World Server Down

[smilodon]

The low, medium and high populations are relative. High doen't mean the server is nearly full it means it's one of the servers with the highest population. For example if three out of ten servers were half full and the rest were empty, then the three half full ones would be listed as high. They may in fact be still half empty. I don't understand it ether.

[TeaLeaf]

I wasn't linking the lack of being able to log on to the server population rating change; rather I was lamenting the fact that we are now in the 'popular' category with lots of characters online and therefore almost certainly more likely to suffer the lag problems that we have been suffering recently.

Last night was a classic example - invites for the raid went out to L60 Guild members at 18:30hrs and within 3 minutes we had a 40 strong raid party forming at Molten Core to go summon and kill Majordomo and then, hopefully Ragnaros.  We managed to wipe on the Firelord, Stone elemental and Giants at the very entrance due to the lag we got - averaging over 2000+ms for most people on the latency monitor, but in reality a 30 second lock up followed by 0.5 seconds of action (then repeating that cycle).  We had to abandon and reform at 19:30hrs but the same happened so we gave up altogether.  

The annoying thing about lag like that is that we do Onyxia on a Friday night and then by Saturday the instance will have been reset, so next time we go into the Molten Core instance we will have to start all over again and kill the first 8 bosses all over again in order to reach Majordomo again

Higher population means more chance for lag to my mind - and it was that I was lamenting

TL.