanie

Takameanie — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:17:54 +0000

I try lol

In all honesty though, it’s really a catch 22 with the overpopulation. I know why they do it, because obviously the “max” number the server can hold won’t always be online, and if they only allow the max number then we would run into problems finding people for group quests and group pvp, etc…

Also, I just thought of this, even with the AFKers, these massive queue’s we’re seeing is really, deep down, a good thing. It means the game is popular enough to have that many people on at a time. I hope it holds it’s ground and people don’t start dying off, even though it would make the queue’s better, with the group PvP style end-game, this massive population is a good thing.

By: Thirteen

Thirteen — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:55:11 +0000

Takameanie, thats a fair shake at the current situation. You are correct on many points. Server population IS the problem. I’m asking myself, “would this even be a subject of discussion, if the servers were not over populated?” I’m not sure. In most cases “no”. It wouldnt solve the fps issue when in a major city, however, in time, there wont be as many players there anyway.
_Good reply comment Takameanie_
~13

By: Takameanie

Takameanie — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:08:14 +0000

I think personal stores are a good idea, you can sell things easier, say, if you post up by a quest giver and want to sell the quest item. It puts the product right in front of the demand. If you think about it, though, theres really no way to get around it. If they make it a 30 min. d/c w/ no activity, ppl will just put something on their “turn” button to make the camera spin around in circles. Also, if you think about it, what good is a personal store if you have to sit and watch it and move your camera. Honestly, if you’re going to sell anything out of that, it isn’t going to sell in 30 min. it could take hours.

I think a better solution would have been to add more servers and not overpopulate them as much as they did. I realize they overpopulate because “not everyone will be on at the same time”, so they want a fair amount of ppl on around the clock, but their servers are time zoned. Obviously tons of people are going to be on an EST time server at around 4-5pm everyones getting off work. I think they should have at least only allowed the max load for the server for the first month or so, until things settle down. I was in a 1500 person queue last night and I believe the server is one of the “less populated” overloading a server by 1500 people…they just shouldn’t have done that for launch, wait at least a month or so.

By: frank

frank — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:23:56 +0000

I was just about to post about this but seems you beat me to it.

It’s definitely getting out of hand. People are leaving personal stores on 24/7 just to stay online and avoid queues, while thousands of players suffer for it. It’s certainly a cool feature but I think it needs to be at least temporarily disabled or disconnect after 30ish minutes of inactivity.

Having 3-4 hour queues is, despite NCsoft’s statements, not a smooth launch.