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Originally Posted by korzax
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April 29, 1999 News Bit from John Smedley
I think you will find now that the packet loss should be basically gone... at least on our end. We were definetely causing some of the loss before (only when we hit major numbers) but now things are very, very clean running and that is with 23,582 people on just as I write this (a new record).
https://wiki.project1999.com/Patch_N..._Patch_Message
At that time there were 27 servers according to this page.
http://www.zlizeq.com/Game_Informati...s_and_Versions
That means that at launch there were less than 1000 people each on the 26 servers available. |
He means there were 23,582 people actively logged in at the time he was writing that message. Verant confirmed that by April 7, 1999 they had at least 60,000 subscribers. So that would be 2,300 per server on average (although of course it varied based on the server, with some being higher and some lower; IIRC from launch at the time, it really varied hugely from server to server...I think a couple only had a few hundred on for quite awhile whereas others were much larger lol).