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Originally Posted by Sporkotron
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This simply isn't true to the extent it was on live. Go to any city on p99 and you'll at very least find a couple of 1 - 9 players leveling up in their newbie zone. After the nexus and especially after PoK on EQlive all those old beloved zones were completely empty at all hours.
That's what adding shit like Paludal caverns and the Nexus does, turns the actual classic content into ghost towns via convenience. It totally goes against the purpose of P99, which is to preserve the classic EQ experience.
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I think people might have causality reversed.
I remember on the eve of luclin most the newbie areas were pretty thin, and the lack of players hurt immersion. Having a place where the masses could gather and play together (instead of having a pseudo 1 player experience). I think PC may have been added BECAUSE the newbie areas were thinning each other out, rather than PC being the original cause of the thin newbie areas. Devil's advocate: PC was the needed coup de grace to dieing zones that kept the mmo in the early game.