I am finding that I am unable to move to different town instances. For instance, when I go back to town and end up in townston(2), I am unable to go to (1) or (3).

That's because those instances are full. Even if you explicitly select a full instance on the obelisk, you can't go to it.

So your saying 41 people fills up the instance? Because right now that is the total population of world 4. And it was doing this last night too. I waited overnight to see if it would correct. I know to check that btw. I just forgot to post it didnt matter what the population was.

Each instance is capped at 25 players. As such, if there are 41 players online, all of whom want to be in townston, there should be 2 instances of townston, 1 of which will be full.

Thats not the problem Ripper. It hasnt mattered how many or how little are logged on. I cant switch instances. I am always on 2 and cannot go to 1 or 3. And when I check social there are people in caves, so not everyone is in town.

Instances cap at 50, by the way.

Thanks for clarifying, Talmorr.

Were you able to confirm that, Neb? If so, that's good to know. Thanks for the update.

Sorry to correct you Ripper but you can go to full instances using the obelisk. I know from world 1 where there's always about 60 or 70 people sitting in town 1.

Also I was there and saw this on World 4, It's clearly a bug, and it's been there for the last day or to:

I've noticed these when I was on late at night with about 14 players on the whole server. now they couldn't fill one instance, let alone 2.

Glitch Time line:
2 Days ago Nobody was able to go to Townston 1, ether by the obelisk or spawning there.
Yesterday (late last night) You couldn't get to T1 or T3 using the obelisk, but you could spawn in T3.
Now this was when there were from 50 people on to later when there were only 14 players on W4. Now nobody could get to Town 1, if you got lucky when you logged in you might spawn in town 3, (and you'd be the only one there).

Also when I was playing the server was getting a lot of lag spikes, it was on the the server end, not mine. other people we're lagging and getting disconnected - and they weren't in town ether.

I think the World 4 server(s) might need rebooted :P



Edited by DarthNinja (08/26/08 03:38 PM) — reason: typo

I've seen this a lot lately as well. It was so bad that last time I logged in, I ended up going to w2 (a first for me!)... and there was noticeably less lag there.

Well, it's been stated by the devs (somewhere...), and the server limit is 250, 5 townstons per server, so the math works.

That's cool - if I'm wrong, I'm wrong. I know I've tried to to a what I assumed was a full instance and haven't been able to do so. Sounds like something is definitely buggy, though.

This has happened many times before. Have seen it firsthand on Worlds 1 and 7. usually when they reset the worlds, it goes away and everything is normal again (for a time, til it happens again), also when they reset the worlds you lose all your other townston instances til you get enough population count to warrent another townston.

It is now doing the exact same thing for me, on world 4. I am in Townston (2) right now. When I click on the obelisk and select Townston (3) the game shows me the loading screen, and then puts me back in Townston (2). I've tried to switch instances three times in a row now, with the same outcome.

Very odd.

And now World 7 is stuck on Town 2..... Probably time for a server reset.

Agreed. It's a minor annoyance, but still an annoyance. How often do the servers get reset naturally?