Agreed but we can all hope that tomorrow is easier on the dev's as their confidence raises so do the number of waves. beta weekend was 2 million.....preorder is 940,000 approx.... just setup 120 servers to spread out on and your gold...a month after release combine them and use the remaining servers as preinstalled backups for when a server has a hickup and then you only have 30-60 min downtime while you configure the backup and plug it in, for the old one to go off for maintence testing.

http://www.swtor.com/community/showpost.php?p=106615&postcount=725 It seems that some interesting events took place and players were quickly banned after word got out, snaps to that . Nice handling of the issue, but Im curious why you didnt tell us you banned them. We saw the exploits through streams today. Its not very good, regardless of the reason, to "twist" facts to save face. Please be more "streight" with us on issues down the road. Im not wanting to flame but simply request that stories line up with what the community saw in live video streams today where players exploited time and time again. Banning doesnt change that it happened and 30 in about 14 hours is not really legit ... if admited to be legit than the game is childs play. Thanks for the Twitter updates and keep rollin out the smiles with us. The game looks great and stress tests went well. The main concern of players is the phasing of EGA. I think its cool and all and rewards the fans for who got on ship first, but it kind of ruins the MMO experience for many. Hopefully tomorrow will go better, with quicker moderation + stickies to warn that any complaints can kindly enjoy a day of escape from the forums while they cool their heads. Good leader = Strong hand...Wise Words... Big heart

The alternative is to use a character system where you have 1 character and 1 server only.... you can pay 1.99 for a second character.... but your main character can change jobs..... this lets players change job but not character name.... keeps people more honest as stealing and acting like a fool will harm you more in the long run. EX: If you are on a game and want to act like a jerk you logg into a troll account and do your thing, you then log back to your main and no one knows it was you who did the bad thing..... single character with job changes prevents trolling more.

Considering I have a major in Computer Information and Assurance and a prior major in Business: Marketing and Sales.... The answer is simple. Plan ahead... Take time to order and setup your servers a month before planned launch. 1 month prior to launch they knew the current preorder numbers and the projected last minute numbers of + 20%. So in total for 2.4 million players you would need 120 servers. This number comes from a basic MMO server max of 20,000 accounts per server. You then setup 150 servers...making 80% of the space used (a decent number). You keep inventory of backup and replacement servers in storage and ready, preinstalled and ready for quick callibration. Launching a early game access or head start you then devise simple procedures for adding in the population. This is done by Queue's. You open the servers, constantly monitor all servers for population, and temp close servers as they become high for low level area population. As those are temp closed off to new creation you create incentives for players to start on other servers by adding in a nifty 5% exp bonus for the first 24 hours of gametime on that server. This brings in population and spreads it out. The game was tested for population on weekend beta. The servers were stress tested at this time for login, population control, and latency. Servers held strong as the login system was stress tested half a dozen times over the weekend. -------------------- The way launch was handled was rather poor and favored the fanboys who activated a preorder code first... Some did preorder but did not get their code until much later and they were punished for the wrong doing of the vendor. ------------ however.... stress test weekend has 2 million users..... preorder codes used is around 940,000 meaning that the servers worked fine through stress testing.... the preorder population is much smaller and the servers would have handled it just fine. Please discredit anything in here... however ignore grammer and spelling as this is a game, not work, and its 934 pm. Yea it worked with 2 million in beta weekend stress tests.... however with half the beta being preorders ... well less than half at approx 940,000 ... the servers were started in waves instead.... not wise may i add 990 = SR .... I think we all saw that.... and the other guest 260

It causes problems with chat and monitoring rule breaking...They should let people have a account name and a character name.... so you can show any visible name you choose but your hard line name is your character... this lets you also use the same name for different characters so you can change classes....changing classes saves server space and character naming

Yea the game is great...but the management is proving to be EA and not BW .... I smell to many EA policies in place... BW is getting ruined just like EA ruins every game by over extending their voice on everything Im starting to worry now that the game will fail due to over involvement by the game killer known as EA.

This is why there is a limit on numbers of items that can be purchased....a limit on character creation should have been limited.

Yea... hey dodged to many real questions... nothing of real concern was asked.... only past FAQ questions ... This whole thing could have done with a forum sticky

yea man.... its a cash shop game....

naw man... they will do it.... when Bioware took over Warhammer for mythic while both were under EA.... one of the first things BW did was release "special" items for cash purchase...this was called account entitlements Link = http://store.origin.com/store/ea/ContentTheme/pbPage.warhammer-online-bundles

nice siggy, though your rebel scum

Or..... take his napsack.... shave him bald, spray paint him blue, shove him in a droid and roll him off a cliff

Ill pay 9.99 for a ewok companion.... they sold companions when bioware took over WARHAMMER..... so they will sell them here.... I wana tazer my ewok all day ..... then shove dobby's sock down his throat

"Can all current Players involved in Pre-order expect to join in on Early Game Access before launch?" my question

A. Stephen Reid is actively in this conversation as Guest 990 for a players perspective.

Exactly.... this is not a debate or a Q&A if they cant accept both positive and negative questions... ANSWER THE HARD ONES

Yes... that was not a question or an answer.... that should have been filtered.... or you are a moron

The target of a target question was good but once again typical FAQ ...already answered

No hes not like that but they are moderating all questions like a celebrity ..... They cant answer anything that has not been approved to be answered in a meeting today between 2pm and 7pm ... Thats why they closed at 2, to prepare a answer cheat sheet.

which guest are you? So we can yell if you ask something stupid

FACT There are no real questions of concern being asked becasue these are their employees or their own personal questions that they the DEVs chose to share.... ANSWER A REAL QUESTION

These questions are clearly not from actual customers..... All were already answered clearly before and are in FAQ's .... This is not Q & A .... this is just a waste of time to reanswer things people already know.... while avoiding the real topics that concern players.

questions choices are being given to people with preconstructed answers... Vent is laughing right now about it and how there are no real players asking questions here or your would see something silly. Heavy moderation

True... they will only allow people to ask questions that are ran past the Dev's ... like a celebrity.... this is to protect the company so they have proper time to construct an answer.... They probly already gave out the questions they will answer.... notice that 25 "random" people were selected to ask questions.

These are stupid questions that were already answered..... wasteing time and dodging the real concern.... ASK ABOUT THE EXP EXPLOITERS.... there are 50's already.... ASK about limiting character creation to save names