Change of server status not showing population anymore - official statement
Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2018 06:58
Hello Kestrels!
Since the last update it seems there is no showing population on the server status page.
And here is the official statement of Musco why.
Does it sound reasonable?
Well, that is for each and everyone to decide...
Greetings
Corv
Maintenance: January 30th, 2018 | 01.30.2018, 11:16 AM
Quote: Originally Posted by Khaleg View Post
Hey Eric,
it seesms even Bioware's own server status page does not work properly anymore, more precise not as before. I double checked this with this original server status page since our server widget on our guild website (Enjin) does not work anymore since the patch today and shows the server offline while it is in fact online. But the SWTOR server status page does not show the same as before either. It still shows up/down but no population data anymore. Something changed obviously. Any clue? Intended or not? New IP?
Original Server Status page: http://www.swtor.com/server-status
Our page with server widget (workrd until the patch today): http://tcf.enjin.com/
Kind regards
Frank/Nal'
Good questions!
This is an intended change so that the server status page matches the in-game interface for server select which we changed a few months ago. With the previous in-game change and now the web change, we ultimately removed two columns:
Server population - This column was fairly misleading due to the way in which it generated its value. The value it displayed was the current population relative to the total population cap. This often created situations where servers with more players would actually show as lighter than a less populated server due to its pop relative to its hardware cap. For that reason we removed it altogether.
Server type - Since we made the change where a player can be in any instance type, we no longer have specified server types. We similarly removed this column so it wouldn't falsely impact a player's server choice.
If someone was using a widget to get that information from our site previously, they should just need to adjust it for the missing columns.
Hope that clears up any confusion!
-eric
Since the last update it seems there is no showing population on the server status page.
And here is the official statement of Musco why.
Does it sound reasonable?
Well, that is for each and everyone to decide...
Greetings
Corv
Maintenance: January 30th, 2018 | 01.30.2018, 11:16 AM
Quote: Originally Posted by Khaleg View Post
Hey Eric,
it seesms even Bioware's own server status page does not work properly anymore, more precise not as before. I double checked this with this original server status page since our server widget on our guild website (Enjin) does not work anymore since the patch today and shows the server offline while it is in fact online. But the SWTOR server status page does not show the same as before either. It still shows up/down but no population data anymore. Something changed obviously. Any clue? Intended or not? New IP?
Original Server Status page: http://www.swtor.com/server-status
Our page with server widget (workrd until the patch today): http://tcf.enjin.com/
Kind regards
Frank/Nal'
Good questions!
This is an intended change so that the server status page matches the in-game interface for server select which we changed a few months ago. With the previous in-game change and now the web change, we ultimately removed two columns:
Server population - This column was fairly misleading due to the way in which it generated its value. The value it displayed was the current population relative to the total population cap. This often created situations where servers with more players would actually show as lighter than a less populated server due to its pop relative to its hardware cap. For that reason we removed it altogether.
Server type - Since we made the change where a player can be in any instance type, we no longer have specified server types. We similarly removed this column so it wouldn't falsely impact a player's server choice.
If someone was using a widget to get that information from our site previously, they should just need to adjust it for the missing columns.
Hope that clears up any confusion!
-eric