PoP now under 200.

[Rust1d?]

Now at 188 as we speak. Holidays are over brews.

[IronLikeALionInZion]

also a monday night. please no more doom and gloom ok?

[Zalaerian]

Still better then VZTZ was in peak...I'm content

[Ninja]

Suggested new policy: ban everyone who makes a low pop thread.

Shit is annoying and made at least once a day.

[Doors]

Can we can get bans on the wastes of life that keep reposting population threads

[Doublestep]

Suggested new policy: ban everyone who makes a low pop thread.

Shit is annoying and made at least once a day.

that will DEFINITELY help pop

[Slave]

Actually it's under 100 now during off-hours.

[Ninja]

Actually it's under 100 now during off-hours.

Newsflash: people sleep.

That is all.

[Doublestep]

Newsflash: people sleep.

That is all.

newsflash: this server is supposed to be world wide

[Shrubwise]

newsflash: people sleep everywhere

[Ninja]

newsflash: this server is supposed to be world wide

I have heard emulated Everquest is huge in India, maybe the server is dying.

[Doublestep]

11 billion people in the world and this server can't even maintain 200 people. sad days bros

[Rust1d?]

Could be much much better IMO.

[Shrubwise]

Could be much worse.

[Cyclone]

LMAO one thing you all are forgetting, Epics were released on Blue.

[Rust1d?]

yeah blue pop almost doubled all of a sudden lol!

[fiegi]

pop is at 201 now

stay tuned....

[SamwiseRed]

omg when epics get released on red, if ever, imagine the pvp on those camps D=

[Shannacore]

LFG

[Hairybuttwhole]

Suggested new policy: ban everyone who makes a low pop thread.

Shit is annoying and made at least once a day.

please post pvp kills only

[Arillious]

These posts do more hurt to the population than anything else. People come here and read these posts and think maybe they shouldnt start a character and waste time on a ghost server.

I'm lvl 24, and have had plenty of pvp competition in whatever zone I've been in. 150-250 people on during primetime is PLENTY of people for old world EQ. As more people get lvl 50, it'll only get better. Thats a lot of people competing over a small amount of content. Should lend itself to some good fights.

People need to cut the doom and gloom bullshit and enjoy your free eq. You're not going to find anything better than this, thats why you are here.

[Hairybuttwhole]

im going to go ahead and have to disagree with you arillious, angry birds > eq

[Doublestep]

what's going on in this thread? was busy cleaning up sith while fighting for my krayt dragon spawn

[Hairybuttwhole]

just a bunch of daisies opening their pie holes

[HippoNipple]

These posts do more hurt to the population than anything else. People come here and read these posts and think maybe they shouldnt start a character and waste time on a ghost server.

I'm lvl 24, and have had plenty of pvp competition in whatever zone I've been in. 150-250 people on during primetime is PLENTY of people for old world EQ. As more people get lvl 50, it'll only get better. Thats a lot of people competing over a small amount of content. Should lend itself to some good fights.

People need to cut the doom and gloom bullshit and enjoy your free eq. You're not going to find anything better than this, thats why you are here.

I agree. I'm currently excited when I see my spawn not being camped so I can level up. I spent an hour the other day fighting over a spot. The PvP was fun but by the time I won the spawn I had to log off about 15 minutes after I had it. With old world there aren't that many places to level. If there are 200 people on then there should be around 20 people fighting over the best exp spots within your level range (if population is evenly distributed). Obviously this will change once the server gets older and more people will be at high level.

Having even 75 level 42-50's on at once in the old world on a pvp server should be congested enough. That's a lot of people with few zones to be productive in. Also it is easy for scouts to find guilds they don't like with the small world.

Once expansions start hitting the population will be spread pretty thin.. but it also seems to give the population a boost to even it out.

Out of curiosity - wasn't the exp raised by 25% anyways? It is now January 3 and I never saw a message saying it was taken away. The exp bonus also never said it was temporary - it just happened to say happy holidays at the end of the message.

[Nirgon]

Items are scarce, so are twinks for people to group with like on blue, no free buffs at EC tunnel.

Once people are maxed out and have many items to spread around or people who are interested in trading up items on red to blue or shit like manastone on red for manastone on blue.. pop'll hop up from there.

People from the current top guilds will probably fade out and new players will come. The same thing happened with blue at launch and continues to go on.

While I'm posting, go ahead and stop posting shit like this. It doesn't help because retards or the otherwise uninformed lemming with threads like this with "omg server dying" sentiments.

[Doublestep]

if the population stays as it is after kunark is unlocked we need global ooc

[HippoNipple]

if the population stays as it is after kunark is unlocked we need global ooc

Kunark is like a year away

[Nirgon]

No you need to go get in irc.

[omnigol]

I can't believe there are 20 fucking topics on the first page of idiots bitching about population. How many people did p99 have when it first started? when I tried it out, it was the same population as this not any better at all, but everyone was excited and impressed at the population.

So every blue from p99 tried out the red server for a minute or two and realized pvp is different than pve. So you had a big initial spike and then it dropped off. Who couldn't have predicted that?

These morons are bitching just because they want to change the ruleset. The server is more than fine it's healthy. Have some common sense and appreciate the circumstances, and the closest comparison you're going to get is P99 blue(still very different circumstances).

This is an unofficial emulated shard, and almost every emulated server is usually mismanaged garbage. They get hacked they get wiped they vanish after a few months. Combine that with the fact the investment is more than what people are used to. And now we have every faggot post crying about population under the guise of "lets find a solution team", and then they cry "the server is dying! use my dumbass idea to make classic not classic". And because these idiots use the guise of "finding a solution" the moderators literally let this shit overflow.

[Billbike]

Suggested new policy: ban everyone who makes a low pop thread.

Shit is annoying and made at least once a day.

[bakkily]

its the beginning of the server, back when i started on p99, back in feb 2010, the pop was only 400 or so, and we had global ooc back then, its the start of the server, we're what, now onto the 2nd month, things will either pick up or it wont, but im not worried, im having fun

[Massive Marc]

I think the thought process behind these threads is that because project 1999 is pretty popular already, it was assumed that p99red would piggy back off that success. I feel that, at this point the population wont rise that much higher. I think the people that are aware of the server are playing on it. There might be a small group of players that want to EQPVP but don't know about project 1999 red, but it's probably like 10-50 players max. I wouldn't get your hopes up on a larger population.

EDIT: I make this assumption based on the current rule set. There may be a group of players (again probably 10-50 max) that aren't playing due to various rules or conditions (exp rate/resist tables etc..)

[Juugox2]

150+ is fine with me until kunark releases then it will be bad

[HippoNipple]

I think the thought process behind these threads is that because project 1999 is pretty popular already, it was assumed that p99red would piggy back off that success. I feel that, at this point the population wont rise that much higher. I think the people that are aware of the server are playing on it. There might be a small group of players that want to EQPVP but don't know about project 1999 red, but it's probably like 10-50 players max. I wouldn't get your hopes up on a larger population.

EDIT: I make this assumption based on the current rule set. There may be a group of players (again probably 10-50 max) that aren't playing due to various rules or conditions (exp rate/resist tables etc..)

Well it looks like a group just started last week, that militia guild. Small groups like that will come from time to time. I heard about p1999 originally from a youtube video. I was checking out trailers for new games and found someone talking about p1999 in the description. It's random how people find out about it.

[Vibe]

LMAO one thing you all are forgetting, Epics were released on Blue.

Omg someone with sense... good job my young pandawa.

[Doublestep]

There's just a huge playerbase that doesn't like FFA pvp. Not saying put it in, it's too late for that, but team rules would have netted a lot more attention

[Vibe]

I agree. I'm currently excited when I see my spawn not being camped so I can level up. I spent an hour the other day fighting over a spot. The PvP was fun but by the time I won the spawn I had to log off about 15 minutes after I had it. With old world there aren't that many places to level. If there are 200 people on then there should be around 20 people fighting over the best exp spots within your level range (if population is evenly distributed). Obviously this will change once the server gets older and more people will be at high level.

Having even 75 level 42-50's on at once in the old world on a pvp server should be congested enough. That's a lot of people with few zones to be productive in. Also it is easy for scouts to find guilds they don't like with the small world.

Once expansions start hitting the population will be spread pretty thin.. but it also seems to give the population a boost to even it out.

Out of curiosity - wasn't the exp raised by 25% anyways? It is now January 3 and I never saw a message saying it was taken away. The exp bonus also never said it was temporary - it just happened to say happy holidays at the end of the message.

this is all true.

[Vibe]

There's just a huge playerbase that doesn't like FFA pvp. Not saying put it in


That wouldn't be classic..uhhhh.

[Rikimeru]

That wouldn't be classic..uhhhh.


no but it would be more fun!

[Doublestep]

That wouldn't be classic..uhhhh.

The resists, bards not being able to break root, and millions of other things aren't classic as well.

[Billbike]

http://www.mchumor.com/00images/5047_train_cartoon.gif

I think the population is dropping
I think the server is dying.
I think PvP is dead.


Keep it up morans.

[Rust1d?]

Was nearing 150 last night fyi

[Billbike]

Was nearing 150 last night fyihttp://www.buzzle.com/img/articleImages/287147-33717-51.jpg

As a possible investor, this stock looks great.

Every asinine population post (like this one), is an advertisement against the server.

Edit: 150 single boxes in classic is good. Population will stabilize, then slowly build, once all these "the sky is falling" posts subside.

[Tassador]

sky falls 2012 december!

[inimegalg]

Blue server epics didn't help. Star Wars didn't help. Diablo 3 and Guild Wars, DEF won't help..

Those obvious facts aside, I think also a lot of the people that have been hitting 50 are taking a break- I know a few that have and I personally will be as well. Zones are def emptier, it's discouraging to any new players... but.. it is what it is..

Deal with it, enjoy what you have or simply just move on.

[inimegalg]

I agree. I'm currently excited when I see my spawn not being camped so I can level up. I spent an hour the other day fighting over a spot. The PvP was fun but by the time I won the spawn I had to log off about 15 minutes after I had it. With old world there aren't that many places to level. If there are 200 people on then there should be around 20 people fighting over the best exp spots within your level range (if population is evenly distributed). Obviously this will change once the server gets older and more people will be at high level.

Having even 75 level 42-50's on at once in the old world on a pvp server should be congested enough. That's a lot of people with few zones to be productive in. Also it is easy for scouts to find guilds they don't like with the small world.

Once expansions start hitting the population will be spread pretty thin.. but it also seems to give the population a boost to even it out.

Out of curiosity - wasn't the exp raised by 25% anyways? It is now January 3 and I never saw a message saying it was taken away. The exp bonus also never said it was temporary - it just happened to say happy holidays at the end of the message.

I personally think the XP bonus was gone on Monday, or at least slowed down to a lower value.. they put it in near server launch and didn't tell anybody when they took it off I don't think

[Rust1d?]

Most of my guild are playing Star Wars atm

[Doublestep]

Most of my guild are playing Star Wars atm

^^^

I've gotten lots of tells from people that don't browse the forums just from my names before

[Amelinda]

The resists, bards not being able to break root, and millions of other things aren't classic as well.

i believe bards being able to break root was a bug and they fixed it on live citing that it was a bug.

you could also use selos indoors briefly. I used to use it to break ghoul root in befallen back in 99.

can't have it both ways. people cry that we leave in bugs saying that's obviously dumb but when we go ahead and have a bug fixed in advance then they cry that it's not classic.

make up your minds.:confused:

[Slug]

Was nearing 150 last night fyi

Really? When I logged in mid evening I saw 223...

[Rust1d?]

Was about 166 @ 9:30 est

[Nirgon]

Its over 200 non boxed.

Thanks for your theories that would be revelations if they weren't so malformed and stupid.

Erase all these threads.

[Ninja]

Its over 200 non boxed.

Thanks for your theories that would be revelations if they weren't so malformed and stupid.

Erase all these threads.

[nilbog]

Anti-population thread closed.

Stop making threads like these.

For constructive feedback, use this one: http://www.project1999.org/forums/showthread.php?t=58146