First Week of Fountain of Youth

[microphobe 72]

So the NA PVE server is in trouble because there is one fountain and EVERYONE in the game is over 90 so the ruin if maxed out to the point where the region is full, no one can get in, and anyone in there is crashing over and over again.
We have a ship sitting stuck crossing the border, crashing, continuously booting and relogging to try to save the galleon.

For the first week can we please have a fountain at every powerstone location if only for the first week to try to prevent this from happening, also go and save the ships, of which there are many, that are stuck on border crossings.

[SGFTI 9]

No, that would be something sensible to do, never gonna happen.

 

So I'm stuck restarting my game and seeing "Server Full" over and over when I try to log in.

[Legionexus 15]

i think the fountain should spawn on every and any island randomly, hell let a vender sell the water in free ports for 100 gold coin.  the whole ageing thing is stupid.

[microphobe 72]

I can see the idea behind it, and honestly it's quite ok to have in the game. It isn't hard to get the water etc and the buff/debuff is an interesting touch.
What they should have anticipated was the sheer numbers of people all crowding in to get the water and just made it at every golden age island to start with then reverted to one island at a time just to allow EVERY player from day 1 to actually get it without having to fight through crowds of people.

[blindtale 7]

it's an interesting theory, it is. but one has to question why they thought with so much of the population above teh age of 90, spawning or sending so many already laggy freeports was a way to go; and spawning only one or two of these things on an entire official map was a good idea in comparison. Make it an craftable, for criminy's sake. Hell of a lot better than sailing literally to opposite ends spending hours and hours of what game time you have only to find it gone by the time you get there, or so lagged out because gee.. whole server cluster is trying to get rid of the old age debuffs etc: that not only is it not spawning, but you'll be lucky not to scuttle your ship amongst the hundreds of others there.

What troll on the team thought it was a good idea to put it on adventure zones right off the bat ought to be reprimanded as well. IF you live long enough to get to shore, you're likely to have a monster kited at you, or waiting to kill you at the door anyway: making the point of getting there entirely moot.

 

Edited January 20, 2019 by blindtale
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[microphobe 72]

1 minute ago, blindtale said:

it's an interesting theory, it is. but one has to question why they thought with so much of the population above teh age of 90, spawning or sending so many already laggy freeports was a way to go; and spawning only one or two of these things on an entire official map was a good idea in comparison. Make it an craftable, for criminy's sake. Hell of a lot better than sailing literally to opposite ends spending hours and hours of what game time you have only to find it gone by the time you get there, or so lagged out because gee.. whole server cluster is trying to get rid of the old age debuffs etc.

 

Yep, we were saying the same on discord, what they should have done is reset everyone to age 50 or something just so that not everyone would head there in the first hour.

[KeyenDF 19]

3 hours ago, microphobe said:

Yep, we were saying the same on discord, what they should have done is reset everyone to age 50 or something just so that not everyone would head there in the first hour.

This just pushes the crowd down the road.  If they wanted to reduce the number of people trying to get to the fountain, they should drop people back into a range of ages.  Take everyone over 50, and randomly reset their age to be something between 25 and 45.

alternately, depending on how hard they want it to be to reset your age, they could have added a hard cooking recipe, or added something into the tarot skill line.  This right now seems an oddly difficult route to take, without having a lesser option to ‘reset’ your age.  They could have added a second option to become young, without the stat buff, or waited until having offspring to ascend into was added in. A singular solution to remove the old age debuff, when the vast majority of the server is close to the same age, was maybe not the best thing.