Battlegrounds Leaving Servers Ridden Hard and Put Away Wet

Rothgar has advised on the EQ2 Forums, due to the extreme database loads continuing to be caused by Battlegrounds, the EQ2 team will be throttling back the number of concurrent Battlegrounds sessions that can be running at once.

Battlegrounds are still having a pretty big impact on DB performance especially during primetime and on weekends. We’ve decided to throttle back the number of BG matches that can run concurrently until we can get some additional optimizations made. This should resolve the issues with a little longer queue times instead of us needing to take them down altogether.

We are currently looking into the reports of stuck characters and missing items. We think that these issues are caused during times of severe database overload. Throttling back the matches should solve the issue until we have a more permanent fix.

We apologize if you’ve been affected by these issues. CS has made these types of issues their top priority so please file a petition if you have a stuck character or missing items and they will take care of it.

Thanks for your patience.