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Originally Posted by heartbrand
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Great point, but I would disagree with your conclusion. If you want a healthy server, i.e., one with more than 80 people, one with vibrant mass pvp, etc., then the status quo isn't working. There's a reason there's salary caps in professional sports, rules on trades, etc. It's in order to foster competition. If not for these rules, the large market teams would dominate, viewer interest would decline, and the product would die out.
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Where that analogy fails is there is a constant stream of "talent" flowing into a professional sports league. Do you honestly think if they instituted every possible change you could come up with it would do anything to the server population?
If they flipped this shit to blue and kept the exp bonus we'd have 600+ people on TOMORROW. Nobody is coming man, and it has nothing to do with Nihilum. Our best bet is to get old players to come back when Velious hits. I think we'll hit 250+ the month after it lands.
We need to stop using population growth as a basis to any improvement strategy. Every uptick in population has been tied to a specific one time event, there is no organic growth under normal conditions.