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Originally Posted by cd288
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True, but technically you couldn't even mitigate the issue by merging if the population dwindles enough unless you completely wiped characters who hadn't played in X period of time. If you split Green, the pop dwindles, and then you merge it again you could easily see an influx of people coming back to their characters now that the servers are merged and the population is viable enough to play. Then the issue is still in existence.
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I think we're saying the same thing, which is why I said mitigated and not eliminated. However impactful it can end up being, I believe we can both agree it's not going to be a true 2:1 ratio, correct?
My personal opinion is that classic EQ is such a great game that there's enough current population to split it to 4 servers and that there won't be a need to merge any of them until at least a couple of years after velious, and by then the impact will be near nil.
I'd be very curious to see stats on how many 'unique' accounts have logged into green so far; I suspect that the sustained 2600ish players at once gives a false impression of the actual interest, which I would speculate is likely closer to 4000.
The classic solution to overpopulation was more servers, it was not an increased spawn rate and lists. Within the spirit of this project, I'm on the right side of history
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