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Originally Posted by Bubbles
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There's the patch. Honestly think maybe 5% of the server actually played launch 1999 on live. From March to November 1999 on Veeshan if it was peak you could count the number of people "adventuring" in SolA on one hand, tops. Look at the zones listed above.. These zones were *not* given some silly artificial ZEM boost because they were PACKED WITH PLAYERS RECEIVING THE BEST XP IN NORRATH PER KILL.
They were artificially boosted in later patches to get people the heck out of Guk, Cazic, and SolB and into the other *underutilized* zones. You'll notice no boost for Cazic, Solb, Guk, Seb, Karnors, Chardok, or (lol) Dreadlands... Because that's where people *actually* were. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] |
I would like to add that overcrowding was a massive issue at the time. It was common during prime to time have over 130 people in a lot of zones, while others were virtually bare. The tweak wasn't just to get people into underutilized zones it was to ease a general overcrowding issue, and without the overcrowding issue the need for the experience tweak is questionable.