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Originally Posted by Tecmos Deception
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It's not a cycle. There WERE a lot of players to begin with. And for quite a while after that there were still "enough" that the server wasn't on life support like it has been more recently. But it just never had a critical mass to keep it afloat, imo. You can't expect everyone is going to like it, and with P99 there just isn't a big enough crowd that you will see 500+ playing on red nightly in order to be a robust enough server to keep attracting people to give it a(nother) shot.
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There's more to it than that, particularly the staff messing with XP bonuses. When it got to 250ish they removed the old XP bonus (set it to blue levels) and the population tanked back down to 70ish.
A patch happened and it was put back in. Heartbrand said he was seeing people who hadn't played in months that had heard it was back on. Then the next day it was removed again, and the population died again.
It's never recovered from that, and while the new(er) scaling XP bonus did draw a bit of a crowd, it's not all been griefers keeping the pop low. Just need to put that in there ^^