How does the queue work?

I got booted (timed out/). Came back and it now says 51 minutes.

I'm going to keep clicking and see how high the queue timer can go - every 1 minute I click "ok", it goes up 2 minutes!

Can anyone confirm that waves are being let in past the initial one?

They had to up the que times this release to give the Krono resellers a bigger head start

I've been sitting at estimated time 1m for over an hour.

I don't think it's actually an estimate for how long you will be queued. It says "average wait time", not your wait time. When I started, the average was 1m, now it's 80.

Because I'm worried about getting timed out, now and then I click the "Play Everquest!" button again, or pop into the chat room and back out. I don't believe either of these actions kicks you to the back of the line, but will keep you from timing out.

85 min now.
I have 2 computers running. on one I am leaving it alone and on the other I am hitting "play Everquest"
lets see which one gets in first..... if any!!!!

Pretty clear and sad that the devs don't know the answer. Even sadder if they do in leave steamy pile of design in the game.

This isn't a dev problem, it's a management problem. I can't imagine the devs look forward to TLP launch day when everything goes to hell every time. Some of the devs may have ideas for a fix, but because the problem doesn't ultimately affect sub numbers, management won't allocate resources to fix the issues that show up for a day once a year. It's not worth the investment.

LOL...

I tried basically the same. My first account I originally had at 2m queue and hit try again until it hit 19m then stopped.

Tried second account. That got over 90 minutes. Was doing some reading and randomly hit retry on the 90 minute one and got in. Server was bugging out and couldn't create a character, but got in.

The account that was sitting at the 19m prompt for ~an hour? didn't do a thing.

I think the queue code is broken. I would have thought the person queued for an hour would get in faster than the person randomly clicking.

Prophecy has come true....

It doesn't.

It doesn't