Being a ranger, im probably the worst class to Duo with... but I can still keep myself busy on offpeak times. its 6am eastern time now, fro about 6-8 its often tough to group only because im not a healer and healer classes are more rare than non healer classes. That being said, if I was a healing class, I would still be able to group even on the least popular time of play. If you are can ONLY log on at 6am eastern time and you must log off before 8am eastern time, then that is HORRIBLY unlucky for you. I find it hard to believe that you can only play in this exact 2 hour window, since all other times you can definitely find a group. If that truly is the case, then you are very unlucky
If you are waiting to for the population then ok wait for it (its around 300 peak from what I hear now) so that means it is still going up. Most people play mage or enchanter so that they can play a godlike class and level very easily. People dont want to play SK because well, hybrid exp penalty + Evil race/diety is a really really tough combo to have in this game... I play the weakest class in the game and even I can solo if I have to until I can find a group. Not a whole lot of people want to play a class like Ranger though, because you are pretty powerless. Most people just want to dominate and level quickly to get to the top just look at how many high level characters there are. They did it all without 2 boxing.
I also need to mention this. Look at how fast we have progressed already without 2 boxing! Had we allowed it... youd have riots over on the forums because 60% of the server would be level 50 with max gear, maxed tradeskills, and 3 alts each! As it is now (to my knowledge) nobody has even attempted Phinny/Vox/Nagafen... As it was mentioned before, 2 boxing has helped to restrict the power. You don't think that they would have done this already if they had 40 random level 45+ instead of 20? I do, especially if half of them had a pocket cleric to go along with their maximized character selection...
The poll was "Do you want to allow boxing on this server?" and "Do you want to allow boxing now?" Pollsters make hundreds of thousands of dollars depending on how they mix words to make people pick a choice...
"Do you like to eat meat that was ground up and injected with carbon monoxide and sat in the meat case at the grocery store rotting and outdated, but looking fresh because it was chemically treated for a week?" Or "Would you like to eat a fresh organic salad topped with blue cheese dressing""
"would you like a delicious thick meaty cheeseburger with applewood smoked bacon?" "Would you like some slimy salad with blue cheese dressing on it to mask the taste and cover the appearance of the lettuce?
Its all about how it is asked and what options are given...
Originally it was cut and dry 1 or the other with no mention of changing it if need be
We had a second poll...
1 player per person always and forever 19%
2 players per person always and forever 14%
1 player per person, but can change to 2 over time if need be 61%
2 players per person, but can change to 1 over time if need be 4%
And I thought id also include that after the first week, the poll was over 80% in favor of 1 player per person, but can change to 2 over time if need be. After that, people stopped voting for it because they were like "Yeah this is obviously the best and most popular option" So that is the option that we chose to go with.
And I'm not Anti boxing, I'm PRO 1 character only.
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