[Bubbles]

These examples are kinda backwards.

99% of what is actually going on is groups of 6 camping a couple nameds that spawn within spitting distance of each other and some idiot level 50 sitting down on one of the spawns and saying "ZOMGZ I CAMP THIS PNP".

Which is probably the opposite of what the rules were intending.

Hey, the devs made a conscious choice to buff town guards to quad for 200+. It seriously limits the xp / pp farming options in classic when you take out a dozen spawn points. That's their decision to make, and one that for some reason didn't raise the "zomgzthatsnotveryclassic" ire of the masses, or hell even remotely the attention that boats and newbie quests did.

In 1999, yeah there was 2000 players on a server.. But many were holding weddings / baking / fishing / roleplaying / swimming / learning languages / raising abjuration / questing / doing god knows what else. And the vast majority were really, really bad at EQ.

It doesnt even draw a reasonable comparison to what we have here : 1k peak time population of people who are mostly extremely good at the game, high level (on at least one toon) and playing solely to gain xp or camp ph4t l3wtz.

And with every patch new things get added that stray from classic values and further eliminate xp camps, cramp the server, and limit our options. But it's their server, it's a great server, and we all play on it.

I just laugh at the notion that Kunark is going to fix all of this. KC / Seb / HS / Droga / Chardok / Dreads etc is just going to get hammered with people and the moaning and complaining and griefing and PnPing is going to reach epic proportions. And I for one applaud the first druid who's going to bind in Trak's Teeth and burn down every forager and hunter that spawns out of sheer spite. Anyone who claims druids and rangers are pointless is going to be in for a rude awakening when their guild is bluebie-blocked from even entering the ruins of Old Seb by a team of rangers and druids.

Of course, i was actually quite surprised how relatively congenial everyone sharing skyplane has been so far, so /shrug. Maybe there is hope for us after all. We'll see.