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Originally Posted by Raev
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Daldaen, your replies in this thread are making me very sad. It's obvious with even a small amount of back-of-the-envelope math that there are far more than 3000 people who play Project 1999 semi-regularly. - Rogean claims 1 million unique ingame names. Conservatively assuming 20 names squatted per player, that's 50,000 players. More likely is over 100,000 over the course of the server
- Project 1999 has 1300+ players online at peak; are you seriously suggesting that nearly 50% of the active players on the server all log in at 6PM every day?
A much more reasonable estimate is 10-15 thousand unique players per month. And I'm sure most of them have at least heard about the raid scene, probably from the twink monk who was stomping all of MM's pond camp. The insane competition of the raid scene percolates down and infects other interactions.
TLDR: playing Mario Kart to decide who can kill pixel dragons is fucking stupid, and the vast majority of players on the server recognize this, including you before your exposure to weapons grade Pixels |
Assuming my views be swayed by exposure to pixels saddens me.
The competition on this server has always been dumb and not my cup of tea. I liked the being rushed aspect of it, but couldn't give any less cares to what guilds to kill what. Instances were without a doubt the best thing to ever happen to EQ. Without those, every way of determining who gets bosses is going to be dumb. I've always been partial to the challenge being the actual event design rather than getting to stake your claim to being able to engage said event. Which is why I'm so very pro-Luclin/PoP/Every expansion up until SoF when they started with dumb itemization crushing the mid-tier raiding incentive.
I honestly do think a good chunk of the population you see every night prime time are people who play daily on this server. I also do think that a sizeable portion of those who play casually maybe once or twice a week, don't have maxed level characters and honestly don't discuss / care about the raid scene at all. I can't say I've ever seen the raid scene come up or be discussed in some low level zone, not that I frequent them much lately.