A queue!

At this point in the game, a queue is the best thing we could have!! anyone ranting about it should go shut up because the needs of the many outweigh the needs of you!!

this statement only applies in the time it was said, which is during the age of Star Trek. we are not anywhere near that level of ubiquitous worth, so i must respectfully disagree, and will continue to hold my needs above you wretched lot.

The only issue I have is the real lack of information on whats happening to the servers you can leave from
Since Ebon Hawk is now the only RP server on the east coast, people are acting now on the information they have and transferring over. Id say most feel they have to, and are worried about long term effects of lack of players if they dont leave.

I don't expect the queues to last. People are excited for the first time in months that they can get groups together to do content.

Once they see all the content the game has to offer in the next 3 days or so they will get bored and won't log in as much. Then no more queues.

Perhaps not Alifaraaz. Lord Adraas had a healthy population. There were usually over 100 on the Republic Fleet during prime time. If you presume that Ebon Hawke was approximately the same population wise (or higher) what you could be witnessing is the new normal for Ebon Hawke on a mid week evening. Most people are looking at the transfer offering (from all but 1 rp-PvE server) as an early indication that BW will close those servers and are bailing or seriously considering bailing even from Lord Adraas. Now add in the population from genuinely low pop servers and it could be a real mess for some time, let alone the weekend.

This. One of the few smart posts in this thread.

True you're not wrong. But remember many servers including my own had 200+ during the early months which gradually dropped apart from when 1.2 launched I saw 250-300 on fleet. And all said servers were stable without qeue. And whatever qeues existed asted 5 min tops.

Anyway my point is rather no need to worry too much yet. It is gonna atleast be a bit more busy during this first week, and expect the same after every major patch release. But they always drop a bit and calm down shortly after.

That and many suspect (unconfirme) that they're slowly increasing the caps on all server destinations. But doing it slowly, assuring it remains stable.

uh a queue... I don't wanna wait... BW needs to.... ADD MORE SERVERS!!! :P

That underlined, bold part... is referred to as impatience. And impatient people are destroying good games left and right. Ruined this one, ruined WoW (everyone getting a legendary which can be made for any class/spec in MoP?!?! LOLOLOL). Just...... stop playing games where it's an expectation of you to invest TIME in your character development to further yourself in the game.

LFG tools, more experience points, faster ways to level, easier leveling, less difficult progression fights.... it's literally at the point where most of the online gaming population feels like they need a pat on the back and a special edition vanity pet for clicking "Login".

I understand games evolve, but if anything this is not evolving this is devolving into more simplistic, user-friendly, consumer oriented, spoon-fed crap that you can find all over Facebook and kongregate. It's quite sad that people feel accomplished in an online game they have only played for 3 weeks to 2 months because it's ridiculously simple with very little time investment... to get almost everything the game offers. Worse yet, when those same people who cried to have things that way... start the incessant whining about things being too easy and not challenging enough.

Ultimately the issue in any AAA title for online gaming... is us. The consumer. When all the noise boxes make it a point to crab about something constantly and all over the net, the companies change the game to cater to them to try and staunch any loss of potential customers.... but really it just drives the rest of us away.


Soooooo anyways, that was a bit of a rant but: If you are too impatient to wait for a queue then... in all sincerity MMORPGs were really a terrible choice for you to begin with, how you chose the genre is beyond me.

Just so everyone has a point of comparison, I have played on the Ebon Hawk since launch. On Monday, fleet topped out at about 90 people. That was just what I saw (I was in and out of flashpoints all night), but that seems about right. At prime time on Friday it was hitting around 130-150. It'll be nice to see some really serious numbers in that corner of my screen.

On the flip side, I've gotten a bit used to logging in for the raid just ten minutes before (and I raid lead, too!). Queues definitely throw a kink into those plans.

To everyone who transferred into the Ebon Hawk: WELCOME!! Welcome to what I honestly believe is the best server community in the game, with some of the nicest and most helpful guilds you will find anywhere. Feel free to hit me up on the Republic side if you need a tank and don't feel like dealing with Group Finder's random mode.