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Originally Posted by Doktoor [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

In the first 1/2 of the year 2000, the lowest populations servers were the Zeks, with usually Vallon Zek being at the bottom, Tallon Zek above it, and Rallos Zek above that, or there were sometimes 1 to 3 servers between TZ and RZ. The population of these servers in the months before Kunark ranged from 600ish range in offtimes to well over 1100-1200 at peak.

During the same time, the top servers, which were most of the older servers, occasionally hit 2000 at peak, but I don't remember any of the top 1/2 of the servers every dropping below 1000 people in offtimes.

The thing was, though, people took forever to level. I didn't play in beta and my first char was a bard (granted, hybrid pentalty and I explored a lot) and it took me months to even get to 30.

I started a druid on Teal on Dec 2 and I'm about to ding 41 and I've done a fair amount of farming. We just know how to play the game better now.

People assist, don't break mezzes, play their classes well - I'm constantly amazed at situations in groups where we survive without a death which would have spelled 6 deaths and a nasty CR in 2000.

So I think comparing 1999-2000 server populations is really a non sequitur.

Thanks for being reasonable. A 1500-2k person server would be unplayble these days.