Lion's Arch AD2 Is Empty?

As of right now, it says there are seven American districts available for Lion's Arch. AD4 was crowded, but when I showed up in AD2... it was empty. Right now, as in this exact time, there are less than ten people in AD2.

Is there any reason why this district barely has people and yet the other ones have more?

Also, if you're reading this, go take a look. I can easily say it wont be like this tomorrow, but if you want to go to Lion's Arch for a moment of tranquility, go check it out.

Lmao! You know, I bet it's because people who were there before wanted to zone to a different district to avoid the crowd, only they've created a crowd in that district instead. Lol! That's a funny thought.

I was there earlier and it was virtually deserted (changed from D5 to D2). May be a minor map travel bug involving district assignment.

Woa definitely worth making a thread for! Go to Korean district 1 of Great Temple of Balthazar, completely empty! WHOAAAA

I think you miss the point... this is AD2 where normally it's about as popular as a rich girl's sweet sixteen party... yet it's virtuously dead at the moment. That's why I make this thread... to simply figure out why this district, of all of them... is practically dead.

No, no, AD2 is full of people.

They just cannot be seen.

Haha, epic video lmao

Why on earth does it matter?

Because at this point, it's a phenomena! Lol! It's just curious that a usually overly populated district is now nearly unpopulated. It intrigues the mind.

My guess is that they're all just hiding from you..

Take a bath first ?

Everyone is trying to either get into D1 to trade or the last district to avoid the normal lag. Or its mere coincidence that whoever was in D2 decided its time to sleep as it is close to/past midnight on the American server.

This happened to me two weeks ago while in Kamadan AD2. There were also 7 districts, but only 4 people were in the second district. Weird.

Its just some kind of glitch with District #2, this has happened in a number of outposts I've been to including ToA, Kamadan, LA and Kodash...

nothing really spectacular... if i wanted to see an empty LA I could just go to the international district

I was in the game when I read your post and mapped to LA out of curiosity. I ended up in District 4 which was pretty crowded. Then I went to D2 and, you're right, it was practically empty. And no lag!

Inger is right. That's pretty much what it looks like in International and if you want to see it really empty go to Asian.

I noticed the same thing throughout the entire day today and thought it was very, very odd. I actually considered making a thread myself!

I just chock it up to some manner of bug in the district loading system. But still, it's very weird.

Well, outpost districts are just shared instances. If there are zero players in a certain outpost then that outpost doesn't actually exist - the first district is only created when somebody enters that outpost (you can observe this in an outpost where NPCs carry random equipment - if you are the only player in that outpost and zone out and in again the equipment changes since it's destroyed when you leave and recreated when you return).

Second, while it is a trivial task from a load balancing point of view to add new districts as necessary, removing them when not needed any more is much more complicated if you cannot forcibly 'compress' the player distribution by moving people away from sparsely populated districts before deletion. GW schedules the deletion of a district by certain criteria and once a district has been flagged for deletion you can't enter that district other than by specifically selecting it as your destination.

It is quite possible that the district in question was scheduled for deletion and thus all the traffic was getting directed to other districts. These kind of issues are also apparent in major cities during festivities when the volatility of the player population is particularly large.

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Shing Jea Monastery European English District 1 was the same earler today. Empty, while District 2 was full.

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