"Server full. Please select another one."

[Dizzeke]

The server 8 of my friends are on has been full for 3 ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hours straight of sitting here clicking to join it, and no, I'm not just going to a different server to play this janky ass game by myself. Surely at least ONE PERSON will have logged out during that time for me to be able to take their place in the server, RIGHT? WHY CANT I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ JOIN

[Cheshire]

once enough people have made a character for your server, they are assigned a world. Once the max number of players per server have been made, they no longer allow new people in.

Telling you that to help with this... if 1,000 players are allowed in the server and 700 of those were people who downloaded the game, played for 30 min, then uninstalled it... only 300 players will be "active" across 10 worlds.

So roughly 30 players per world, and not all of them will be on at the same time.

the Devs aren't going to remove inactive player accounts and will not wipe or delete inactive player bases either until server wipe. So you will be left with "Full" but empty worlds due to these inactive accounts.

hope this helps.

[Kyutaru]

The servers gained more space at the end of the last phase. It's possible they'll do so again this phase, which ends in a few days. So if you want to join an old server, that would be the time to do it.

It's not about logging out. It's about too many accounts own property on that server. You'll have to wait until the next purge.

[Dizzeke]

Originally posted by Cheshire:

once enough people have made a character for your server, they are assigned a world. Once the max number of players per server have been made, they no longer allow new people in.

Telling you that to help with this... if 1,000 players are allowed in the server and 700 of those were people who downloaded the game, played for 30 min, then uninstalled it... only 300 players will be "active" across 10 worlds.

So roughly 30 players per world, and not all of them will be on at the same time.

the Devs aren't going to remove inactive player accounts and will not wipe or delete inactive player bases either until server wipe. So you will be left with "Full" but empty worlds due to these inactive accounts.

hope this helps.

Thanks for the heads up, so what you're saying is I wont be able to play this game with my friends for literal weeks unless I ♥♥♥♥♥ enough for them to ditch all their progress and start from scratch? I wont be doing that, I'm just going to uninstall and remove it from my account in that case

[VogonPoet]

Originally posted by Dizzeke:

Originally posted by Cheshire:

once enough people have made a character for your server, they are assigned a world. Once the max number of players per server have been made, they no longer allow new people in.

Telling you that to help with this... if 1,000 players are allowed in the server and 700 of those were people who downloaded the game, played for 30 min, then uninstalled it... only 300 players will be "active" across 10 worlds.

So roughly 30 players per world, and not all of them will be on at the same time.

the Devs aren't going to remove inactive player accounts and will not wipe or delete inactive player bases either until server wipe. So you will be left with "Full" but empty worlds due to these inactive accounts.

hope this helps.

Thanks for the heads up, so what you're saying is I wont be able to play this game with my friends for literal weeks unless I ♥♥♥♥♥ enough for them to ditch all their progress and start from scratch? I wont be doing that, I'm just going to uninstall and remove it from my account in that case

Yeah, it's a dealbreaker for our group. We have about 3 more people that want to hop in and play with us. Now they don't want to because they can't join us, and we don't want to start over because of the dumb a$$ season reset means I have 3 weeks less to catch up and deal with FOMO. And also the fact my cosmetics are locked into my server.

[Harry Dubois]

I was in the same boat as you. Even if you accept every shortcoming in the game, the game is not that good...

[LostME]

Stop blah blah. My friend couldn't create a character on a full server at first, but he did the next day. So the developers are cleaning or reserving (or something like that) inactive accounts.

[HazeyC]

My buddy had the same problem but was able to get in our server a couple days ago, as well as a some new players.

[Modern Bob]

That's just poor game design.
Why not use the wildly successful server mode that Guild Wars 2 used ? Single server farm, multiple instances, you can jump between the instances as you like. Never had an issue with friends joining late while playing it.
This completely remove the issue of having someone not being able to join on your world and you not being able to move to another because the devs didn't think about putting the option in.
This game will die because of this server model. Shame as it had potential.

[Baked Cans]

You can't place a physical house in the open world in Guild Wars 2 this is the biggest difference. Your character in Once Human effectively has persistence while your offline through your home that people can interact with.

To be honest, they should be booting people off of the servers if they're inactive for too long.

[bigcountry11782]

my friends are on a low population server but when I tried to join them when I started playing it said it was full lol who ever designed the servers needs to be shot out of a canon into the sun.

[Djozar]

I almost uninstalled, but decided to tough it out and learn how the game works for a season. Ended up being a smart decision after all. Found a group of people from the server to join forces with, and we've been having a blast. I truly didn't expect to meet new friends, but we already have plans to continue on into next season and beyond. Never know who might be out there.

[Jao]

Game maybe free but it doesn't matter when you can't join any server 🤦‍♂️ It has got to be the worst server design in a very long time. If the server is full is doesn't even tell you, it just keep looping the video in the main menu 😩

[Hugemoron]

my buddy uninstalled since I made the horrific mistake of not waiting for him to pick a server to move to at the exact same second so we would have a good chance of being on the same server
im pretty much done also, I dont want to play this without my friend

i liked this game but the decisions they make baffle me

[EvilHare]

Originally posted by Hugemoron:

my buddy uninstalled since I made the horrific mistake of not waiting for him to pick a server to move to at the exact same second so we would have a good chance of being on the same server
im pretty much done also, I dont want to play this without my friend

i liked this game but the decisions they make baffle me

What baffles me is you blame the game for your own fault. Your actions created the problem. The game did not make you screw your friend over.

[Dizzeke]

Originally posted by EvilHare:

Originally posted by Hugemoron:

my buddy uninstalled since I made the horrific mistake of not waiting for him to pick a server to move to at the exact same second so we would have a good chance of being on the same server
im pretty much done also, I dont want to play this without my friend

i liked this game but the decisions they make baffle me

What baffles me is you blame the game for your own fault. Your actions created the problem. The game did not make you screw your friend over.

the game screwed over everybody with stupid ass game design.